Making a reservation using transferred points

[deva]

I've posted other questions on transfers and use years and received quite a bit of helpful information thanks to everyone on the board. So one more to clear things up...

Not sure if this part matters, but I have an April UY. For sake of this discussion, let's say I receive a transfer of August 2009 UY points in June 2009 (from everything I've heard and read a transfer can be made before the 1st day of the transferors UY). I understand that I can't take a trip using these points prior to August 1, 2009 and I also know that transferred points can't be borrowed, but I just want to make sure I understand what constitutes "borrowing".

Assume I want to take a trip January 15, 2010 at the home resort of the transferred points. The 7 month window for everyone to book at this date would open July 15, 2009. Since I want to book at the home resort, presumably I get the reservation advantage of being able to book prior to July 15, 2009.

If I received the transfer in June 2009, would I be able to make my reservation (at the home resort of the points) for January 2010 right away even though the transferred points aren't "good" until August 1, 2009? Or would I have to wait until August 1st to make a ressie?

I was thinking that this would work given that the reservation I'm interested in falls within the use year of the points rec'd via the transfer, but maybe I'm missing something. It would seem to me that people often book at the 11-month window which could very well be prior to the beginning of their UY from which the points will be used. But maybe there is something quirky with transfers that I don't know about.

In simple (?) terms, would you define borrowing as, "on the day of check in, you will not have points available from the current UY so you need to take them from the next year"?

Thanks for your assistance helping us learn all of this stuff.

First trip home in 58 days

 

[codina818]

The way I understand it is that when points are transferred, you can make the reservation for any date after the UY starts.

So that if you have Aug UY points, you can make the reservation well before then, but the DVC stay has to be for after Aug 1 of that UY.

You can bank the points into the next UY.

 

[5forDiz]

You mention making a reservation for JAN 15 2010 and that the booking window for everyone ie 'the 7 month booking window' would open on
JULY 15 2009....but you are off by 1 month :

7 Month Booking Window for JAN 15 2010 BEGINS on JUNE 15 2009

Home Resort priority booking window begins as early as 11 months prior to the check-in date you want and last day you would be able to gain this priority booking advantage would be 1 day before the date that is 7 months to the check-in date. So then

If you still want to have the Home Resort advantage for JAN 15 2010
you'd need to make
reservation at earliest FEB 15 2009 and AT LATEST JUNE 14 2009.

Just wanted to point this out to you because I see you probably do want to take advantage of the transferred points Home Resort priority booking window. You may want to get those points transferred to you in May instead of June to do this.

Concerning your booking question; points may always be booked for the resort they are "tied to/Home Resort" as early as 11 months before check-in date. There should not be any problem reserving & taking advantage of this booking window with the transferred AUG 2009 points because they are valid for stays from
8/1/2009 through 7/31/2010....your trip would happen during this time

This is not "borrowing" - borrowing only would happen for example, if on date you mentioned that reservation begins - JAN 15 2010 you needed additional points to cover this reservation that you do not have available in your own allotment of April 2009 UY points & from the allotment of AUG 2009 transferred points....if this is the case then MS would "BORROW" points from your April 2010 UY & only the amount of points needed to cover that reservation that begins on JAN 15 2010.

Just keep in mind that if your points have a different Home Resort than the transferred points you can't combine these 2 sets of points for a reservation until 7 month booking window opens - - but yes you could still reserve using just the transferred points during the priority booking window for as many nights as the transferred points can cover at that particular Resort; then if you wanted to use your points for additional nights at the Home Resort of the transferred points you can reserve those additional nights when 7 month window opens.

Good luck with your planning

 

[deva]

Thanks everyone for your help (5forDiz responded to most of my postings - you are the expert )

And I was bad with my math and months when looking at the booking window and trying to count back 7 months (oops!)

 

[5forDiz]

That's so nice of you to say but I must give credit to all of the

real experts here on the DIS who I've learned from & still

continue to learn from

Thank goodness for these boards !!

You'll soon be an expert too deva you've got your

"DVC Thinking Cap" on and are asking important questions !!

Best wishes