June use Year? Is it really Popular?

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

I’m trying to avoid a 5th () UY, but now that my kids love skiing, it turns out the ideal UY is probably Mar/Apr … neither of which I already have. We could maaybe make June work (a UY I already own) but it would rule out Memorial Day weekends and I want the flexibility to walk into early summer if I have to—a Jun UY cuts it off at Jun 1. Luckily UY decision paralysis seems to be keeping my addonitis at bay.

 

[MerlinandtheMouse]

I’m trying to avoid a 5th () UY, but now that my kids love skiing, it turns out the ideal UY is probably Mar/Apr … neither of which I already have. We could maaybe make June work (a UY I already own) but it would rule out Memorial Day weekends and I want the flexibility to walk into early summer if I have to—a Jun UY cuts it off at Jun 1. Luckily UY decision paralysis seems to be keeping my addonitis at bay.

Not to enable (I’m enabling), but is it really all that much more juggling from a 4th to a 5th?

 

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

Not to enable (I’m enabling), but is it really all that much more juggling from a 4th to a 5th?

Haha, an excellent point for sure. I’m telling myself that if I want to add a new VGC year I have to sell off my resale VGF that lives on its own island.

WDW and AUL have length of stay perks and I think eventually they will come to DLR as well…so I care about having fewer memberships and booking long stays more than I am worried I won’t remember when I need to use/bank points.

 

[Chili327]

Not to enable (I’m enabling), but is it really all that much more juggling from a 4th to a 5th?

Haha, an excellent point for sure. I’m telling myself that if I want to add a new VGC year I have to sell off my resale VGF that lives on its own island.

WDW and AUL have length of stay perks and I think eventually they will come to DLR as well…so I care about having fewer memberships and booking long stays more than I am worried I won’t remember when I need to use/bank points.

I got myself into 3 UY's now, but I think it will be ok, I'm going to sell one to make it so only VGC is June (and any future CA or Hawaii resorts), & all my WDW will be Sept or Oct. So technically its only really 2 UY at the most for any trip (it'll either be June, or Sept/Oct) I think that should make it pretty manageable. I hope. lol *fingers crossed*

 

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

I got myself into 3 UY's now, but I think it will be ok, I'm going to sell one to make it so only VGC is June (and any future CA or Hawaii resorts), & all my WDW will be Sept or Oct. So technically its only really 2 UY at the most for any trip (it'll either be June, or Sept/Oct) I think that should make it pretty manageable. I hope. lol *fingers crossed*

It sounds manageable from a practical perspective— the real headache will be that if you have 2 consecutive 4 day stays at BWV you can LINK but not COMBINE, so unless you transfer points from membership to membership at WDW, you’d only get 60+4 days twice instead of 60+8 days for dining and special activities and you only get 7+4 twice instead of 7+8 for advance LL purchases. Those +5/6/7/8 days are incredible valuable for snagging hard to get experiences.

 

[VGCgroupie]

It sounds manageable from a practical perspective— the real headache will be that if you have 2 consecutive 4 day stays at BWV you can LINK but not COMBINE, so unless you transfer points from membership to membership at WDW, you’d only get 60+4 days twice instead of 60+8 days for dining and special activities and you only get 7+4 twice instead of 7+8 for advance LL purchases. Those +5/6/7/8 days are incredible valuable for snagging hard to get experiences.

So it sounds like keeping WDW all one UY and all DL/AUL on separate UY for booking purposes since DL doesn’t do advanced purchases other than dining?

 

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

So it sounds like keeping WDW all one UY and all DL/AUL on separate UY for booking purposes since DL doesn’t do advanced purchases other than dining?

I don't actually know that about DL for sure, I've never tried to book anything other than dining in advance... I assume there are some other offerings from time to time?

First of all, I assume I'll always have at least 2 UY because I have two separate direct contracts and they'd be the very last points I sell, and I'm going to have 3 UY until BCV expires or my family stops liking WDW, whichever happens first-- so I do not judge anybody else who has 3/4/5/6/+ UYs... however, knowing what I know now, I'd be more careful about keeping all my WDW contracts together so that I had the option to stretch out 10+ day trips without needing to link or transfer. Transfering seems much riskier to me because it then limits your options to move between UYs. Due to an inefficient marketplace, the costs of swapping out one UY for another are very high so I don't plan to move to consolidate.

