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

[BrianLo]

In a way I agree, just picking a random week isn't likely to help in any meaningful way. But picking a lower point chart room in early December for example is a pretty safe bet.

I agree. December is a very sensible current FW. I wasn’t actively shouting it from the roof tops, but I had half a year ago decided I might buy a Duo Studio FW at Poly In December. Which would help with the capacity concerns I was having.

But between Duo Studios coming in 10% higher than I think they should, Poly already starting with a poorer December chart and the additional 10% premium… this basically runs the same price as a VGF regular studio. Plus the very poor math on direct… So I’ve quickly just written off the entire resort.

At the end of the day I'm not buying these for someone else, I'm buying them for myself and I want the most guaranteed options, value etc. that I can possibly get for myself. I'll worry about reselling later in a worst case scenario.

Exactly. I think this is back to how this all kicked off. Buy one if you want to actually use one and not get caught up so much on theoretical resale. Don’t buy one just because the DIS says so.

 

[birchtree95]

Can someone post the Cabins Favorite week point schedule? Thanks

Here you go! This is the most recent one I can find.

 

[jennypenny]

I think they meant Ft Wilderness cabins.

 

[Ruttangel]

I would say a FW is likely to intrigue an existing member and confuse the life out of a new member.

So, the number of incoming offers when you sell is likely to be less

That pool of offers will also go down for weeks 1-~40 than ~41-52 due to the fall/holiday bounce

Not sure if there is enough data to validate this but seems logical

 

[BWV Dreamin]

Here you go! This is the most recent one I can find.

Wow! I have to look again but my FW cost me 118 pts for week 49. Now they want 125! Already ahead of the game!

So question. At resale, my FW should stay as is at week 49 for 118 pts. Since week 49 now costs 125 pts, the guaranteed week will stay but now the new owner will only have 118 pts if they opt out, correct? It is deeded as a FW.

 

[Sandisw]

Wow! I have to look again but my FW cost me 118 pts for week 49. Now they want 125! Already ahead of the game!

So question. At resale, my FW should stay as is at week 49 for 118 pts. Since week 49 now costs 125 pts, the guaranteed week will stay but now the new owner will only have 118 pts if they opt out, correct? It is deeded as a FW.

Correct. They will get the number of points you bought. So, if your contract is for 118 points, that is what they get.

Where they would benefit is if they actually use it as a FW…then it costs them 7 points less for the week than someone who books it as points based.

 

[emchen]

@sethschroeder are you planning to add VDH and CFW FW Schedules to page one?

 

[BWV Dreamin]

Has anyone purchased week 39 in a standard studio at Poly Tower? Trying to see how many may have been released.

 

[JackosinDIS]

Has anyone purchased week 39 in a standard studio at Poly Tower? Trying to see how many may have been released.

I did…

 

[BWV Dreamin]

Congrats Jack! Do you know how many were available for that week?

 

[OPDman]

Congrats Jack! Do you know how many were available for that week?

I did as well. There were none available when I first inquired on October 3rd. My guide called me on the 4th to tell me that new points releases created availability. So, I bought on the 4th.

 

[LavaMama]

Does anyone know, is the March 13th 2023 FW Point Chart the most current for CCV? TIA

 

[BWV Dreamin]

Congrats! So as they release more points they open up more weeks? Any idea how many of week 39 were originally available?

 

[Sandisw]

Congrats! So as they release more points they open up more weeks? Any idea how many of week 39 were originally available?

They can never sell more than 35% of a room on any given day for FW so it would be based on how many of the room type you are looking for are declared.

For example, if they declared 5 SV studios, then the most they can sell as a FW would be 1.

I can’t remember the break down. It’s in the PVB thread.

 

[JackosinDIS]

They can never sell more than 35% of a room on any given day for FW so it would be based on how many of the room type you are looking for are declared.

For example, if they declared 5 SV studios, then the most they can sell as a FW would be 1.

I can’t remember the break down. It’s in the PVB thread.

The trouble is, we don’t know how may SV studios were declared, just that there were 14 studios in the initial declaration (374 total minus 360 in original Poly).

Some have guessed that approx 25% of the rooms at the tower will be allocated a standard view. So that would mean 3 or 4 SV studios initially declared, with 1 FW available.

If all the studios initially declared were SV (which we know is not the case as some have purchased FW for TPV) there would be up to 4 FW available for any given week.

So my guess is 2 FW available, until the next declaration.

 

[BWV Dreamin]

The trouble is, we don’t know how may SV studios were declared, just that there were 14 studios in the initial declaration (374 total minus 360 in original Poly).

Some have guessed that approx 25% of the rooms at the tower will be allocated a standard view. So that would mean 3 or 4 SV studios initially declared, with 1 FW available.

If all the studios initially declared were SV (which we know is not the case as some have purchased FW for TPV) there would be up to 4 FW available for any given week.

So my guess is 2 FW available, until the next declaration.

This is the info I was looking for. My DVC rep is getting back to me today to see if this week is available. I’ll post here once I get an answer. TIA!

 

[BWV Dreamin]

Just spoke with my guide. There are no GW #39 available. There may be another week once new points are declared. He did not mention when that might happen. So we will see!

 

[OPDman]

This is the info I was looking for. My DVC rep is getting back to me today to see if this week is available. I’ll post here once I get

Just spoke with my guide. There are no GW #39 available. There may be another week once new points are declared. He did not mention when that might happen. So we will see!

This is exactly what happened to me. I will say my guide stayed on top of it and called me as soon as the week showed up in inventory.

 

[JackosinDIS]

Just spoke with my guide. There are no GW #39 available. There may be another week once new points are declared. He did not mention when that might happen. So we will see!

Hopefully won’t be long!
So we know of 2 FW 39, which means there must be at least 6 SV studios included in the initial declaration of 14 studios. I wonder if that is representative of the balance of views across the tower as a whole.

 

[BWV Dreamin]

Hopefully won’t be long!
So we know of 2 FW 39, which means there must be at least 6 SV studios included in the initial declaration of 14 studios. I wonder if that is representative of the balance of views across the tower as a whole.

That is the question! Are these GW evenly distributed as points are released? What criteria is necessary to release the GW? And again, what are the overall totals of each GW per room type and week?