Hey 
friends! We are planning our last Disney trip before our oldest kid flies the nest to college for next summer. 
The family really wants to try BCV. 
We own at GFV. I will be looking to get a 2 bedroom villa, starting June 18, for 8 nights. What is the likelihood we get in? I know we will be happy in a 2 bed at any resort (we can only afford 1 bed at GFV), but I’d love to deliver for my kid on the BCV dream! 
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@Jeff_AZ has stayed at BC 2 BR at least a time or two, and I believe in early summer.
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I found this Availability Guide that jives with my experience. You should be able to get a 2BR dedicated villa during that timeframe without too much difficulty at 7 months. I do recommend you log in right at 8am on the first day you are eligible to book for your trip, including flexible dates at the front end just in case. Then move it each day until it’s at your ideal dates.*
*This is called walking a reservation and I don’t recommend doing it for dates you have no reasonable intention to travel on because it’s annoying for other owners. 
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Thank you for this chart! I will definitely be logged on and ready right at opening.
Follow up - Can I modify first thing if I book a GFV 1 bed at 11 months? I can’t remember if I have to call to do that (which would put me behind the crowd) I typically like to have a guaranteed room if I can. We did that for a trip where we modified to AKL, but I can’t remember if we called or did that online.
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IIRC, I usually have a placeholder booked at SSR that I modify online. I think it can get complicated if you have points from different use years tied up, but if they’re under the same profile it should be ok.
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This is what I always do! I go in and modify my existing reservation otherwise you may not have the points.
Definately be logged in with all your choices input and hit search right at 8am
You will be able to see whether all 8 days are available before you are trying for it. Honestly, if you could live with a split stay (I like an MK/EP split) if i lt is clear you won’t be able to get 8 BCV days, go ahead and split your VGF into two reservations. If there are 6 BC days available but not 8, split your VGF into a 6 and 2. Then you can book the first six and waitlist the last 2 (or whatever is showing for availability). Split that VGF before the 7 month mark.
I worry that 8 is a lot of days to try for, so I would be thinking split.
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For 2BR in the summer at BCV, it should be ok the further past 7 months, unless there is something quirky going on. Of course, the more days, the more variables are introduced, so I think your recommendation to look ahead the days before is wise.
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Thank you both for this wisdom. I will keep an eye on it leading up and have the split stay in my back pocket. We’ve done one split stay before. I don’t love having to move, but I’m willing to be flexible for this particular trip.
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As others have said, you would want to modify your existing reservation, (unless of course you have enough points to hold both).
However the 7 nights rule still applies right at 7 months. And, unlike at 11 months where if you have the first 7 nights you can add on the 8th night the next day, at 7 months that isn’t guaranteed to work.
I would think about whether you are willing to do a split stay if necessary, and book your home resort in two parts. Then you can waitlist the last nights if necessary.
You can’t do this later on without risking losing the second one.
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Splitting a reservation is risky at any time. You risk losing the last nights.
I would book it in two parts from the start, especially since OP wants 8 nights. They can’t switch all 8 nights at the 7 month mark.
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Thank you for the reminder on the 7 night rule. So if my original booking is for 8 nights, I won’t be able to modify it until that last night falls inside the window? That’s why you suggest splitting the reservation to begin with?
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You can modify it but only to a new 7 night reservation. And then try to add the 8th night right on the dot the next morning. The problem is that any BCV owner could jump ahead of you, and of course the next morning others might be trying to grab a 7 night reservation thus potentially blocking you out.
So you need to decide whether you’re OK with waitlisting that last night if necessary, or having a single night elsewhere.
If I had to split a stay I’d want a minimum of 3 nights, so would book it as 5 nights and then 3 nights. I might then see if I could modify the 5 nights at GFV to a 7 nights at BCV, keeping the 3 night stay at GFV intact until the next day when I could add the last night on at BCV And then cancel the 3 night stay. That might mean borrowing points and banking some unused ones.
Does that make sense?
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I think so. Basically at one point in that process I would have borrowed points into the new reservation, but when I cancel the other original one made with same use year points, those can then be banked to replace my borrowed ones?
(I always wonder how manic this DVC talk sounds to people who don’t live in our world 
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