All About Fixed Weeks (RIV/CCV/AUL/VGF/POLY/TOWER/VHD/FWC Charts)

[Tatebeck]

Yep, it works better with a spring through september use year

 

[supercarrie]

I exchanged emails with my guide this morning. All Riv standard view studios are still available for FW.

We have an existing BLT Feb use year contract and are looking at adding on at Riv with a week 7 standard view studio (mid-Feb, 153 points for the week). If we don’t do this, we will hang on for Poly. We wanted to get as close to 150 points as possible.

I am going to run the long term numbers one more time to look at total cost of membership, but assuming we land on Riv, any reason to not pick week 7?

 

[Sprinkles&Sprints]

I exchanged emails with my guide this morning. All Riv standard view studios are still available for FW.

We have an existing BLT Feb use year contract and are looking at adding on at Riv with a week 7 standard view studio (mid-Feb, 153 points for the week). If we don’t do this, we will hang on for Poly. We wanted to get as close to 150 points as possible.

I am going to run the long term numbers one more time to look at total cost of membership, but assuming we land on Riv, any reason to not pick week 7?

I can’t think of any - I had my eye on Week 7 when I was considering going with a Dec UY for Riv. It’s another week that benefited from the last rebalancing.

 

[BWV Dreamin]

The Guaranteed Week (old name) in 2015-16 for PVB
Standard Studio wk48: 139 / wk49: 130
Lake View Studio wk48: 167 / wk49: 163

PVB
Favorite Week (chart from 03/13/2023)
Standard Studio wk48: 169 / wk49: 153
Lake View Studio wk48: 195 / wk49: 178

CCV GW 2017-2018 wk48:118 / wk49:118
CCV FW 2023 wk48:131 / wk49:125

Hope this helps!

Yes thank you! I thought those two weeks were the same for CCV back when it was a GW. Wow, now week 48 13 more points.

 

[mistysue]

Serious question here - I had contacted a guide to ask questions about fixed weeks, and because we've been debating buying Riv vs more Poly.
So I asked about current pricing for Riv- and my guide sent me something that shows the max incentive right now is $13/point.
If I go straight to the site right now, it's $17/point plus bonus amounts varying by the number of points. I asked about this and have not gotten a response since yesterday afternoon (not quite long enough to know for sure if the question is being avoided or if he's out)
Is this something that happens often, where different guides offer different amounts, or should I be thinking this is a glitch/wrong attachment?

 

[BWV Dreamin]

Serious question here - I had contacted a guide to ask questions about fixed weeks, and because we've been debating buying Riv vs more Poly.
So I asked about current pricing for Riv- and my guide sent me something that shows the max incentive right now is $13/point.
If I go straight to the site right now, it's $17/point plus bonus amounts varying by the number of points. I asked about this and have not gotten a response since yesterday afternoon (not quite long enough to know for sure if the question is being avoided or if he's out)
Is this something that happens often, where different guides offer different amounts, or should I be thinking this is a glitch/wrong attachment?

You can call DVC and ask to speak with another guide.

 

[mistysue]

You can call DVC and ask to speak with another guide.

Sounds like a good plan if I don't hear something better back.
I'm over here thinking I get a false low incentive, meanwhile others are getting help timing transactions to be sure they get a max benefit. I didn't think I was that bad of a customer.

 

[supercarrie]

Serious question here - I had contacted a guide to ask questions about fixed weeks, and because we've been debating buying Riv vs more Poly.
So I asked about current pricing for Riv- and my guide sent me something that shows the max incentive right now is $13/point.
If I go straight to the site right now, it's $17/point plus bonus amounts varying by the number of points. I asked about this and have not gotten a response since yesterday afternoon (not quite long enough to know for sure if the question is being avoided or if he's out)
Is this something that happens often, where different guides offer different amounts, or should I be thinking this is a glitch/wrong attachment?

The $13 per point is for new members, $17 per point is for existing members. He likely just accidentally attached the wrong PDF.

 

[Royal Consort]

I assumed they'd sold out but

They're not sold out. In fact I'm not sure they sold many/any that I am aware. They came online for purchase when Villas at Disneyland Hotel offered fixed week duo studios and were subsequently pulled from offer briefly after.

 

[SugarSweetLee]

I would probably just add the point to the 114 and get the two FWs (though in almost any other scenario, I'd be against adding on to an already inflated premium FW contract...)

Interestingly, my guide said the FW contract had to be exact so this wouldn't have been allowed anyway. But maybe if I wanted to give more pushback on it he'd have gone higher up to see, guess we'll never know.

Originally we were thinking two FW, but now I think we're leaning toward FW 7 at 153 to have one contract to keep our benefits and then the other will just be the remaining 97.

