Modification question

[ClaraOswald]

I will be booking a 1-bedroom at Boulder Ridge for late January/early February 2027 at the 11 month mark.

I'm hoping to switch that to a 2-bedroom at the 7-month mark using some of our other points that would expire if not used.

So if our dates are January 30th-February 6th, do I need to wait until July 6th to modify the entire reservation to a 2-bedroom?

Or...I believe I actually have enough BRV points to book a 2-bedroom at the 11 month mark. So should I do that and then at the 7 month mark, is it easy to modify the reservation using different points for part of it? And if so, I still need to wait until July 6th, correct?

What is the best way to go about this? I've only ever modified dates before but never which points used.

 

[muppets3d]

If you book a 2 bedroom now within your 11 month window, you won't be able to switch to different points at 7 months. That would be a cancel and rebook, and unless that room is still available you take the risk of your cancellation being snapped up by a waitlist or something.

If you book the 1 bedroom now, at 7 months you can go in and modify to a 2 bedroom if they're still available and use points from other contracts for the difference.

 

[eticketplease]

I will be booking a 1-bedroom at Boulder Ridge for late January/early February 2027 at the 11 month mark.

I'm hoping to switch that to a 2-bedroom at the 7-month mark using some of our other points that would expire if not used.

So if our dates are January 30th-February 6th, do I need to wait until July 6th to modify the entire reservation to a 2-bedroom?

Or...I believe I actually have enough BRV points to book a 2-bedroom at the 11 month mark. So should I do that and then at the 7 month mark, is it easy to modify the reservation using different points for part of it? And if so, I still need to wait until July 6th, correct?

What is the best way to go about this? I've only ever modified dates before but never which points used.

Your 7 month window would be June 30th as that is the first day of your reservation and would cover your 7 nights.

You may or may not be able to modify it online at 7 months to add the other contracts. Mine seems to always be locked but I believe @Sandisw has had success.

You should be able to call MS and they can reallocate the points for you assuming that the rooms are still available at 7 months.

 

[ClaraOswald]

If you book a 2 bedroom now within your 11 month window, you won't be able to switch to different points at 7 months. That would be a cancel and rebook, and unless that room is still available you take the risk of your cancellation being snapped up by a waitlist or something.

If you book the 1 bedroom now, at 7 months you can go in and modify to a 2 bedroom if they're still available and use points from other contracts for the difference.

Would I be able to put back some of the BRV points and replace them with other resort points at the 7-month mark or only add other resort points to cover the additional cost?

 

[ClaraOswald]

Your 7 month window would be June 30th as that is the first day of your reservation and would cover your 7 nights.

You may or may not be able to modify it online at 7 months to add the other contracts. Mine seems to always be locked but I believe @Sandisw has had success.

You should be able to call MS and they can reallocate the points for you assuming that the rooms are still available at 7 months.

So the 7-month window is from the start date of the trip and all the days don't need to be within that window then?

 

[Brian Noble]

I think you are limited to check-in plus seven days, but yes---it's based on the start date.

 

[Tatebeck]

I will be booking a 1-bedroom at Boulder Ridge for late January/early February 2027 at the 11 month mark.

I'm hoping to switch that to a 2-bedroom at the 7-month mark using some of our other points that would expire if not used.

So if our dates are January 30th-February 6th, do I need to wait until July 6th to modify the entire reservation to a 2-bedroom?

Or...I believe I actually have enough BRV points to book a 2-bedroom at the 11 month mark. So should I do that and then at the 7 month mark, is it easy to modify the reservation using different points for part of it? And if so, I still need to wait until July 6th, correct?

What is the best way to go about this? I've only ever modified dates before but never which points used.

If all of the dates are available you could modify and book it all at 7 months from the start date which would be June 30th using any points you wish.

If any of the dates are unavailable then you would have to wait a little longer, maybe until July 6th depending on which dates are available to grab. If you grabbed 1 or a few nights at the beginning or end of the trip using other points at 7 months, then you could modify your 11 month trip and drop those same days from it, saving some of the BRV points

 

[eticketplease]

So the 7-month window is from the start date of the trip and all the days don't need to be within that window then?

Yes the 11 and 7 month window starts from the first day of your trip.

You can book 7 days at a once at both 11 or 7 months and then add on a day so for a 10 day trip would take you 4 days to book (7 + 1 + 1 + 1)

However if you were at 10 or 6 months for example you could grab all 10 days at once if they were available.

 

[muppets3d]

Your 7 month window would be June 30th as that is the first day of your reservation and would cover your 7 nights.

You may or may not be able to modify it online at 7 months to add the other contracts. Mine seems to always be locked but I believe @Sandisw has had success.

You should be able to call MS and they can reallocate the points for you assuming that the rooms are still available at 7 months.

I've had reservations show as locked even if I booked them within 7 months. Not sure how it decides what gets locked and what doesn't. A quick call to MS always solves it though.

