cwdefouw
DVC Member since 1999
- Joined
- Oct 31, 2007
DVC MS frequently gives wrong information. You are always better off asking DVC questions in the DVC boards, getting multiple confirmation of that answer, then call DVC MS until you get someone who will give you the right answer. Alot of their newer MS (especially after Aulani came online) are not educated about DVC point bookings.
DVC takes over DCL bookings and if there is a 10% Onboard offer attached to it, they give you a prenegotiated discount point rate. The advantage of holding a dummy booking is that you don't have to book 3 days after you get off the ship.
We've done the take over route twice now (once in 2011, and once for our upcoming cruise).
The extra time to decide gives us the ability to confirm our plans before booking w/DVC, which charges heftier penalties than DCL.
Unless DVC recently changed its policy... if so, it would have already been posted in the DVC boards (which it has not, and I check those daily).
You don't get to keep the on board credit though, right? Also, do you still have to pay the $95 dollar booking fee?