Please help...New member confused about points/use year!

[UGAFan0829]

I'm hoping that someone here can help clear up my confusion about my DVC points, as I am totally lost in looking at them. Here's what I have...

We just bought into DVC in July. At that time, they gave us all 160 points from the 2008 use year. We then used 133 of those points in September of this year. If I did my math correctly, that means we had 27 points left over, which I banked. So, with the 27 banked from 2008, and the whole 160 from 2009, that puts us at having 187 points to use in 2009. However, we won't be making our next trip to Disney until March 2010, which will take 39 points. When do I need to bank those points from 2009, or do I? I am TOTALLY confused here. My use year is December, so I don't know how much of a difference that makes. I'm trying to make vacation plans for 2010, but I'm scared that I'm somehow going to lose points, or either I'm accounting for too many. Please help!!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

With a Dec UY your banked 2008 points are now available for use between Dec 1, 2009 and Nov 30, 2010 so you can use those for your Mar 2010 visit. Your 2009 points are also available for that same period so you can use them for the March stay.

The banked 2008 points will expire Nov 30th 2010 and you cannot bank them again so be certain MS uses those first and then uses 2009 for the additional 12 points you need. You do not want to bank the 2009 points yet or you can't use them for your March stay.

If you don't plan on using the remaining 2009 points by Nov 30, 2010 then you can bank those by July 31st and they will be available for use from Dec 1st 2010 until Nov 30, 2011.