 

[airjay75]

Before I booked my 1 BR CCV stay for this past 1st week of February, I was debating between BRV and CCV. 1 BRs at both BRV and CCV were wide open during that time period well into the 7-month window. I wasn’t paying attention to 2 BR availability, but it looks like dedicated 2 BRs at both aren’t too difficult to get either if you look at the dvcfieldgude.com availability tables.

If it were me, I’d probably book my 2 BR now and then look at what availability looks like at 7-months. If you can still get all your nights, I’d just cancel and rebook. If some of your nights are unavailable, I’d probably modify my existing reservation to include as many of the unavailable nights as possible and then book or waitlist the other nights separately. Then, once they all come through, merge the reservations.

 

[ClaraOswald]

Before I booked my 1 BR CCV stay for this past 1st week of February, I was debating between BRV and CCV. 1 BRs at both BRV and CCV were wide open during that time period well into the 7-month window. I wasn’t paying attention to 2 BR availability, but it looks like dedicated 2 BRs at both aren’t too difficult to get either if you look at the dvcfieldgude.com availability tables.

If it were me, I’d probably book my 2 BR now and then look at what availability looks like at 7-months. If you can still get all your nights, I’d just cancel and rebook. If some of your nights are unavailable, I’d probably modify my existing reservation to include as many of the unavailable nights as possible and then book or waitlist the other nights separately. Then, once they all come through, merge the reservations.

The thing is, we don't want to use up all of our BRV points on a 2-bedroom. If we can only use BRV points, we want to stay in a 1-bedroom and bank the remainder of the points forward to next year. We only want to do a 2-bedroom if we can use leftover VGC points that would expire.

 

[eticketplease]

The thing is, we don't want to use up all of our BRV points on a 2-bedroom. If we can only use BRV points, we want to stay in a 1-bedroom and bank the remainder of the points forward to next year. We only want to do a 2-bedroom if we can use leftover VGC points that would expire.

Why don’t you just do a 1 bedroom with the vgc expiring points and then BRV it should give you a lot more to bank that way and as @airjay75 mentioned 1 bedrooms are pretty easy to book then.

 

[airjay75]

Yeah, that’s probably the best idea. Those 1 BRs are going to be pretty wide open. I wouldn’t hesitate at all to wait until 7 months to book those. If you want to use your VGC points for that or see what 2 BR availability looks like and book that instead, I think you’ll be in good shape to do either.

If it makes you feel better, go ahead and book the 1 BR now, and then once you see what it looks like at 7 months, just cancel and rebook.

 

[ClaraOswald]

Why don’t you just do a 1 bedroom with the vgc expiring points and then BRV it should give you a lot more to bank that way and as @airjay75 mentioned 1 bedrooms are pretty easy to book then.

Well, we would love to get into the 2-bedroom to have 2 bathroom and also not have to worry about the lack of murphy bed if we're on a higher floor. So that's ideal for years we have extra points.

Right now, we have 155 BRV points from 2025 banked into 2026. Giving us a total of 355 BRV points in our 2026 UY now. So we definitely need to use all 155 banked points, at the very least.

And yes, I know a lot of people think it's dumb to use VGC points anywhere else, but I don't care. I'm fine with using "overflow" points elsewhere instead of fussing with renting. We have 77 points left for VGC for 2026. So we could use them for our BRV visit in January or bank them into 2027. We aren't staying at VGC in our 2027 UY though. So either way, those 77 points will get used at BRV...either for January 2027 or January 2028 (our UY is June.) And I think I'd rather just use them sooner instead of banking.

So for a 2-bedroom for our dates next Jan/Feb, I believe it's 306 points, if I did my math right.
Ideally, I'd want to use 155 banked BRV points, 77 VGC points, and then 74 BRV points for the 2026 UY. Then the remaining 2026 BRV will bank into 2027 for a trip in January 2028.

Where I get confused is that at the 11-month mark I plan to book a 1-bedroom for 218 points - using the 155 banks and then 63 BRV points for 2026 UY. And it sounds like I can't just go in at the 7 month mark and modify that to a 2-bedroom with the points mentioned in the previous paragraph. Is that correct that I can't modify like that?

Sorry...this is all new and confusing to me.

 

[eticketplease]

Well, we would love to get into the 2-bedroom to have 2 bathroom and also not have to worry about the lack of murphy bed if we're on a higher floor. So that's ideal for years we have extra points.

Right now, we have 155 BRV points from 2025 banked into 2026. Giving us a total of 355 BRV points in our 2026 UY now. So we definitely need to use all 155 banked points, at the very least.

And yes, I know a lot of people think it's dumb to use VGC points anywhere else, but I don't care. I'm fine with using "overflow" points elsewhere instead of fussing with renting. We have 77 points left for VGC for 2026. So we could use them for our BRV visit in January or bank them into 2027. We aren't staying at VGC in our 2027 UY though. So either way, those 77 points will get used at BRV...either for January 2027 or January 2028 (our UY is June.) And I think I'd rather just use them sooner instead of banking.

