Which Points go toward Reservation?

[soonertxmickey]

Let's say you own pts @ two resorts(100VWL and 100VBR) and you originally make a reservation @ VWL within the 11 month window. Can you call MS at the 7 month window and switch the res. to use the VBR points thereby freeing up your vwl pts. for more 11 month reservations going forward.

 

[jekjones1558]

You would actually need to cancel and rebook, which is no problem if there is availability.

 

[Chuck S]

As the previous poster said, if there is availability for a new reservation no problem. If DVC simply re-allocated the points, it would unfairly defeat the purpose of the 11 month booking window.

Thus you technically make a new reservation with your 7 monh points, and cancel your 11 month reservation. But, if your are traveling at a popular time for DVC (and there seem to be fewer and fewer "unpopular times"), there may not be availability for that new reservation.

 

[DVC Mike]

Let's say you own pts @ two resorts(100VWL and 100VBR) and you originally make a reservation @ VWL within the 11 month window. Can you call MS at the 7 month window and switch the res. to use the VBR points thereby freeing up your vwl pts. for more 11 month reservations going forward.

I've had problems with booking a home resort using points from a second home resort if I still have points available in the first home resort.

For example, if I called at 7 mos and made a VWL ressie using my BWV points, it would go through. But the next day, a transaction would show up changing the reservation from my BWV points to my VWL points. This doesn't occur if I don't have any VWL points available.

This is some "feature" of the DVC reservation system. I've since learned that in order to defeat this "feature", I have to make a dummie ressie with my VWL points, book VWL using BWV, and then cancel the dummy VWL ressie two days later.