Make sure to buy your new tickets before cancelling your package or your park reservations will in fact fall off. There has to be tickets on your MDE for the reservations to attach to or you will lose them.I still have them, I held onto them just in case. I'll use them to pay for our tickets, since we originally had a package, and will use the rest for food and all that fun stuff.
I'm following along on your trip report and totally thought, I need to go back and re-read their first day adventures
Since I'm renting points, am I able to male a room request? I really just want a full balcony, nothing fancy.
I just did something similar this last month. It was super easy. Just bought the tickets online after booking our dvc and then called to cancel our package and everything was fine. However someone else I know who did it the other way around lost all of her reservations, thankfully all parks were still available tho so she was ok.