When to book with Dec UY

[disney_mood]

Good morning. For those of you with a December UY. Is there a specific date and time you book at the 11 month/7 month window if you plan on traveling in December?

Edit: forgot key detail

 

[eticketplease]

You can book at any time as long as the points are available for when you plan to travel.

If you plan to travel on January 1, 2024 you could book that on February 1, 2023 for your home resort or Jun 1st for other resorts even though you do not have your December 2023 points yet.

The use year is just when the points get loaded into your account for your use and determine when you must bank/use your points.

Since you have a December use year your banking deadline has passed which is July 31st.

If you have any December 2022 Points they will need to be used by November 30th. If you were to have a trip on 11/30 and 12/1 the 12/1 would need to be your 2023 points.

 

[CarolMN]

December vacations are VERY popular with DVC members. If you want to stay during that time, book your stay as soon as the 11 month window opens. Many members will "walk" their reservations for that time. Studios go quickly, especially the less expensive ones.

Use year has nothing to do with WHEN you book. It only dictates what points are valid for that stay. If you haven't already, consider spending some time with this thread:

Understanding Use Year​

You will be glad you did.

 

[Stargazer65]

Good morning. For those of you with a December UY. Is there a specific date and time you book at the 11 month/7 month window if you plan on traveling in December?

Edit: forgot key detail

If your trip starts December 1st, you can book at 11 month on January 1st, and you can book at 7 months on May 1st. If it's Dec 7th, then it would be Jan 7th for 11 months, and May 7th for 7 months. And so on...

Booking time on those days is available 8:00 AM if using the website, and 9:00 AM if calling.

Edit: Also for clarification as others are mentioning, the above is valid for anyone, regardless of UY. (i.e. I have a June UY, but if I want to travel in December the same applies to me) UY is just when your points become available.

 

[Wedgeout]

Your 11/7 date for booking is the same as anyone else with that or different UY. It’s knowing your UY period and managing your points within that UY for reservations.

 

[eticketplease]

Good morning. For those of you with a December UY. Is there a specific date and time you book at the 11 month/7 month window if you plan on traveling in December?

Edit: forgot key detail

Sorry your post did not originally include travelling in December. See @Stargazer65 post

 

[drusba]

Rule to remember: regardless of use year, you can always reserve your home resort starting 11-months out from date of designated arrival, and a non-owned DVC resort starting at 7-months out from date of arrival. In determining points to use for making a reservation and whether you need to bank or borrow, wipe from your mind the date you go online or otherwise contact MS to make the reservation, and look only at the dates you will be at WDW.

Example: with a December use year and wanting a room at home resort in December 2024, you can make that reservation in January 2024 at 11-months out from date of arrival. When doing so, the points from your Dec 2024 use year will be the "current" use year points. You could also at that time bank Dec 2023 use year points and use them for the reservation, as long as you bank them before making the reservation, and, if needed, you could also, when making the reservation, borrow points from the Dec 2025 use year to complete the reservation

 

[disney_mood]

Thanks for everyone’s responses! Okay I’m glad UY has not much to do with it other than just making sure to have enough points. So let’s say I want to travel with my first date being Dec 15, I can start booking Jan 15?

 

[erionm]

So let’s say I want to travel with my first date being Dec 15, I can start booking Jan 15?

If booking a home resort, yes.

 

[sndral]

Thanks for everyone’s responses! Okay I’m glad UY has not much to do with it other than just making sure to have enough points. So let’s say I want to travel with my first date being Dec 15, I can start booking Jan 15?

