Availabilty renting points vs WDW reservations???

[Disney Dreams]

I am starting to understand all this now. It makes more sense.
I think a lot of the DVC rooms dont actually go empty anyway from what I have been checking.
Checked for a cash reservation this weekend and nothing was available. So maybe the rooms are used up more that I was thinking.
I guess its a good thing that the maintenance fees dont go up because of how the system works.

I guess DVC is not for everyone is the moral of the story. DVC would be an easy decision for us monetarily, but its the logistics that wont allow us to be DVC members. We are last minute trip takers, and 6 months in advance is about the farthest out we can plan something. Thats pushing it. Sometimes we need to play around with dates even after we make a reservation. With the WDW reservation (cash) system, thats generally pretty easy to modify a reservation. I can see that with DVC its pretty much impossible to alter a reservation.
Its just the way it has to be ( in my best ROZ accent) lol.

The only way renting DVC villas works for us last minute planners, (since just renting points for a reservation at the last minute is impossible) is to rent an actual DVC reservation that is already in place at the last minute.......thats what we did last year. Worked out great.

We love DVC Villas, just wish buying DVC would work for us.

Thanks for the info, and helping me understand how it all works.

Syndrome

You may find that you can make it work it for you. DH and I are not planners and we usually travel with about 4-6 weeks notice. However, we usually travel in May or October when we DO travel.

Soooo... since buying DVC we book a room at our home resort every November (11 months out) for the following October. We know that if we can't book anything else once we actually decide to make plans, we have a guaranteed room in October. Then we shift accordingly best we can. If we end up not taking the trip, we cancel far enough in advance that we don't lose the points and bank them. Then we know we HAVE to plan a vacation to following year so we don't lose the points.

So in a way we aren't planners and we make it work. In a way, we have become planners so that it can work.

Maybe that helps a bit...
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