My experience is that you can add days at 7 months with non home resort points, but they have to be a separate booking, which you can request that member services combine with your original booking, but they will still be listed as separate trips.
Welcome Home neighbor!
Yay that’s great!
I literally just did this: added a night to our March BRV reservation using SSR points. Have plenty of BRV points, but want to keep them handy for an 11 month booking later in the year.
Can you combine the two reservations if they were booked with two different membership but still the same room type?
Nope.... You can link them with MS. And then go to the front desk when checking in and the night before the transition. This work fine almost ALL the time. I have heard people say they had to relocate check in/check out but it is very rare.
I must have been doing something wrong. Will try again when the right time arrives! Thanks.
The resale prices of RIV really seem to be coming down. I saw another sold for $118 per point.
I think these prices reflect more realistic value considering you can only use the contract at Riviera. If that’s not an issue, it could be a good value. I just think even Aulani is a better value than Riviera since you can use the points at 13 other resorts until 2062.
The last few times I've asked to combine or merge Reservations the CMs told me that they don't do that anymore as it was too much work. They now put a note on each reservation so the front desk or whoever assigns rooms knows that the persons in the room should stay and not change room.
Nope, I just had this issue at Aulani. They won't officially merge the reservations. They DID let me stay in the same room, but they wouldn't confirm it until the night before we were supposed to check out and check back in.
Did you reserve under the same membership account? If so, this would be a game changer when it comes to ADRs
How was your Aulani stay?
We had a great time- it's a great resort!
Personally I think it's a combination of resale restrictions and the resort is in active sales so no ROFR to control the price. We don't see the dive in VGF like we are seeing in RIV, even though it's also in active sales - although it has dropped since going into active sales. Like @Sandisw said, once other resorts are announced either with or without restrictions I think we'll get a better idea of what will happen with RIV. It's the black sheep right now so it's hard to tell.... The restrictions are a big hang up for me, but I'm not really sure why... I think it's principle more than anything - like changing the product. LOL
Yes it was under the same membership, and in the good "old" days they would just had merged the reservations but not anymore.
