Wiltony
Recently Reformed Troublemaker
- Joined
- Dec 17, 2016
Worked for the last 6-months preparing to make a reservation for a BLT GV over the week of Christmas. Was successful and we are ecstatic! Got Christmas Eve tickets to Drawn to Life, MK reservations for Christmas Day, and Santa will making a stop. Trip of a lifetime and just wanted to share!
The wife and I came up with this plan almost a year ago and I have been orchestrating *exactly* how many points were needed and how we'd accomplish this reservation through banking and borrowing, given the 50% restriction. Holy crap the point costs are high that week. But thanks to my excel spreadsheet and a lot of planning and forethought, I was able to get everything in-place in time to start walking.
Due to the resale borrow bug that I thankfully learned about prior, I wouldn't have been able to do this online each morning. I chatted with DVC about it and asked if they could just manually borrow the points I knew I would need for me now, so they were ready to be used when I made my reservation online. They said that they couldn't borrow points unless it was attached to a reservation. My solution was to find some combination of dates and room type that added up to exactly the amount of points I needed to borrow and make that reservation through member services where they would then borrow the points, then I would cancel it online, which left the borrowed points usable in my current UY. It totally worked lol and I ended up with the full amount of borrowed points needed to complete my ressie online for the remainder of my walk. Man I had some crazy obstacles to navigate. Add in the MLK day outage and I had some major blood pressure spikes trying to get this done.
Out of curiosity, I added up the cost of this reservation at the current rack rates and it was frankly mind-boggling. I cannot believe I get to stay in an accommodation that Disney values at approximately the cost of a new car lol. I feel like a Saudi Prince rolling in dough! Seriously though, I could never justify spending that kind of money for this normally, so it's so nice to see my membership pay off and legitimately afford me these kinds of opportunities for my family.
Side note: I know a lot of members have multiple home resorts and use years, but I have purposely worked to maintain a single resort/UY as I added on over the years. I really think that paid off here as it would have been very difficult to patch this kind of reservation together otherwise. It's a little validation for my decision to do that, even though it's not a very popular route to take. To each their own, and I know most owners like the structure they chose for themselves and I respect that, but I'm glad I did what I did, as it works for me.
The wife and I came up with this plan almost a year ago and I have been orchestrating *exactly* how many points were needed and how we'd accomplish this reservation through banking and borrowing, given the 50% restriction. Holy crap the point costs are high that week. But thanks to my excel spreadsheet and a lot of planning and forethought, I was able to get everything in-place in time to start walking.
Due to the resale borrow bug that I thankfully learned about prior, I wouldn't have been able to do this online each morning. I chatted with DVC about it and asked if they could just manually borrow the points I knew I would need for me now, so they were ready to be used when I made my reservation online. They said that they couldn't borrow points unless it was attached to a reservation. My solution was to find some combination of dates and room type that added up to exactly the amount of points I needed to borrow and make that reservation through member services where they would then borrow the points, then I would cancel it online, which left the borrowed points usable in my current UY. It totally worked lol and I ended up with the full amount of borrowed points needed to complete my ressie online for the remainder of my walk. Man I had some crazy obstacles to navigate. Add in the MLK day outage and I had some major blood pressure spikes trying to get this done.
Out of curiosity, I added up the cost of this reservation at the current rack rates and it was frankly mind-boggling. I cannot believe I get to stay in an accommodation that Disney values at approximately the cost of a new car lol. I feel like a Saudi Prince rolling in dough! Seriously though, I could never justify spending that kind of money for this normally, so it's so nice to see my membership pay off and legitimately afford me these kinds of opportunities for my family.
Side note: I know a lot of members have multiple home resorts and use years, but I have purposely worked to maintain a single resort/UY as I added on over the years. I really think that paid off here as it would have been very difficult to patch this kind of reservation together otherwise. It's a little validation for my decision to do that, even though it's not a very popular route to take. To each their own, and I know most owners like the structure they chose for themselves and I respect that, but I'm glad I did what I did, as it works for me.
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