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Fantastic news that our granddaughter will soon have a baby brother or sister. We're absolutely thrilled at the news.
As we were driving home talking about it, we did the math and realized DDIL's due date is a bulls-eye for a trip we had planned with them -- what was to be DGD's first WDW trip. 8 nights in a BLT two-bedroom. She'll be just shy of two-years-old at the time, which we all felt was a good age for a first visit to Disney.
So now the dilemma. Given the due date, we're sure they'll need to cancel, but don't want to put words in their mouth. We also don't want to turn something joyful like having a baby into a controversy or stressor. (The vacation seems like a really minor point in the larger scheme of what's going on.) None the less, we need to do something with those points. It's been about a month since they gave us the news about the baby, and we've seen them several times. They haven't brought up the trip, though. We haven't brought it up either because timing hasn't seemed right, and we're not sure how to approach it.
We're getting to the point where we need to either find someone else to share the villa with us, or cancel the reservation. If we're canceling, I need to do it soon because the reservation uses 150 borrowed points and I'll need to rebook somewhere else to use them. If we offer the 2nd bedroom to someone else, it pushes the trip with them out farther, because we won't have enough BLT points for a two bedroom for a while.
Given the circumstances, would you be offended if your dad told you something like the following? "We're assuming you won't be coming to Florida with us in June because of your due date. We still need to use those timeshare points, though, so we're making other plans for that trip. We'll take a Disney trip together another time; maybe the following summer."
As we were driving home talking about it, we did the math and realized DDIL's due date is a bulls-eye for a trip we had planned with them -- what was to be DGD's first WDW trip. 8 nights in a BLT two-bedroom. She'll be just shy of two-years-old at the time, which we all felt was a good age for a first visit to Disney.
So now the dilemma. Given the due date, we're sure they'll need to cancel, but don't want to put words in their mouth. We also don't want to turn something joyful like having a baby into a controversy or stressor. (The vacation seems like a really minor point in the larger scheme of what's going on.) None the less, we need to do something with those points. It's been about a month since they gave us the news about the baby, and we've seen them several times. They haven't brought up the trip, though. We haven't brought it up either because timing hasn't seemed right, and we're not sure how to approach it.
We're getting to the point where we need to either find someone else to share the villa with us, or cancel the reservation. If we're canceling, I need to do it soon because the reservation uses 150 borrowed points and I'll need to rebook somewhere else to use them. If we offer the 2nd bedroom to someone else, it pushes the trip with them out farther, because we won't have enough BLT points for a two bedroom for a while.
Given the circumstances, would you be offended if your dad told you something like the following? "We're assuming you won't be coming to Florida with us in June because of your due date. We still need to use those timeshare points, though, so we're making other plans for that trip. We'll take a Disney trip together another time; maybe the following summer."
Congrats!!! BTW
