Anyone planning on using home resort points for SSR ?

[Daitcher]

Okay guys, there has been a ton of debate about SSR and its impact on booking windows at the smaller DVC Resorts. Here is the question I'd like to explore: Is anyone planning on using points from another DVC Resort at SSR on a regular basis? All the fears are that SSR owners will be using their points to book elsewhere. There has to be a group that plans the reverse. All comments would be appreciated. Again only time will tell with the impact but I'd love to see if anyone plans to stay at SSR using other DVC points. This would free up some space at the other DVC Resorts andmaybe lessen some fears out there. Thanks.

DAVE

 

[JimFitz]

Okay guys, there has been a ton of debate about SSR and its impact on booking windows at the smaller DVC Resorts. Here is the question I'd like to explore: Is anyone planning on using points from another DVC Resort at SSR on a regular basis? All the fears are that SSR owners will be using their points to book elsewhere. There has to be a group that plans the reverse. All comments would be appreciated. Again only time will tell with the impact but I'd love to see if anyone plans to stay at SSR using other DVC points. This would free up some space at the other DVC Resorts andmaybe lessen some fears out there. Thanks.

DAVE

I am using my points for a 10 night stay at SSR (2Bdrm) in Oct.

 

[childsplay]

Probably not, we own at HH, OKW and BCV and really those are the only ones we plan on staying at consistently....we are staying for two nights at BW(which I'm sure we'll enjoy) but if truth be told we are staying there because we decided to add those days at the last minute (2 months out) and couldn't get BCV. So, no, at least not right now..but things might change

 

[dianeschlicht]

I only own OKW, but I already did stay at SSR one weekend. Would I again? Sure, if it was available. I only did it last time because OKW was full.

 

[crisi]

Doesn't appeal to me, it would be my last choice in on site resorts.

(We own BWVs)

 

[CarolMN]

No, probably not. We own at BWV and have not stayed at any other WDW DVC resort - we have used points for short stays at VB, though.

If I can ever bring my self to stay somewhere else - we just love the location of BWV, VWL & OKW will come before SSR.

Best wishes -

 

[DrTomorrow]

Hey, Daitcher.

If it will help ease your troubled brow, I'll talk DW into a BWV add-on but will promise only to use those points at SSR.

Also, a gentle reminder: the fanatical discussions of a dozen or so DIS DVC owners isn't even one water molecule in one drop in the bucket of over 90,000 DVC owners, and certainly can't be construed as a trend indicator.

Be well!

 

[dtheboys]

Doesn't appeal to me, it would be my last choice in on site resorts.

(We own BWVs)

It would also be my last choice of resorts.....

 

[lisareniff]

It is a ways down the list for us. Maybe in 6-8 years we might give it a try for a short trip.

 

[JimMIA]

I don't plan on staying there regularly, but not because I don't like SSR. I do.

However, OKW is our home resort and it's in the same neighborhood, has larger accommodations for less points, and would therefore be our first choice for relaxed, laid-back visits. SSR would be our second choice for a relaxed vacation stay.

For Epcot/MGM visits, we will try BWV/BCV, although frankly, driving anywhere from OKW is no big deal to us. We usually go early in the morning, so driving and parking works fine - so much so that we almost never use the buses.

 

[spiceycat]

I have a nephew who will be 17 this year, and a neice who will be 15 - I can definitely see staying at SSR in the future.

Now I don't know if I will stay there - but I am pretty sure they will stay there on my points...

20's year old seem to love PI! (so do 30's).

 

[WolfpackFan]

I plan on us staying there next March, but don't plan on doing it on a regular basis. I can see how the problem you've described might arise in the future though.

 

[utahkennedys]

We just bought a resale contract at OKW yesterday (keeping my fingers crossed that it passes ROFR), and I have to say that my first 3 choices of resorts we will try are OKW, BCV and BWV. I wouldn't mind staying at SSR, but I toured there 2 weeks ago while we were at WDW and it was nice and the rooms were beautiful, but it lacked the "resort feel" we love. I consider myself lucky, however, to stay at any DVC resort, and I am sure at some point we will stay at SSR if for no other reason than it may be easier to get the type of room we want at the time we want it.

 

[Daitcher]

Okay guys, there has been a ton of debate about SSR and its impact on booking windows at the smaller DVC Resorts. Here is the question I'd like to explore: Is anyone planning on using points from another DVC Resort at SSR on a regular basis? All the fears are that SSR owners will be using their points to book elsewhere. There has to be a group that plans the reverse. All comments would be appreciated. Again only time will tell with the impact but I'd love to see if anyone plans to stay at SSR using other DVC points. This would free up some space at the other DVC Resorts andmaybe lessen some fears out there. Thanks.

