It was never displayed anywhere before but it is something that others are seeing on the new Benefits Summary page. I have not used my RARPs before either, partly because you needed to call in to use them. But with these changes I'm wondering if they will work online. I'm also starting to think I should start using these RARP transactions.
As Eric and Hitchiker have said you could use RARP online before but you could not see how many were left. In fact you could accidentally use them by randomly making a reservation 11 months out .. inventory shows up as available and it doesnt tell you you are about to use it.
My RARP shows in Benefits Summary only in the1/2021 - 12/2021 use year. Doesn’t tell me I have 4 more for 2022 yet. And transaction history is incomplete in showing me where I used up all 4 of them (some uses and one credit do show up).
Weirdly, a RARP used this year for a reservation for 2022 shows up in the 2021 transaction history while the points used for that same reservation are of course in the 2022 trans history. So they tied the 4 RARP per year to the year the transactionis executed rather than the target year of your stay. That may be the way the rule is worded but it seems illogical and confusing to me.
its far better than the year Voyager first came out ..neither we nor owner care could use RARP at all ..service tickets were entered and pending and phone calls were made all the 11th month .. we were on pins and needles hoping our big Hawaiian extended family vaca could be booked. Finally when 10 month day arrived we were able to reserve what we needed in Standard Reservation Period afterall.