question about banking points

[Greg36]

Just wondering how this would work: say you had 160 points for your 2017 use year (April). You wanted to travel to Disney in the fall of 2018. You plan to book your vacation at the 11 month window which would be in fall 2017. Would you just book this fall 2018 trip with your 160 2017 points (even though these expire March 31st, 2018) or do these actually need to be formally banked first? If they need to be banked, what is the cutoff for banking them? Thanks, Greg

 

[supersnoop]

Points need to be banked before they can be used to make a reservation in the next use year. The deadline for banking with an April use year is December 1st (or maybe November 30?).

 

[w84no1]

It is November 30th.

 

[mustinjourney]

when you go to the online booking -- you can choose to bank the points in order to make the reservation. Just note that once banked, they can't be unbanked.

Normally not an issue -- but if you wanted to book a trip for Jan/Feb/Mar of 2018 -- you'd have to BORROW your 2018 UY points for that trip. Again, not a huge deal so long as you don't cancel the trip -- but if for some reason you had to cancel that trip, those points would most likely be lost.

 

[supersnoop]

when you go to the online booking -- you can choose to bank the points in order to make the reservation. Just note that once banked, they can't be unbanked.

Normally not an issue -- but if you wanted to book a trip for Jan/Feb/Mar of 2018 -- you'd have to BORROW your 2018 UY points for that trip. Again, not a huge deal so long as you don't cancel the trip -- but if for some reason you had to cancel that trip, those points would most likely be lost.

I don't think that's right. You can choose to borrow points during the booking process, but I don't think you have the opportunity to bank them at that time.

 

[mustinjourney]

I don't think that's right. You can choose to borrow points during the booking process, but I don't think you have the opportunity to bank them at that time.

Technically you're correct. If you want to book, you'll have to bank those points prior to making the ressie.