Disney Cruise Question

[JLitfin]

How far in advance can a cruise be booked on DVC pts? Is it treated just like a non-home resort at the 7 month period. I did read somewhere about reserving a cruise 24 months in advance, is that when you are booking on cash?

Thanks.

 

[dcamdad]

You may book DCL up to 24 mos in advance usung points.

 

[JLitfin]

Thanks

 

[Deb & Bill]

But, big one here, if you cancel your reservation, you can't use those points for a DVC reservation. You can only use them for non-DVC reservations and you'll pay $95 for each reservation you make with them. If that might be a concern, rethink using points for a cruise.

 

[Grandbuddy]

You may book DCL up to 24 mos in advance using points.

If you book 24 months in advance (2010, in this case), are you limited to using points that will be current and available in your account in 2010? Is it possible to use 2007 points that are current at the time of booking but which, if banked, would expire in December 2009?

 

[Grandbuddy]

Bump

 

[BWV Dreamin]

You can bank the previous years points, use the current UY points, and borrow the following years points to make the reservation. What this does is puts 3 yrs worth of points into one UY. You can then use all those points towards the cruise. MS can make all those changes at the time of booking. Just be really sure before the points are banked and borrowed. No putting them back. But I did this very thing.

 

[Grandbuddy]

You can bank the previous years points, use the current UY points, and borrow the following years points to make the reservation. What this does is puts 3 yrs worth of points into one UY. You can then use all those points towards the cruise. MS can make all those changes at the time of booking. Just be really sure before the points are banked and borrowed. No putting them back. But I did this very thing.

Say my 2007 points are "current" in February 2008 when I book a cruise 24 months out for February 2010 - can these points be used to book the 2010 cruise?
If "banked," those points will (normally) expire 12/1/09, a couple of months before the ship sails. So, my question is not about normal banking and borrowing, but about whether using points to book a cruise 24 months out can somehow get around the expiration date for points that would not normally be current or banked (or borrowed) at the time of the actual sailing.
I don't know if I've actually explained this satisfactorily, even now.

 

[Caskbill]

Booking anything in the Disney collection is different than making a DVC reservation. What happens is MS takes those points and converts them to "Reservation Points". They are no longer DVC points and if you cancel the cruise, you cannot use those points for a DVC vacation.

Also the fee to book the cruise is now $95, not $75.

Sorry but I don't know for sure but I believe the points come from the use year applicable to the cruise date itself. You would need to confirm this with MS. If they have to come from current Use Year points, and you make a reservation 24 months from now and then if you cancelled it 18 months from now, the reservation points returned to your account would all have expired. However if they're returned to the use year of the cruise itself, then they would still be 'current' when you got them back and you could use them for a different non-DVC resort reservation (observing the 60 day rule)

Hopefully someone who has actually made a cruise reservation can confirm what use years DVC uses. I know we've booked reservations at the DL hotels a few times, and they used points from the use year of the reservation date itself, just like for a DVC reservation. I'm guessing the cruise line would be similar.

 

[BWV Dreamin]

Your points for the cruise have to coincide with the year of your cruise. Thats why you could bank '07 pts. into '08 UY, borrow '09 pts., put into '08 UY. Book the cruise for '08. You can only bank 1 previous years worth of pts. and apply that to your cruise. Same with borrowing.

 

[Grandbuddy]

'preciate the explanations.