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[Avojeo]

I was just curious if you get an upgrade on your room to you have to use those points. For example, if we reserved a studio but get to resort and an one bdrm is available can we get it on the studio pts or will MS charge us the one bdrm pts. The reason why I am asking is we meet people staying at OKW on a cash ressie non-DVC members that got an upgrade on their one bdrm to two bdrm. I was just curious if they even did that for DVC members.

TIA

 

[chalee94]

The reason why I am asking is we meet people staying at OKW on a cash ressie non-DVC members that got an upgrade on their one bdrm to two bdrm. I was just curious if they even did that for DVC members.

cash stays are different than pts stays, so no, they do not upgrade you for free on points stays. (except for the one in a million chance that your room is out of service and they don't have any other options.)

 

[jco_direwolf]

In general getting upgrades is not like cash. With cash they will oversell one class of rooms (like standard view) knowing they can always upgrade someone (making a little magic for them.) Like a few years ago the Value resorts where WAY over sold, so a bunch of people paying $79/night where moved to SSR.

However, since this is a timeshare. They can only rent what they have, when the last Standard view room at BLT is gone, they can't book any more Standard View stays at BLT. Forcing the next person that wants to stay at BLT to take a Lake or Magic Kingdom view.

Now that said it can and does happen. Because there are limited number rooms held in reserve for emergencies. Like a broken shower, or a leaky window or something like that.

In those cases the point difference comes out of a reserve account that DVD (the developer) holds. So no you don't get charged with the difference. However, don't plan on it. Remember the rules for timeshares are different than those for hotels. With a cash reservation, the hotel operator is just out the difference in cash. With DVC, the point pool is fixed (when the resort is built), and if "upgrades" where given away the pool would become unbalanced.

Note: this is also why you can only bank/borrow 1 year. It helps keep the pool at the right level. Sorta a conservation of points.

johno

 

[Avojeo]

Thanks everyone for your replies. We are still learning the ways of DVC.

 

[NYmickey]

Here is a related question. We have res (cash) for a value resort at the end of Aug. but if all goes well, we will be DVC members by then.(Contract is in ROFR) Could we see if we could upgrade our resort? Would they do this?

 

[Dean]

Here is a related question. We have res (cash) for a value resort at the end of Aug. but if all goes well, we will be DVC members by then.(Contract is in ROFR) Could we see if we could upgrade our resort? Would they do this?

No but you could book with points and cancel the cash reservation subject to the cancelation terms.

 

[Deb & Bill]

No but you could book with points and cancel the cash reservation subject to the cancelation terms.

If there is a points reservation available for those dates.