one way to look at RVA for the 2021 to 2022
point charts is to break it down into two steps ...
- seasons shifting of dates to new seasons
- summer lower season
- fall higher season
- mid-Dec higher season
- spring break later causing more higher season days
- points the cost per villa type were tweaked to balance the chart after doing step #1
we all know the seasons not the same but the
gaps between seasons are also not the same, the different steps are different amounts; for example: with everything but one bedrooms, the increase from season C to D is smaller than the increase from season D to E (second chart below); why does this matter? we might think that moving one week from season C to D (increase) is balanced by moving one week from E to D (decrease) but it isn't; pulling a deluxe studio - preferred as an extreme example (others are smaller differences) ...
2021 dsp season C 155 points per week
2021 dsp season D 162 points per week (+7 points)
2021 dsp season E 183 points per week (+21 points)
... which gives us ...
+7 points move one week from C to D
-21 points move one week from E to D
-14 net points from moving one week up and one week down
this is why there are more days that went up a season (80 days) than down a season (66 days)
after shifting days to the seasons you want (#1 above, first chart below) the point charts need to be tweaked to keep points decently balanced (#2 above, third chart below)
here are some charts that may help visualize the changes (first chart applies to all Walt Disney World resorts, second to fifth chart are for RVA but the theory works for all resorts) ...
days that moved
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season A is greyed out as it's the starting point, season G (Easter + Christmas) is greyed out because it's the largest increase by far for all unit types so proportional shading is out of whack when it's included
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season A is greyed out as it's the starting point, season G (Easter + Christmas) is greyed out because it's the largest increase by far for all unit types so proportional shading is out of whack when it's included
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the lock-off premium (on an annual basis) was increased by step #1 (shifting dates to new seasons) and
DVC adjusted the point charts in step #2 to
reduce the lock-off premium increase; net effect was a slight decrease for standard view and slight increase for preferred view
lock-off premium (ds +1b > 2b by X points per day, average for year)
point chart | standard | preferred |
---|
base 2021 | 6.90 | 10.23 |
base 2022 seasons | 7.23
+0.33 | 11.10
+0.87 |
base 2022 seasons + points | 6.53
-0.70 (-0.37 net to base 2021) | 10.59
-0.51 (+0.36 net to base 2021) |
my takeaways ...
- seasons (step #1) the prime objective was to shift fall into a higher season and summer into a lower season (first chart)
- points (step #2) because the gaps between seasons are ≠, the points per villa in the seasons had to be tweaked and the focus was mainly on seasons C and D (third chart)
- the lock-off premium wasn't affected significantly
- the total points for the Base Year (1 Jan = Sun is my assumption) didn't change significantly
- for the 40 units declared (as of 16 Mar 2020), the largest change was a reduction of 0.73% points per unit
- unit 3A: 3x ts + 1x 3b
- 2021 64,900 points per year
- 2022 64,428 points per year
- for RVA, the changes seem to accomplish the prime objective while thoughtfully trying to stay away from things the have excited people in the past
edit: typos, slight tweaks for readability