Combining points from different Home resorts

[makerofthings]

Hello all,

My Wife and I bought 300 points in SSR a couple of years ago and 160 in BLT recently and was wondering if we could use our SSR points towards BLT. I was told no at signing, that we could not. Both are considered our home resorts but I'm not sure why we couldn't mix it up a bit and borrow some points for SSR if needed for BLT. I tried searching the fourms but the search engine was taking forever and I'm not getting any younger.

Thanks in advance.

Michael

 

[CarolAnnC]

You can combine your points at the 7 month window. Prior to that, you can only reserve at the individual home resort with their own points.

 

[Deb & Bill]

You can use your SSR points at BLT, but not until 7 months out. You can use both for any resort at 7 months out.

Are these two different master contracts? Or is your BLT an add-on to your SSR master contract? In other words, same UY, same first five numbers on the contract.

You might also use banking and borrowing to increase your number of BLT points every two or three years. If you banked one year, the next year you would have 160+160 and you could have another 150 if you borrowed from the next year. That could make a nice stay at BLT.

 

[makerofthings]

Hello again,

Thanks for all the help. It looks like we have 2 master contracts with the UY falling at the same time in January. Nice to know we can use the SSR points at BLT at 7 months out. My wife and I go during the non peak times so we shouldn't have to much of a problem booking BLT (right?). Time will tell.

Thanks again,

Michael

 

[disneynutz]

Hello again,

Thanks for all the help. It looks like we have 2 master contracts with the UY falling at the same time in January. Nice to know we can use the SSR points at BLT at 7 months out. My wife and I go during the non peak times so we shouldn't have to much of a problem booking BLT (right?). Time will tell.

Thanks again,

Michael

Why do you have two master contracts with the same UY?

Do your contracts each end with .000 or .000 and .001?

Do you have two different blue membership cards with different account numbers?

You really need to clarify this because it makes a big difference on how you use your points.

 

[disneynutz]

Hello again,

Thanks for all the help. It looks like we have 2 master contracts with the UY falling at the same time in January. Nice to know we can use the SSR points at BLT at 7 months out. My wife and I go during the non peak times so we shouldn't have to much of a problem booking BLT (right?). Time will tell.

Thanks again,

Michael

Wait a minute... there isn't a January UY, what's going on?

 

[Dean]

Hello again,

Thanks for all the help. It looks like we have 2 master contracts with the UY falling at the same time in January. Nice to know we can use the SSR points at BLT at 7 months out. My wife and I go during the non peak times so we shouldn't have to much of a problem booking BLT (right?). Time will tell.

Thanks again,

Michael

Do you really have 2 master contracts that are unrelated with the same UY? If not, the above info is correct in that you can combine points at the 7 mo window. If they are truly separate, then you can still do everything you need. You'd just need to either reserve some nights on one contract and other nights on the other contract then link them. If you need a few points to complete a reservation DVC can transfer them and they often will for banked or borrowed points and do so more than once a year in spite of the technical rules as written given it's a single owner.

 

[BWV Dreamin]

Why do you have two master contracts with the same UY?

Do your contracts each end with .000 or .000 and .001?

Do you have two different blue membership cards with different account numbers?

You really need to clarify this because it makes a big difference on how you use your points.

Well this could happen if the OP bought two resales, with the same UY, and Member Accounting did not add the second resale under the first master contract. I have heard one can request this, but often does not get done, thus one would have two master contracts for the same UY.

 

[Dean]

Well this could happen if the OP bought two resales, with the same UY, and Member Accounting did not add the second resale under the first master contract. I have heard one can request this, but often does not get done, thus one would have two master contracts for the same UY.

Unlikely in this case given we're talking BLT. IF it's indeed separate contracts, it's more likely to be different names listed in this situation.

 

[CarolAnnC]

Here is my complicated ownership, lol.

I originally purchased OKW with my first husband. After he passed away I added on BWV via resale to that master. This has an October Use Year.

