I'm about to book my FIRST DVC vacation

[JKMJ441724]

Now I'm nervous. We bought our points resale. We have an August use year. We had 100 points from 2007 which we banked to 2008. Then, of course, we get our 100 points for 2008 in August. We are going in October. Will there be any funny business with my points when I book today? Will they try to borrow from 2009 to cover what was banked? Just wondering what to expect. I don't work well with surprises.

 

[dvcnewgirl]

No they will not borrow 2009, unless you tell them to. Tell them you want to use youre banked points first. You will be fine.

 

[JKMJ441724]

My first FOUR choices were not available. But I don't care - it's all good.

I'm going to DISNEY!

 

[Happy Birthday Cat]

My first FOUR choices were not available. But I don't care - it's all good.
I'm going to DISNEY!

Congratulations. Where will you be staying? Did you waitlist any of your first four choices? If not, call back and add them all to a waitlist. You never know what will happen in 7 months.

HBC

 

[JKMJ441724]

Congratulations. Where will you be staying? Did you waitlist any of your first four choices? If not, call back and add them all to a waitlist. You never know what will happen in 7 months.

HBC

In order, we wanted

BWV
BCV
VWL
AKL
SSR
OKW

My biggest problem is that we are taking my sister and her family and my mother and step-father. Maybe I should not put a period there. They are not really the problem. We just needed THREE studios. I did not want to wait list because we did not want to be split up at different resorts. - So that meant BWV and BCV were DEFINATELY out. They did have one bdrms (I think). WL had split availability, where we could have stayed on points for ONE night and cash the others.
AKL had our last four nights available on points with the first night being cash and waitlisted for points. But, they did not have any value, or standard view rooms available. We SERIOUSLY considered this option. A savannah view was hard for us to turn down.
My husband and I ultimately vetoed SSR because we want to see the Christmas lights next year and know that we will need our 11 month window to book that - so its SSR next year for sure.
Finally, we took OKW. We have stayed there one night before. It was the first time I had ever rented someone else's points. We enjoyed what little bit of it that we saw.

 

[keishashadow]

glad you got rooms @ the inn

getting ready to call tomorrow to switch things around, r u saying there is now no studios available @ AK or there weren't 3 of them?

 

[JKMJ441724]

glad you got rooms @ the inn

getting ready to call tomorrow to switch things around, r u saying there is now no studios available @ AK or there weren't 3 of them?

I can't remember the exact conversation. But I believe there were no studios for Oct. 12 - 17th. ONLY Savannah View and higher were available. We did not waitlist because we would need three at once - and we thought the chances of three opening up at the same time would be nil.

Good luck. Let me know how it turns out.

 

[keishashadow]

I can't remember the exact conversation. But I believe there were no studios for Oct. 12 - 17th. ONLY Savannah View and higher were available. We did not waitlist because we would need three at once - and we thought the chances of three opening up at the same time would be nil.

Good luck. Let me know how it turns out.

thanks, i called this am the following week BWV S studios are available...but we'd have to move each day no thanks lol

AK has a few savanah rooms, not the whole week

starting to think you were lucky to get 3 @ the same resort, enjoy your 1st trip home!

 

[JKMJ441724]

starting to think you were lucky to get 3 @ the same resort, enjoy your 1st trip home!

Thanks.

Here's some pixie dust for you too.