I found an answer to this question in case anyone else wants to know. My TA says I can indeed use my rewards toward my wdw vacation balance.
Most of you probably knew that already, but I wasn't sure.
I have the chase card, which I never use except for a very rare special offer...most of them are also available to the public soon after the visa offer...I don't do the POINTS thing ,so if there was an annual fee for it, I'd probably cancel it. I do use the Disney Vacation Account, and the target red card, but that's the extent of my "discounting" although I know there are many who do lots of churning successfully.
You guys are making me feel like a thread-killer!
I posted this on another thread but was curious to get your take here as well:
WWYD:
We are flying SW on our flight to MCO and we have to catch a connecting flight in St Louis. We only have a 50-minute window to land, get off the plane, and catch the next flight. It's the last SW flight from STL to MCO that night. This is happening the Monday after Thanksgiving, so weather is a potential factor.
How nervous would you be if you were me? Nervous enough to switch to a Saturday night flight and spend $230-$330 on a hotel near the airport (MCO) for 2 nights before transferring to wdw to begin your vacation? That's my dilemma right now. We can change our flight to Saturday night for the same price (Sunday is WAY more expensive so that's not an option, neither is changing to Monday morning) but then we would have to stay somewhere for Saturday night and Sunday night before we check in on Monday at AoA. I'm awfully tempted to switch to Saturday night, dh is hesitant. We're on a pretty tight budget but I'm worried something will go wrong and we'll miss our connection in STL and end up stuck overnight there. I'd rather have that cushion of a couple days just in case we have a travel snafu. OTOH, maybe the odds of us having any problems are very low and we should just take our chances with the Monday night flight and save the $$ to spend at Disney or something.
Thanks!
You guys are making me feel like a thread-killer!
I posted this on another thread but was curious to get your take here as well:
WWYD:
We are flying SW on our flight to MCO and we have to catch a connecting flight in St Louis. We only have a 50-minute window to land, get off the plane, and catch the next flight. It's the last SW flight from STL to MCO that night. This is happening the Monday after Thanksgiving, so weather is a potential factor.
How nervous would you be if you were me? Nervous enough to switch to a Saturday night flight and spend $230-$330 on a hotel near the airport (MCO) for 2 nights before transferring to wdw to begin your vacation? That's my dilemma right now. We can change our flight to Saturday night for the same price (Sunday is WAY more expensive so that's not an option, neither is changing to Monday morning) but then we would have to stay somewhere for Saturday night and Sunday night before we check in on Monday at AoA. I'm awfully tempted to switch to Saturday night, dh is hesitant. We're on a pretty tight budget but I'm worried something will go wrong and we'll miss our connection in STL and end up stuck overnight there. I'd rather have that cushion of a couple days just in case we have a travel snafu. OTOH, maybe the odds of us having any problems are very low and we should just take our chances with the Monday night flight and save the $$ to spend at Disney or something.
Thanks!
But you're probably right, most likely nothing will go wrong. 
I'm just a worrier. 
This is encouraging. I think the part that freaks me out more than the 50-min layover is the fact that it's the last flight for the night. If anything goes wrong (if we get delayed at all on the first leg or anything) we'll be stuck until the next morning at least. I'd feel significantly better if we were taking a morning flight as there are several SW flights from STL-MCO throughout the day.
Assuming budget is not an issue, I would go on Saturday and maybe do something non-Disney that you wouldn't normally do on that Sunday. Maybe you could do Cocoa Beach/KSC?This is encouraging. I think the part that freaks me out more than the 50-min layover is the fact that it's the last flight for the night. If anything goes wrong (if we get delayed at all on the first leg or anything) we'll be stuck until the next morning at least. I'd feel significantly better if we were taking a morning flight as there are several SW flights from STL-MCO throughout the day.
