Replacing two reservations with one - how to handle the points

[SteveMN]

We're just a few months into our first DVC purchase and we have our first trip planned for December. I have my CY & PY points used up with two rooms booked at our home resort (VGF). When I hit the 7 month mark I'm hoping to cancel those two rooms and replace the reservations with a single reservation for a larger room at a non-home resort. Is there a way for me to do that online (somehow move the points from the TWO cancelations to the new single reservation) rather than calling an hour later and risking not getting the room? It looks like modifying will only let me move points for one of the rooms. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[Sandisw]

I am not sure what you mean by CY and PY, but I am going to guessing it means current year and previous year, but I don't think that is important to this.

If you have two rooms booked and want to change to one larger one at 7 months, you really don't have many options.

You have to cancel one room, have the points go back into your account and modify the one you have to get the new room you want....the risk to this is that when you cancel the room, you may not be able to get it back if the room you want also disappears while trying to do this.

If you have some extra points, what you can do is try to get the larger room outright at 8 am for a few nights, then cancel one of the rooms, and quickly go back and modify the new room to book even more nights...then cancel the second original room to finish it all up.

The biggest problem right now is that you are going at a very busy DVC time, and most likely have waitlists in place, which makes it pretty risky to drop something first.

Even MS can't hold rooms so you may still have trouble when calling them....

 

[RoseGold]

I'd look at availability and see if you can do this several days early. Cancel one VGF. Modify the other to the new room, then walk it. I'd much rather be doing this at noon for a Tuesday reservation than trying to get in at 8AM for a Thursday. And if the weekend is already booked, you know it won't work anyway. If it fails, you should be able to rebook VGF unless the waitlist took it.

 

[SteveMN]

Thanks! I haven't tried walking a reservation yet. Curious if anyone has tried to resolve something like this by running two browser tabs at the same time? Log in to both. Modify one reservation on the first tab and if I'm successful in getting the larger room, cancel the 2nd reservation on the 2nd tab before I assign points?

 

[RoseGold]

Thanks! I haven't tried walking a reservation yet. Curious if anyone has tried to resolve something like this by running two browser tabs at the same time? Log in to both. Modify one reservation on the first tab and if I'm successful in getting the larger room, cancel the 2nd reservation on the 2nd tab before I assign points?

This won't work, or at least it didn't during the whole resale borrowing mess, which now seems to be resolved.

There's no way to do this without putting the second reservation at risk, unless you have the spare points.

You could just shave down the second reservation and keep doing that as you walk. If you shave off the end, it might be easier to recover it if you need to.

You can also modify the first reservation into what it can afford, maybe just a day or two. Then cancel the other one and modify the 2BR for more time.