Adding extra days at 7 months

[Paul Stupin]

Another newbie question! If I book, say, a week at my home resort at 11 months, is it possible to add additional days to the stay at 7 months, without making another reservation, with other non home resort points, pending availability? If so, can this be done online?
As always, thanks in advance to anyone who answers!

 

[Sandisw]

Yes..just go in and modify. Since you will already have 7 days, you will have to wait a few days into the 7 month window since you can only have 7 days when booking exactly at the 7 month window.

 

[drusba]

You cannot use other resort points to add days to your reservation made at 11-months out with home resort points until you are 7-months out from the days you want to add, at which time you can go online and modify the reservation if those additional days are still available.

 

[Chuck S]

As Sandisw said, yes. a few days after 7 months you can do that. Assuming, of course, that the contracts are under the same membership number. If they are different membership numbers, they need to be separate reservations.

 

[Sandisw]

You cannot use other resort points to add days to your reservation made at 11-months out with home resort points until you are 7-months out from the days you want to add, at which time you can go online and modify the reservation if those additional days are still available.

It seems that with the online system, as long as something is available at 7 months, they now allow days to be added from the start,

For example, if one has a 5 day trip and wants to add 2 more, it will allow you to add at the 7 months from check in with non home resort points.

 

[drusba]

It seems that with the online system, as long as something is available at 7 months, they now allow days to be added from the start,

For example, if one has a 5 day trip and wants to add 2 more, it will allow you to add at the 7 months from check in with non home resort points.

The info I was given was that kind of modification could not be done unless the 5 nights you already have are separately available. If the rule were otherwise, one would have a better than a 7-month window with the other resort points just because you have home resort points in a reservaiion, e.g., someone with enough expensive VGF points for 5 nights at VGF and a lot of cheap points from SSR, could reserve VGF 11-months out for five nights that he does not actually want, and then 7 months out add two nights with SSR points. Then three days later add three more nights to the reservation using SSR points, and then at 7 months out from the first date he actually wants, which is now reserved with SSR points, he drops his first five nights and takes the VGF points and uses them again for an 11-month reservation.

 

[Sandisw]

The info I was given was that kind of modification could not be done unless the 5 nights you already have are separately available. If the rule were otherwise, one would have a better than a 7-month window with the other resort points just because you have home resort points in a reservaiion, e.g., someone with enough expensive VGF points for 5 nights at VGF and a lot of cheap points from SSR, could reserve VGF 11-months out for five nights that he does not actually want, and then 7 months out add two nights with SSR points. Then three days later add three more nights to the reservation using SSR points, and then at 7 months out from the first date he actually wants, which is now reserved with SSR points, he drops his first five nights and takes the VGF points and uses them again for an 11-month reservation.

I know, it seems like it wouldn’t work but it does.

 

[drusba]

Interesting. My knowledge is based on what I was actually told by DVC when modifying a reservation by phone before the online reservation system added the ability to modify a reservation, and what I was told was consistent with the 7-month rule and the practice followed that you could not change points in an 11-month reservation to those from another resort at 7-months out unless the reservation you have is separately available at the time of the change.

This means it it is likely the DVC IT group, when it added the modification system to the reservation system, overlooked the issue of adding days with points from another resort, thus making this only the 2,155th time that DVC IT has screwed up.

 

[Sandisw]

Interesting. My knowledge is based on what I was actually told by DVC when modifying a reservation by phone before the online reservation system added the ability to modify a reservation, and what I was told was consistent with the 7-month rule and the practice followed that you could not change points in an 11-month reservation to those from another resort at 7-months out unless the reservation you have is separately available at the time of the change.

This means it it is likely the DVC IT group, when it added the modification system to the reservation system, overlooked the issue of adding days with points from another resort, thus making this only the 2,155th time that DVC IT has screwed up.

Yes, I agree. I think it was an oversight when it was built because I too had been told that you couldn’t via phone.

What it does is keep your contract for home priority locked so you have to use that...but it will let you choose the other one to add days. It then takes from home priority for days that are not still available and uses the others for the rest.

I discovered by accident as I was trying And it worked!

 

[mickeymom629]

Yes, I agree. I think it was an oversight when it was built because I too had been told that you couldn’t via phone.

What it does is keep your contract for home priority locked so you have to use that...but it will let you choose the other one to add days. It then takes from home priority for days that are not still available and uses the others for the rest.

I discovered by accident as I was trying And it worked!

Though I have't done booking @ 11 months out, this seems like it should be okay (and apparently it is). What I thought was NOT okay and NOT allowed is, at the 7 month mark, switching points used at the 11 month mark with non-home resort points, unless the days are still open at 7 months.

 

[Sandisw]

Though I have't done booking @ 11 months out, this seems like it should be okay (and apparently it is). What I thought was NOT okay and NOT allowed is, at the 7 month mark, switching points used at the 11 month mark with non-home resort points, unless the days are still open at 7 months.

Correct and it won’t let you do that as it locks the contract to force it to be used!