Alice121078
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- Feb 25, 2019
Has anyone had success with Touring Plans requesting a specific room at your resort?
Touring Plans room request feature never suggests a specific room. It only uses a specific room to send a fax that requests a room with features that match that room, such as floor, facing direction, near services, etc. It ONLY gives context.I didn't request a specific room.
What I did list were my priorities: 1-connecting 2- ground floor 3- building number.
A specific room number is meaningless without context.
Yes, a very high success rateHas anyone had success with Touring Plans requesting a specific room at your resort?
Of course, unless you manually include the exact room number, they never receive a specific room # either. As you note, the fax from TP never gives them a single room number anyway, only a series of similarly featured rooms. The only way Disney would know what room you used as your initial selection would be if you entered it in the body of the fax yourself.The actual request that Touring Plans faxes is going to have a handful of rooms listed, along with things like floor, direction facing, and building
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In the body of the request my suggestion is to say why that's important, otherwise the assigner doesn't know what the priorities are or why you want that room (view? close to elevator? heard it has a bath tub and not a shower? close to the lobby? on a specific floor?).
I have never been given a specific room I've requested but by adding things like "We'd like a room on the highest floor, close to the elevator" we have generally been happy with where we've been assigned. If the request is too specific and the assigner can't meet the request then they place you wherever there's room.
The actual request that Touring Plans faxes is going to have a handful of rooms listed, along with things like floor, direction facing, and building
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In the body of the request my suggestion is to say why that's important, otherwise the assigner doesn't know what the priorities are or why you want that room (view? close to elevator? heard it has a bath tub and not a shower? close to the lobby? on a specific floor?).
I have never been given a specific room I've requested but by adding things like "We'd like a room on the highest floor, close to the elevator" we have generally been happy with where we've been assigned. If the request is too specific and the assigner can't meet the request then they place you wherever there's room.
Very noteworthy distinction. DVC requests are very different animals from regular resort room requests. While I have very limited personal experience with DVC and what I have is always when booking right from Disney I do understand that DVC doesn't accept faxes in the same way that the regular Resort rooms division (forgive me for not remembering the correct name) does. Especially when you are talking about rooms booked on points.No. I never have had much success. But we are DVC and I believe the Villas available on any given day are limited.
I didn't request a specific room.
What I did list were my priorities: 1-connecting 2- ground floor 3- building number.
A specific room number is meaningless without context.