7/11 month window question

[kenny]

If you book at your home resort 11 months in advance but find another resort at the 7 month window, you can cancel your existing reservation and re-book correct?

 

[chris4disney]

I am also curious about this too. I think we might decide to buy into DVC within the next few months so I want to make sure I understand how the "waitlist" works. (I hope I don't steal your thread OP but I think this is what you asking about too.)

If we only have 100 points and at the 11 month window we book at our home resort (say BWV) and need 90 points for this reservation, but really want to stay at BCV... do we immediately ask to be put on the waitlist for BCV? Then at 7 months out if a room is available they automatically transfer our reservation to BCV? Or do I have to call again and check availability? Is there an issue with the number of points I have to make the BCV reservation, or are the points not acutally "taken" until check-in?

If anyone can please shed some light on this, I would appreciate it!!

TIA

 

[jarestel]

If you book at your home resort 11 months in advance but find another resort at the 7 month window, you can cancel your existing reservation and re-book correct?

Yes, that is true.

 

[jarestel]

If we only have 100 points and at the 11 month window we book at our home resort (say BWV) and need 90 points for this reservation, but really want to stay at BCV... do we immediately ask to be put on the waitlist for BCV? Then at 7 months out if a room is available they automatically transfer our reservation to BCV? Or do I have to call again and check availability? Is there an issue with the number of points I have to make the BCV reservation, or are the points not acutally "taken" until check-in?

If anyone can please shed some light on this, I would appreciate it!!

TIA

If BCV is not your home resort, you wouldn't be able to make a reservation (or waitlist) until the 7-month window opens. Then you would be able to cancel your BWV reservation and apply those points to BCV, and you would be eligible to waitlist if necessary.

 

[Granny]

If you book at your home resort 11 months in advance but find another resort at the 7 month window, you can cancel your existing reservation and re-book correct?

That is correct. In fact, that's the best way of booking at a non-home resort unless it causes issues with your points. What I mean by that is if your home resort needs more points to make a reservation than the non-home resort you want to book at. If you had to borrow points to make the entire home reservation, you could get stuck with some leftover points in the wrong UY if you use fewer points to make the non-home reservation.

In general though, what you describe is the way to do it.

If we only have 100 points and at the 11 month window we book at our home resort (say BWV) and need 90 points for this reservation, but really want to stay at BCV... do we immediately ask to be put on the waitlist for BCV? Then at 7 months out if a room is available they automatically transfer our reservation to BCV? Or do I have to call again and check availability? Is there an issue with the number of points I have to make the BCV reservation, or are the points not acutally "taken" until check-in?

You cannot be put on a waitlist until it is within your booking window for a resort. So in the example you give, you cannot reserve or be put on a waiting list for BCV until the 7 month window. This gives the home resort owners the advantage in that they could be on the waitlist ahead of any non-home resort owners during busy times of the year.

So what you would do is make the BWV reservation then call at the 7 month mark to see if you can book BCV. If available, they will cancel your BWV reservation and use those points to make a BCV reservation. If not available, you can go on the BCV wait list.

The points are "spoken for" when you make a reservation. To do anything else with them you have to cancel the reservation.

 

[thepops]

One thing to be sure to check when cancelling one and reserving the other resort is to ask how availabilty is at the resort you are moving to. I've seen posts here where folks didn't ask that, and then by the time the CM cancelled their original reservation and went to book the new one, the room was already gone The other thing to do is to have them hold the new room until they get the transaction through.