![]() ![]() We then also do a 1 week trip to Disney in Oct or May half term in the other year between the big trips. We traditionally go to Florida every 2 years for a 3 week trip in August (wife is a teacher so we work around the school holidays) with 1 week at Universal & 2 weeks at Disney. We have done research on the boards which has been extremely helpful, but thought I would do a post to hopefully get some advice from the experts! Since May is within one month of our use year, we would not have been able to book another trip before the use year was up.We have just returned from a WDW trip in which we looked into DVC. In fact, using this spreadsheet gave us the heads up that if we booked a couples trip for May 2020, and then had to cancel, we would have lost the points because they would be borrowed points. Being able to project out the future use of points has been so helpful. If the running total for the use year is negative, that means we borrowed points from the following year. I’ve also included trips when we paid cash. I’ve detailed the dates, people in the party, location, accommodation, and length of stay for future reference because we are always talking about past trips and when we stayed where and how many points it was. A line item is added for the allocation of points, then a reduction for trips. It’s tracked by use year, which for us is June. (I couldn’t add an image so I’ve added a link to the dropbox in the website field). ← Dividing Your Time: Pros and Cons of Split Stays.I’m curious to know: how do you keep track of your points? For those of you with multiple contracts, have you created your own system for point tracking? It’s a simple system, but I think it suits our needs. ![]() I’m hoping that this chart will help us clearly see which contract we should use for any given trip and ensure that we never lose any leftover points. This allows me to better track how many points are needed for each trip and then anticipate where we may need to borrow or bank as we approach the end of our Use Year. Then there are columns to track the points spent on each trip and the points leftover. Starting with the February Use Year, I plotted out how many points we would start with for the year. Version 2 of the point trackerĪs you can see, I created two charts–one for the BoardWalk contract and one for the Bay Lake Tower contract. Then while I was paying bills the other day, it hit me: why not treat my point tracker like balancing a checkbook? This led me to version 2 of the chart that featured a revised format and greater detail. I was essentially looking to create something that would track the points used after each anticipated trip, but I was unsure of the best format. Version 1 of the point trackerĪfter working with this simple chart, I realized that it still didn’t quite capture everything I wanted. Since the 2021 point charts have not yet been released, I estimated our 2021 trips based on the 2020 point charts for now. I then compared that with the trips that we hoped to take over the next 2 years and made a small chart that would summarize the points we have today versus where we will land by the end of our Use Year. I’m no Excel whiz, but I felt like a spreadsheet was the place to start.įirst I looked at our dashboard on the DVC website to view the current status of our points from both contracts. ![]() It was time to actually plot out how many points we would need from each contract in 20. However, now that we have added our Bay Lake Tower contract, I realized that planning future trips was going to be a little more complex. After all, the best cure for the Disney blues is planning the next trip, right? In the past, things were fairly simple since the dashboard on the DVC website showed how many points were used and how many were remaining for our BoardWalk contract. ![]() While anxiously awaiting our next Disney trip, I started thinking about our future trips. ![]()
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