What is jumping ship?

[Full of Beans]

I have been reading, there is talk of booking at your 11 month, then moving your reservation? How does this work?

 

[disneynutz]

You book your home reservation at 11 months before check in and you cancel the reservation at 7 months and book at a non-home resort.

Bill

 

[chalee94]

You book your home reservation at 11 months before check in and you cancel the reservation at 7 months and book at a non-home resort.

Bill

...assuming the new resort is available. (and if not, you still have a villa reserved onsite at wdw.)

 

[Granny]

...assuming the new resort is available. (and if not, you still have a villa reserved onsite at wdw.)

In the name of full disclosure, there is a slight chance that when you cancel your 11 month reservation to book the 7 month one, the 7 month villa may not be available because it was the last one and someone else was booking it at the same time. And since you cancelled the 11 month reservation (home resort) that might no longer be available either as someone might have grabbed it.

It's pretty rare, but we've seen it happen a few times as reported here. So there is some risk in the strategy unless you have enough points to hold both reservations at one time and then just cancel the one you don't need. I'd say that many people don't have that kind of quantity of points.