13 month reservation question

I've been reading several threads regarding 13 month reservations. They seem to imply that if you own two or more weeks, you can reserve two consecutive weeks beginning at the 13 month mark, but where the second week is actually 13 months plus 1 week out. Is that correct? If so, does the same logic apply no matter how many weeks you have?

I currently own only one week. I'm thinking about more, but thought it would be very difficult to book consecutive weeks. If the above is correct, it seems it would be a lot easier than I thought.

Thanks.

smithde said:

I've been reading several threads regarding 13 month reservations. They seem to imply that if you own two or more weeks, you can reserve two consecutive weeks beginning at the 13 month mark, but where the second week is actually 13 months plus 1 week out. Is that correct? If so, does the same logic apply no matter how many weeks you have?

I currently own only one week. I'm thinking about more, but thought it would be very difficult to book consecutive weeks. If the above is correct, it seems it would be a lot easier than I thought.

Thanks.

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That's accurate. It's 13 months from the first day of that check in week for a given resort and could in theory, include as many weeks as you wanted. They must be concurrent or consecutive weeks so you must be able to reserve them as such. It does not have to necessarily be the same season or same resort. You could own a Bronze HH week and a Platinum HI week and reserve them under this rule.

In early May I called 13 months out from my Thursday check in date and reserved in this order. My trading studio week 23, my trading 1 BR week 24 and my 3 HH units week 25. I could have just as easily (and have in the past) got weeks 25, 26 & 27 for HH. I sacrifice a little on the trading power of the trade weeks to ensure I get what I want to use for HH. Same will be true for my EOY HI purchase with a little twist. I'll likely reserve HI 12 months out from Feb/March then if I can't get what I want, will reserve mid summer under the 13 month rule. Or else I'll buy another trading week lockoff that will work for the different time of year such as a Silver or Gold Branson week.

Thanks very much.

In your example, I'm curious as to why you'd wait until 12 months out for your HI Feb/Mar.

One follow-up question, do you need to book both weeks at the same exact time and if so, how do you do that. My understanding is that you can only do 13-month reservations by phone, so I guess you just tell them that's what you want. But I'm also wondering if you could book one week at 13-months out and then call back a day or two later and book the second week even though it is still 13-months and a few days out. Hope that made sense.

Thanks again for all the help. TUG is great!

smithde said:

Thanks very much.

In your example, I'm curious as to why you'd wait until 12 months out for your HI Feb/Mar.

One follow-up question, do you need to book both weeks at the same exact time and if so, how do you do that. My understanding is that you can only do 13-month reservations by phone, so I guess you just tell them that's what you want. But I'm also wondering if you could book one week at 13-months out and then call back a day or two later and book the second week even though it is still 13-months and a few days out. Hope that made sense.

Thanks again for all the help. TUG is great!

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I'd wait until 12 months for that time frame simply because I don't have anything that would work to do the 13 months reservations for Feb/March. I actually just sent an email 2 minutes ago to a heck of a nice guy about finding a week that would work for this purpose.

No to your example if I understand it. The dates must match up perfectly. In order to reserve 13 months out you must reserve 2 weeks concurrently or consecutively. You could in theory call back in a few days and add to that reservation but it would only be for things you could have booked on the first call and simply didn't. Say I had waited on one of my HH weeks above, I could have called in a day or two and added it. I hope this makes sense and is what you're asking.

My first Marriott week was platinum at Manor Club in Williamsburg, Va. My second was BeachPlace in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. Because I got them for different seasons I couldn't book 13 months ahead for the times I wanted.

As a result, I soon booked a 2nd week at Beachplace and about a year later a 2nd week at Manor Club -- then I could book using the 13 month advantage. Marriott was happy and so was I.

As incentives increased I bought another Manor Club week and Canyon Villas for the points and the pre-construction price. That permitted me to trade 2 weeks a year for points to replenish what we used ... 440,000 every two years...yet still give me plenty of TS weeks to use. the Canyon Villas week is a widow and a real pain to have to book 12 months out in prime season AZ.

Generally I book my weeks to use, not trade, unless I can trade up via II back into my home resorts.

Brian

pwrshift said:

My first Marriott week was platinum at Manor Club in Williamsburg, Va. My second was BeachPlace in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. Because I got them for different seasons I couldn't book 13 months ahead for the times I wanted.

As a result, I soon booked a 2nd week at Beachplace and about a year later a 2nd week at Manor Club -- then I could book using the 13 month advantage. Marriott was happy and so was I.

As incentives increased I bought another Manor Club week and Canyon Villas for the points and the pre-construction price. That permitted me to trade 2 weeks a year for points to replenish what we used ... 440,000 every two years...yet still give me plenty of TS weeks to use. the Canyon Villas week is a widow and a real pain to have to book 12 months out in prime season AZ.

Generally I book my weeks to use, not trade, unless I can trade up via II back into my home resorts.

Brian

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Brian, what seasons do you own at each?

Dean,

Are the "trading 1BR" and "trading Studio" parts of a lockout or do you own each individually?

2 "half" lockouts probably do not qualify for the 13 months rule, correct?

But is it possible to reserve four "half" lockouts for 4 weeks consecutively?

Thanks!

Dean ... my six weeks are platinum. With rare exception, I wouldn't buy anything less, especially if you want to be able to trade for points.

Brian

abdibile said:

Dean,

Are the "trading 1BR" and "trading Studio" parts of a lockout or do you own each individually?

2 "half" lockouts probably do not qualify for the 13 months rule, correct?

But is it possible to reserve four "half" lockouts for 4 weeks consecutively?

Thanks!

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Yes, these are 2 components of a 2 BR lockoff. You're correct that simply reserving the 2 portions of a lockoff does not qualify for the 13 month rule UNLESS the are combined with reserving at least one other unit then they do.

pwrshift said:

Dean ... my six weeks are platinum. With rare exception, I wouldn't buy anything less, especially if you want to be able to trade for points.

Brian

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Thanks Brian, when I first read your post I wondered if you thought that the ownership had to be all the same season to use the 13 month window. Now I'm assuming it's just that when you wanted to reserve using the 13 month priority didn't match up very well even though there is quite a bit of overlap of the MC and BPT Platinum calendar.