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by Admin » September 13th, 2011, 4:16 am
Put your request in as part of your original booking, or get Disney's central reservation center (or your travel agent) to add it as a request as early as possible. This is merely a few words or a tagged field in the booking system, not a lengthy request.
Your booking details should be transferred over to the resort's internal system about 5-10 days before your arrival date, after which time you can contact the resort directly to re-request your preferences if you wish. I'd suggest a couple of days before arrival for most bookings, adding an extra day or two for multi-room bookings. Many people fax the resort, or you can phone them to see if they can pre-block a room for you. Be polite and let them know how much you are looking forward to your stay. Let them know why your request is important to you, and how much it would make your stay more magical if they are able to help you out. Probably don't ask for specific room numbers, or if you do give them a reason why that room is desirable to you (so they know how to work out a suitable alternative if the one you're asking about is not free). Remember they have hundreds of rooms to allocate every day, so help them to help you.
Otherwise, single room early arrivals and/or online check-ins will be dealt with first in the day from the available pool on that day, so you may be more likely to get your requests that way.
Finally, if you're really not happy with the location you are given when you check in (ask to be shown the location on a map) you can always ask if they can look around for other options - even if that might mean getting someone from the back office to check for future availability and then waiting a while for a room, rather than being able to have the first one which comes available on the screen when you are at the front desk.
Andre
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