What is walking mean

[geniegirl]

New to this what does it mean to walk a reservation

Thanks.

 

[drusba]

You can reserve up to 7 nights at exactly 11 months before date of arrival. "Walking" means to start sometime before 11 months out from your intended arrival date, up to 6 nights before, and reserve nights that include your arrival night as the last night. The next day you call and cancel your first night of the reservation and add the night after your intended arrival night. You keep "walking" that reservation daily, canceling front end nights and adding back ends, until you have the actual nights you want.

Example: you want Christmas through New Years so you call Jan 19 and reserve Dec 19-26. Next day call and drop Dec 19 and add night of Dec 26, and continue to do a drop and add daily until you have Dec 25 to Jan 1.

It is not usually needed. It should be considered if you want AKV concierge, AKV value, BLT standard view and possibly others during Thanksgiving to mid-Dec and Christmas week. And AKV concierge almost anytime of year.