Own Direct Points, Considering Resale BW or BC and Have Questions

[Tatebeck]

If you wanted to be able to use points for all three of those times with the least amount of worry, then March or August would be the ones that have all of those time periods in the 8-9 month "safer" window where cancelling at least 31 days in advance would still allows the points to be banked.

But I would probably just keep Feb since there is only a very small amount of less safe travel times in very late Oct and Nov

 

[Sandisw]

Let me just add one small point that favors multiple UY - you get two waitlist position per UY. If you have two UYs, you get a total of four waitlist spots (two per year). I agree with everything you've posted above. But also I've found the extra waitlist spots valuable at times. So if you sometimes book a trip with two or three months notice, I'v found the extra spots worthwhile.

Yes but it they are still for different reservations. If one wants to use points together, having more waitlists doesn’t help at all.

It only helps if you want to be able to use the points by themselves.

I have three so it can certainly work if you have multiple trips planned.

Unless one does split stays or is okay with some nights on some and some on the other for the same trip, then a different night be worth it.

 

[Sandisw]

@disneylandtour Oooohhh...this is good to know. I didn't realize multiple UYs provide multiple waitlist positions. Thank you for pointing this out.

As I just posted, you only get more waitlists because you have more than one memberships.

It doesn’t allow you to have more waitlists for the same reservations.

Now, if you plan to use these new points independent of your current points and never combine, then yes, this can be a benefit.

 

[Genie+]

@disneylandtour Oooohhh...this is good to know. I didn't realize multiple UYs provide multiple waitlist positions. Thank you for pointing this out.

We have only 2 contracts, with same UY, but are actually different membership numbers because our kids are on the direct, not the resale. Since we only use the BWV at BW, it’s not a big deal because we don’t care about combining points at 7 months. And the bonus is we get up to 4 wait lists.

Recently I’ve considered selling our smaller BW Sept UY for larger. Being we don’t combine contract points for trips (though sometimes use BW for MK/EP split stay), I may take Aug Sept or Oct UY if a good resale comes along. We don’t visit in summer so any of those could work in our case.

As far as cancellations/banking/holding issues go, my hope is at minimum being able to offload the reservation as a rental. BW/BC should help garner interest even if somewhat last minute, at the right price and depending on desirability of the dates and room size. I’d much prefer using my points but if an emergency means accepting $14pp for rental, not bad - all things considered. I’d take that over the headache of holding and possibility of points expiring unused.