I'm amongst good company. We're booked for 6 nights in a 2BD at CCV over Thanksgiving, and are now thinking of adding on one night in a studio (just to save on some points, we don't mind split stays!) to make it a 7 night trip. Got some waitlists set up (BWV and BCV, why not!) and will also play the stalking game to try to grab something. The night I need has popped up a few times since I started looking earlier this week, but not at the resorts I'm aiming for.
had to circle back and share! successfully grabbed one night in a studio for the end of my Thanksgiving trip. I had waitlists set up for BWV and BCV, and also have been stalking a couple of times a day. Plenty of other studios have popped up for the night I needed since I started stalking (VGF, Poly, OKW, SSR, AKV-K, BLT all briefly showed up as available) but I was holding out for specific resorts or view types, so didn't grab anything I saw while stalking. Waitlist came through just now for a BWV resort studio! Excited to have an extra day at WDW!
Email finally came at 11 last night. We are official on our first contract. I was able to log in this morning and actually found a 2 night precruise stay I needed for November
Congrats! When was your deed registered?
8/19
An October UY would be ok for June travel, but definitely not for August travel. My rule of thumb - determine the months you are LEAST likely to travel to WDW, and try to make those come just before the start of your UY. The guides always have a UY they're supposed to be selling, but I'd be surprised if that were October in the months leading up to October because that would sort of be the worse deal for Disney because they'd have to give you points all the way back to October 2024. Setting aside which UY is best for you, your guide might have have been trying to steer you towards the UY because that would have been a pretty good economic deal for you. But, you definitely want to pick a UY that is best for you over the long-term. (And, you can get that when buying direct if you know what you want going in and tell them that - they won't lose a deal over it.)
My only explanation is that, if you're buying a June or August UY in August, you won't be getting full advantage of previous UY's worth of points. The ideal time to buy (economically) is just before the next UY will start. But, in my experience, the guide's don't do that - they typically sell a UY that is 5 or 6 months in the past so they can both say, you're getting points all the way back to 6 months ago, but without giving away almost an entire year of points. When I bought in April, my guide tried to steer me toward December (I bought October). In August, I would think they'd be selling a Feb or Mar UY, but maybe I'm wrong.
That is strange and doesn't make sense to me for the Guide to suggest an Oct UY to your travel patterns.
I would switch guides tbh. I don’t take kindly to being told something that is detrimental in order to sell what UY he is selling.
100% agree
I agree as well. Also if a person wanted the extra year of points December would be a better use year than. Oct. Oct is not good in the OPs case. December you could bank until July 31st.
Sounds like that guide was hyper-zoned in on thinking about getting the extra year of points loaded above all else, instead of also thinking about banking dates and risk of banked/borrowed points expiring unused anytime you needed to cancel/reschedule an Aug trip in an Oct UY.
That person you had the sales presentation with is most likely still your guide even though they haven't reached out to you.
I could happily recommend our Guide Lu Bernatow, should you need one in the future for a great sale. She has always been proactive (she called and snagged us some VGF after it initially went out of stock) and has always been very patient with us.
