Understanding Use Year - Updated 5/31/2012

[luv2sleep]

Originally Posted by KAT4DISNEY

When you are cancelling less than 30 days out your are leaving DVC with a room last minute that they may or may not fill. The price you pay for that cancellation is that you will then be restricted to booking a room that similarly has not been booked and is close to the equivalent of what you cancelled.

As far as using points for DLR hotels or WDW hotels first depends on any resale restrictions on your points. If they can be used for those options then yes, you can use holding points to book those options but they are still held to the 60 day from check-in restriction.

Thank you!

[cz4ever]

Originally Posted by ELMC

Without debating the importance of use year, I wanted to point out that I think you may be misinterpreting the graphic. Of course, I may be misinterpreting it as well, but I think I looked at it differently than you did. Please let me explain. When looking at the graphic, I did not assign numbers to the months based on the order in which they appear in the calendar (2 does not mean February and 12 does not mean December). Instead, I looked at my personal vacation habits and then placed them on the graphic. For example, the most likely four month period for us to vacation is August to November (so that would be the green section) followed by December to March (the yellow section). April to July is least likely for us (so that would be in the red). So based on that (and this graphic), our most optimal use year is August, because it is at the beginning of the 8 month period where we are most likely to vacation. Furthermore, the red months fall after the banking window has closed, so by structuring it this way I would stand the least chance of having to cancel a vacation and lose the points.

Again, there is validity to both sides of the argument as to how important this is, but I just thought I'd offer my interpretation of what the poster was trying to do.

Thanks for the clarification, and in general to all on the thread for all the info.

[dmband]

so i have (once again) been reading up and thinking about dvc
if you travel to disney in july 99% of the time...
the best use yr would be like may/june???
that way if you had to cancel you still have 1 yr to use the points and/or bank them
tia

[luv2sleep]

Originally Posted by MousekeTom

I thought this chart was really helpful.

I bought June because I travel mostly during the months of July through December. I also travel in the Spring but that's just one trip vs the 3 potential trips in the last half of the year. My bank by date is January 31st of every year.

[chalee94]

Originally Posted by dmband

if you travel to disney in july 99% of the time...
the best use yr would be like may/june???
that way if you had to cancel you still have 1 yr to use the points and/or bank them
tia

for july trips, a june UY is ideal...

a june UY will be risky if you travel in march-april-may.

[goofygurlie]

Subscribing. Great info!

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[jimim]

Originally Posted by luv2sleep

I thought this chart was really helpful.

I bought June because I travel mostly during the months of July through December. I also travel in the Spring but that's just one trip vs the 3 potential trips in the last half of the year. My bank by date is January 31st of every year.

Great chart. So for the past 10 years we have traveled in the june to dec months. they were evenly spread out so i'm thinking that june or april as i have been told would be the best UY for me? i have my time of in the summer and holiday's cause i'm in the school system and as my kids get older i can see us not pulling them out of school for a full week vacation. maybe a day here or there so i will cont to most likely travel in the summer and fall winter months.

so april or june UY makes sense then? any opinions are soooo welcome!

jimi

[SpectroMan71]

Question about dues: I thought dues were due in the first month of your use year, but now I'm hearing everyone gets billed in December. Is that true?

Ex: I'm looking at a contract with a Dec use year. 2012 dues are already paid, so I THOUGHT that meant I wouldn't owe dues until Dec 2013. But I'm being told I'd have to prepay the dues at closing now. If that's the case, wouldn't that in essence pay me up until Dec 2014? Or does Disney make you prepay your dues for the upcoming year?

[CRobin]

Originally Posted by SpectroMan71

Question about dues: I thought dues were due in the first month of your use year, but now I'm hearing everyone gets billed in December. Is that true?

Ex: I'm looking at a contract with a Dec use year. 2012 dues are already paid, so I THOUGHT that meant I wouldn't owe dues until Dec 2013. But I'm being told I'd have to prepay the dues at closing now. If that's the case, wouldn't that in essence pay me up until Dec 2014? Or does Disney make you prepay your dues for the upcoming year?

Once you are in the system you have the option of paying your dues in January for the entire upcoming year or paying them month by month through automatic debit from your bank account.

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[DannysMom]

Originally Posted by SpectroMan71

Question about dues: I thought dues were due in the first month of your use year, but now I'm hearing everyone gets billed in December. Is that true?

Ex: I'm looking at a contract with a Dec use year. 2012 dues are already paid, so I THOUGHT that meant I wouldn't owe dues until Dec 2013. But I'm being told I'd have to prepay the dues at closing now. If that's the case, wouldn't that in essence pay me up until Dec 2014? Or does Disney make you prepay your dues for the upcoming year?

Dues are paid by calendar year NOT use year. So everyone's dues are billed in December and due in January, no matter what the use year is. Some members pay in full in January. Some pay by automatic monthly debit.

If you closed on a December UY contract now, with 2012 dues paid, you would still owe dues in January 2013, like all other members.

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[SpectroMan71]

Thanks, guys. Can't believe I've been researching DVC this many years and never knew that about the calendar year billing! Appreciate it.

[disbound09]

Great info. Is there a thread to the transfer options. I understand I can only transfer my points once a year. We have family that may need extras points so we are going to transfer to her and then she would owe us in the future.