Aurora
05-19-2014, 06:59 PM
This might be well-known to many DVC owners, but I just wanted to pass this along in case it could help out anyone else.
We're planning a trip to Disneyland this year (yay!) but only made the final decision days ago for a trip in early August. So we obviously missed the 7-month mark for the Grand Californian, which I knew was almost impossible to get unless you call on that date.
So of course when I checked today for our dates, there were no VGC rooms available at all. I put our dates on the VGC waitlist, then decided to try to reserve the dates through the Disney Collection. Well, I didn't realize, since we never use our points this way, that once those points are moved, they stay reservation points (non-DVC), even if you cancel the original reservation. That's what I was hoping to do if the waitlist came through.
Normally what I would do, if we were going to WDW, is waitlist the resort and not bother with the non-DVC resorts. But in this case, with VGC having so few rooms, there being so little chance for the waitlist to come through, AND with the regular room not costing that many more points than DVC, I decided to reserve the regular room and cancel the waitlist.
Again, just FYI about the reservation points. It's something that's obviously spelled out in all of the paraphernalia, but not having been in this situation before, I learned something new.
We're planning a trip to Disneyland this year (yay!) but only made the final decision days ago for a trip in early August. So we obviously missed the 7-month mark for the Grand Californian, which I knew was almost impossible to get unless you call on that date.
So of course when I checked today for our dates, there were no VGC rooms available at all. I put our dates on the VGC waitlist, then decided to try to reserve the dates through the Disney Collection. Well, I didn't realize, since we never use our points this way, that once those points are moved, they stay reservation points (non-DVC), even if you cancel the original reservation. That's what I was hoping to do if the waitlist came through.
Normally what I would do, if we were going to WDW, is waitlist the resort and not bother with the non-DVC resorts. But in this case, with VGC having so few rooms, there being so little chance for the waitlist to come through, AND with the regular room not costing that many more points than DVC, I decided to reserve the regular room and cancel the waitlist.
Again, just FYI about the reservation points. It's something that's obviously spelled out in all of the paraphernalia, but not having been in this situation before, I learned something new.