My first year of ownership I wanted to do a split stay at a couple of resorts w/ my new points to try out resorts on my short list for adding on. I learned a lot, first, I learned not to book all of my nights at my home resort if I wanted to try & split stay at 7 months. Second, I learned that the first 2 weeks of Dec. were very tough to book. Third, I learned that futzing around with my reservations adding here, dropping there resulted in a mess of banked & borrowed points I couldn't use for my next vacation forcing me to borrow more points. It was such a relief when I'd worked through that era & settled in to my KISS era.