Add ons- Preferable to buy same use year?

[awatt]

Trying to get the hang ofthis. If we were to add on, isn't it alot simpler to add on the same use year, so all of your points are available at the same time?

 

[Happy Birthday Cat]

Disney will only sell you the same use year unless you ask for a different one and buy at least another 150 points. If you buy a resale then you could get another use year.

HBC

 

[nelle]

It is simpler yes, but I would like to have a different use year because we like to travel in May and our use year is June. The problem with this is that if we ever had to cancel our may trip those points would go into reservation or holding because we are so close to the end of our use year. When we purchased we had always gone to WDW in Dec so our UY was ok but now we like to go in May better so it's a bit of a risk.
HTH,

 

[awatt]

So if you add on from Disney it has to be at least 150 points?

Then if we wanted 50 points BWV we would have to do resale?

 

[TammyAlphabet]

The add-on can be as low as 25 points. If you add on 50, you will only be able to buy the same use year as you currently have. To get a different use year, you must buy at least another 150 points.

 

[rocketriter]

One of my mottos is "Simple GOOD, Complex BAD," so I'd add on in my current use year.

 

[HookdonWDW]

We've kept the same UY with all of our add on's. We have different home resorts, and that's enough "change" for me to deal with.

 

[Caskbill]

Assume you own 150 OKW points and 150 BWV points. Case 1 as a single use year, and case 2 as separate use years.

Case 1 - Same Use Year

At 7-months all points can be combined in any manner desired to make a reservation at any resort. You want to make a 220 point reservation at VWL, so just use 150 OKW points and 70 BWV points, or any other combination you'd like.

All points are combined to determine banking percentages. You actually own 300 points. At the 50% banking window you can bank 150 points. Thus if you had used all your OKW points but none of your BWV points, you could still bank all 150 BWV points since 150 = 50% of 300.

Case 2 - Different Use Year

All contracts are totally separate, just as separate as if they are owned by different people, and must be managed totally separately.

You cannot combine points in any way to make a reservation. (see note) If you want that 220 point VWL reservation you have to do it by full days by contract, then link the reservations. You might make 4-days using OKW points for 135 points, leaving 15 points in your OKW account, and 3-days using 85 BWV points, leaving 65 points in that account, then link the 4-days and the 3-days together. You are actually making two reservations, and you must manage the points separately.

You cannot combine points for banking purposes. You have a 150 point OKW contract and a 150 point BWV contract. You use all 150 OKW points but none of your BWV points. At the 50% window, you can only bank 75 of your BWV points (50% of 150 = 75). The other 75 points cannot be banked.

note: you can transfer points between accounts and combine points that way, but there are restrictions on how transfers can be made and what use year the transferred points take.

 

[redmomof4]

I would definately stick with the same uy the way you explained it. Now is it the same no matter where you bought your contract through if you still have the same uy on two seperate contracts?