Disney World resort availability: how often sold-out rooms return

Observed by MagicFinders, unofficial·data through October 1, 2026·updated October 1, 2026·not affiliated with Disney

The last 30 days at a glance

Every resort we watch

“Unavailable” on Disney’s site is a snapshot, not a final answer. Rooms come back when guests cancel or change plans. Rooms may also come back when Disney releases rooms it had held, for example for groups. Packages must be paid in full 30 days before arrival, and room-only stays must be cancelled at least 8 days before check-in for a full refund. We expect more rooms to come back near those dates, but we have not measured this yet. The table shows how often we saw a room open up at each resort. A room alert can carry an optional nightly price cap. We compare it with the average room rate per night, before tax, and only alert you when a room is at or under it.

How to read the table. “Nights with any room”: of the check-in nights our nightly check looked at in the last 30 days, the share where at least one check found a bookable room, for 1 night and 2 adults. A night counts if any check found a room, even if another check found none. “Came back”: how many times we saw a room appear where our previous check found none, plus the openings our users’ alerts caught. “Typically gone in”: of the openings that later closed, half were gone within this time. “Most often”: the time of day with the most openings, and the typical days before check-in. A high count with a short “gone in” time means rooms do open up but do not stay open long. That is what an alert is for. Resorts with a number come first, starting with the lowest share. Resorts without a number yet are listed after them. A dashed mark means we have not recorded enough checks yet to show a number. We check a spread of dates, not every date, so read this as the pattern, not a promise about yours. For resorts, “gone in” and “most often” count only openings our alerts caught. We do not show a days-out figure from our nightly checks, because those checks look at fixed dates.

Where these numbers come from

We check each room alert on Disney’s booking site several times an hour, day and night, and more often in the week before check-in. Once a night we also check a set list of check-in dates, from 3 to 120 days out, at 11 of the 35 resorts, so those get measured even when no one has an alert. Each nightly check records whether a room was bookable at that resort for a one-night stay for two adults on that date. An alert check adds a record when it finds a room for the alert’s dates. The figures above count those records in the last 30 days. These counts are our own records of what Disney’s booking site showed. They are not figures from Disney and not live availability. A room that opened and sold again between two of our checks is not counted.

By MagicFinders · First published 2026-08-26 · Figures recomputed daily from our own checks · MagicFinders is an independent service, not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by The Walt Disney Company.