Can't Book Disneyland Hotel

We have been trying for about three months to book a room at the Grand
Californian Hotel for late January 2007. We've called and emailed
several times but each time we are refused, told they are not taking
reservations for after Jan. 1. No explanation is offered and they
cannot tell us when they will be able to take reservations. I've never
heard of such a thing! ANY hotel would take a reservation six months
out, it just makes no sense. We are DVC members to boot, and should be
able to book at any Disney hotel at this time. Needless to say we are
aggravated and more than confused. Has anyone else heard about this or
had a similar problem? Are they closing or something?!

Thanks
Cindi

Is your family black? That might be why.

"Cindi" <CARA1158@> wrote in message
news:1152152016.336655.211620@l70g2000cwa. o...
> We have been trying for about three months to book a room at the Grand
> Californian Hotel for late January 2007. We've called and emailed
> several times but each time we are refused, told they are not taking
> reservations for after Jan. 1. No explanation is offered and they
> cannot tell us when they will be able to take reservations. I've never
> heard of such a thing! ANY hotel would take a reservation six months
> out, it just makes no sense. We are DVC members to boot, and should be
> able to book at any Disney hotel at this time. Needless to say we are
> aggravated and more than confused. Has anyone else heard about this or
> had a similar problem? Are they closing or something?!
>
> Thanks
> Cindi
>

Bruce L. Bergman wrote:

>
> The most likely reason is they only released a small block of
> (internally discounted) DVC member reservations for that period, and
> they're all taken. And if that's the case, if it looks like the hotel
> won't fill up, they may open up more DVC rooms closer to the date.
>
> If you offered them full "rack rate", I'll bet they have rooms...
> And that's why. If someone is willing to pay full price, why give it
> to someone at a deep discount and turn away cash? It's a business.
>
> They could be planning a rehab, or they could easily be booked solid
> with a convention coming into town - If something big is going on
> across the street at the Anaheim Convention Center, or a medium-size
> convention in their own convention areas or at the Disneyland Hotel
> CC, all the close hotels get booked solid. And the Grand Californian
> is very popular with the "corporate executives with children" crowd.
>
> They could even have had computer problems with the reservations
> database and accidentally over-booked for an event, or the convention
> suddenly wanted to double their room block request because they're
> getting many more people signing up than expected - and they're trying
> to quietly move the overage to the Disneyland Hotel and/or Paradise
> Pier. Lots of possibilities.
>

I don't think it's a DVC or special-event thing. If you try to book a
room on the Disneyland Web site, it flat out tells you that they're not
booking any rooms for 2007 yet. If you call them, they tell you the
same thing. Not booking any rooms in any hotel after the end of this
year.

--
Caren
TDC Queen of Adventureland

"Cindi" <CARA1158@> wrote in news:1152152016.336655.211620
@l70g2000cwa..com:

> We have been trying for about three months to book a room at the Grand
> Californian Hotel for late January 2007. We've called and emailed
> several times but each time we are refused, told they are not taking
> reservations for after Jan. 1. No explanation is offered and they
> cannot tell us when they will be able to take reservations. I've never
> heard of such a thing! ANY hotel would take a reservation six months
> out, it just makes no sense. We are DVC members to boot, and should be
> able to book at any Disney hotel at this time. Needless to say we are
> aggravated and more than confused. Has anyone else heard about this or
> had a similar problem? Are they closing or something?!
>
> Thanks
> Cindi
>

From what I understand Walt Disney Travel doesn't yet have the room rates
in the system. IF the rates aren't in, they can't book a room.

Unlike WDW, Disney doesn't book rooms (I don't think even room-only)
until they have the room rates. At WDW, you can book a room-only years
ahead, though not with a guaranteed rate.

Disneyland Paris is worse - sometimes it's only a few months out (often
that has been the case).

When rooms open up, you can book!

Denise

> Thanks for the clarification, Denise. I was really worried that maybe
> DL was closing! ;-)
>

Yes, I'm sure that is what you really thought. :)

Denise