Availability

[TXbassmaster]

How tight is availability inside the 7 months? For example, is everything but SSR & OKW full for September right now? Just trying to get an idea how tight it gets.

Thanks in advance.

 

[wilma-bride]

Obviously, at the moment, September is only 4 months away. There may be limited availability at resorts other than OKW/SSR but I honestly couldn't say. September is a fairly slow time so you could get lucky but other months you would stand little to no chance of getting anything other than OKW/SSR this late out.

 

[Millionaire2K]

How tight is availability inside the 7 months? For example, is everything but SSR & OKW full for September right now? Just trying to get an idea how tight it gets.

Thanks in advance.

What type of room would you want?

Here is a quick chart I made that shows current Studio availability in Sept

 

[TXbassmaster]

Wow I can't believe BWV has that much available with food and wine happening.

 

[bakerworld]

Just looked out of curiosity - mid-Sept BWV has pool view weekends (3N) available. AK along SSR is wide open.

 

[wildforgoofy]

Just looked out of curiosity - mid-Sept BWV has pool view weekends (3N) available. AK along SSR is wide open.

I would assume October is a completely different story though, right? With F&W festival in full swing I'm guessing there's little to none.

 

[skier_pete]

We just booked (new members YAY!) for the weekend of October 16th - 20th. There were no studios available ANYWHERE for those four days. (I think there was one day available in a few places, but couldn't tell where now.) We had freebie points and had enough for a one bedroom - but only available one bedrooms were SSR and AKL-Kidani. We went with SSR to give it a try. (We're planning on Kidani next year.)

So, yeah, very little available for October.

 

[crisi]

Wow I can't believe BWV has that much available with food and wine happening.

Food and Wine doesn't start until September 19th - there is that first weekend and then two single nights available when this was created - and its completely possible that weekend was one room that had recently been cancelled and was a lucky snapshot.

 

[disneynutz]

How tight is availability inside the 7 months? For example, is everything but SSR & OKW full for September right now? Just trying to get an idea how tight it gets.

Thanks in advance.

You can either buy where you love to stay or play the booking game.

Bill

 

[Millionaire2K]

You can either buy where you love to stay or play the booking game.

Bill

Yeah as a 1st time buyer I'd suggest buying 100 SSR points. Then after a few years add-on at the resort you like the most.

Of course if you already know where you love to stay you should buy their straight away.

Best of luck.

 

[skier_pete]

I am curious by nature, and now that I am a DVC member (as of two days ago) I have been doing some tests with the 7 month booking window.

Right now 7 months away is December 21st, meaning the start of Christmas season. I wanted to see what would be available (not at 6 AM but around noon) at 7 months out. Still OKW, SSR, and AKV. Other not available on December 21st, but many available December 22nd - except you can't book them today without it being home resort. Might be interesting to try first thing in the morning.

 

[crisi]

I think a better idea than buying SSR points is to rent points for a few years.

By finding a home resort owner and booking during the home resort window, availability becomes a much less pressing problem

You can sleep around until you find the right resort for you


You can decide if DVC is even right for you and if you really want to make the decision to live the Disney lifestyle for another decade. For some people, it really is a lifestyle. For others, it gets old after a few years, or as their children get older.

You can spend some time watching these boards to find out what other people's issues are, get a better feeling for availability.

 

[Millionaire2K]

I am curious by nature, and now that I am a DVC member (as of two days ago) I have been doing some tests with the 7 month booking window.

Right now 7 months away is December 21st, meaning the start of Christmas season. I wanted to see what would be available (not at 6 AM but around noon) at 7 months out. Still OKW, SSR, and AKV. Other not available on December 21st, but many available December 22nd - except you can't book them today without it being home resort. Might be interesting to try first thing in the morning.

This is a result of people walking reservations at 7 months.

 

[crisi]

This is a result of people walking reservations at 7 months.

Or simply home resort owners having booked up that night already. At a very few peak times - some resorts (and certainly some room categories) will be completely booked before seven months by home resort owners, not people walking - its a flaw in the plan to walk at seven months - you may walk into a night that is already fully booked.

For other peak times, there is some availability at seven months at "hard to get" resorts, but it will book fairly quickly as the number of people who can book expands exponentially from just home resort owners. Fairly quickly may mean "all gone by 10am Eastern" or it may mean "all gone by six and a half months."

For other times and other room types, it isn't unusual to find availability a few weeks out - even the night before.

 

[disneynutz]

Or simply home resort owners having booked up that night already. At a very few peak times - some resorts (and certainly some room categories) will be completely booked before seven months by home resort owners, not people walking - its a flaw in the plan to walk at seven months - you may walk into a night that is already fully booked.

For other peak times, there is some availability at seven months at "hard to get" resorts, but it will book fairly quickly as the number of people who can book expands exponentially from just home resort owners. Fairly quickly may mean "all gone by 10am Eastern" or it may mean "all gone by six and a half months."

For other times and other room types, it isn't unusual to find availability a few weeks out - even the night before.

Another issue is that we don't know what Disney does with room inventory or when they do it. They can take rooms out, put rooms back, send rooms for cash bookings, block out rooms for VIPs, or for maintenance.

Bill

 

[disneynutz]

I think a better idea than buying SSR points is to rent points for a few years.

I would do the numbers.

If you rent points, you spend the money and don't have an ownership, you won't be able to experience DVC first hand, the reservation process, MS, inventory, phone hold times, and other owner experiences.

If you buy, say SSR and you don't want to keep SSR, you can sell it and re-coup some of your money. Like I said you need to do the numbers.

Bill

 

[crisi]

I would do the numbers.

If you rent points, you spend the money and don't have an ownership, you won't be able to experience DVC first hand, the reservation process, MS, inventory, phone hold times, and other owner experiences.

If you buy, say SSR and you don't want to keep SSR, you can sell it and re-coup some of your money. Like I said you need to do the numbers.

Bill

Maybe....you can't account for risk in the numbers. And buying one resort will never give you the potential flexibility in booking you can get from renting.

 

[TXbassmaster]

Y'all have given me a lot to ponder. My problem is I never know 7-11 months out when we can travel, so we are always in that 3-4 month window. We stay away from super crowded times as well. So should I just choose the cheapest DVC to own and roll the dice each trip and be happy with SSR/OKW, or still buy where we want to stay?

 

[disneynutz]

Y'all have given me a lot to ponder. My problem is I never know 7-11 months out when we can travel, so we are always in that 3-4 month window. We stay away from super crowded times as well. So should I just choose the cheapest DVC to own and roll the dice each trip and be happy with SSR/OKW, or still buy where we want to stay?

Unless you are booking at 11 months owning a more expensive favorite resort doesn't make sense because all resorts are equal if booking 7 months or less. I would by the resort with the cheapest purchase price and the lower yearly dues.

If things don't work out you can always sell.

Bill

 

[Millionaire2K]

Y'all have given me a lot to ponder. My problem is I never know 7-11 months out when we can travel, so we are always in that 3-4 month window. We stay away from super crowded times as well. So should I just choose the cheapest DVC to own and roll the dice each trip and be happy with SSR/OKW, or still buy where we want to stay?

That is all up to you. Maybe DVC is not for you. I always felt DVC was more for the people who planned well in advance. But then again slow DVC times are just that "slow". As you can see, much of Sept is still free.

I would not go the renting route. But that is just me.