So for a 2-bedroom for our dates next Jan/Feb, I believe it's 306 points, if I did my math right.
Ideally, I'd want to use 155 banked BRV points, 77 VGC points, and then 74 BRV points for the 2026 UY. Then the remaining 2026 BRV will bank into 2027 for a trip in January 2028.

Where I get confused is that at the 11-month mark I plan to book a 1-bedroom for 218 points - using the 155 banks and then 63 BRV points for 2026 UY. And it sounds like I can't just go in at the 7 month mark and modify that to a 2-bedroom with the points mentioned in the previous paragraph. Is that correct that I can't modify like that?

Sorry...this is all new and confusing to me.

Your numbers are correct for the 2 bedroom however you are off by the one bedroom. The one bedroom is actually 238 points (20 more) assuming the same dates 1/30/27 - 2/6/27.

If booking the 1 bedroom you would then use 238 BRV points (155 2025 + 83 2026) at BRV at the 11 month window.
At 7 months you should be able to modify the booking and on the contract screen there will most likely be a lock on your BRV contract but it still should allow you to select the VGC contract and would be used second since the BRV is most likely locked.
It doesn't matter the order of contract is selected as it will always take the banked points first.
So if keeping with a 1 bedroom it would still cost 238 points but your reservation would use 155 2025 BRV Points, 77 2025 VGC points and 6 2026 BRV points. I'm assuming based on your statements that BRV is a 200 point contract so this would allow you to bank 194 2026 points into 2027 giving you 394 points to book a 2 bedroom at the 11 month window for January 2028.

If you did want the 2 bedroom this year then you would still use up the banked points first (232) and then would need 74 2026 BRV points which would allow you to bank 126 2026 points giving you a 2027 total of 326 points.

Either way if using the VGC points will set you up to be able to book a 2 bedroom in 2028 at the 11 month window.

 

[eticketplease]

And yes, I know a lot of people think it's dumb to use VGC points anywhere else, but I don't care. I'm fine with using "overflow" points elsewhere instead of fussing with renting.

I certainly can see both cases for this.

With renting you still have to go through the process of securing a reservation plus you would have to pay taxes.

I think what you are doing is perfectly fine though as it will make 2028 much easier being able to use all of your BRV points to secure the 2 bedroom at 11 months and not worry about all the shenanigans you will have to do this year with combing points at 7 months.

 

[eticketplease]

Well, we would love to get into the 2-bedroom to have 2 bathroom and also not have to worry about the lack of murphy bed if we're on a higher floor.

I'm all for a second bathroom even with just the 3 of you. Also the addition of the second door will help with sensory issues as there won't be light coming in from the hallway or if you get up to brew a pot of coffee it won't disturb DS.

 

[ClaraOswald]

Your numbers are correct for the 2 bedroom however you are off by the one bedroom. The one bedroom is actually 238 points (20 more) assuming the same dates 1/30/27 - 2/6/27.

If booking the 1 bedroom you would then use 238 BRV points (155 2025 + 83 2026) at BRV at the 11 month window.
At 7 months you should be able to modify the booking and on the contract screen there will most likely be a lock on your BRV contract but it still should allow you to select the VGC contract and would be used second since the BRV is most likely locked.
It doesn't matter the order of contract is selected as it will always take the banked points first.
So if keeping with a 1 bedroom it would still cost 238 points but your reservation would use 155 2025 BRV Points, 77 2025 VGC points and 6 2026 BRV points. I'm assuming based on your statements that BRV is a 200 point contract so this would allow you to bank 194 2026 points into 2027 giving you 394 points to book a 2 bedroom at the 11 month window for January 2028.

If you did want the 2 bedroom this year then you would still use up the banked points first (232) and then would need 74 2026 BRV points which would allow you to bank 126 2026 points giving you a 2027 total of 326 points.

Either way if using the VGC points will set you up to be able to book a 2 bedroom in 2028 at the 11 month window.

So the 77 VGC points are 2026 points, NOT previously banked points. So how do I make sure those get pulled for a 2-bedroom before the BRV 2026 points?

 

[ClaraOswald]

And thanks for fixing my math. I forgot we had changed our dates to one week later, which pushed the trip into February which is more points. I fixed my math for the 2-bedroom but forgot to do it for the 1-bedroom.

 

[eticketplease]

So the 77 VGC points are 2026 points, NOT previously banked points. So how do I make sure those get pulled for a 2-bedroom before the BRV 2026 points?

You would have to mark that contract first. If your lucky the lock will be gone and you will be able to uncheck the brv, check VGC and then BRV. If your not lucky you would have to create a new reservation online and do so with VGC checked first and then BRV or call MS to see if they can put the room on hold for you and have them reallocate the points.