Here’s your hypothetical point situation based on your other threads:
2023 - 150 points need to bank to use for 12/15/24 vacation
2024 - 150 points - current points
2025 - 150 points - available to borrow if needed
First, a few days before your 11 month booking window opens on 1/15/24 go online & bank your 2023 points into your 2024 use year. You can also call member services & ask them to bank them for you. Now you’ll have 300 points in the correct use year waiting to be used.
At 8 a.m. EST on 1/15/24 go online and book up to 7 nights at your home resort - in your case VGF. If you want you can wait & call member services when they open at 9 a.m. EST and they’ll book your villa for you.
The system will use your banked points first & then your current points & if needed you can borrow from 2025 too. If you want to stay longer than 7 nights & in your case you may, since a standard view studio at the VGF starting 12/15 will only use 132 points which doesn’t even use up all of your banked points, wait a couple days & log on again to add the extra nights to your original stay. Or, you could splurge & book 7 nights in a standard view 1 br. for 282 points. Be warned, those 1 br.s are lovely - so spacious & the in villa stacked washer/dryer are so convenient and suddenly you ‘need’ to add just a few more points so you can always stay in bigger villas .
When I first bought many years ago I logged on and started looking around the site as soon as I had access & searched for availability for ‘pretend’ vacations just to get a ‘feel’ for how it all worked.

 

[Sandisw]

Easiest way for me, especially with my Dec UY, is determine which UY your trip falls.

Then, when you go to book, no matter when, it can be paid for with banked points from the UY prior to the trip, UY of the trip, and borrow points to complete the reservation for the UY after the trip.

So, say you want to travel starting Dec 15th, 2024.

That is in your Dec 2024 UY. When you book 11 months out at your home resort on Jan 15th, you can book it used banked 2023, 2024, and borrow 2025 points to do that

 

[Stargazer65]

So, say you want to travel starting Dec 15th, 2024.

That is in your Dec 2023 UY. When you book 11 months out at your home resort on Jan 15th, you can book it used banked 2022, 2023, and borrow 2024 points to do that

Okay now I'm confused. How is Dec 15th, 2024 in the Dec 2023 UY?

 

[Sandisw]

Okay now I'm confused. How is Dec 15th, 2024 in the Dec 2023 UY?

Sugar,..it’s not…let me amend my post….that’s what I get for typing on my phone.

 

[disney_mood]

Here’s your hypothetical point situation based on your other threads:
2023 - 150 points need to bank to use for 12/15/24 vacation
2024 - 150 points - current points
2025 - 150 points - available to borrow if needed
First, a few days before your 11 month booking window opens on 1/15/24 go online & bank your 2023 points into your 2024 use year. You can also call member services & ask them to bank them for you. Now you’ll have 300 points in the correct use year waiting to be used.
At 8 a.m. EST on 1/15/24 go online and book up to 7 nights at your home resort - in your case VGF. If you want you can wait & call member services when they open at 9 a.m. EST and they’ll book your villa for you.
The system will use your banked points first & then your current points & if needed you can borrow from 2025 too. If you want to stay longer than 7 nights & in your case you may, since a standard view studio at the VGF starting 12/15 will only use 132 points which doesn’t even use up all of your banked points, wait a couple days & log on again to add the extra nights to your original stay. Or, you could splurge & book 7 nights in a standard view 1 br. for 282 points. Be warned, those 1 br.s are lovely - so spacious & the in villa stacked washer/dryer are so convenient and suddenly you ‘need’ to add just a few more points so you can always stay in bigger villas .
When I first bought many years ago I logged on and started looking around the site as soon as I had access & searched for availability for ‘pretend’ vacations just to get a ‘feel’ for how it all worked.

I’m already feeling the need to add on and I don’t finalize my contract until this evening. Thanks for this! I’ll put the alerts in my phone so I remember! I’ll have a one month old so probably sleep deprived and delirious being grateful that past me looked out for future me

 

[eticketplease]

Finalize your contract?? Was this direct?? If so you need to call member service to have them bank your 2022 points since it is past your banking window unless of course you were doing magical beginnings or already have a trip that will take care of those points expiring 11/30/23

 

[disney_mood]

Finalize your contract?? Was this direct?? If so you need to call member service to have them bank your 2022 points since it is past your banking window unless of course you were doing magical beginnings or already have a trip that will take care of those points expiring 11/30/23

Doing magical beginnings for 2022 points

 

[eticketplease]

Doing magical beginnings for 2022 points

Awesome you don’t have to worry about that then!!

Welcome Home even if it is not until December 2024