Originally Posted by
KRUXED
that was my thought as well..... it doesn’t make sense. I seem to recall every time I have made a reservation and had enough points, they were automatically deducted. If it is possible to book just on an advance and keep my points in the account, I would be interested in knowing how to do it!
You first make a dummy reservation to use up your points, make the points advance reservation, then cancel the dummy reservation to refund your points. But it's not usually in your best interest to do this unless you have some other intended purpose for the points.