Add on points

Tozzie

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Can you purchase points from Disney for a different resort other than your home resort or do you have to purchase a new master contract. My home resort is Animal Kingdom, could I purchase 100 points to a different DVC from Disney or does it have to be 160 points if it is a different resort?
 
if you had to purchase a new master contract, it wouldn't be an "add-on."

you can add-on at any resort you like...VWL, BCV, whatever...but it has to be for the same use year month. also, you can't combine pts to book at the 11 month window. your new (VWL or whatever) pts won't be good for booking AKV until 7 months out and the same is true for AKV pts at the new add-on resort.

you can add-on 25 or more points if you pay cash, and 50 or more pts if you finance. (and there is no incremental requirement: you can buy 27 pts or 31 pts or 53 pts, if it suits you.)
 
Sorry I am confused now.
If I buy 160 BCV points as my Master Contract and then 50 points, same use year as an add on at BWV would I be able to book either at the 11 month window? When the trip arrives are all 210 June UY points (combined number of June points) available to use at either BCV or BWV, which ever I reserved?
 
Sorry I am confused now.
If I buy 160 BCV points as my Master Contract and then 50 points, same use year as an add on at BWV would I be able to book either at the 11 month window? When the trip arrives are all 210 June UY points (combined number of June points) available to use at either BCV or BWV, which ever I reserved?
When booking in the 11-month window, you can only use points that you own at the resort you are trying to book. So your BCV points are good at BCV only and your BWV points are good at BWV only. Once you are inside the 7-month booking window, you can use any points you like to book any DVC resort that has availability.
 

Sorry I am confused now.
If I buy 160 BCV points as my Master Contract and then 50 points, same use year as an add on at BWV would I be able to book either at the 11 month window? When the trip arrives are all 210 June UY points (combined number of June points) available to use at either BCV or BWV, which ever I reserved?

yes, you can book "home resort" pts at 11 months. so at the 11 month window, you have 160 home resort pts for booking at BCV (banking and borrowing gives you up to 3*160=480 pts every 3 years at the 11 month window at BCV) and 50 home resort pts at BWV (again, up to 150 every 3 years with banking and borrowing from your smaller BWV contract).

at 7 months, you can combine (or "pool") the pts to book at any DVC resort, based on availability. but BWV pts (for example) cannot be used to book BCV (or anywhere else but BWV) until 7 months out - no matter what other DVC resorts you own.

no, you can't "swap out" BCV pts for BWV pts at the last minute to get around the 11 month window...but if there is availability you can cancel and rebook at the new resort.

it's not at all complicated: if you want to book at the 11 month window at a DVC resort, buy pts at THAT resort.
 
chalee94 and LisaS.
Thank you for the clarification. I had misunderstood the process.
 
chalee94 and LisaS.
Thank you for the clarification. I had misunderstood the process.
It confuses a lot of people. We talk about booking your home resort 11 months out but we don't usually mention "using home resort points" and that's the important part!
 















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