Using banked points on a reservation-not always first.

[Simba's Mom]

Did I misunderstand? I thought that Member Services always used banked points first, then went to what you'd checked. So when booking a vacation at a non-home resort, I knew I had banked points at BCV, but I was afraid that if I checked the box to use points from there, that if they needed more points than what were banked, they'd continue using that contract, so I checked off my OKW contract. But I thought they'd use banked points first, regardless, then go to what I'd checked. Today I learned that that's not true. When I went in for some other purpose, I saw that all my banked points (as wells my reservation) were still there. I chatted with a CM,who informed me that the policy is to take points only from the contract you checked. Is that a change in policy? Or has it always been that way and I misunderstood?

 

[supersnoop]

They use banked points from the checked contracts first. They do no use any points from un-selected contracts.

 

[Simba's Mom]

If I checked the BCV contract, where my banked points are, they would take all the banked points. Just what I wanted! But after that is where my concern comes in. I had a total of 200 points in that BCV contract, 75 were banked and 125 were regular. The reservation I was making at 7 months needed 105 points. Would they continue taking 30 more points from BCV to fulfill the current reservation or would they then move to the OKW points for those, assuming, of course, that I've selected the OKW contract also? I would hope they'd move to OKW and not take those last 30 from BCV since I need those 30 BCV points for the 11 month advantage on another vacation.

 

[KPeterso]

If I checked the BCV contract, where my banked points are, they would take all the banked points. Just what I wanted! But after that is where my concern comes in. I had a total of 200 points in that BCV contract, 75 were banked and 125 were regular. The reservation I was making at 7 months needed 105 points. Would they continue taking 30 more points from BCV to fulfill the current reservation or would they then move to the OKW points for those, assuming, of course, that I've selected the OKW contract also? I would hope they'd move to OKW and not take those last 30 from BCV since I need those 30 BCV points for the 11 month advantage on another vacation.

So what you should do. Modify the reservation. Select OKW as the 1st contract and then Beach Club as second. It will take the banked from BCV first and then the rest from OKW.

 

[eticketplease]

If I checked the BCV contract, where my banked points are, they would take all the banked points. Just what I wanted! But after that is where my concern comes in. I had a total of 200 points in that BCV contract, 75 were banked and 125 were regular. The reservation I was making at 7 months needed 105 points. Would they continue taking 30 more points from BCV to fulfill the current reservation or would they then move to the OKW points for those, assuming, of course, that I've selected the OKW contract also? I would hope they'd move to OKW and not take those last 30 from BCV since I need those 30 BCV points for the 11 month advantage on another vacation.

The order of the contract you select really only affects the current use years points unless you have a lot of banked/borrowed/transferred points in both.

If you select OKW first and then BCV they will take holding, banked, borrowed and transferred points from both contracts first. After there are none of those left it would go onto the current allocated points so you would have used 75 BCV that were banked and the rest OKW.

If you Have BCV first and OKW second it will use BCV Banked and then allocated before using the current OKW points.