Split Stay using Rental Company

[Maine_Belle]

I'm still working out spreadsheet details on our Sept 2021 trip where I'd like to stay for 4 nights in a Poly Studio and then 5 nights in a Riviera 1-BR. We'd be renting likely through a broker, but I'm wondering if there is anything I should know about that process? This is our first time renting points, so I have so many questions!

Things I'm worrying/thinking about:
- Is it one transaction with the rental company for the two rooms? Or two separate transactions?
- What are the chances I'd get one room request fulfilled but then the other falls through, leaving me with a messed up trip plan where we're homeless for a day in the middle or something?
- How would reserving Fast Passes work with all that? I'm wondering if I would have to wait 4 days (the difference between the 1st and 2nd room) to reserve Fast Passes for the last days of our trip?
- Are there fees I'd be paying twice having two reservations? I've been looking at DVCRentalStore for the added security of the insurance protection plan they have.

 

[Sandisw]

First and foremost, be sure you understand the risk. If you rent, plan on losing all your money, unless your get CFAR insurance, and even then, be sure you know what won’t be covered,

Resort closing have showed us that even that doesn’t make the contract necessarily void,

Having said that, it would be different reservations. It may or may not be with the same owner, If you book at 7 months or less, maybe, If you book during resort home priority it will be different owners,

My understanding is that you can make it contingent on getting both. However, if one owner has issues with their membership, while rare, could always mean you lose one,

FPs can be booked across both starting with first one. ADRs can not. You would have two different windows for that.

 

[_auroraborealis_]

When doing a split DVC stay you will always be homeless at least part of a day with checkout at 11 and check in after 4. And after 4 often means well after 4.

 

[Deb & Bill]

If you go with a broker, some of them may be out of business by Sept 2021. They may even be changing the terms of their contract. You may or may not have any contact at all with the owner of the points other than them making the reservation. Bridges appear to be in the process of being burnt between owners and brokers and renters and brokers because of all the problems with cancellations during the closing of WDW and the resorts. It may be cheaper to just rent directly from the Disney Reservation Center instead of renting points.

You might want to consider renting from an individual owner on the DIS Boards who may be able to work with you if cancellation occurs. Make sure you ask whomever you rent from about what happens to your reservation during a resort shutdown.