Multiple Home Resorts? Question to Veterans

[Disney Lover JJ]

Regards to all.

I figured you veterans should know the answer to this question.

If I buy 200 at SSR, and then through either resale or Disney I get 50 pts at BW, does that mean that I now have 2 home resorts? And if that is the case, can I transfer my SSR points to my BW account and make a reservation with 250 pts at BW?

I hope I didn't sound too consufing.

Thanks a bunch,

JJ

 

[rsschneck]

Regards to all.

I figured you veterans should know the answer to this question.

If I buy 200 at SSR, and then through either resale or Disney I get 50 pts at BW, does that mean that I now have 2 home resorts? And if that is the case, can I transfer my SSR points to my BW account and make a reservation with 250 pts at BW?

I hope I didn't sound too consufing.

Thanks a bunch,

JJ

You would have 2 home resorts. You can use the 200 SSR points at the 11 month window for SSR. You can use the 50 BWV points for BWV at the 11 month window. At the seven month window you can combine the points at both resorts and try to book at ANY of the DVC resorts. You cannot transfer BWV points into SSR account or vice versa. I hope this helps explain.

 

[Disney Lover JJ]

Cool thanks, I got it. Now what about add-ons? Same deal or add-ons are more points always at same home resort?

 

[Merilyn]

Addon's are for your home resorts. You can addon to either of your home resorts. I would addon to BW if I only had 50 points there. You can only use those 50 points at BW until the 7 month window. It sometimes leaves you unable to get BW because you don't have enough points there. We own at OKW and VB. We have added on many times to OKW. Sometimes I wish I had more VB points for the 11 month window. It can make a really big difference if you want a GV/ Cottage or you want a really busy time of year. You can always buy more points wherever you want, it then would be a new contract/home resort. It would have the same 11/7 month plan- 11 month window at home resort/ 7 month window at other DVC resorts. I find it a little difficult sometimes with two resorts but we can always figure it out. MS is very helpful with deciding the best way to alot the points to my benefit. Good luck with you choice and maybe one day we can WELCOME YOU HOME!
Merilyn

 

[JimC]

You can add on at any resort where DVC has points to sell or buy resale at any resort (usually all of the resorts have contracts for sale (see our sponsor above). I think the key is to buy sufficient points at any resort to enable you to take a trip using the 11 month booking window. Otherwise buy all at one resort. If 11 month booking is important buy there, if not, buy where you get the most value.

 

[MissD]

You can add on at any resort where DVC has points to sell or buy resale at any resort (usually all of the resorts have contracts for sale (see our sponsor above). I think the key is to buy sufficient points at any resort to enable you to take a trip using the 11 month booking window. Otherwise buy all at one resort. If 11 month booking is important buy there, if not, buy where you get the most value.

I completely agree. We did our VB and SSR add-ons at 100 points each. With banking and borrowing, it gives us the opportunity to do something 'big' (read actually really planned) at the 11 month window if we'd like.

Since we don't get to HH as much right now, we use our 250 HH points for our normal vacation pattern of "Gee, the Tampa Bay Bucs training camp is this month and wouldn't DS12 love that? Let's see what MS has available" (really impromptu, less than 6 weeks out kind of stuff). That's where the flexibility of 3 home resorts helps us.

As JimC (hello fellow Floridian ) said, just make sure that if your add-on is at a second/different resort, buy enough points to make it work for you at the 11 month window.

 

[LisaS]

Cool thanks, I got it. Now what about add-ons? Same deal or add-ons are more points always at same home resort?

In your original question, if you bought 200 points at SSR and then bought 50 points at BWV through Disney, that would be an "add on". Once you are a DVC member, if you purchase additional points though Disney, at any resort, those points must be the same Use Year Month as your original/master contract and will be set up as an "add on" contract (same base contract number with a ".001" extension). If you wanted to purchase a different Use Year, you would have to purchase a minimum of 150 points and Disney would set it up as a new master contract.

