Borrowing next use year points if have to cancel trip dilemma

[juliebee]

How do I best handle this DVC situation? I have a December use year and am using 2024 points to stay at WDW in May 2025 and will have 64 points left over. We are planning a trip for Sept 2025 to Aulani for 5 nights in a studio- this is 95 points, which means I need 31 more points. My dilemma is that the Aulani trip would be to celebrate my son's college graduation and we won't know for sure that he is graduating until June. (He struggles with school, so the concern is real.) My banking deadline is July 31, so if we have to cancel/postpone the Aulani trip, I have plenty of time to bank the 64 points. But if I borrowed the remaining needed 31 points they would be stuck in 2024 use year and I would probably not be able to use them. I strongly prefer to use the points myself and not rent out the trip/points if at all possible.

Other options I've thought of would be to shop for 31 transfer points from another member. But would those be able to be banked to be used in Spring 2026?
Or can I purchase 24 points from Disney for our May 2025 trip, even though I'm not out of points? I would still need to borrow 7 points for the Aulani trip, but if those are lost, it wouldn't be as big of a deal as 31.
What suggestions do you all have?

 

[pks_domer]

Other options I've thought of would be to shop for 31 transfer points from another member. But would those be able to be banked to be used in Spring 2026?

You can probably find 2025 points to transfer, that you can then bank... though, it may be hard to find somebody willing to transfer that small a number of points.

 

[Noodlez]

Have you already booked the May trip? If not, can you try to make a reservation now for 95 points, this will leave you short for your May trip so you can borrow the 31 points for May. When you cancel the 95 point reservation you'll have current year points for your Aulani trip that would all be bankable if you don't go.

 

[Sandisw]

MS will let you buy OTU points for the May trip as long as there are still nights within your trip available. Another option, if you know that the May trip is definite is to book a room for any dates in 2025 that would total the points needed for Aulani, including borrowing the points.

Then cancel it...the borrowed points would be in your account. Now go in and modify the May 2025 trip and follow it through without changing anything and it will pick up the borrowed points, and free up your 2024 points. This way, you can book the Aulani trip with all 2024 points and as long as you cancel more than 31 days out, and before end of July, you will have points that are all bankable.

 

[juliebee]

Have you already booked the May trip? If not, can you try to make a reservation now for 95 points, this will leave you short for your May trip so you can borrow the 31 points for May. When you cancel the 95 point reservation you'll have current year points for your Aulani trip that would all be bankable if you don't go.

The May 2025 trip is booked. I see what you are saying... book a trip that I plan to cancel that uses 95 points. Then rebook the May trip and borrow my own points or purchase one time use points. Then cancel the throwaway reservation. I'll see if I can do that but might not be able to due to sold out dates already. Thanks for the suggestion!

 

[juliebee]

MS will let you buy OTU points for the May trip as long as there are still nights within your trip available. Another option, if you know that the May trip is definite is to book a room for any dates in 2025 that would total the points needed for Aulani, including borrowing the points.

Then cancel it...the borrowed points would be in your account. Now go in and modify the May 2025 trip and follow it through without changing anything and it will pick up the borrowed points, and free up your 2024 points. This way, you can book the Aulani trip with all 2024 points and as long as you cancel more than 31 days out, and before end of July, you will have points that are all bankable.

okay, that seems like the way to go! Some of the days for my May trip are already unavailable if I was going to cancel, so glad I don't have to do tht. Thanks for the suggestion on how to make this work! That sounds easy enough and I'll work on that today

 

[juliebee]

Now go in and modify the May 2025 trip and follow it through without changing anything and it will pick up the borrowed points, and free up your 2024 points.

Thank you so much Sandisw! I found a 95 pt reservation and followed your steps. The May 2025 reservation is now using the 31 borrowed points and I have exactly 95 points available for the Aulani trip that we hope will happen. Thanks for easing this mom's mind and hoping we can make this a great graduation trip!

 

[Sandisw]

Thank you so much Sandisw! I found a 95 pt reservation and followed your steps. The May 2025 reservation is now using the 31 borrowed points and I have exactly 95 points available for the Aulani trip that we hope will happen. Thanks for easing this mom's mind and hoping we can make this a great graduation trip!

Yeah!!!!

 

[Noodlez]

Thank you so much Sandisw! I found a 95 pt reservation and followed your steps. The May 2025 reservation is now using the 31 borrowed points and I have exactly 95 points available for the Aulani trip that we hope will happen. Thanks for easing this mom's mind and hoping we can make this a great graduation trip!

Glad you got it sorted!