Point Use Question

bigtony777

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I do not know how to even search for this so hopefully this will make sense and someone will have the answer.

I have a Feb UY and currently have points available that I plan on banking. I have many more points than I will need as this reservation as it is a one night stay before a cruise, but the 11 month window is coming up in about 10 days. If I wish to make a reservation for March of 2013(next UY), how do I go about using these current year's points for that reservation?

I assume that if I try to book before banking then I will have to borrow from 2013 UY. Are you able to bank more than one time in a year? In other words can I bank enough points to book this one night reservation and then before September bank my remaining points?

The other option is to bank all remaining points now. Once you bank points, are they immediately available for the next UY? Thank you for the help as this is our first time banking.
 
Well, first, you wouldn't be borrowing to use Feb 13 UY points to make a March 13 reservation. So that part of your understanding is wrong.

But if you want to use Feb 12 UY points for your March 13 trip, you will have to bank them and tell Member Services those are the points you want to use. You don't have to do it in advance of making your reservation - you can do it all in the same call.

Yes, you can bank as many times a year as you want (at least I never heard of any limit) and they are then immediately available in the year you banked them into.

So I would just bank the points you need for the March reservation and keep the rest where they are until closer to your banking deadline because once they are moved, they can't be put back, and you just never know what kind of things might come up before you banking deadline.
 
If I wish to make a reservation for March of 2013(next UY), how do I go about using these current year's points for that reservation?

I assume that if I try to book before banking then I will have to borrow from 2013 UY.

as stated, a march 2013 stay is within your 2013 UY (Feb 1, 2013 to Jan 31, 2014) so when you call in april 2012 to book march 2013, you can use a combination of banked 2012 pts + current 2013 pts (current based on the dates of the stay) + borrowed 2014 pts (if needed.)

UY month has nothing to do with when you call to book. nothing at all.

this might be a useful thread to bookmark:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1942668
 
Thank you for the answers. I do believe the UY does matter as I want to make sure to use my 2012 UY points. If I wouldn't bank these first to use then I would have to use my 2013 UY points for the March 2013 reservation.

We bought a loaded resale that had all (290) 2011 UY points banked. We have used these and a few more for reservations up through January of 2013, but still have 250 2012 UY points available. I just wanted to make sure that I didn't mess anything up and have to use 2013 UY points since there is no way we will use all of the 2013 points and will likely bank 200 or so of these into 2014.
 


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