If you purchased those 50 BWV points on the resale market and they were the same Use Year Month as your master contract, you could arrange to have Disney set it set up as an add-on contract. If those points are a different Use Year Month, they would set it up as a new master contract.

As a newbie myself, I find having a master and an add-on contract rather than two separate contracts makes it easier for me to manage my points. When making a reservation at the 7-month window, my BWV and VWL points function as one contract -- I can combine points from both contracts to make a reservation. The same applies when banking points -- the points are combined for the purposes of calculating banking percentages.

 

[Disney Lover JJ]

Thanks you've all been helpfull. So technically I can buy 150 points at SSR from Disney, and 150 points at BWV from Resale..and have 150 points each year (plus banking and borrowing if need be) to book at 11 month window for each home resort. However, at 7 months, I could combine and book at any resort with 300 pts and not having to borrow or bank correct?

 

[greenban]

You got it!

Also, if you had 2 master contracts your could transfer points between them, but only in one direction per use year. Thus for your 2006 UY you could transfer out of one master contract, and into the other master contract, but not in the other direction during the same UY!

Your no longer a newbie!!!!

-Tony

 

[Disney Lover JJ]

Tony thanks!!! and to clarify...while I can transfer one way at any time in the UY, I can only book the transferred points at 7 month window correct? If the answer is yes, I'm good to go!

 

[spiceycat]

You got it!

Also, if you had 2 master contracts your could transfer points between them, but only in one direction per use year. Thus for your 2006 UY you could transfer out of one master contract, and into the other master contract, but not in the other direction during the same UY!

Your no longer a newbie!!!!

-Tony

if you are going through DVC only - you don't have to worry about the master contract. Disney does this for you.

if you buy resale then you need to beaware of this and use it.

add on to a DVC contract brought at DVC (not resales) are consider add on.
no dealing with two different master contract. same rules apply 11 month home resort(each home) but at 7 months they are considered one contract.

this can be a problem if you want to use say SSR to book BWV - be sure to tell the MS what you are doing. but this can only be gone at the 7 month time.

if you to a resales - then it is a new master contract.

 

[Judy WI]

Tony thanks!!! and to clarify...while I can transfer one way at any time in the UY, I can only book the transferred points at 7 month window correct? If the answer is yes, I'm good to go!

If you transfer between your two contracts points say HHI 100 to BWV do the transferred points become BWV with the BWV UY so that you can book at the 11 month window for BWV? Or do you have to include the new HHI points at the 7 months?

 

[spiceycat]

transfer points kept their home resort.

you can't change the home resort by borrowing or transferring points.

so no you can't just transfer your HH points to BWV and make them be BWV points. It doesn't work that way.

at 7 months and after, all points are the same - no matter which resort you own at.

 

[mydogdrew]

Transferred points should keep their home resort. However, every time I have been involved in this there have been issues. For example, I transferred BWV points to an OKW member who had a difficult time booking at BWV at 11 months. Perhaps they have corrected this but I think they default to the home resort they are transferred into. I know this doesn't make sense but I'm sure there are cases where an SSR owner has transferred points to a BWV contract and used the combined points to book BWV at 11 months. I would not buy in thinking this will continue however.

 

[Dean]

If you transfer between your two contracts points say HHI 100 to BWV do the transferred points become BWV with the BWV UY so that you can book at the 11 month window for BWV? Or do you have to include the new HHI points at the 7 months?

You can't do transfers between contracts that are under one master and there's no need to. This is only applicable if the contracts are TOTALLY separate.

 

[pogopossum]

you can borrow points for one resort and use them at the 11 month window in the current uy, and bank an equal number of points for the other resort to keep your total for the coming uy the same. is this right?

 

[CarolMN]

you can borrow points for one resort and use them at the 11 month window in the current uy, and bank an equal number of points for the other resort to keep your total for the coming uy the same. is this right?

If I understood you correctly, yes, that is right.

For example, if you have 100 points at BCV and 100 points at SSR, you could book a 200 point vacation every year at the 11 month mark. Using your methodology (borrow and bank), you would just alternate your annual stays between BCV and SSR.

Best wishes -