Hi Michael, welcome home and welcome to planDisney! I myself have multiple
Home Resorts. Like our children, my wife and I love all of our Home Resorts for different reasons. They’re all our favorites, although don’t tell the others that my favorite is actually
Disney’s Riviera Resort! Now, let’s talk about how and when you can combine Vacation Points from different Home Resorts.
Michael, if you were to add on a contract with a different Home Resort from your current one, you can only combine the Vacation Points from both contracts for a booking at 7 months. This is because the 11 month mark is the
Home Resort Priority Period, which limits bookings to stays at your Home Resort. So for your home resort of the
Villas at Disneyland Hotel, you would not be able to combine points from a second contract at a different Home Resort until 7 months when the priority period ends.
What you can do, and what I highly recommend, is to consider
banking and
borrowing Vacation Points for the Home Resort you’d like to stay at if your current allotment isn’t enough. Another popular method some DVC members like to take is booking split stays across Home Resorts by booking each during the respective priority periods, although that might not work in your instance since you’re considering Home Resorts at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. It can get tricky managing your points across multiple Home Resorts, but luckily the DVC website has transaction summaries available to show how points were used, banked, borrowed, or transferred.
Michael, hopefully this gives you insight on how to best manage multiple Home Resorts. If you have any further questions about making the most out of your membership, please feel free to
contact me and my fellow panelists here at planDisney!
Your pal,
Sean