Using your points

Jkarrows

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Think I am right bug wanted to check, if I have my points date being say September but want to book my home resort stay 11 months out and stay in October, can I still book 11 months out and use the points I will get in September?

I think I am right in saying you can use the points as your travel date is after you get the points but can someone confirm this for me.

Thanks guys.
 
Your points must be valid for the trip dates, not for when you are calling to book.
 
As noted above it's all about when you travel not when you book. What you are referring to as your "points date" is officially know as your "use year" which I think is a more intuitive name. When you "use" your points is what matters.

So if you have a September use year you get your annual allotment on September 1st. So any travel after that, say in October, is considered part of that use year and you can use that years points, any banked points or you can also borrow points from the next use year if need be.

Definitely worth taking some time to get the feel of the in's an out's before you plunge into anything. This is the best place to do that so ask away!
 
You can book a resort using home resort points 11 months from check-in regardless of your UY. Your UY has nothing to do with WHEN you can make a reservation. Also, your points don't drop into your account at the start of each UY, they are already there. Each set of points has a set of dates associated with them, for example with a September Use Year:

Your Sep 2014 points are valid for stays from 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015
Your Sep 2015 points are valid for stays from 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2016
Your Sep 2016 points are valid for stays from 9/1/2016 - 8/31/2017
and so on through the last full year of your contract

You can move points forward a year (by borrowing) or push them back a year (by banking).

If you want to make a reservation at the 11-month window for a stay in October 2015 using Sep UY points, that stay falls within your Sep 2015 UY. You could make that reservation in November 2014 using any of the following:

- Sep 2014 UY points that you have banked into your Sep 2015 UY prior to making the reservation
- Sep 2015 UY points
- Sep 2016 UY points that you borrow into your Sep 2015 UY while making that reservation
 

What you (OP) said is correct. It's points relevant for when you travel, not when you call. So yes, you can use the points which will only come in September for a November trip despite that fact that you'd call before September. :)
 



















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