I thought that as well, but would have expected it to not show availability at 7:59am. I thought if you walked a reservation, you needed to call before the unit would become available at 11/7 months, maybe the day before.
Anyway, we did get a GV at OKW for 8/21 for three nights, and yesterday we did get a Beach cottage for 8/23 for 2 nights. Also waitlisted a Beach Cottage for the nights of 8/21 & 8/22. A lot of points tied up in these reservations.
Hope you are right about the possible renovations. Are there published dates for the cottage reno's ?
mac_tlc
An update !!!!
During halftime of the basketball game Sunday, I thought I would check a little DVC inventory and, although I have a pending waitlist, thought I'd check Vero Beach 3-bdr beach cottage for the two days we were looking for in August.
Eureka! Resort availability tool shows availability for August 21 - 25. We only need 21 & 22. OK -- quick call to MS to cancel my OKW GV and book the Beach cottage.... but its Sunday, too late , MS is closed (about 6:30 Eastern). Ok, now what ????
Quick log in to DVC member site, check one more time -- still available. There are no more OKW GV's for 8/21 - 8/25, so if I cancel it, I wont get it back ....... but I have to cancel it because I want to use those banked points to grab the Beach Cottage.......
OK - go for it --- cancel OKW --- quickly get into on-line reservation -- Beach cottage still there for 8/21 & 8/22 --- grab it ......
Was able to use the banked points that I wanted to use, so now we have a Beach cottage for 4 nights -- 8/21 through 8/25.
If there is a moral to this little story, it to keep checking availability even if you have a waitlist. The waitlists are not "dynamic" so they won't automatically fill.
I went back and checked availability after I reserved the Beach Cottage, and there were none for 8/21 & 8/22.
I hope the reno is done by then, I would love to stay in a "new" Beach Cottage.
mac_tlc