kboo
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- Mar 10, 2014
Judging from the responses on this thread, it appears there are many more people who find walking to be a significant problem. Not a scientific study by any means, but it is an indicator that there are more people in favor of something being done than not.
"Walking" has become a lightning rod but I'm willing to bet that - comparing the # of rooms/room types that actually get walked, to the number of people holding backup reservations and piecing together a reservation a day at a time, stalking the RAT and trying to snag things before the waitlist matches, is actually a much larger "problem." But you don't hear people arguing about it because the people who didnt get a room because it got snagged by someone stalking have zero visibility into seeing that happening; they only see that their waitlist hasn't matched yet.
The reason why I use that as an analogy is a) far more people stalk the WL and try to piece together room reservations as cancellations occur and b) the whole reason why people stalk the RAT is because the WL doesn't always work!
So if you're going to blow up the system to deal with walking with the idea that everyone will have to use the WL because canceled rooms go to the WL first, you're assuming that the WL works perfectly, or close enough to perfectly to be fair. But I can tell you from first hand experience that the WL doesn't work perfectly! And someone who is willing to put in the time and energy to stalk the RAT *and* use the WL carefully (WL single days at a time) is going to win, every time. AND this new system is going to favor those who have the points to book a backup room while stalking. For BLT, for example. it means WL AND booking a LV room, and then dropping the LV room when you've gotten what you want in either a std or TPV. (For AKL, substitute "value/club level" for "standard/savanna" and expect massive cascading effects through the system well into 7 months, as people also drop their SSR backup reservations (or 1BR reservations) in favor of BLT LV or studios, or AKL standard or savanna, or Poly, etc.... opening up