Borrowing Question *edited to add update on point usage issue*

[mirnmart]

Hello,
Looking to book GF for 4 nights in November. I am concerned about not getting the reservation so I thought I would walk it for a few days. The problem is the nights I'd be walking over are more points then I need for my actual reservation. The trip is this November. My use year is August. I'd be borrowing 2019 points to walk the reservation. What would happen to those extra 12 points I don't need to use if I successfully walk the reservation. Would they no longer be able to be banked if I don't use them in my 2019 use year?
Thanks for the help, all this banking and borrowing confuses me!

 

[Disney_Alli]

Those points could not be banked but it you're ALSO using 2018 points the borrowed points would be used first and you could bank 12 2018 points into your 2019 UY.

 

[Bing Showei]

Are you sure you'll need to borrow points? In November 2019, you'll be in your 2019 UY. Do you mean you'll be borrowing 2020 UY points into 2019? If that's the case, you can always just "modify" the reservation once you have your dates and your borrowed 2020 points will be used first, freeing up your 2019 points (current) to be banked into 2020 (assuming the walk didn't already take care of that for you as you dropped days.

 

[mirnmart]

And now I've just realized I made an error somehow making the first half of my reservation This is my first time using the modifying tool online so maybe I'm not understanding how it works....originally I made 2 reservations for SSR one for Nov 12-16 and a second for Nov 16-20. The plan was to modify at 7 months for Beach club and GF. I was concerned about getting both of those at 7 months so I decided to try to walk a few days in advance for Beach Club. I secured the room for Nov 11th-15th and then walked to Nov 12-16th today. Now when I went online tonight and checked my points it is showing that it used 2020 points for this reservation but I still have available 2019 points...I'm so confused!! Currently showing 137points in 2019 (which is the amount I used to reserve SSR) and the 158 points for Beach Club taken from 2020. I assumed when modifying that the points used for the original reservation would automatically be used but maybe I'm wrong? Now I'm afraid to use the modify tool for the second half of the reservation and worried I'm going to be left with 2019 points in my account when 2020 have been used instead.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

And now I've just realized I made an error somehow making the first half of my reservation This is my first time using the modifying tool online so maybe I'm not understanding how it works....originally I made 2 reservations for SSR one for Nov 12-16 and a second for Nov 16-20. The plan was to modify at 7 months for Beach club and GF. I was concerned about getting both of those at 7 months so I decided to try to walk a few days in advance for Beach Club. I secured the room for Nov 11th-15th and then walked to Nov 12-16th today. Now when I went online tonight and checked my points it is showing that it used 2020 points for this reservation but I still have available 2019 points...I'm so confused!! Currently showing 137points in 2019 (which is the amount I used to reserve SSR) and the 158 points for Beach Club taken from 2020. I assumed when modifying that the points used for the original reservation would automatically be used but maybe I'm wrong? Now I'm afraid to use the modify tool for the second half of the reservation and worried I'm going to be left with 2019 points in my account when 2020 have been used instead.

The system would use the same points when modifying although you do have the option to select different contacts if you wanted to and it fit in the booking window. It also would have you verify borrowing before doing so.

But if you walked the BCV reservation I'm not certain how you were modifying the SSR which was different dates. It sounds like you booked the BCV and walked that and once you were done cancelled the SSR?

 

[mirnmart]

The system would use the same points when modifying although you do have the option to select different contacts if you wanted to and it fit in the booking window. It also would have you verify borrowing before doing so.

But if you walked the BCV reservation I'm not certain how you were modifying the SSR which was different dates. It sounds like you booked the BCV and walked that and once you were done cancelled the SSR?

I went to my dashboard and chose the existing SSR reservation and clicked modify....it does give you the option to change dates doesn’t it? But I’m really not sure how I screwed up the points part....I’ve got 2 different contracts both with same use year. I do remember it asking me to confirm but I thought it was just using the same
points used for the original reservation.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

I went to my dashboard and chose the existing SSR reservation and clicked modify....it does give you the option to change dates doesn’t it? But I’m really not sure how I screwed up the points part....I’ve got 2 different contracts both with same use year. I do remember it asking me to confirm but I thought it was just using the same
points used for the original reservation.

Ok, then that was modify and yes you can change the dates. Unfortunately without seeing what you were doing I can’t come up with much of a reason that it would have borrowed. You should call MS and see if they might help out or at least figure out what went wrong.