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alicemouse wrote:JoAnn C wrote:The Colonel wrote:alicemouse wrote:That sounds correct, Colonel. You should be able to make selections for your entire stay. If I recall correctly, even though we did a split stay in the fall, I'm fairly certain that I was able to reserve all of my FPs on the first day that my window opened for the first resort.
Oh yeah..I have a split stay. Two separate travel plan numbers because I used two different DVC contracts. I hope that doesn't screw it up.
Thanks
I did a split stay for my October trip and I was only able to make FP for the first part of the trip on the first day I was able to make them. The rest of the trip opened up with the second reseveration.
I wonder if it has to do with how long you were at each resort? We stayed 3 night at VWL, 4 nights at BLT, and 3 nights at SSR. I might not have been able to reserve FP+ for the part at SSR right away, but I think we got at least a week long window courtesy of the first reservation. Was the first part of your trip 6-7 nights?
I've heard some controversy about people booking "throw away" reservations where they book a one-night stay somewhere very inexpensive (Fort Wilderness Campground seems to be a prime target for obvious reasons) and then buy a 7-day park hopper with their package. Then they book their real room separately at an offsite resort so they can pay offsite prices and still get the 60-day FP+ window.
We did a 1-night at BWV when we were down for Villains Unleashes last year and I'm pretty sure that I had the ability to make FP+ reservations for an entire week even though my reservation was only one night. I was using an AP, so there was no information available to Disney regarding the number of days I had available on my ticket.
My reservations were 4 nights each. I also had an AP. I could be remembering incorrectly (I've slept since then LOL). I know I had to make my ADRs separately for each reserverations so that's why I'm thinking I had to do my FPs separately too.
I remember reading about people making the "throw away" reservations. Annoyed me that someone would take away a spot from someone who actually wanted to stay there. I think it was changed to only allow FPs for length of stay.