Thanks for all the recommendations and info, very helpful

 

[Sprinkles&Sprints]

Interestingly, my guide said the FW contract had to be exact so this wouldn't have been allowed anyway. But maybe if I wanted to give more pushback on it he'd have gone higher up to see, guess we'll never know.

Originally we were thinking two FW, but now I think we're leaning toward FW 7 at 153 to have one contract to keep our benefits and then the other will just be the remaining 97.

Thanks for all the recommendations and info, very helpful

You already know my thoughts on Week 7!!

 

[supercarrie]

We put our deposit down on a FW 7 at Riviera today! We went with a 90 day close to allow us time to see the new incentives and possibly switch escrow over to Poly if I change my mind.

So thankful for this thread - I never would have considered it before.

Interestingly, week 7 on the 2025 point chart would cost 155 points, but on the FW chart it is only 153 points. We actually will rarely use the FW in the short term, but might in the long run. We wanted to buy around 150 points, so buying an extra three points worked well.

 

[supercarrie]

Interestingly, my guide said the FW contract had to be exact so this wouldn't have been allowed anyway. But maybe if I wanted to give more pushback on it he'd have gone higher up to see, guess we'll never know.

Originally we were thinking two FW, but now I think we're leaning toward FW 7 at 153 to have one contract to keep our benefits and then the other will just be the remaining 97.

Thanks for all the recommendations and info, very helpful

Do it! Then we can be FW 7 neighbors.

 

[intamin]

We put our deposit down on a FW 7 at Riviera today! We went with a 90 day close to allow us time to see the new incentives and possibly switch escrow over to Poly if I change my mind.

So thankful for this thread - I never would have considered it before.

Interestingly, week 7 on the 2025 point chart would cost 155 points, but on the FW chart it is only 153 points. We actually will rarely use the FW in the short term, but might in the long run. We wanted to buy around 150 points, so buying an extra three points worked well.

Welcome home neighbor! If you end up leaving us I’ll join you at Poly soon

 

[SugarSweetLee]

You already know my thoughts on Week 7!!

Do it! Then we can be FW 7 neighbors.

Contacted our guide yesterday afternoon to set up our Zoom for Saturday to write up the contract. Eeee!

We are planning Wk 7 FW + 97 for 250 total. For a day or two we considered 306 points with 2*FW7 (!) but it's just a little too steep for us right now. Hope we don't regret not buying those extra 56 points down the road...haha.

I noticed this morning that my USPS informed delivery has a new package tracking number generated from DVC yesterday lol- they do seem to move fast!

 

[Sprinkles&Sprints]

Contacted our guide yesterday afternoon to set up our Zoom for Saturday to write up the contract. Eeee!

We are planning Wk 7 FW + 97 for 250 total. For a day or two we considered 306 points with 2*FW7 (!) but it's just a little too steep for us right now. Hope we don't regret not buying those extra 56 points down the

road...haha.

I noticed this morning that my USPS informed delivery has a new package tracking number generated from DVC yesterday lol- they do seem to move fast!

So exciting! Do you think you'll try to visit that week in 2025? (Even though your FW won't start until the following year?) I'm a little bummed - all of my upcoming trips have been booked for awhile so it may be a year before I actually get to stay at Riv!

 

[SugarSweetLee]

So exciting! Do you think you'll try to visit that week in 2025? (Even though your FW won't start until the following year?) I'm a little bummed - all of my upcoming trips have been booked for awhile so it may be a year before I actually get to stay at Riv!

I think we will plan to come to WDW for part of that week in 2025 for Princess weekend, but not at Riviera. Hoping to use our Welcome Home booking and see if they can work some magic to get us RIV for Dopey/marathon week in January (we have a rental booked at a different resort currently, but are within the cancellation window to get our deposit credit back and use for a different, shorter trip so we don't have to give them any additional monies lol )

 

[Sandisw]

It would be weird for EVERY week to be sold out in the tower studios but ZERO weeks sold out as a standard studio. They are the two hardest bookings at that resort I think. They must have just stopped selling them to preserve some availability since they are so limited in number.

They can pull them any time. They don’t have to offer them until sold out.

So, my guess is sold out is being used in general that you can’t buy them, not that they actually sold 35%. That 35% is simply the maximum…there is no minimum that need to be offered.

 

[Tatebeck]

They can pull them any time. They don’t have to offer them until sold out.

So, my guess is sold out is being used in general that you can’t buy them, not that they actually sold 35%. That 35% is simply the maximum…there is no minimum that need to be offered.

Right, that's what I was saying. It's more likely that they just stopped selling them before getting to 35% than they sold 35% of every week for the whole year

 

[WeIcomeHome]

Disney makes it really easy to drop 40k.. only took a couple 5 minute phone calls and poof I have 250 points at RIV including FW39.