Another Use Year ?

[jazzmanmgt]

We currently own 160 points at SSR and are looking to purchase an add on. We have found a possible contract with a pretty good price also at SSR but with different use year. What problems might we encounter if we go this direction? Most of the questions I have seen were different use years with different resorts. Thanks for any help or advice you might have for us.

jazzmanmgt

 

[dbs1228]

You will have 2 different membership #'s and will not be able to combine points for a ressie unless you use your 1 per UY transfer. Example if you want to stay 7 nights and need 170 points contract 1 has 160, points contract 2 say has 100 points you cannot use 10 points from contract 2 to make this ressie unless you transfer the points. You would have to make 2 ressie's and link them which would leave each contract with points.

It is a little bit hard to keep track of. We just purchased a resale SSR (pre 3/20) with a different UY also and I am starting to have second thoughts, especially since I see similar contracts now with my UY. I am going into it that I will just transfer my new contract every year into my main contract and see how it goes. Remember once you transfer points they do retain there original UY and banking deadline and banked points cannot be transferred!

 

[drusba]

Conceptually you need to look at this way if you have two use years: you are like being two entirely different members. Each contract has its own banking deadline, will have its own dues billing and withdrawal from bank account if you have automatic withdrawal, and its own annual statement. The only thing they have managed to combine is that you can see both contracxts on your website account and they will send only one annual DVC planning book per year (even that used to be multiple). Points from one use year do not combine with points from another to reserve any single night. To reserve a single trip using both contracts, you need to reserve some nights with one contract, the rest with the other and then link the two reservations; alternatively, you can use your one transfer per use year to transfer points from one contract to another.

All that said, as far as being difficult to keep track of, it really is not. We have two use years and it is not a problem.

 

[DVCPal]

I have two member numbers (due to two use years) at the same resort. It would be easier to only have one, but I just make sure I use up all of one use year first. If necessary, I'll transfer points from one to the other to complete a reservation. That way I don't have a few points from one use year and a few from the other to bank into the next year.

 

[jazzmanmgt]

Thanks for the quick replies... I think I get it. I'll probably try nd get the same use year to save work and possibility of confusion.

 

[disneynutz]

We have 2 UY's and although manageable, I would stick with just one. Double the work and not double the fun.

Bill

 

[Buckeye Fan]

We have 2 UY's and although manageable, I would stick with just one. Double the work and not double the fun.

Bill

Completely agree. We had 2 UYs, and we sold the two contracts associated with one of them. Having two UYs was not the reason I sold, but when given the chance to repurchase, I chose to stick with the UY we already had versus buying another UY.

If you do choose to purchase 2 UYs, what I started doing that worked out pretty well was transferring all of the points from one UY into the other. Even though the transferred points retain their home resort and banking deadlines, you can pool the points at the 11 months (same resort) or 7 month mark (different resorts) without having to think about it. In the example provided by the PP above, if you needed 10 extra points, they would be there for your use without having to transfer, and MS doesn't have to link the reservation (or at least I don't think they have to).

Best of luck with your add-on!

 

[DizGirl20]

Sorry to barge in here... what does "link a reservation" mean?

 

[Buckeye Fan]

Sorry to barge in here... what does "link a reservation" mean?

It's literally "linking" the two reservations together to make it look like one reservation so you don't have to check out and check back in (which could possibly mean moving rooms). To the system, it doesn't really know those two member numbers belong to you, so it would be no different from you booking 3 days with your member id and me booking the other 4. Linking would connect those two reservations together so the same room is booked all 7 days. Hope that makes sense.

 

[DizGirl20]

Hope that makes sense.

 

[tecodis]

It's literally "linking" the two reservations together to make it look like one reservation so you don't have to check out and check back in (which could possibly mean moving rooms). To the system, it doesn't really know those two member numbers belong to you, so it would be no different from you booking 3 days with your member id and me booking the other 4. Linking would connect those two reservations together so the same room is booked all 7 days. Hope that makes sense.

Not to be confused with linking reservations of the same room type from two different sources. For example, they can't link a DVC reservation for a 1br VWL with a consecutive AP reservation for a 1br VWL.

At least not as of last March! I still had to check out and back in - and they didn't bother to block the room for the second reservation (although the check-in CM told me they would).
I won't bother everyone with that whole story!

 

[Buckeye Fan]

Not to be confused with linking reservations of the same room type from two different sources. For example, they can't link a DVC reservation for a 1br VWL with a consecutive AP reservation for a 1br VWL.

At least not as of last March! I still had to check out and back in - and they didn't bother to block the room for the second reservation (although the check-in CM told me they would).
I won't bother everyone with that whole story!

REALLY? Ugh. They really do need to modernize their systems.