Why own at multiple resorts?

[asaj]

I notice a lot of people have points at multiple resorts. Does this mean you can book at any of those resorts 11 months out? For example, if you have 150 pts at SSR, and 50 at BCV, can you book BCV 11 months out, using the entire 200 pts? Or can you only use the 50 pts 11 months out at BCV? If it is the latter, that I guess I don't see the advantage to having a lot of small pts spread out across resorts, if you like to stay a week at a time (since 50 pts won't get you a week)...does my question make sense?

Please enlighten me...

 

[granmanh603]

you can only book 11 months out with the points you have at that resort. 150 at SSR at 11 month and 50 at BC at 11 month only. They can not be combined at 11 months. you would have to wait til the 7 month window to use at the other resort. Carol

 

[asaj]

you can only book 11 months out with the points you have at that resort. 150 at SSR at 11 month and 50 at BC at 11 month only. They can not be combined at 11 months. you would have to wait til the 7 month window to use at the other resort. Carol

Thats what I was thinking, and I couldn't figure out what use 50 pts or less would be at all these different resorts, unless people like to take some short trips.

 

[lisaviolet]

Thats what I was thinking, and I couldn't figure out what use 50 pts or less would be at all these different resorts, unless people like to take some short trips.

Some people bank and borrow their points and use 150 points (50 pt. contract), for example, at one time.

 

[asaj]

Some people bank and borrow their points and use 150 points (50 pt. contract), for example, at one time.

Ahhhh, yes...I forgot about this. So then you would have 150 pts to use at a resort that you only had a 50 pt contract for. However, you could only do that every third year, or something like that. But, you can use your main contract on the off years, I got it. You people are always thinking.

 

[Caskbill]

Yep, you've got it now. By banking/borrowing a person can have triple their annual allotment of points at the 'home resort', which they can use to book at 11-months.

Also, even though they're separate resorts, the contracts are combined for banking purposes. For example, say you owned 150 OKW points and 50 BWV points. You use all OKW points one year, and none of the BWV points, and you're into your 25% banking window. You may still bank all 50 BWV points since 50 is only 25% of your total of 200. The banking percentage applies to the total of all your contracts combined, not to each contract individually. (This applies if the BWV contract is an actual add-on. If it's a resale with a different use year, then it doesn't apply, and banking percentages apply to each contract individually)

 

[skelooch]

Let's not forget the morphing issue, I haven't heard anything about whether DVC has done anything about solving that problem.
Has anyone heard anything from DVC about a remedy for them keeping track of points from multiple resorts? I'm still very worried about it.

 

[the who #3]

i was under the impression that if you owned pts at one resort and used those points to make a reservation that you could transfer pts from another contract (resort) over to that one in order to use those pts also. it seems to me that if you own the pts. you should be allowed to use them.... if i can not put my pts together then maybe i really did waste my money. after all i will probably always have a few stragling little points left over from one contract or the other.
i never thought about selling or renting pts. but maybe i better think about it if i cant put them together to use myself.

 

[DVCLiz]

Another possibility would be that some people don't stay a full week, or don't stay a full week at one resort. I often split my stay between two resorts, so I'd be happy with a small contract that allowed me to stay two or three nights at one resort, and another that allowed me to stay two or three more nights at a different resort.

That's the beauty of DVC - it can accomodate your schedule no matter what your vacation habits are!!

 

[jade1]

i was under the impression that if you owned pts at one resort and used those points to make a reservation that you could transfer pts from another contract (resort) over to that one in order to use those pts also. it seems to me that if you own the pts. you should be allowed to use them.... if i can not put my pts together then maybe i really did waste my money. after all i will probably always have a few stragling little points left over from one contract or the other.
i never thought about selling or renting pts. but maybe i better think about it if i cant put them together to use myself.

You can combine at 7 months or less, you just cant combine to reserve over 7 months. Example would be someone owns 250 OKW and 25 BCV, it would be unfair to say I want all 275 points for an 11 month booking at BCV or vice versa.

