Modifying 11-month reservation at 7 months?

ray3127

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Here's a thought I've been toying around with, though I'm not sure if it would work.

Let's say I own at SSR and BWV. I book a hard to get BWV studio at 11 months for 4 nights with my BWV points. Often these studios are sold out at exactly 7 months (plus a few days), but at 7 months +4 days there is sometimes availability.

Once I hit 7 months, I transfer some SSR points to my BWV contract with the intent of extending my stay. I know those transferred points may only be used for 7 month bookings at that point. But if I modified my existing reservation, it would be a 7-month booking. I'm essentially adding on to it once I hit 7 months, extending to day 5, 6, 7, etc. with the non-home resort points.

Maybe a hard-to-get BWV studio isn't a great example, as many of those are snatched up at 11 months and completely unavailable at 7. But there are several room categories that follow the availability pattern I'm describing at various times of the year. Would this be allowed? And if so, is the only risk assuming that availability will be there at 7 months + a few days?

Why would I care to do this? Depending on how many points I have at each resort I own at, it could be advantageous. I'm not sure I'd recommend it as a buying strategy, as there are no guarantees on availability... But it could get me to consider fewer points at an in-demand (i.e. more expensive) resort if I could transfer and extend in this way. Again, just a thought.
 
Yes, you could use non-home resort points at the seven-month window to add days to an existing reservation that was made during the Home Resort Reservation Period. It all depends on whether there is availability for the nights you are trying to add. By the way, the seven-month window would start with the first day you are adding, not as of the day of the original reservation.

In your example, you could not use your SSR points to replace your BWV points for the four nights of your original reservation unless those nights are still available at the time you are making the change.
 
By the way, the seven-month window would start with the first day you are adding, not as of the day of the original reservation.
This is what I was wondering. If those are the rules I will play by them, just wanted to check! That does make sense. Thank you!
 

Yes, you could use non-home resort points at the seven-month window to add days to an existing reservation that was made during the Home Resort Reservation Period. It all depends on whether there is availability for the nights you are trying to add. By the way, the seven-month window would start with the first day you are adding, not as of the day of the original reservation.

In your example, you could not use your SSR points to replace your BWV points for the four nights of your original reservation unless those nights are still available at the time you are making the change.
S/he used the word “modify” the booking, which made me think that it was in essence going around the 11/7 rule but I could have misread.
 
You also cannot use transferred points ONLINE at 7 months. You'd have to call.
 
If Ray just used their SSR points to, say, add 3 more days, consecutively, at the end of their previous 4 day BWV reservation, couldn’t they just call up Member Services and have the two reservations linked? In other words, do they really need to transfer points between contracts, in order to reserve them and then have them linked together?
 
If Ray just used their SSR points to, say, add 3 more days, consecutively, at the end of their previous 4 day BWV reservation, couldn’t they just call up Member Services and have the two reservations linked? In other words, do they really need to transfer points between contracts, in order to reserve them and then have them linked together?

Transfer would not be needed. You could just add the days at BWV online with the SSR contract and then have the reservations linked. However, I think OP was considering a transfer under the hope that it would allow the addition to be made 7 months out from the original arrival date and not seven months out from the first additional day. That cannot be done.
 
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Transfer would not be needed. You could just add the days at BWV online with the SSR contract and then have the reservations linked. However, I think OP was considering a transfer under the hope that it would allow the addition to be made 7 months out from the original arrival date and not seven months out from the first additional day. That cannot be done.
This is correct--that was my initial thought. Having never transferred or booked a reservation outside of our home resorts I wasn't sure (we are still new at this). But after hearing the explanations it makes good sense!

Thanks again!
 
I agree with everyone’s interpretation of the rules. It would still be interesting to see if Disney IT implemented the rules correctly. I can’t test it myself, because my home is VGF, and we are in the habit of acting at 11 months.
 
If Ray just used their SSR points to, say, add 3 more days, consecutively, at the end of their previous 4 day BWV reservation, couldn’t they just call up Member Services and have the two reservations linked? In other words, do they really need to transfer points between contracts, in order to reserve them and then have them linked together?

Yes but it’s far better to have it all in 1 reservation and not 2 linked. That way you have no risk of having to change rooms and no need to check out and in again
 









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