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Old 03-19-2010, 10:29 PM   #16
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Thanks so much! I was thinking of using the points for a spa treatment or two.
Yep - I will put mine towards offsetting the guilt on the villa treatment! Love feeling like I'm using "free money"!
We always use our reward visa to pay our annual DVC dues - then pay that off from the cash we set aside. That gets you a nice amount of reward dollars each year.
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What you do is you order the reward card either on line or by calling Disney Visa. What I like to do is order it maybe a couple months ahead of my trip to make sure I have it in time, but I only put on the minimum number of points on it, which is 20. Then I wait until the end of the last statement cycle before my trip to transfer the rest of the points (which you can also do either on line or by calling) so that I get all my points on the card. The reason I don't order it with all the points on it is because once you have the card, you have to transfer at least 10 points, and this way I know I'll have at least 10 points available.
This is how I do it too!
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When you get the card, the expiration date is the last day of December of the year after you get it (so if you get it this year it's good until the end of next year.)
This is exactly the info I was coming to look for, thanks!
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BEFORE you put them on a rewards card, you have 5 yrs before they expire. we paid for our trip on the card plus other stuff. also watch for specials like5x the reward. in 1yr we had over 800 pts 280 we used on our nov trip and earnes the rest since and will put towards our next trip!!
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I ordered ours just when the billing cycle ended the month before leaving. Another cycle ended while we were there so I called and added the point to it no problem. It comes as a plastic gift card and can be taken anywhere a credit card can. It paid for all of our food and some purchases last trip, this time its going to go a lot farther. We put everything under the sun on it and pay weekly. That way we get the points, they really add up fast, especially with the triple point promotion they are running right now.
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