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Post by FessParker1 on Jan 20, 2023 11:50:59 GMT -5
I'm pretty sue you can go in a few days before the monthly payment is due and make a manual payment with a gift card. This will allow you to keep it monthly and get the benefits f any discount you can get on the gift cards.
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Post by bubster on Jan 20, 2023 12:59:18 GMT -5
Both of our BLT contracts are on auto-pay. Ever rising MFs keep raising the monthly payment. In an effort to keep them at a certain level I try to make a lump payment into the next year. In order to do this with a credit card they make me pay off the balance. So is it possible to circumvent this by using gift cards?
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Post by nickys on Jan 20, 2023 16:03:36 GMT -5
Okay so I have a related question -- I'm going onto the monthly payment plan for now, but might want to pay off the balance early in a few months. Can I do that without penalty?
Yes you can. I also pay dues monthly with auto pay. At any time you can pay off your dues with no penalty. Your auto pay stays in tack, but will not generate with a zero balance. Once your new dues are loaded the following year, your dues will automatically be deducted monthly as before. I love it! I also found out from a friend that if you decide to pre-pay a lump sum, then the auto payments will stop until the balance due is positive again. So if you pay $100 a month and then make a partial payment of $500, your payments stop for 5 months and then restart. |
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Post by nickys on Jan 20, 2023 16:06:11 GMT -5
Both of our BLT contracts are on auto-pay. Ever rising MFs keep raising the monthly payment. In an effort to keep them at a certain level I try to make a lump payment into the next year. In order to do this with a credit card they make me pay off the balance. So is it possible to circumvent this by using gift cards? I’ve made partial payments before using a credit card. When I was renting out points that we couldn’t use, as each rental was completed I paid that amount into my “account”. I only have one contract though. I believe you need to select “pay by contract” to make a partial payment. |
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Post by BWV Dreamin on Jan 20, 2023 18:09:47 GMT -5
Both of our BLT contracts are on auto-pay. Ever rising MFs keep raising the monthly payment. In an effort to keep them at a certain level I try to make a lump payment into the next year. In order to do this with a credit card they make me pay off the balance. So is it possible to circumvent this by using gift cards? I’ve made partial payments before using a credit card. When I was renting out points that we couldn’t use, as each rental was completed I paid that amount into my “account”. I only have one contract though. I believe you need to select “pay by contract” to make a partial payment. Good info! And it’s good to know this can all be done online instead of calling MS. |
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Jan 23, 2023 11:19:18 GMT -5
This should be easy, but then I get to thinking about it and suddenly I'm all confused. Don't want to do it wrong and mess up points!
I'll be making a reservation that, interestingly enough, starts on the first day of my use-year, Dec 1. This means I will be banking points into that UY.
We would ALSO like to go the day before, Nov 30, which would be in my current UY, but the day is up in the air.
My plan was to reserve the whole thing and then drop that first day if it doesn't work out. I won't find out until after my banking deadline.
So I figure, when I find out about that first day, if it's a go I just borrow points for that one day from the Dec 2023 UY.
Questions - Does this all make sense?
Can I even have a reservation spanning a UY? Or will it be broken in two, in which case I might as well book that first day as it's own reservation.
When you make a reservation, do I have to borrow at that moment or can I do it later.
I feel like I asked this recently, but I just now realized that the first day is in the current UY and the rest are next year, so now I'm all confused and I don't want to click a button and find out points got banked or borrowed without me being ready!
