Phatscott25
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 28, 2015
Not to me. It will benefit me, and many members like me who want to not walk, be able to get the reservation we are looking for with a single phone call, seldom rent our points and seldom give them to friends and relatives. When we travel with guests, we travel WITH guests. For people who bought to use their own points, I doubt any effort Disney makes will have much impact at all. I suspect you will still be able to change the lead guest, as long as you don't do it very often - more often than "stuff happens" would cover. And you'll be able to put someone else's name on a reservation using your points at booking, but not for any more than the minority of your reservations. It will be those that have whatever pattern Disney identifies as "likely commercial renters" who will see an effect. My suspicion is that that will involve a combination of walking, booking for high demand times, changing lead guest names, not traveling as the lead guest the majority of the time, with people who own a lot of points and anyone who owns via an llc or other corporate entity facing additional scrutiny. Your average DVC member who books a honeymoon trip for their kids (and trust me, Disney KNOWS your kids names) using their points, or needs to rent a reservation due to an emergency shouldn't worry.
I never agree with this. There is ZERO ability to causes more harm to everyone.
@crisi I understand what you're trying to say here in theory (dismissing the parts at the beginning where you say it would benefit you and not the membership as a whole). But do we really want Mickey and his wonky IT getting into our business and hopefully only finding the commercial renters? It opens Pandora's Box. Example: @Sandisw mentioned several times that she often books for other relatives and often puts herself as the lead guest, makes changes, changes dates, etc. Nothing nefarious, no commercial renting (or renting at all, even), but her uncle's reservation gets canceled because Disney's IT flagged it as potentially pattern/commercial. No thank you, I'll take my chances with the current system.
I'm actually curious as to how many members really don't get the room they want. And if so, how often? Further, what's the room type and dates? After all that, is it really because of spec rentals or walking? I want to clarify that I don't agree with spec rentals either. And while they may have a small impact on overall availability, I'm confident it isn't nearly as bad as people think. The system isn't perfect, on that I'll agree. But limiting what owners can do with their points is a "fix" that will cause more problems than we have now.