Availability

[mcrabeck]

We are in the process of purchasing a membership in DVC. We should close mid December and would like to take our first trip in April. I am a little worried since the time from when we close to when we want to go is less than 7 months. I checked disney.com and it appears there is availability at the villas if I wanted to pay cash. Can I assume since they are still taking reservations for the villas I would be able to get one with points as well? or are the pool of rooms seperate?

TIA

 

[castleri]

We are in the process of purchasing a membership in DVC. We should close mid December and would like to take our first trip in April. I am a little worried since the time from when we close to when we want to go is less than 7 months. I checked disney.com and it appears there is availability at the villas if I wanted to pay cash. Can I assume since they are still taking reservations for the villas I would be able to get one with points as well? or are the pool of rooms seperate?

TIA

The pool of rooms is from separate inventories (DVC point and Disney owned) and you cannot tell anything about member availability from what is available on the WDW website. Welcome home and good luck getting that reservation once you have closed. I assume you are puchasing resale or your points would have been available once Disney had your deposit.

 

[Chuck S]

The room availability for cash has nothing to do with availability for DVC points.

DVC rooms become available to general Cash reservations if
1) A DVC members uses their points for a cruise, Buena Vista, Adventures by Disney, or regular Disney resort stay. In theory, the member is booking a DVC room, then trading to Disney and Disney rents the room for cash to pay for the trade.

2) Developers and Disney inventory. Any "unsold" points inventory is developers points, thus can be used for sales promotions or can be turned over to Disney at the discretion of the developer. Also, Disney retains a small ownership in the resorts, even if the resort is fully sold...any rooms not needed for maintenance can be rented by Disney for cash.

3) Any DVC room not rented on points is turned over to Disney for rental at 60 days out. This class of rooms can be reclaimed by DVC is they are not already rented by Disney. This is the ONLY class of rooms that can be reclaimed by DVC, and the percentage of the total Cash inventory for these 60 day turnover rooms is very small. Chances are the cash rooms are coming from one of the other sources, and can not be used by DVC.

 

[eporter66]

We are in the process of purchasing a membership in DVC. We should close mid December and would like to take our first trip in April. I am a little worried since the time from when we close to when we want to go is less than 7 months. I checked disney.com and it appears there is availability at the villas if I wanted to pay cash. Can I assume since they are still taking reservations for the villas I would be able to get one with points as well? or are the pool of rooms seperate?

TIA

I am not sure how it works, but I would not assume availability because there are cash ressies available. I think a certain number of rooms are put aside for $$$ and others for DVC points.

When your membership is completed, you can put yourself on a waitlist if there is no availability for the time you want. Also - be flexible, if you dont care about the resort it will make it easier to get something.

I am guessing here, but one thing in your favor is that I believe Easter (and the whole school break thing) will be in March this year, that may make it easier to get rooms in April. Good Luck -

 

[TLSnell1981]

I was in a similiar situation recently. I contracted for a resale in August and closed last week. I had a trip in March that wasn't flexible and was concerened about availibility. I was able to get a studio at BWV for each night!! One bit of advice, once you send everything back for closing...call or get your agent to call when you close. It took a week for them to send me an e-mail after I closed. Thank goodness, my agent called as soon as he received the info. My e-mail stated that I could call on 11/2 to make ressies...that I should be in the system by then. Well, we closed on Friday and I called Monday, just to see if we were in. Guess what....we were!!! I made my ressie that morning. Good luck and

PS These boards are really good. They are very supportive. Many have gone through your process and feel your pain!