Different UY, same home resort

[ChrisAlli]

We currently have UY of Sept for BCV, we are looking at another contract with a UY of Aug, still at BCV. We normally travel Sept/Oct time period.

Can someone explain the best way to combine these two for reservations? Should I wait until the Sept account is available to use at 11 mos, that way I can just transfer the Aug points into that account and bank anything left in the Sept account? Should I use the Aug account and borrow from the Sept account? I'm thinking this gives me a month lead time on 11 mos out? As long as my reservation is after Sept 1st, I can do this right?
I can still bank borrowed points yes?

I really wanted to same UY as to not confuse myself, but looks like a good Aug contract came up.

 

[logan115]

How many points are you looking to add on, and what's the price/pt difference between the Aug contract you're looking at and some of the Sep contracts that are up for sale ?

Having the same UY takes a lot of headaches out of the equation, but at the same time if there's enough of a monetary difference the headaches are worth dealing with


BTW - your UY does nt determine when you can book a reservation (assuming your points haven't expired), your home resort status does.

Chris

 

[ChrisAlli]

That's the thing. Sept UY is not that easy to come by in the range of points we are looking at 100-150. Also prefer to get one that has points available now or at least 2012 .

I'm thinking I'll be fine, since the UY are so close together. I just want to make sure I do the borrowing, transfer, banking correctly.

 

[sweetdana]

I side note; if you have 2 memberships (2 UY), you can actually get 2 transfers (assuming not from yourself) and 4 waitlists per yr. (2 on each account). I have considered buying a diff UY since my add on when I do buy more. It will be about 2/3rds of my 1st. I have no issues if they cannot link the rsvp.. though that means dining on some and not on the other.. so I bet they find a way. I like the idea with being able to make 2 transfers a yr, in the event i make a big fam trip, or need to get rid of points as well.

But there are down sides to.. like keeping track of banked/borrowed/2 sets of deadlines ect. Also you cannot mix 1 night with both sets of points unless there is a transfer.

 

[chalee94]

Should I use the Aug account and borrow from the Sept account? I'm thinking this gives me a month lead time on 11 mos out?

UY has nothing to do with when you can call to book.

a sept/oct 2012 reservation is in the 2012 UY for both aug and sept, so it shouldn't make that big of a deal...just transfer from one contract to the other and make the reservation at 11 months out.

if you ever decide to travel in august, you will need to pay attention to which points you are using (you do not want to travel late in your UY.)

 

[drusba]

We currently have UY of Sept for BCV, we are looking at another contract with a UY of Aug, still at BCV. We normally travel Sept/Oct time period.

Can someone explain the best way to combine these two for reservations? Should I wait until the Sept account is available to use at 11 mos, that way I can just transfer the Aug points into that account and bank anything left in the Sept account? Should I use the Aug account and borrow from the Sept account? I'm thinking this gives me a month lead time on 11 mos out? As long as my reservation is after Sept 1st, I can do this right?
I can still bank borrowed points yes?

I really wanted to same UY as to not confuse myself, but looks like a good Aug contract came up.

1. You can always book 11 months out at home resort so waiting until "Sep" account "is available for use" is not the way it works. If you had both Aug and Sep contracts and you wanted to go in Sep 2012, you could call in Oct 2011 for BCV and use points coming avaialble in Aug 2012 and Sep 2012. That would be true if you had Feb and Mar contracts, June and Aug, etc. When you will be at WDW determines when you can call to reserve, 11 months before date of arrival at home resoprt, not your use year.

2. Two contracts with different use years get two separate member numbers and remain separate for all purposes including banking and getting annual dues bills (you will get two).

3. To combine the two contracts for one trip, you have two options: (a) use Aug use year to reserve some nights, Sep use year to reserve rest and then link the reservations; (b) transfer points from one use year to the other; that would allow you to combine points from the two contracts for a single night and thus combine them to make one reservation. You can transfer from one to another even though that is officially two transfer events -- one out from one contract/use year and one in to the other contract/use year. That is allowed because each membership number is like being a different member and thus each gets one transfer. Also, some at MS will allow single members to do multiple transfers if doing it among the member's own accounts.

 

[chalee94]

I can still bank borrowed points yes?

you can bank transferred pts.

you can never bank borrowed pts, under any circumstances.

 

[Sandisw]

The biggest issue with two different UY's is that you will have two different memberships and have to treat them as such.

If both contracts are the same UY, they go under the same membership and then function as one big contract even though you have two.

If you go with the different UY, and want to combine points for a single night, you will have to transfer between the two. However, if the extra points you need from one are banked points, you will not be able to transfer them to the other account.

The biggest glitch is that you could be that you have points in both contracts and need to combine them for a single night, but won't be able to because the points in one contract are restricted points that can not be transferred.

We own two UY's at two different resorts. We are treating them as two completely different memberships. For our summer trip next year (because we are doing a bigger October trip than we would normally do), I may end up having to borrow points from one contract while I still have points in the other because of the way my bookings will fall.

I knew this going in and am okay with it--plus, I went with a 150 point contract instead of 100 so that any problems I have would be limited over the years.

As long as you understand that having two UY's is not as flexible as having one, I am sure you can work it out.