Cruise on Points Penalty Question

[Mineu]

We have 2 cabins with three people each that we booked using points-can anyone tell me what the penalty would be if we undid one of the cabins and put one of the kids (with some of the points) in our other cabin and then booked a cabin for two with cash? I can get a pretty good cash rate on one cabin and this would give us back some points for another WDW trip. Thanks!

 

[erionm]

From the member website:

Disney Cruise Line®

Cancellation Policy for Stateroom Category 3 (Penalty Per Person)

3-Night, 4-Night, and 5-Night

• Cancelling a reservation 45 or more days before the sailing date: 57 Reservation Points or $400.00 of the cash payment made.*
• Cancelling a reservation 44 to 8 days before the sailing date: 50% of Reservation Points or 50% of the cash payment made.*
• Cancelling a reservation 7 or less days before the sailing date: All Reservation Points or all of the cash payment made will be forfeited.

7-Night and 8-Night (Except Alaska)

• Cancelling a reservation 45 or more days before the sailing date: 71 Reservation Points or $500.00 of the cash payment made.*
• Cancelling a reservation 44 to 8 days before the sailing date: 50% of Reservation Points or 50% of the cash payment made.*
• Cancelling a reservation 7 or less days before the sailing date: All Reservation Points or all of the cash payment made will be forfeited.

7-Night Alaskan, 10-Night, 11-Night, 12-Night, 14-Night, and 15-Night

• Cancelling a reservation 45 or more days before the sailing date: 114 Reservation Points or $800.00 of the cash payment made.*
• Cancelling a reservation 44 to 15 days before the sailing date: 50% of Reservation Points or 50% of the cash payment made.*
• Cancelling a reservation 14 or less days before the sailing date: All Reservation Points or all of the cash payment made will be forfeited.

* Please Note:

• A change to a reservation is considered a cancellation and rebooking. Any change to a Disney Cruise Line® reservation requires an additional non-refundable $95 transaction fee.
• One Reservation Point is equivalent to one allotted Vacation Point.
• Cancellation guidelines are subject to change without notice.
• Returned Reservation Points will be deposited in to the Use Year in which the cancelled reservation falls. Returned Reservation Points may not be used for Disney Vacation Club Resort reservations or for World Passport Collection exchanges and will expire at the end of your Use Year. Returned Reservation Points cannot be banked.

Cancellation Policy for Stateroom Categories 4-11 (Penalty Per Person)

3-Night, 4-Night, and 5-Night

• Cancelling a reservation 75 or more days before the sailing date: All Reservation Points will be returned to the Use Year in which the reservation falls or 100% of the cash payment is returned.*
• Cancelling a reservation 74 to 45 days before the sailing date: 29 Reservation Points or $200.00 of the cash payment made.*
• Cancelling a reservation 44 to 8 days before the sailing date: 50% of Reservation Points or 50% of the cash payment made.*
• Cancelling a reservation 7 or less days before the sailing date: All Reservation Points or all of the cash payment made will be forfeited.

7-Night and 8-Night (Except Alaska)

• Cancelling a reservation 75 or more days before the sailing date: All Reservation Points will be returned to the Use Year in which the reservation falls or 100% of the cash payment is returned.*
• Cancelling a reservation 74 to 45 days before the sailing date: 36 Reservation Points or $250.00 of the cash payment made.*
• Cancelling a reservation 44 to 8 days before the sailing date: 50% of Reservation Points or 50% of the cash payment made.*
• Cancelling a reservation 7 or less days before the sailing date: All Reservation Points or all of the cash payment made will be forfeited.

7-Night Alaskan, 10-Night, 11-Night, 12-Night, 14-Night, and 15-Night

• Cancelling a reservation 90 or more days before the sailing date: All Reservation Points will be returned to the Use Year in which the reservation falls or 100% of the cash payment is returned.*
• Cancelling a reservation 89 to 45 days before the sailing date: 86 Reservation Points or $600.00 of the cash payment made.*
• Cancelling a reservation 44 to 15 days before the sailing date: 50% of Reservation Points or 50% of the cash payment made.*
• Cancelling a reservation 14 or less days before the sailing date: All Reservation Points or all of the cash payment made will be forfeited.

* Please Note:

• A change to a reservation is considered a cancellation and rebooking. Any change to a Disney Cruise Line® reservation requires an additional non-refundable $95 transaction fee.
• One Reservation Point is equivalent to one allotted Vacation Point.
• Cancellation guidelines are subject to change without notice.
• Returned Reservation Points will be deposited in to the Use Year in which the cancelled reservation falls. Returned Reservation Points may not be used for Disney Vacation Club Resort reservations or for World Passport Collection exchanges and will expire at the end of your Use Year. Returned Reservation Points cannot be banked.

 

[Mr. Disney 652]

I rearranged some last year and it kinda stunk. I had to pay the $95 for changing the ressie, then the points don't come back to DVC points, they stay as Reservation Points...basically good on future DCL or WDW resorts (ie: Carribean Beach).

 

[weezyree]

I always just call the DVC people and they are so gracious at explaining it all to me. I never have had a bad experience and they seem to also run the figures too. It helps if you have your internet at the DVC and WDW sites to compare prices instantly and have a calculator handy too.

Good luck!!

 

[rangermom]

Reservation points can not be banked. So you have to use them is the use year they were booked. We had vacation booked at the DLH this last November, but about a month after we booked the hotel, we added on to VGC. We decided to stay with our orignal reservation, because we knew we were not going again before the use year was up and did not want to lose our pts that were now reservation points.

 

[rangermom]

I always just call the DVC people and they are so gracious at explaining it all to me. I never have had a bad experience and they seem to also run the figures too. It helps if you have your internet at the DVC and WDW sites to compare prices instantly and have a calculator handy too.

Good luck!!

This maybe true if you are booked at DVC resorts and cancel 30 days before your vacation. But once you convert points to reservation points at anything but DVC, i.e The Disney Collection, you are looking a a different set of rules and cancellation policies.

 

[CarolMN]

We have 2 cabins with three people each that we booked using points-can anyone tell me what the penalty would be if we undid one of the cabins and put one of the kids (with some of the points) in our other cabin and then booked a cabin for two with cash? I can get a pretty good cash rate on one cabin and this would give us back some points for another WDW trip. Thanks!

Don't do it!

As others have already posted, the returned points will expire at the end of your use year (can't be banked) and cannot be used to make a reservation at a DVC resort or for a trade via RCI.

Take a look at the point charts for the WDW resorts in the Disney Collection. It takes more points to stay in a smaller, regular resort room than it does to stay in a 1 (and sometimes a 2) bedroom DVC resort. Plus you will have to pay another $95 fee to make the non-DVC reservation.

IMO, you would be wasting both your cash and your points to make the change now.

Enjoy your cruise.