Looking at Fort Wilderness for Thanksgiving

My advice if you want a spot is to call every day.
Or get a reservation at another campground in the area. If one is available in one of them.

I don't think there's a waiting list. As they said, just keep calling or by internet.

Ocean Lakes is booked solid for the weekends of October because they do Halloween weekends. I started a month ago checking every morning for reservations the weekend of October 22. Nothing for weeks. Then last Monday morning I went on and a spot popped up. Evidently, someone had just cancelled.

You just have to be persistent and have a little bit of luck.

Call everyday, multiple times even. Then take less days, if you can get them, and then try to extend. That has worked for me in the past.

Ok all good advise Between the wife and me we will call multiple times a day. Any other ideas keep them coming! Thanks

Bob Shaw wrote:
Call everyday, multiple times even. Then take less days, if you can get them, and then try to extend. That has worked for me in the past.

Yep up until the last minute you can cancel for only a $200 up to 2 days prior to arrival so last minute cancellations are doable

Try the KOA in Davenport. Free shuttle to Epcot when we stayed there.

As has been said, just keep calling. Even if you only get 1 day at a time, just keep calling and piece the reservation together that way. You've got a few months still, so it should work out just fine.

We did that for our son's birthday years ago. It just happened to fall 2 days after Easter, which is always crowded too. We got one day and kept calling and calling until we got all the days we wanted. They told us we might have to change sites and that we'd have to check in multiple times since they treated each day as a separate reservation. We never had to move, but we did have to check in each time.

-Michael

rr2254545 wrote:

Bob Shaw wrote:
Call everyday, multiple times even. Then take less days, if you can get them, and then try to extend. That has worked for me in the past.

Yep up until the last minute you can cancel for only a $200 up to 2 days prior to arrival so last minute cancellations are doable

??????? Don't understand the...."for only $200.00 up to 2 days prior to arrival".....is this something NEW????

We are at FW now. Have been coming since 1980. Standard reservation requires one night deposit refundable if cancelled 5 days out from arrival.

Many cancellations are last minute so the best plan of attack is to call at 7:00AM EDT. At that time you will be first inline or almost first and have the previous day's cancellations available to book.

If Dory was here she would say as others have.....KEEP ON CALLING, KEEP ON CALLING..... :B

Best of luck to you and now it's off to MK for us.

I think Thanksgiving is the busiest time of the year at Disney World. We went there at that time a couple of years ago. Expect long lines and a lot of people. One hint, Start at the furthest ride from the entrance. Most people start at the beginning and work their way to the back.

Keep calling like others said. I haven't tried this, but I've read that you can have travel agents do that for you, and it doesn't cost extra. good luck!