Adding Resale Points to Your Direct Contract: How Does Booking Work?

If you already own a direct DVC contract, adding on points by purchasing a resale contract is a great way to save. For example, if you own a direct contract at Animal Kingdom Villas and want to add on 75 more points, you could save more than $7,000 by purchasing a resale Animal Kingdom contract instead of a direct one from Disney!  

However, when you own a mix of direct points and resale points, what does the booking process look like? How does it differ from owning all direct points?

Booking at the 7 to 11 Month Window

Following through with the example from above, points from direct and resale Animal Kingdom Villas contracts have the same home resort advantage at the 7 to 11 month booking window.  

Booking itself is especially seamless if you make sure that both contracts have the same Use Year.  If they share a Use Year, then they are part of the same DVC Membership, and you’ll just have to check off which contract(s) you want to use when booking a stay. If the two contracts have different Use Years, then they will be part of different DVC Memberships, and you’ll have to transfer your points from one Membership to the other to use the points together.

Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge

Booking at the 0 to 7 Month Window

Original 14 DVC Resorts

At the 0 to 7 month booking window, most DVC resale contracts allow you to book stays at other DVC Resorts.  For the original 14 DVC Resorts, such as Animal Kingdom Villas, resale points can be used to book stays at any of the other original resorts at the 7-month mark or under. These resorts include:

• Animal Kingdom Villas (Jambo House and Kidani Village)
• Aulani
• Bay Lake Tower
• Beach Club
• BoardWalk 
• Boulder Ridge 
• Copper Creek 
• Grand Californian
• Grand Floridian 
• Hilton Head
• Old Key West
• Polynesian
• Saratoga Springs
• Vero Beach

For instance, with your mix of direct and resale points at Animal Kingdom Villas, you could book a stay at the Copper Creek at the 7-month mark or under.  

Newer DVC Resorts

If you’re looking to book a stay at a newer DVC Resort, then you would need to use your direct points. Newer resorts that are not part of the original 14 include:

• Riviera
• Villas at Disneyland Hotel
• Cabins at Disney’s Fort Wilderness
• Any future new DVC Resorts that Disney decides to restrict

Disney’s Riviera Resort

If instead of owning points at Animal Kingdom Villas, you owned direct points at a newer DVC Resort like Riviera, and you added on more points with a resale Riviera contract, then you would only be able to use those resale points for stays at Riviera, regardless of whether it’s the 7 to 11 month booking window or the 0 to 7 month booking window. Resale points at Disneyland Hotel and Fort Wilderness are similarly restricted.

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If you’d like to make an offer or request a free consultation about buying or adding to your DVC contract, the DVC Resale Market team is here to help!