newbie with basic question

[shelby101301]

We're in the process of sending back our paperwork now. We started with the smallest amount of points at SSR first with the idea that as our family and finances grew we would add on more points.

After spending days lurking on these boards, it's becoming clear to me it's important to own at the place you like to stay at most. We bought SSR because the incentives were better, the dues cheaper and we thought we could stay whereever we wanted. I'm wondering if we made a poor decision.

So here's my question. If we add on more points for AKV, does that mean we have 2 home resorts? Or can we only use the points we add on for the 11 month advance ressie?

I'm wondering what's to stop people from owning a little at every resort (at least through re-sale) so that they can make their 11 month ressie anywhere they want)

Get what I'm saying? It seemed so simple to me at first, but it feels like the deeper we get in, the more complicated it gets

Thanks for any insight- oh, and we rarely travel at peak times like Christmas and Easter. We prefer late Oct and early May for our trips.

 

[DVC Mike]

Keep in mind that if you have more than one home resort, all vacation points being used to make a reservation during the Home Resort Priority Period must be associated with that home resort. That is, you cannot combine points from multiple resorts to book one resort during the Home Resort Priority Period. You may combine all the points you have at all your home resorts and book any DVC resort only at the 7-month window.

 

[BirdsOfPreyDave]

As already stated, you can only use points from a contract at the specific resort where you're staying to book a vacation during the home resort advantage period. You can't use point from another home resort for that vacation. (You'd have to wait until 7 months to do so.)

However, if you have several contracts at different home resorts, you can use banking and borrowing to alternate vacations between those resorts and always take advantage of the home resort booking priority. For example, if you have 160 points at SSR and an 80 point AKV add-on, you could vacation as follows:

First use year: Bank all 80 AKV points. Borrow 80 SSR points. Stay at SSR for a 240 point vacation. Book at 11 month window.

Second year: Bank remaining 80 SSR Points. Borrow all 80 AKV points. Stay at AVK for a 240 point vacation. Book at 11 month window.

Third year: 0 AKV points available. 240 SSR points available. Stay at SSR for a 240 point vacation. Book at 11 month window.

Forth year: Start again.

 

[wildernessDad]

The following is from the "Home Resort Rules and Regulations." Note item '2.' below under 'DVC Vacation Points.'

1. Home Resort Vacation Points.

When a Club Member purchases an Ownership Interest at a DVC Resort, he or she will receive an annual allotment of Home Resort Vacation Points. Some important things to know about Home Resort Vacation Points:
1) Home Resort Vacation Points represent the amount of real estate that a Club Member has purchased at a particular DVC Resort. The DVC Resort in which a Club Member purchases his or her Ownership Interest is that Club Member's "Home Resort." Home Resort Vacation Points are an administrative convenience and have no value of their own. A Club Member may own an Ownership Interest at more than one DVC Resort. If so, the Club Member must consider each DVC Resort where he or she owns an Ownership Interest to be that Club Member's Home Resort only as to the Ownership Interest that he or she owns at that DVC Resort.
2) Home Resort Vacation Points provide Club Members access to the Club's central reservation system run by Member Services. The various Vacation Homes have been assigned Home Resort Vacation Point values based on the size of the Unit, season of the year, and expected demand. To make a reservation, Club Members call Member Services with their re-quest; the appropriate number of Home Resort Vacation Points are debited from the Club Member's account when the reservation is confirmed.
3) Home Resort Vacation Points are allotted annually on the first day of the first month of the Club Member's Use Year. Use Years are described in more detail below.
4) Club Members will be allotted the same number of Home Resort Vacation Points every year. Home Resort Vacation Points must be used for a reservation, Banked, Borrowed, Transferred or exchanged during the Use Year they are allotted or they will expire.
5) To initiate any transaction involving Home Resort Vacation Points, Club Members must submit a request to Member Services by phone, e-mail, or in writing.

2. DVC Vacation Points.

Club Members may voluntarily participate in the DVC Reservation Component by converting all or a portion of their Home Resort Vacation Points into DVC Vacation Points to make a reservation at other DVC Resorts. Home Resort Vacation Points may not be converted into DVC Vacation Points except in connection with making a reservation through the DVC Reservation Component. In the event that a Club Member has Ownership Interests in more than one DVC Resort, Home Resort Vacation Points from multiple DVC Resorts may be combined as DVC Vacation Points for reservations made less than seven (7) months in advance. Club Members can not apply Home Resort Vacation Points from one DVC Resort as DVC Vacation Points to any other DVC Resort during the destination DVC Resort's Home Resort Priority Period. (Special rules apply to Special Season
Preference Lists.)

 

[shelby101301]

This was very helpful, thank you!