Question about add-ons

[allaboutmm]

Question about the add-ons. We are not DVC members yet (tax-time, little $ back, ya know what I mean) my question is, when you add on do you
-buy at the same place/and use year, so you can make a long ressie @ the 11 month mark- wouldn't this benifit you the most?

Or am I just missing the add-on boat all together?

 

[mprewitt]

When you buy an add-on through Disney, you will get the same Use Year you already have.

I have added on at different resorts, in order to get the 11-month home resort booking advantage.

 

[allaboutmm]

O.K. now, if you have 150 @ OKW and 50 @ SSR, with the same Use Year=200 total. when calling to make a ressie at SSR @ 11 mo out you could only book 50 points worth and wait 7mo out to book the remaining 150(from OKW) for your SSR ressie? Am I correct? So having the same "home resort" would work when adding on?

 

[mprewitt]

At the 11-month mark, you can book a reservation at one of your home resorts using only the points you own at that particular home resort.

At the 7-month mark, you can combine all your points and book at any DVC resort.

 

[Caskbill]

The 'advantage' of having more than one home resort is to have the 11-month booking window. A small add on works best via banking/borrowing.

In your example you have 150 OKW and 50 SSR points.

Year one, bank your 50 SSR points and make a 150 OKW vacation at 11-months.

Year two, use your 50 SSR banked points, 50 allocation points, and borrow 50 points from the next year. Then make a 150 point reservation at SSR at 11-months. And also have a 150 point OKW vacation

Year three, you already used your 50 SSR points, so go ahead and make your 150 point OKW vacation

Years 4, 5, 6: Repeat the same pattern.

By banking/borrowing the smaller contracts, you can have triple the points to use once every 3 years.

 

[allaboutmm]