UY Question

[PinGirl]

Hey all you experts out there....

If we normally travel in October for F&W to WDW. Is there one UY that is better for us than another?

Thanks again!

 

[JimMIA]

Hey all you experts out there....

If we normally travel in October for F&W to WDW. Is there one UY that is better for us than another?

Thanks again!

ASSUMING that your visitation pattern will not change over the years (and that's a shaky assumption), a September or October UY would work perfectly for you. The reason is, you'd be vacationing early in your UY and would have more options if you had to cancel a ressie.

However...if your plans later change, and summer vacations become the pattern, those UYs would not work nearly as well.

 

[PinGirl]

ASSUMING that your visitation pattern will not change over the years (and that's a shaky assumption), a September or October UY would work perfectly for you. The reason is, you'd be vacationing early in your UY and would have more options if you had to cancel a ressie.

However...if your plans later change, and summer vacations become the pattern, those UYs would not work nearly as well.

I doubt we will ever go in the summer - we use to live on the East Coast and DH hates that summer weather...... Some friends of ours wanted to go in June - he told them no way! LOL!

We have gone in May twice ....but we LOVE F&W.....

 

[LisaS]

I doubt we will ever go in the summer - we use to live on the East Coast and DH hates that summer weather...... Some friends of ours wanted to go in June - he told them no way! LOL!

We have gone in May twice ....but we LOVE F&W.....

I have an Oct UY and it works well since we usually go to WDW twice a year, in the months of Oct, Dec, Jan or May. The 100% banking deadline for an Oct UY is Mar 31st, so cancelling a trip scheduled for Oct, Dec or Jan would be no problem, provided we cancelled 31 days or more before check-in. (If you cancel 30 days or less from check-in, your points go into the "holding account" and cannot be banked, and can only be used to book a stay within 60 days of check in.) It also covers us pretty well for our early May trips since we would have to cancel 31 days or more in advance to be able to bank the points. We might still be in late March (in our 100% banking window) or worst case, early April in our 50% banking window. Since we do two trips a year, it's unlikely we would be using more than 50% of our points for that May trip, so we could still bank all the points from a cancelled May reservation.

We never plan to go in June, July or August (too hot) and Sept isn't high on our list either (risk of hurricanes) so an Oct UY works out great!

ETA: Worst case scenario for us would be if we cancelled a May trip within 30 days of check-in. The points would go into holding and would have to be used by the end of our UY (Sep 30th). If that happened, I think I would find a friend or relative who needed a vacation and would put up with the heat and humidity in exchange for a cheap WDW vacation!

 

[PinGirl]

I have an Oct UY and it works well since we usually go to WDW twice a year, in the months of Oct, Dec, Jan or May. The 100% banking deadline for an Oct UY is Mar 31st, so cancelling a trip scheduled for Oct, Dec or Jan would be no problem, provided we cancelled 31 days or more before check-in. (If you cancel 30 days or less from check-in, your points go into the "holding account" and cannot be banked, and can only be used to book a stay within 60 days of check in.) It also covers us pretty well for our early May trips since we would have to cancel 31 days or more in advance to be able to bank the points. We might still be in late March (in our 100% banking window) or worst case, early April in our 50% banking window. Since we do two trips a year, it's unlikely we would be using more than 50% of our points for that May trip, so we could still bank all the points from a cancelled May reservation.

We never plan to go in June, July or August (too hot) and Sept isn't high on our list either (risk of hurricanes) so an Oct UY works out great!

ETA: Worst case scenario for us would be if we cancelled a May trip within 30 days of check-in. The points would go into holding and would have to be used by the end of our UY (Sep 30th). If that happened, I think I would find a friend or relative who needed a vacation and would put up with the heat and humidity in exchange for a cheap WDW vacation!

Great advice! Thanks so much - now I am just waiting for the perfect BWV small contract......

 

[Glendamax]

Hey Pin Girl! Hope you find a good contract soon!

 

[PinGirl]

Hey Pin Girl! Hope you find a good contract soon!

We found one! We have our fingers and toes crossed! We feel we offered a fair price and now we are just waiting for Disney's ROFR!

Thanks to everyone on this board for answering all our questions and giving great advice! !