Hi Alexandra and welcome home! With terms like
Use Year,
Banked and
Borrowed Points, as well as
Banking Deadlines, it sure can get tricky understanding how booking Disney Vacation Club villas work! But hopefully after this, you’ll be booking a DVC villa faster than you can say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Alexandra, I’ll have you know that you can currently book a September 2026 stay right now, subject to availability. Your booking window opens based on the desired check-in date. Furthermore, you can book your
Home Resort 11 months prior to the desired check-in date and the other DVC resorts 7 months before check-in. This means that you can currently book your home resort for a September 2026 and will have to wait until next month to book a different DVC resort, subject to availability. What I like to do is put in a reservation for my home resort for my planned travel dates, and then revisit the website at 7 months to see what other resorts are available.
With an April Use Year here’s some important information for you to know. Every April 1st, you get a fresh set of vacation points (and no, that’s not an April Fools joke!). These points are valid for bookings with check-in dates of April 1 through March 31 of the following year. However, as mentioned previously, since you can book up to 11 months before your desired check-in, you don't have to wait until the Use Year starts to use that allotment of points. DVC knows to take the correct allotment of points. The system generally prioritizes using any banked points, borrowed points, or points in holding (if those points are eligible to be used for booking), before using any current Use Year Vacation Points. Alexandra, I also highly suggest checking out the booking guidelines on
the DVC website for additional information.
Alexandra, I hope you find this information helpful and wish you luck on booking that September 2026 stay. September is one of our favorite times to visit Walt Disney World. The theme parks are usually less busy as kids have returned to school and more importantly, the
point charts for September stays are usually the lowest! If you have any follow-up questions, my fellow panelists and I here at
planDisney are happy to help!
Your pal,
Sean