On the one hand, you could argue it makes more sense to keep the California and beach resorts separate... but if you think there's any chance you'll ever want to use some home resort points as SAP for a big/long reservation, you're still better off keeping them in one UY. For example, I may end up using BCV, VGF, and AUL points all for one WDW trip this fall. I'm staying at different resorts so they'd be linked instead of consecutive in any event BUT I did actually have the option to extend out BCV and would have done so if I had all my points in the same membership to give myself the most options to book in advance at the busiest time of our trip. At least, I think that's how it works, since I don't have any UY with multiple resort contracts.

 

[Chili327]

It sounds manageable from a practical perspective— the real headache will be that if you have 2 consecutive 4 day stays at BWV you can LINK but not COMBINE, so unless you transfer points from membership to membership at WDW, you’d only get 60+4 days twice instead of 60+8 days for dining and special activities and you only get 7+4 twice instead of 7+8 for advance LL purchases. Those +5/6/7/8 days are incredible valuable for snagging hard to get experiences.

Yea, that may come into play as the years go by, but for now its all so new to me any res is good to try something new. lol

 

[VGCgroupie]

I don't actually know that about DL for sure, I've never tried to book anything other than dining in advance... I assume there are some other offerings from time to time?

First of all, I assume I'll always have at least 2 UY because I have two separate direct contracts and they'd be the very last points I sell, and I'm going to have 3 UY until BCV expires or my family stops liking WDW, whichever happens first-- so I do not judge anybody else who has 3/4/5/6/+ UYs... however, knowing what I know now, I'd be more careful about keeping all my WDW contracts together so that I had the option to stretch out 10+ day trips without needing to link or transfer. Transfering seems much riskier to me because it then limits your options to move between UYs. Due to an inefficient marketplace, the costs of swapping out one UY for another are very high so I don't plan to move to consolidate.

On the one hand, you could argue it makes more sense to keep the California and beach resorts separate... but if you think there's any chance you'll ever want to use some home resort points as SAP for a big/long reservation, you're still better off keeping them in one UY. For example, I may end up using BCV, VGF, and AUL points all for one WDW trip this fall. I'm staying at different resorts so they'd be linked instead of consecutive in any event BUT I did actually have the option to extend out BCV and would have done so if I had all my points in the same membership to give myself the most options to book in advance at the busiest time of our trip. At least, I think that's how it works, since I don't have any UY with multiple resort contracts.

Awesome thanks. I had trouble buying OBB tickets today due to invalid password that I knew was right so I was thinking somehow my new DVC account with another email was messing things up. But I was probably overthinking that.

 

[MerlinandtheMouse]

Awesome thanks. I had trouble buying OBB tickets today due to invalid password that I knew was right so I was thinking somehow my new DVC account with another email was messing things up. But I was probably overthinking that.

Omg you were able to change your username?! RIP Veginaz, you were fun to giggle at (cause we’re all children with adult money) while it lasted

 

[Chili327]

Awesome thanks. I had trouble buying OBB tickets today due to invalid password that I knew was right so I was thinking somehow my new DVC account with another email was messing things up. But I was probably overthinking that.

Omg you were able to change your username?! RIP Veginaz, you were fun to giggle at (cause we’re all children with adult money) while it lasted

Yep, i was thinking should probably keep the avatar for a while so people know who you are... it took me a couple posts before i caught on. lol

 

[VGCgroupie]

Omg you were able to change your username?! RIP Veginaz, you were fun to giggle at (cause we’re all children with adult money) while it lasted

Yep, i was thinking should probably keep the avatar for a while so people know who you are... it took me a couple posts before i caught on. lol

Yeah even though it kind of started to grow on me.. lol. But I was like Ive never spoke about it in other areas of the forum Im active in like the budget forum, and I was like how is anyone over there taking me seriously with this UN. Im sure they only made the exception since it was truly something I shouldn't have gotten if i intended it the way it could be read.

 

[CastAStone]

Yeah even though it kind of started to grow on me.. lol. But I was like Ive never spoke about it in other areas of the forum Im active in like the budget forum, and I was like how is anyone over there taking me seriously with this UN. Im sure they only made the exception since it was truly something I shouldn't have gotten if i intended it the way it could be read.

We can always click on that little circle arrow next to your name to remember the good times.