Another USE year question, and banking points window?

[BoardwalkSuzy]

Points apply check-in or check-out dates?
I am waiting on Disney ROFR for Dec use year points. My question is whether the points become available upon check-in or check-out. Say I want to go on trip last weekend of November - first weekend of December 2011, and need 700 points for a grand villa. Say I have banked 350 points from 2010, and need the other 350 that comes available December 1st, 2011 to make this trip. Do I need to plan my check-in time for first day of December, or can I arrive before that time? I know I can always borrow from following year, just wanted to know if it's the check-in time that applies or the check-out date?

6 or 8 months banking window to bank points to following use year at 100%?
Also, I see a lot of charts out there that indicate 100% banking up until 6 months from beginning of use year month, then reduction to 50% after 6 months, and then reduces to 25%. Other posts say 8 months to bank points back to account at 100% for the next use year. Which one is it: 6 months or 8 months to 100% bank points to following use year?

Thanks for comments.

 

[Disneypubgal]

Unless you are borrowing or banking, points are for nights in the current use year. so you could use year 1 pts the last 3 nights year 1 and year 2 points for the first 2 nights year 2, assuming your use year occurs while you are traveling...does that make sense.. banking and borrowing would change this up a little bit...

Just be careful about bk'ing at the end of your use year... if your plans change shortly before your trip you could lose your pts altogether...

 

[RobDoc]

Points apply check-in or check-out dates?
I am waiting on Disney ROFR for Dec use year points. My question is whether the points become available upon check-in or check-out. Say I want to go on trip last weekend of November - first weekend of December 2011, and need 700 points for a grand villa. Say I have banked 350 points from 2010, and need the other 350 that comes available December 1st, 2011 to make this trip. Do I need to plan my check-in time for first day of December, or can I arrive before that time? I know I can always borrow from following year, just wanted to know if it's the check-in time that applies or the check-out date?

6 or 8 months banking window to bank points to following use year at 100%?
Also, I see a lot of charts out there that indicate 100% banking up until 6 months from beginning of use year month, then reduction to 50% after 6 months, and then reduces to 25%. Other posts say 8 months to bank points back to account at 100% for the next use year. Which one is it: 6 months or 8 months to 100% bank points to following use year?

Thanks for comments.

The original banking deadlines did include %s to be banked based on various dates, but that policy was revamped in 2006. At this time you can bank your current points thru the first 8 months of your Use Year and none during the last 4 months. With a December Use Year, points may be banked thru July 31.

Your Use Year runs from December 1 - November 30. If you bank points from the December, 2009 Use Year their use is extended to December 1, 2010 thru November 30, 2011 - based on the check-in date. Those points could not be used for the night of December 1, 2011.

If your trip will begin prior to December 1, 2011 - you will be able to use your 350 points from the December, 2010 Use Year (the points that will be current on December 1, 2010) thru the end of November, 2011. You could then use the 350 points from your December, 2011 Use Year for dates from December 1, 2011 - November 30, 2012.

I hope this helps.

 

[LisaS]

Points apply check-in or check-out dates?
I am waiting on Disney ROFR for Dec use year points. My question is whether the points become available upon check-in or check-out. Say I want to go on trip last weekend of November - first weekend of December 2011, and need 700 points for a grand villa. Say I have banked 350 points from 2010, and need the other 350 that comes available December 1st, 2011 to make this trip. Do I need to plan my check-in time for first day of December, or can I arrive before that time? I know I can always borrow from following year, just wanted to know if it's the check-in time that applies or the check-out date?

Your trip would span two different Use Years. The nights in November fall within your Dec 2010 UY so you could use Dec 2010 points and/or banked Dec 2009 points and/or borrowed Dec 2011 points for those nights. The nights from Dec 1, 2011 onward fall within your Dec 2011 UY so you could use Dec 2011 points and/or banked Dec 2010 points and/or borrowed Dec 2012 points for those nights.

As Disneypubgal said, just be aware that those nights in Nov 2011 are at the very end of your Dec 2010 UY. If you have to cancel that trip on short notice, you will probably lose those points since it will be too late to bank them and they will expire on Nov 30, 2011.