Home resort points

[planningjollyholiday]

Just at the very beginning stages of thinking/dreaming of buying resale and had a question. I live on the west coast and would want to evenly split my time between aulani and disneyland alternating vacation spots each year. I know that VGC is very hard to get into at the 7 month mark, and I would imagine Aulani would also be hard during certain seasons. So if i bought 100 points at each making both my "home", does that mean at 11 months i would have access to 200 points to use right away, at either resort. Or would i only have 100 points and then I'd have to wait until 7 months to get the other 100 points? Sorry if this is confusing, thanks in advance.

 

[_auroraborealis_]

Okay. Not really either, if I read you correctly.

For every Use Year, you would get access to 100 booking points that could be used at 11 months at Aulani, and at 7 months at any resort, by buying a 100-point Aulani contract.

For every Use Year, you would get access to 100 booking points that could be used at 11 months at VGC, and at 7 months at any resort, by buying a 100-point VGC contract.

You would get both sets of points every year, but between 11-7 months to check in could only use each set of points at its own resort.
You could not use your VGC points at Aulani at 11 months, or Aulani points at VGC at 11 months.

You would likely be using banking to alternate years. The points would not be combining same year. You'd be using VGC points at VGC and Aulani points at Aulani.

 

[disneynutz]

Decide how many points you need at each resort and buy 60% of that total. You stay at Aulani and bank your points at VGC for next year. Next year you bank Aulani and use 2 years worth of points for your VGC stay.

Bill

 

[planningjollyholiday]

Thanks for the replies! I thought it might be too good to be true to work like that

 

[_auroraborealis_]

Thanks for the replies! I thought it might be too good to be true to work like that

It would be madness and mayhem if it did. You could buy a large resale contract at SSR, then a small, add-on at a high-cost resort like VGC, Aulani or Grand Floridian, then use your cheap points for a home booking. It would create massive booking issues around home booking, and possibly be illegal. (I am no timeshare law expert.)

 

[bwvBound]

As suggested above, if you buy 100 points at both Aulani and Grand Cal ... you WILL have access to 200 "home resort" points if you carefully plan to bank/borrow.

• Day 1: buy 100 points at Aulani and 100 point at Grand Cal
• Book your 1st Grand Cal reservation using both current year and future year's points (using either bank/borrow depending on your Use Year).
• Second year: combine two years of Aulani points (bank/borrow) for Aulani.
• Third year: you are ready to burn 2 years of Grand Cal again!
• Fourth year: consume 2 years of Aulani
• Rinse, repeat

Do read the rules of Use Year, Banking, Borrowing and Transferring, should you wish to supplement your ownership by transferring points in from others now and again. Also read up on the One Time Use Points -- although they cannot be used until the 7-month reservation window. Be very clear that once banked or borrowed -- points cannot be returned to their original Use Year.

 

[Dean]

Just at the very beginning stages of thinking/dreaming of buying resale and had a question. I live on the west coast and would want to evenly split my time between aulani and disneyland alternating vacation spots each year. I know that VGC is very hard to get into at the 7 month mark, and I would imagine Aulani would also be hard during certain seasons. So if i bought 100 points at each making both my "home", does that mean at 11 months i would have access to 200 points to use right away, at either resort. Or would i only have 100 points and then I'd have to wait until 7 months to get the other 100 points? Sorry if this is confusing, thanks in advance.

As noted, you'd only be able to use the non home resort points at 7 months out. That'd mean you'd have to borrow each time to use home resort points and do a reservation more than 100 points. It is going to be more difficult to both find contracts and reserve for VGC. For this plan I'd either buy around 200 at VGC or buy at both and use at each 11 months out banking and borrowing. If I did that I'd buy VGC first. Another approach is to go in between for VGC or to buy the minimum, say 150-200 and see how it goes getting alumni. The reality is that VGC is going to be difficult to book in many situations even owning there unless ones reserves at 8 am 11 months out consistently. You can always buy larger contracts and rent occasionally to allow full reservations at both though I wouldn't go dramatically over what you need.