All Star Bookings with DVC?

[Club Cooloholic]

So I am about to bank some points for next year and did a little check in the "explore destinations" section of the site. All the way at the bottom they offer all star resorts as a place you can use points. What?? Can anyone explain this, how it happened and if they did it?

 

[nickys]

You can use your points to book any Disney resort. It’s a restricted perk for “eligible” members.
Just like you can use your points to book DCL.

The points cost though isn’t favourable, You might be better renting points out and using the cash to book instead.

Edited: checking the WDW resorts, All Stars starts at around 9 points per night. WL starts at 38 points per night.

Also if you do book that way, those points are then stuck. They become what’s called reservation points. If you had to cancel the points cannot be used for a DVC booking, you would have to use them to book another non-DVC resort or DCL.

 

[KDM31091]

You technically "can" do it, but I believe there is a $95 transaction fee, and the points conversion isn't good. You're better off to rent out the points and use the cash to book All Stars, like @nickys said.

 

[Vacationeer]

The starting price is weeknight Sept. Using points to book the Values is close standard at SSR, OKW, AKV etc and sometimes more! It’s more of a convenience feature than anything. It’s not cheap using points outside the normal system.

Sometimes the $95 fee gets waved, though if you purchase MMB the fee is automatically waved and then you’ll get the other benenfits of that program like Memory Maker, Lounge Priority, $10 one time use points via BOGO…