Then I purchased a Vero Beach master contract via Resale. I added on to that one via the first DVC Member Cruise where they offered BCV. This one has a June Use Year.

Finally, I married my second husband who came with his own Master Contract already containing an add on purchased through DVC. This has an August Use Year.

This is how we have 3 blue Membership Cards. Do you think he married me for my DVC? LOL!!

 

[disneynutz]

I think that we can guess all we want but until the OP verifies what they have, we are all in the dark. After all, they think that they have a January UY.

 

[Dean]

I think that we can guess all we want but until the OP verifies what they have, we are all in the dark. After all, they think that they have a January UY.

True, but guessing is often more than half the fun. Likely a Feb UY with expiration in Jan.

 

[LisaS]

Hello all,

My Wife and I bought 300 points in SSR a couple of years ago and 160 in BLT recently and was wondering if we could use our SSR points towards BLT. I was told no at signing, that we could not. Both are considered our home resorts but I'm not sure why we couldn't mix it up a bit and borrow some points for SSR if needed for BLT. I tried searching the forums but the search engine was taking forever and I'm not getting any younger.

Thanks in advance.

Michael

When booking in the 11-month window, you need to have a sufficient number of points from the resort where you want to book. If you want to book BLT 11 months out, you need BLT points. It doesn't matter that you also own other resorts because only BLT points can be used to book BLT at that time. Your SSR points can't be "morphed" into BLT points because you own both resorts.

And in fact, you don't even need to own at a particular resort to book there 11 months out. You could have a BCV owner transfer BCV points into your account and use those points to book BCV 11 months out.

At 7 months out, you can use any points to book at any resort. So your SSR points could be used to book BLT, or BCV or any other resort at 7 months out, subject to availability.

 

[makerofthings]

Hello,

Sorry for my confusion. I asked my wife (she's the brains of this operation) and this is what she said, we have 3 contracts ending in .0, .1 and .2. They all are UY Feb.

The first was SSR 200pts - xxxxxxx.0
The second was add on points to SSR 100pts- xxxxxxx.1
The third BLT 160pts- xxxxxxx.2

So hopefully we will be able to use SSR points 7 months out for BLT.

Thanks for all your input.

Michael

 

[erionm]

Hello,

Sorry for my confusion. I asked my wife (she's the brains of this operation) and this is what she said, we have 3 contracts ending in .0, .1 and .2. They all are UY Feb.

The first was SSR 200pts - xxxxxxx.0
The second was add on points to SSR 100pts- xxxxxxx.1
The third BLT 160pts- xxxxxxx.2

So hopefully we will be able to use SSR points 7 months out for BLT.

Thanks for all your input.

Michael

Since all of your points are under one membership, you can combine them at the 7 month mark.

 

[LisaS]

So hopefully we will be able to use SSR points 7 months out for BLT.

You can always use your SSR points 7 months out at BLT subject to availability. The question is whether you can combine points from your SSR and BLT contracts to pull together the points you need to book the entire stay. Your BLT contract is an "add on" (same base contract number with an .002 extension) to your SSR master and that allows you to combine the points from your master and any/all of its add ons when booking 7 months out.

For example, if you booked a stay at BWV that required 50 points, you could use 37 SSR points and 13 BLT points to pay for it (that's what we mean by combining the points). If you had totally separate master contracts, you could not do that, you would have to book some of your nights with SSR points as Reservation #1 and the rest of your nights with BLT points as Reservation #2 and then link the two reservations together. Or you would have to use your one transfer per UY to transfer the 13 BLT points into your SSR account and then book your stay.

It comes down to this: if you wanted to book one night at BLT at 12 points/night and had 7 SSR points and 5 BLT points, with a master and an add-on you could combine your points to book that 12-pt night. If you have two master contracts you have to use your one transfer per UY to move the points from one contract to another to get the points you need to book that night.