Does use year matter if buying different resorts

[radmcg]

If I am thinking of buying a small contract in a different resort, Should I try to get the same use year as the one I am currently buying or does it matter? I understand they will be different Id numbers but wouldn't they be anyway since they are different resorts? I want to use one set for Christmas and another set for Food and wine most years hince the different reosrts.
AHA
Rad

 

[ELMC]

If I am thinking of buying a small contract in a different resort, Should I try to get the same use year as the one I am currently buying or does it matter? I understand they will be different Id numbers but wouldn't they be anyway since they are different resorts? I want to use one set for Christmas and another set for Food and wine most years hince the different reosrts.
AHA
Rad

The biggest point of confusion you could run into is different banking window deadlines due to having two different use years. If you don't think that's a big deal, then I would say that you should look for the contract you want, regardless of whether or not it has the same use year as your current contract.

 

[CarolMN]

Do you think you would ever want to use points from both contracts at the 7 month window? If so, having the same use year is an advantage. That assumes you would arrange to have the second contract added on to the original. That can be done (at least for now) with resale contracts if they are titled exactly the same, have the same use year and you notify the closing company and Disney that you want that arrangement.

If you have different use years, you cannot combine points from the two contracts to book a single night. You would have to transfer points between them. Doing so would use up your "one transfer pr use year per contract" entitlement for both contracts. It has been reported that MS is more lenient if you are transferring between your own contracts to make a reservation for yourself. However, IMO, one should not count on that to continue, especially if one or more of the contracts was obtained via resale.

It is simpler to have the same use year & contract (even if the home resorts are different), but it is certainly doable to have different use years and membership numbers. You will just have to be a bit more vigilant about managing your points.

 

[ColonialMouse]

Keep the same use year if at all possible. You may have in mind now what you want to do with the two contracts, but that doesn't mean that 3 years from now you won't want to take all of the points and plan a week at Aulani, or rent a GV, or decide to go for 3 weeks in studios instead of 2 weeks in 2BRs. If they're in one account, you can combine them and change what you do with them easily. If they're separate, you would need to transfer points or manage separate reservations. Seems like quite a pain for relatively little benefit.

Bruce

 

[bwvBound]

If they were of the same use use year, and titled identically, they could be put under the same contract number as master contract and sub. Contacts under the same number, using the master/sub format, can combine points on reservations. Granted, combing points does not get around Home Resort Advantage booking rules.

 

[wdrl]

Deeds from two or more resorts can be combined into one master contract as long as a.) all deeds are titled exactly the same; and b.) all deeds have the same Use Year. We own at BLT and AKV and we have one member ID because all of our deeds are titled the same and have the February UY.

If you buy a deed for a second Home Resort and it has a different UY than your existing deed, then it cannot be added to your existing Master Contract. You will be issued a second member ID.

Having two member IDs is manageable, but it does have some drawbacks. If you ever plan on using points from both Master Contracts to book a single reservation, you cannot commingle the points to make the reservation without first transferring points from one Master Contract to another. Here is an example:

Lets say I own 160 Feb UY points at BLT and 150 April UY points at AKV under two separate Master Contracts. At the 7-month mark I want to book 6 nights at Aulani in an Ocean View two-bedroom villa that costs 50 points a night and 300 points for the 6-night stay. I can book 3 nights using my BLT points, but then I have to wait 3 more days for the 7-month window to open before I can use the AKV points to book the last three nights. I then end up with two separate reservations that I have MS link together. I can avoid some of this hassle by transferring all of my points from one Master Contract to the other. However, there is some confusion whether MS will permit members to make more than one transfer a year to their own accounts.

 

[ELMC]

While all this is good advice, I don't think it directly applies to the OP's situation. He is looking at travelling at two times of year and having two home resorts for this reason. I would think that if he needed more points for a particular stay it would be much easier for him to simply borrow from the next year as opposed to comingling points from two different contracts. So in this case, I don't think the benefits of having the same use year is worth the limitations it places on shopping for contracts. That being said, I definitely agree with the advice to get the contracts titled exactly the same so that you can access them with one dvcmember.com login.

 

[radmcg]

Thanks Guys . All very good things to think about. Especially the changing usage as th years go buy. These will at some point be my daughters and there is no telling what she will want to do with them. I guess I will try to keep UYs the same unless a contract I can't pass up comes along.
Thanks
Rad

 

[disneynutz]

If I am thinking of buying a small contract in a different resort, Should I try to get the same use year as the one I am currently buying or does it matter? I understand they will be different Id numbers but wouldn't they be anyway since they are different resorts? I want to use one set for Christmas and another set for Food and wine most years hince the different reosrts.
AHA
Rad

I suggest that you get your feet wet with one contract first. Learn the ins and out, the pluses and the minuses of ownership before you consider a different UY or resort. Use your new points to experience the different resorts and the UY that you bought. You may find that your UY isn't the best or that you really like a different resort.

That's what happened to us!

Bill

 

[radmcg]

Considering it took me 10 years to decide to buy the first one I'm not real worried about rushing into anything. I just wish I had gone ahead and done this before the rule change in 2011.
Thanks for all the input
Rad