Do banked points automatically get reallocated?

vicarrieous

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Let's say you have 150 banked points in a use year.

You make a reservation for 66 points for Nov and another reservation for 156 points in January in that order.

If you cancel your Nov reservation before 32 days, will the banked points automatically relocate/swap/be used fully in the January booking? Would you need to call MS to have them move which points are being pulled? Am I making any sense? lol
 
I would call MS to switch them. You may be able to change it online by changing the date on the January reservation (note: you can use the same dates in January) but go through the same online request as if you were changing to new days. I never tried this myself but I believe it would work.

To answer your question the banked points would not automatically swap.
 
You have to adjust on your own. The one thing to know is that when you do a reallocation, the the second trip is within 31 days, those swapped out points do become holding points.

For example, if you booked a January trip first and used banked points and then the November one with regular points and decide to cancel January trip in October.

Those banked points could go into November trip, but the freed up points would be holding because you modified the November trip within 31 days.
 
It does not happen automatically. And really it shouldn't. Owners may have other intentions for the points and the last thing any of us need is MS deciding how we want to use our membership. Call or do it online yourself thru the modify option.
 

If you have a reservation for next year, bank points, and then want them reallocated, all you need to do is "change" your reservation but select the exact same resort and dates. The DVC booking tool automatically uses your points based on a strict algorithm that grabs banked points ahead of non-banked points.
 

















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