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I have 700 Dest Pts that expire at the end of this year and I have little use for them in the next 6 months.
I appreciate I could try and rent them, but as an alternative I was looking to use them to buy 2 x $100 resort credits (cost 650 Dest Points) for Grande Vista Florida where we are staying next year.
You can only buy credits at certain resorts (GV being one of them) and you must have a reservation for that resort - I have a reservation using DP so I'm OK on both those counts.
Although I have a reservation with DP I also have the same week with II so I planned to buy the resort credit and then cancel the reservation with DP and put them back in my account - so far so good me thinks.
However when I called and spoke to a Customer Advisor (I speak to call being a European Owner), I was advised that at the moment the credits are only available for stays up to the end of this year - 2017. When I asked when 2018 will be available they do not know. Obviously if they do not become available until early 2018 this will be of no use as my 700 points will have expired.
Does anyone have any experience of buying credits and when 2018 will be available? Also what form do these credits take, are they a voucher that I receive and take to the resort? My main concern is if I manage to get the credit before the end of 2017, what will happen to the credit/voucher when I cancel the DP reservation.
Many thanks for any input
I appreciate I could try and rent them, but as an alternative I was looking to use them to buy 2 x $100 resort credits (cost 650 Dest Points) for Grande Vista Florida where we are staying next year.
You can only buy credits at certain resorts (GV being one of them) and you must have a reservation for that resort - I have a reservation using DP so I'm OK on both those counts.
Although I have a reservation with DP I also have the same week with II so I planned to buy the resort credit and then cancel the reservation with DP and put them back in my account - so far so good me thinks.
However when I called and spoke to a Customer Advisor (I speak to call being a European Owner), I was advised that at the moment the credits are only available for stays up to the end of this year - 2017. When I asked when 2018 will be available they do not know. Obviously if they do not become available until early 2018 this will be of no use as my 700 points will have expired.
Does anyone have any experience of buying credits and when 2018 will be available? Also what form do these credits take, are they a voucher that I receive and take to the resort? My main concern is if I manage to get the credit before the end of 2017, what will happen to the credit/voucher when I cancel the DP reservation.
Many thanks for any input