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100% - Always got the room I requested 2 4.26%
75% - Mostly got the room I requested 5 10.64%
50% 1 2.13%
25% - Rarely got the room I requested 0 0%
It's never worked for me 39 82.98%
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Old 8 Jun 18, 05:13 PM  
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Touring Plans accuracy

I know that some of you have used TP's to request certain rooms and I just wondered how successful you were?

I'm considering subscribing but first I want to see if it's going to be worth doing.

Thanks for the help!
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Old 8 Jun 18, 05:23 PM  
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We got very near our ak one but not our gf one last trip .
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We got very near our ak one but not our gf one last trip .
How far in advance do you have to contact them?
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We did two requests on the last trip and got neither but one was nearby. That said both rooms were fab so I'm not complaining!
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I've done it 4 times and never got what I requested.
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How far in advance do you have to contact them?
A couple of weeks before if I remember rightly . You chose and then they do the rest for you.
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The problem with any faxed room request is a) May never find its way to room allocators, b) Allocators May ignore, they have no obligation to listen to TP. I’ve read sometimes they are binned, c) Requesting a specific room is a higher risk strategy, the hotels have 95% occupancy and would be reliant on it being empty. Depending on the motivation of the allocator, that could automatically mean it being ignored entirely.

Some would suggest asking for a more generalised room request, in an area for example, is more likely to be met for the above reasons.

TP can undoubtedly sometimes work, which then results in the people who get that exact room coming in forums to quite rightly say they got a fantastic result using it.

I suspect many of the people who used it and got put somewhere else don’t bother to come on and do posts saying on this occasion it didn’t work.

For these reasons I prefer to put in more generalised room requests direct with member services (DVC) or Disney. However doing this via Disney Travel Co U.K. is far from infallible as once at OKW on a cash stay they’d never even passed it on due to a system breakdown (got some nice compensation as a result, my FIL had just had a hip replacement). Thus I may be more tempted to use if staying cash booked via U.K. than DVC member services, but if booking on DVC I’d definitely always use member services.
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We did two requests on the last trip and got neither but one was nearby. That said both rooms were fab so I'm not complaining!
Which Poly building were you in? I can't remember if you said before?
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A couple of weeks before if I remember rightly . You chose and then they do the rest for you.
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The problem with any faxed room request is a) May never find its way to room allocators, b) Allocators May ignore, they have no obligation to listen to TP. I’ve read sometimes they are binned, c) Requesting a specific room is a higher risk strategy, the hotels have 95% occupancy and would be reliant on it being empty. Depending on the motivation of the allocator, that could automatically mean it being ignored entirely.

Some would suggest asking for a more generalised room request, in an area for example, is more likely to be met for the above reasons.

TP can undoubtedly sometimes work, which then results in the people who get that exact room coming in forums to quite rightly say they got a fantastic result using it.

I suspect many of the people who used it and got put somewhere else don’t bother to come on and do posts saying on this occasion it didn’t work.

For these reasons I prefer to put in more generalised room requests direct with member services (DVC) or Disney. However doing this via Disney Travel Co U.K. is far from infallible as once at OKW on a cash stay they’d never even passed it on due to a system breakdown (got some nice compensation as a result, my FIL had just had a hip replacement). Thus I may be more tempted to use if staying cash booked via U.K. than DVC member services, but if booking on DVC I’d definitely always use member services.
I can understand why they would ignore it, it must get annoying with people making these demands.

I didn't know I could contact DVC Member Services, that I will definitely do!
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