DAVE

Just bumping, loooking for some perspective here.

 

[DVCLiz]

I don't see the problem. If you have an 11 month booking advantage, you compete with a relatively small number of other owners for those resorts, and your chances are very good that you will be able to get what you want. All those new SSR owners will be able to do is book SSR before the 7 month mark. At 7 months, there are far more owners competing for all spaces, but the relative number of SSR owners seems small when compared to the rest of the 90,00 membership. So even if SSR has a huge number of owners, it's really not that significant at 7 months for me. If SSR had 5000 owners, there are still 85,000 in the larger pool. Does that make sense or am I missing something?

It is a good reminder that "Buy where you want to stay" is a good idea!

 

[buckylarue]

Not this trip, but we will definitely be staying at SSR at times in the future. There have been trips where we do not do a lot in the theme parks, and SSR would be an ideal location for those trips with its easy access to DTD. (For the record, OKW is our 'last resort' resort )

 

[ferastu]

I wonder if these same questions were asked of VB and HH owners? After all they may have just been buying those resorts to be able to book at one of the WDW world resorts.

We just bought SSR. Our first stay will be in a studio at OKW 2 nights this Nov before our cruise on the Magic. We chose OKW because it was a saving of 6 points over SSR. We need those 6 points for the 2 week vacation we want to do in a 1-bedroom for Dec/Xmas '06. Since I want that booked as soon as possible we'll use the 11 month window at SSR.

When we looked through our DVC materials, we loved the look of each of the DVC properties. We want to try to stay at each resort (including VB and HH) at least once in the next ten years.

We consider ourselves DVC, not SSR, owners. As do a couple friends of mine who also own SSR but don't frequent these (or any) boards.

Anytime we want to stay during a popular period we are fine with staying at SSR using the 11 month window. It is still magnitudes better than the budget hotels we used for past vacations.

 

[JimC]

Not on a regular basis but we are hoping to do that this January and maybe a few times more over the years.

 

[buckylarue]

I wonder if these same questions were asked of VB and HH owners? After all they may have just been buying those resorts to be able to book at one of the WDW world resorts.

Yes, these questions have been asked of every DVC resort after OKW. People have always speculated that the buyers of any resort than theirs have some ulterior motive for buying there that will adversly affect their home resort. When we were getting ready to buy, the big discussions were about (1) people buying BWV to get a lower yearly fee on the points and then stay at OKW for the lower point per night rates and bigger rooms, and (2) people buying at VWL before it opened to stay at BWV and crowd the BWV owners out...So far, none of the predictions of gloom and doom have come true.

 

[Dean]

I don't see the problem. If you have an 11 month booking advantage, you compete with a relatively small number of other owners for those resorts, and your chances are very good that you will be able to get what you want. All those new SSR owners will be able to do is book SSR before the 7 month mark. At 7 months, there are far more owners competing for all spaces, but the relative number of SSR owners seems small when compared to the rest of the 90,00 membership. So even if SSR has a huge number of owners, it's really not that significant at 7 months for me. If SSR had 5000 owners, there are still 85,000 in the larger pool. Does that make sense or am I missing something?

It is a good reminder that "Buy where you want to stay" is a good idea!

I agree that it makes the home resort window even more important but if you book as you should being a timeshare member, it doesn't really matter because you would have booked at close to 11 months. If they made it 10/11 months, it shifts the issue somewhat but the principle still holds. The ONLY problem it creates is if you're wanting to stay at a non home resort. The reason is they've created a class of owners who are inherently (IMO) MORE likely to own there to stay at the other resorts. I would say the same about OKW if it were being sold today, but it's not. Of course it should drive up rental prices for BWV, BCV and VWL.

Once completed, SSR will have approximately 35% of all DVC members and I'd estimate a MINIMUM of 50-60% of the members vying for those available slots at other resorts at the 7 month window. I'd estimate OKW to be about 25-30% and VB and HH to make up the bulk of the rest. The numbers from BWV, BCV and VWL will be negligible for several reasons. Their numbers are relatively small, less will be trading out, and if they do trade, they will either add a resort unit that is being sought by the group (if they trade to OKW, VB, HH or SSR) or they will take one unit and essentially give another making it a an even swap. Actually the rest are hopping they do trade else there will be few units at the other resorts at the 7 month window.