 

[spiceycat]

I have enough for a studio for 5 nights in adventure or choice season both at BWV and VWL - 50 & 60 points.

my main points are at OKW.

so when I take people or family it is OKW. but for my single trips (when I don't rent BWV and VWL) I get to stay at other places.

 

[granmanh603]

i was under the impression that if you owned pts at one resort and used those points to make a reservation that you could transfer pts from another contract (resort) over to that one in order to use those pts also. it seems to me that if you own the pts. you should be allowed to use them.... if i can not put my pts together then maybe i really did waste my money. after all i will probably always have a few stragling little points left over from one contract or the other.
i never thought about selling or renting pts. but maybe i better think about it if i cant put them together to use myself.

only at the 7 month window can you transfer the points to another resort. So at the 7 month window you could use 150+50

 

[Caskbill]

Let's not forget the morphing issue, I haven't heard anything about whether DVC has done anything about solving that problem.
Has anyone heard anything from DVC about a remedy for them keeping track of points from multiple resorts? I'm still very worried about it.

The morphing issue only applies to points transferred to your account from another member. It is not a factor if you have a single membership number with several resorts, all as add-on resorts. Each resort you own at is a home resort for those points, and all points are tracked by resorts owned.

 

[Caskbill]

only at the 7 month window can you transfer the points to another resort. So at the 7 month window you could use 150+50

Technically, points are not transferred at all. Point transfers only occur between two totally separate contracts, owned under different membership numbers.

If someone own more than one home resort, all as add-on resorts, and all under the same membership number, then at 7 months points from any of the resorts can be combined in any manner desired, to make a reservation at any of the DVC resorts.

So at 7 months, points are simply 'used' for whatever reservation is being made. They are not actually transferred between resorts.

 

[the who #3]

thanks for the info. i quess i really did goof. i have two different home resorts, two different uys and two different membership numbers.

i quess thats when i could have used a quide who communicated those issues to me. or i should have waited untill i found the dishboards.

so far the dishboards have been the most informative of all.

 

[LisaS]

i was under the impression that if you owned pts at one resort and used those points to make a reservation that you could transfer pts from another contract (resort) over to that one in order to use those pts also. it seems to me that if you own the pts. you should be allowed to use them.... if i can not put my pts together then maybe i really did waste my money. after all i will probably always have a few stragling little points left over from one contract or the other.
i never thought about selling or renting pts. but maybe i better think about it if i cant put them together to use myself.

If I remember correctly, you own two master contracts, one at SSR and another at BWV, is that correct? You have a couple of options. Since I have one master contract and an add-on, I am not that familiar with how things work with multiple master contracts, so I hope someone more knowledgeable will review what I've posted and correct any inaccuracies!

Option 1. You can book part of your stay with points from one contract and the rest of your stay with points from the other contract and link the two reservations together. You do not need to transfer any points between contracts to do this. So for example, if you want to stay at BWV, you can book some nights at the 11-month window using points from your BWV contract, and at the 7-month window you can use points from your SSR contract to add additional nights to that reservation, subject to availability. Or at the 7-month window, you could book at any resort, again booking some nights with points from one contract and the rest of the nights with points from the other contract and then link the reservations together.

Option 2. You can combine points by transferring points from one of your master contracts to the other. DVC allows only one transfer, either in or out, per use year so you would be using up your one transfer for both contracts by transferring points from one contract into the other. The transferred points are supposed to maintain their home resort identity. That does not always happen in practice but the recent enforcement of one transfer per use year should help MS to keep better track of transferred points. (In other words, I wouldn't count on being able to "morph" points any longer.) At the 7-month window, you can use all the points to book any resort. An advantage to combining the points would be if you would otherwise end up with, say, 7 points left in one contract and 5 in the other but need 12 points to book an additional night.

Hope this helps.