Strange point predicament

[Mic]

I am toying with the idea of doing the add-on deal at SSR. I have a Dec. UY, so I probably would not take advantage of the $8 off, but rather keep my 2004 points. I currently have a reservation for the 2nd week in June, and would like to use the 100 bonus points for that reservation, but I would not be "closed" yet. Is it possible to use the 100 points almost immediately, before the closing of the contract? Has anyone done this? I apologize if this has already been asked and answered; I couldn't find the information anywhere. And please don't tell me to call my guide...my guide WAS Tony Deihle, so I am currently "guideless" until I'm assigned a new one. The folks here seem to be more knowledgeable than a lot of the guides anyway! Thanks!

 

[jennypenny]

When you call and officially request the add on, the 120 points at SSR will be in your account the next day, but it takes about a week for DVC to put the bonus points into your account because they do it manually.

I'll close before I use my bonus points this summer, so I'm not sure about the rules there. But I bet your guide could help you out to make sure you can use them if it's possible.

Jenny

 

[rascalmom]

Yes - I am doing exactly this type of thing for our June trip. We are new members - we signed the papers on our main SSR contract on April 15. After the 15 day waiting period for right of recission, we started the process on an add-on to take advantage of the 100 point incentive. We did have to wait 5 days. After that the points were to be in our account.

I called that day to get a reservation at OKW because we could stay 5 nights there in early June on our 100 points. No availability. Great! Told we couldn't use the points at SSR. Called back the next day to try again, was able to book on the phone for 1 night at OKW & asked to be put on the waitlist for the other 4. They told me I couldn't waitlist with bonus points. HMmmmmm. Ok - no one told me that, but I'll just call back each day to try to get the other days I want.

Later that day I got a call from MS saying that because my points were bonus points & my contract had not closed, they could not hold that 1 night ressie for me. Called my guide - he did some checking & called back to say that according to his supervisors I should be able to use the points before closing as well as any other routine member benefits, such as waitlists. He promised to coordinate with MS to make that happen. He was off on Friday, but I got a call from him first thing this morning. He arranged a 3-way call with MS & I now have all 5 of the nights I wanted at OKW booked with my bonus points & that reservation linked to my continuing cash reservation for the weekend.

They said that the confusion was that the points actually come out of the Developer's account, but it's all fixed now & we are looking forward to our first trip home in less than a month. Time to go book my PS's!