JimMIA
There's more to life than mice...
- Joined
- Feb 16, 2005
According to info in the upcoming Fall issue of Vacation Magic, DVC is changing the banking rules. The new plan is apparently 100% banking for the first eight months of your UY, but then nothing at all in the final four months.
I'm sure many will consider that a plus, because we will have two additional months to bank everything.
However, I'm looking at it as the father of two adult daughters, with four school-aged grandchildren, and I'm starting to think that September and October UYs will NOT work at all for families with school-aged kids under the new plan.
My daughters are limited to visiting WDW during the summer school break and holidays...and we have an October UY. We usually take 3-5 day trips, and we bank late in the UY to avoid losing points...so the 25% and 50% banking options are very important to us.
With the new plan, however, if they have to cancel a summer trip -- bye, bye points! We won't be able to bank them, and unless I can take over the trip (unlikely), we will lose the points.
I'd be interested to see how other members think this change will affect their families.
One thing for sure -- UY will now matter. It will no longer be something you just "work around." Any family with school-aged kids would be nuts to buy a September or October UY in the future...IMHO.
What do you think?
I'm sure many will consider that a plus, because we will have two additional months to bank everything.
However, I'm looking at it as the father of two adult daughters, with four school-aged grandchildren, and I'm starting to think that September and October UYs will NOT work at all for families with school-aged kids under the new plan.
My daughters are limited to visiting WDW during the summer school break and holidays...and we have an October UY. We usually take 3-5 day trips, and we bank late in the UY to avoid losing points...so the 25% and 50% banking options are very important to us.
With the new plan, however, if they have to cancel a summer trip -- bye, bye points! We won't be able to bank them, and unless I can take over the trip (unlikely), we will lose the points.
I'd be interested to see how other members think this change will affect their families.
One thing for sure -- UY will now matter. It will no longer be something you just "work around." Any family with school-aged kids would be nuts to buy a September or October UY in the future...IMHO.
What do you think?