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Post by JaxFLBear on Jan 23, 2023 11:42:22 GMT -5
Questions - Does this all make sense? Can I even have a reservation spanning a UY? Or will it be broken in two, in which case I might as well book that first day as it's own reservation. When you make a reservation, do I have to borrow at that moment or can I do it later. I feel like I asked this recently, but I just now realized that the first day is in the current UY and the rest are next year, so now I'm all confused and I don't want to click a button and find out points got banked or borrowed without me being ready! Reservations that span UYs would be separate reservations. The first reservation would check in on 11/30 and check out on 12/1. The second reservation would check in on 12/1. They can be linked as a continuing stay. If you need to borrow points to place the reservation, that is done at the time the reservation is made. |
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Jan 23, 2023 12:03:37 GMT -5
Reservations that span UYs would be separate reservations. The first reservation would check in on 11/30 and check out on 12/1. The second reservation would check in on 12/1. They can be linked as a continuing stay. If you need to borrow points to place the reservation, that is done at the time the reservation is made. This info gives me something to think about. Thank you. |
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Jan 23, 2023 12:11:20 GMT -5
If you need to borrow points to place the reservation, that is done at the time the reservation is made. What if..... What if I DON'T need to borrow points? Meaning, if I made a reservation today and there were plenty of points in there, it wouldn't borrow points. Then later, at my banking deadline, I transfer those points out, leaving my current UY empty. THEN...some time in the future after that, I borrow points for that reservation when I find out if I'm going that day or not. Or, is the system clever enough to not let me bank all my points at the banking deadline when it knows I have a reservation on the books. Maybe my wife was correct when she said "maybe we shouldn't worry about that day" since she won't know if she can get that extra day off work until like September. But I know what will happen, she will get that day off and then come to me saying "okay get the room that extra day!" and even though it's OKW, it will be all booked solid 60 or maybe even 45 days out. |
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Jan 23, 2023 12:12:42 GMT -5
Wait, duh, since it is going to make that first day a separate reservation anyway, I can just use points from a different contract.
Lemon squeezy
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Post by DrMinnie on Jan 23, 2023 20:05:51 GMT -5
If you have a 2-bedroom lock off reserved, and it turns out you don’t need the 2nd bedroom... Can you modify the reservation to get just the 1-bedroom portion when the rooms are otherwise all booked up? Has anyone tried this? I would expect it works ok, but not having tried it I can’t be sure.
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Post by Wiltony on Jan 23, 2023 22:40:09 GMT -5
That is dangerous because someone with a wait-list might get your room in between when you cancel the 2bd and when you book your 1bd.
I would call member services and ask them to do it in one step to ensure that doesn't happen.
The way I understand how wait-lists are fulfilled (someone does them manually, it's not automated), it doesn't seem likely you'd lose it by trying to do this online, but I wouldn't take the risk, nonetheless.
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Post by ggatorgirl on Jan 25, 2023 16:03:43 GMT -5
Are the Late night extra hours going away? Can't find anything past March 30. Was that a 50th Celebration thing?
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Post by JaxFLBear on Jan 26, 2023 7:16:36 GMT -5
Are the Late night extra hours going away? Can't find anything past March 30. Was that a 50th Celebration thing? Park hours are only released 60 days out now, so it's possible they may continue but just not posted yet. |
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Post by helenabear on Jan 26, 2023 7:48:08 GMT -5
Questions - Does this all make sense? Can I even have a reservation spanning a UY? Or will it be broken in two, in which case I might as well book that first day as it's own reservation. When you make a reservation, do I have to borrow at that moment or can I do it later. I feel like I asked this recently, but I just now realized that the first day is in the current UY and the rest are next year, so now I'm all confused and I don't want to click a button and find out points got banked or borrowed without me being ready! Reservations that span UYs would be separate reservations. The first reservation would check in on 11/30 and check out on 12/1. The second reservation would check in on 12/1. They can be linked as a continuing stay. If you need to borrow points to place the reservation, that is done at the time the reservation is made. Reservations that span UYs would be separate reservations. The first reservation would check in on 11/30 and check out on 12/1. The second reservation would check in on 12/1. They can be linked as a continuing stay. If you need to borrow points to place the reservation, that is done at the time the reservation is made. This info gives me something to think about. Thank you. Actually this is incorrect. I am spanning UYs again. They are not separate reservations. They are one reservation. If you call MS to book they will do it as just one reservation. If you book online they will be 2 initially but MS will merge them into one. So they are not "continuing stays" but just one reservation. I have a June UY and we've done this more than once (arriving in May and staying through June) and the process hasn't changed. |
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