Help with booking across two contracts with different use years

[Brett Wyman]

I need some help with long term planning across two contracts with different use years. Before anyone asks we added a different use year for our second contract because the price per point was very low and it was a loaded contract with double the points for 2021. We travel the third week of September every year due to our kids having a static fall break then and it’s an excellent time to visit crowd wise, 7th month booking wise, and temperature wise (I’m originally from Florida so not freaked out by hurricanes).

We book 7 month window, usually the middle of February for the September stay. We don’t stay at our home resorts for our September trip.

We have 160 points on our first contract (October use year)
We have 125 points on our second (April Use year)
Going into 2021 we will have our normal 160 for our October 2021 contract and 250 for our April 2021 contract.
We need roughly 270 points for a VGF 1 bedroom during our travel window.

So here’s the math. Lets skip our 2021 for now. When we book for September 2022 in February 2022(7 month window) we will have the 160 October 2021 points waiting. At that point do we simply call and transfer the points we need for September 2022 from the April 2022 contract? Or do you have to wait until April 1st to use the April 2022 points? If so that’s where I need help with strategic banking strategies so they points will be ready for us the next year.

 

[Sandisw]

Once you get to April of this year and are in your 2021 UY, you can call and transfer in the April 2022 UY points.

This way, they will be in your account already for the booking you will do at 7 months,

Once transferred, the will show up online. Here is the only thing I have learned soBut transferred points. The system will take any banked or borrowed points you have from your October UY...the receiving membership..before it will take the transferred points into the reservation.

 

[Wedgeout]

To start you don’t have to wait to borrow from another UY. Your points are already there. It’s all on the booking date. Let’s say you are planning that September 2022 reservation in February 2022. The points used for that reservation are from what’s in your April 2022 UY and your October 2021 UY at time of booking. Whatever you have in them extra from banking will be there to use. Any remaining points needed to book will be borrowed from your April 2023 UY or your October 2022 UY.

 

[Sandisw]

To start you don’t have to wait to borrow from another UY. Your points are already there. It’s all on the booking date. Let’s say you are planning that September 2022 reservation in February 2022. The points used for that reservation are from what’s in your April 2022 UY and your October 2021 UY at time of booking. Whatever you have in them extra from banking will be there to use. Any remaining points needed to book will be borrowed from your April 2023 UY or your October 2022 UY.

But it sounds like they want everything in one reservation so you can’t combine them unless transferring happens.

Two different UYs are two different memberships so booking with October 2021 and April 2022 UY points would not be eligible for being combined without it.

 

[Wedgeout]

But it sounds like they want everything in one reservation so you can’t combine them unless transferring happens.

Two different UYs are two different memberships so booking with October 2021 and April 2022 UY points would not be eligible for being combined without it.

Oh,,ok,,yikes. Thanks for educating me on that. Too bad they make it that complicated. Would be nice though having one membership with multi contracts with different UY’s.

 

[Sandisw]

Oh,,ok,,yikes. Thanks for educating me on that. Too bad they make it that complicated. Would be nice though having one membership with multi contracts with different UY’s.

Different UYs have to be different memberships because of the different banking, etc,

Same thing with titles, I have contract with DH and I as owners, and then contracts that are the two of us with the adult kids. Different memberships.

One way around the transfer is to just book some nights on one and some on the other vs, transferring, That is why I do and just have MS make a note so we don’t switch rooms,

 

[Brett Wyman]

Once you get to April of this year and are in your 2021 UY, you can call and transfer in the April 2022 UY points.

This way, they will be in your account already for the booking you will do at 7 months,

Once transferred, the will show up online. Here is the only thing I have learned soBut transferred points. The system will take any banked or borrowed points you have from your October UY...the receiving membership..before it will take the transferred points into the reservation.

Help me out here this is where I get confused a bit. Again let's think of the September 2022 booking we will do in February 2022 using the October 2021(160 points) + April ????(125 points). We want to be able to book at the 7th month window in February 2022 and going forward, so for the April points do I need to bank then transfer or just sit on the April 2021 points until 2022 so they are good for transfer in February of 2022? The WHEN to transfer and from which April use year is what Im not clear on. Thanks!

 

[Sandisw]

Help me out here this is where I get confused a bit. Again let's think of the September 2022 booking we will do in February 2022 using the October 2021(160 points) + April ????(125 points). We want to be able to book at the 7th month window in February 2022 and going forward, so for the April points do I need to bank then transfer or just sit on the April 2021 points until 2022 so they are good for transfer in February of 2022? The WHEN to transfer and from which April use year is what Im not clear on. Thanks!

Small part I misunderstood so let me start again, and see if this helps!

Your Sept 2022 trip will be in your October 2021 UY. You will be using the 2021 points of 160. No problem with that at 7 months,

You want to use your April 2021 UY points as well...not April 2022 UY..of 125.

So, you can call today, ask them to transfer 125 April 2021 UY points into your October UY. Then, once they are part of that membership, you can get them banaked by November 30th, 2021, That will move them into the 2022 UY and make them eligible for the September 2022 trip.

If you want to be able to transfer and bank in the same call, wait until after April 1st, when you are in your 2021 UY!