When considering add on contract

[DVCMinnie2532]

when considering buying say a 50 point add on contract possibly at new home resort, should I make the 50 point contract use date four months earlier than my AKL March use date so that I have all points available seven months out for one trip? I hope this makes sense. I have a feeling I have confused myself.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

I think you're confusing yourself. UY doesn't have any affect on when you can book. The time of your stay just determines what UY the points will need to come from. So - March, June, Dec UY's all can book at the same time for any stays.

Make it easy and buy the same UY which will allow you to combine your points all together at 7 months. Otherwise you will either need to book some nights in one UY and the rest in the other or else transfer points.

 

[DVCMinnie2532]

I think you're confusing yourself. UY doesn't have any affect on when you can book. The time of your stay just determines what UY the points will need to come from. So - March, June, Dec UY's all can book at the same time for any stays.

Make it easy and buy the same UY which will allow you to combine your points all together at 7 months. Otherwise you will either need to book some nights in one UY and the rest in the other or else transfer points.

Thank you!!! Yes I did confuse myself. Is there any advantage at that point to buy points from a different home resort rather than my home at AKL? And curious.... Any clue why there are not many resale contracts with a march use year?

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

The main reason would be to have the home resort advantage at another resort. Although if you usually book at 7 months or less then you might be looking for a contract that costs less since the home resort won't matter?

Small contracts are just more rare than others no matter what the UY. Also, DVC did not spread points out evenly across UY's after OKW - for whatever reason. There is a chart showing the spread of points across UY's somewhere.

 

[DVCMinnie2532]

The main reason would be to have the home resort advantage at another resort. Although if you usually book at 7 months or less then you might be looking for a contract that costs less since the home resort won't matter?

Small contracts are just more rare than others no matter what the UY. Also, DVC did not spread points out evenly across UY's after OKW - for whatever reason. There is a chart showing the spread of points across UY's somewhere.

Thanks Kat!!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Also, if you don't have another resort that you are looking to have the home resort advantage at it might be better to just add on at AKV. Then, if you need those points at 11 months you'll have them. And if not then you'll be waiting for 7 months opening with all of them.

 

[hayesdvc]

UY Breakdown:

http://dvcnews.com/index.php/dvc-pr...dated-use-year-distribution-charts-april-2014

 

[chalee94]

when considering buying say a 50 point add on contract possibly at new home resort, should I make the 50 point contract use date four months earlier than my AKL March use date so that I have all points available seven months out for one trip? I hope this makes sense. I have a feeling I have confused myself.

technical comment: for it to be an "add-on", it would have to have the same UY month as your master contract. otherwise, your new contract would be a new master contract - giving you a new member number - and the 2 contracts would be more complicated to use together.

if you have an add-on contract, it is easy to combine pts from both contracts for use at 7 months out - although many people use the pts separately to book different home resorts (i.e. sometimes staying 3 nights at one resort and then moving to another resort to complete their vacation).

please understand that there is NO WAY to use pts from one home resort to book a different home resort at 11 months out. if you want to book VGF (for example) at 11 months out, you would have to use VGF pts - any pts from other home resort contracts you own would be sidelined until 7 months out.

 

[DVCMinnie2532]

technical comment: for it to be an "add-on", it would have to have the same UY month as your master contract. otherwise, your new contract would be a new master contract - giving you a new member number - and the 2 contracts would be more complicated to use together.

if you have an add-on contract, it is easy to combine pts from both contracts for use at 7 months out - although many people use the pts separately to book different home resorts (i.e. sometimes staying 3 nights at one resort and then moving to another resort to complete their vacation).

please understand that there is NO WAY to use pts from one home resort to book a different home resort at 11 months out. if you want to book VGF (for example) at 11 months out, you would have to use VGF pts - any pts from other home resort contracts you own would be sidelined until 7 months out.

Very good point! I had totally forgotten about that. So... If your real objective is to get the ability to at a minimum to stay longer in higher point accommodations - you must buy same home resort and use year?

 

[sndral]

Thank you!!! Yes I did confuse myself. Is there any advantage at that point to buy points from a different home resort rather than my home at AKL? And curious.... Any clue why there are not many resale contracts with a march use year?

If your goal is to have 50 more points to use at AKV at 11-8 months, then no, there's no advantage buying elsewhere. If your goal is to use all your points at 7 months and the 11 month home resort advantage doesn't matter to you, then buying the cheapest resort/MFs in the same use year and titled exactly the same makes sense.
If you want to bank/borrow the new points so you have 100 every other year or 150 every 3rd year to have the 11 month booking advantage at another resort then buying elsewhere but in the same use year and titled exactly the same makes sense so that when you want to combine at 7 months you don't have to mess with transferring or bother with remembering 2 banking deadlines.
50 pointers on the resale market are pretty rare - so patience may be key.