exactly what I'm worried about. We do use our "outdoor" spaces a lot and am worried that we won't if we are on the first floor.... ok - I think I was just convinced to get the lake view - and leave the standard to all the lucky people using fewer points! ;-)
We were able to get a 1 bedroom standard view for 5 days in August. I think we saved 25 points. I will find out as soon as we enter the room if my wife finds that worthwhile.
let us know! I hope you end up with a spectacular location.
For me it's easy. I travel with my granddaughter who is in awe with the entire experience from flying to the transportation to and from the airport, to walking into a resort room, to the lobby. Just the entire experience seen through the eyes of a 5-year-old makes it great for Pop Pop.
That is one of the more ridiculous answers I've heard of from DVC.
I agree - that's a totally ridiculous answer. The resort does not determine the room category, DVCMC does, and needs them when setting the points charts. If the view category of those rooms is not set, then DVCMC is in violation of Florida timeshare law, since the different categories have different points values assigned to them, and the points charts have to balance. At BWV, the P/G view and BW view villas cost the same, so it doesn't matter if Village Green view villas are classed as P/G view or BW view, the total number of points at BWV remains the same. But at BLT, Standard view and Lake view and Theme Park view villas all cost different numbers of points, so to balance the points charts, the designations must be set constant.
The first time we had a standard view (back in 2010!) we lucked out with a room on 2nd floor facing straight out to the Monorail, and got to see Wishes every night. It was amazing. Our son then was only 10yrs old, and was a huge fan of the monorail (hence my DIS name) and it just couldn't have been any better. Hopefully you end up with this room, or one similar!
Oof. That's a big bummer. I always feel that way when I take the BCV walking path to Epcot too. FWIW, the OG VGF 1st floor studio we had, had no path in front of it, just a large lawn, and had very high (4 feet?) thick bushes. You couldn't even walk from the patio onto the lawn that way. It made us feel better about leaving the shades open or just having the sheer because no one could really see much other than heads and shoulders in the room. But then the patio was sort of dark so we only used it to dry our suits.
This was our first stay at BLT was a 2br xx02 room, on the end, it was quiet and at the top of the C so you could see the sunrise and ferries coming out, but also MK fireworks if you look left. Our kids were toddlers and babies back then, so a little morning peace and quiet watching the ferries come out was really lovely.
See you then! We'll be in a 2br standard with a European first time family! I'm such a points miser, and we've generally been super lucky with our room requests, that I'm always happy to stay one more night rather than have an upgraded view. I always request an even-## room so we can see fireworks and parts of MK.
Love this. This comment made my day. It's exactly why we go to WDW and probably why I have yet to be "disappointed" with any room we get. (It's also how I felt the first time we were able to fly to WDW when I was a kid. I could have ridden the resort monorail all day as my "ride." back then.
Okay, thanks for the follow up. I guess it works, as long as they’re consistent in where they place guests - and the points charts balance!
Frankly that's impossible. They need to go back to the point reallocations from over a decade ago.
so now you've got me going down a rabbit hole.... I did some point calculations for 2024 and came up with a total of 6,170,987 points total for the year. Any idea what the total point from a decade ago was or who had looked into that?
That's the standard that Disney uses, in accordance with its filings with the state.
Leap Year? Or even rounding - 0.38% is not a significant difference, in my eyes.
You could respond to that email saying the same 3rd party site they linked to the photo shows that room 7418 as standard view and if you click up to 7518, that shows as TPV. And that from what you understand, 3rd and 4th floor were removed from TPV category and slight adjustment to increase point chart to absorb those extra points after those rooms were changed to standard view.
