Actual Process of Trading Out at 7 months

[wreing]

I'm sure this has been asked before but my search skills don't seem to be up to the task.

Do you have to cancel your existing stay to book a new one at 7 months? i.e. We book at our home resort at 11 months, and want to try for a different resort at 7. Aren't all our points tied up in the first reservation? Do we have to cancel it first to book the new stay? And if so doesn't that risk us ending up without either one?

I'm shopping and trying to decide between resorts and contract size, and I'm assume that we'll want to try some other resorts. Looking at the availability charts we should be able to move around to a lot of the places I'd like to try. We have kids in school and actually want to plan at 11 months. But it seems like we'd probably never want to try and switch if its going to cost us our reservation at our home resort.

Thanks

 

[_auroraborealis_]

You use the Modify feature. So it doesn't outright cancel the first until you've secured the second.

There are a variety of use cases where this isn't absolute - you cannot modify two units to one, and would have to cancel one (say, you had two studios at Poly and were going after a 2BR at BLT).

 

[Sandisw]

The other option is that if you want to do a split stay, you can not modify only a few days.

So, people will book it as two to start and combine back to one if they don’t get the other resort.

 

[dvc lover 1970]

Sandisw gave great advice...modify half at a time. Depending on when you are thinking of going, 7 month change is still workable - except Christmas week - that will always be tough. Weekends at food and wine also fill up fast.

 

[Deb & Bill]

December is hard to get almost anything at seven month. If you want to go in Dec, always book your home resort at 11 months.

 

[wreing]

Fo the next many years we'll be April break travelers. But we many start traveling at other times as the kids get older.

 

[Deb & Bill]

Fo the next many years we'll be April break travelers. But we many start traveling at other times as the kids get older.

That may be tough for some resorts since it's Easter and Spring Break.

 

[wreing]

That may be tough for some resorts since it's Easter and Spring Break.

Exactly, thats why I wanted to make sure I wouldn't have to release my home booking first. Although from the availability charts on the other thread April doesn't actually look that bad.