Booking Jambo club and value rooms

[TinkB278]

Good morning!

I’ve been contemplating adding on at AKV as it’s one of our favorite resorts and I’d love to have the booking advantage to club orvalue rooms. However, I’m now also considering VGF instead. I logged on this morning before 7am to see what availability is like for these rooms and it looks like they are already definitely booked up before the 11 month 7 am timeframe. I was wondering if any current owners could share the likelihood or ever getting these rooms as an owner? If it’s not really possible, I’d rather just bug VGF. Thanks so much!

 

[drusba]

For a number of years, both club level and value studios and 2BRs (all 2BRs are lock-offs and thus fill if the studios fill), have had a serious 11-month reservation issue, with the rooms filling almost instantly right at 8 a.m. eastern at 11-months out or even before 11-months out, throughout the entire year. 1BRs also have the same issue during the high demand late-Sep-to-marathon-weekend-in-Jan period and about 40% of the time the rest of the year.

One should not buy AKV with any plan to regularly be able to get club level or value rooms

 

[Marionnette]

Good morning!

I’ve been contemplating adding on at AKV as it’s one of our favorite resorts and I’d love to have the booking advantage to club orvalue rooms. However, I’m now also considering VGF instead. I logged on this morning before 7am to see what availability is like for these rooms and it looks like they are already definitely booked up before the 11 month 7 am timeframe. I was wondering if any current owners could share the likelihood or ever getting these rooms as an owner? If it’s not really possible, I’d rather just bug VGF. Thanks so much!

CL and value studios are walk all year-round. Any luck that I've had in snagging one for more than one or two nights has been achieved by following behind the walkers and picking up nights as they drop them.

 

[TinkB278]

CL and value studios are walk all year-round. Any luck that I've had in snagging one for more than one or two nights has been achieved by following behind the walkers and picking up nights as they drop them.

This is what I’m finding when looking 11 months right now. All the rooms were completely unavailable for days beyond 11 months. Seems like it might just be aggravating having the AKV points but never being able to snag one of these even at 11 months.

 

[Marionnette]

This is what I’m finding when looking 11 months right now. All the rooms were completely unavailable for days beyond 11 months. Seems like it might just be aggravating having the AKV points but never being able to snag one of these even at 11 months.

It will be aggravating and you won't be happy with your decision if you buy AKV for the sole purpose of booking those two room categories.

 

[TinkB278]

It will be aggravating and you won't be happy with your decision if you buy AKV for the sole purpose of booking those two room categories.

It’s not my sole purpose but I just thought it’s be nice if I could get one from time to time with planning and persistence but I don’t think it sounds like it will be worth the frustration. Thank you for sharing your experiences!

 

[sndral]

When I first bought my AKV points I thought it would be nice to grab a value or a club villa, but in the years since I’ve found that it doesn’t bother me to not get one & thus I haven’t really tried to get one. The reasons are that we typically go in early December, if I really wanted value/club & was willing to go at another time & walk the reservation I could probably get one of those villas - but club probably isn’t worth all those points to us & the club villas have IMO subpar views. Value is more intriguing but how would I like a smaller villa & what if I ended up in one of the few villas that overlook the parking lot
What I love is when I save points by booking a standard view at Jambo & get one of the many standard views that have ‘lesser’ or ‘partial’ savanna views & get to spend time on my balcony looking for animals!

 

[Debbie Jean]

When I first bought my AKV points I thought it would be nice to grab a value or a club villa, but in the years since I’ve found that it doesn’t bother me to not get one & thus I haven’t really tried to get one. The reasons are that we typically go in early December, if I really wanted value/club & was willing to go at another time & walk the reservation I could probably get one of those villas - but club probably isn’t worth all those points to us & the club villas have IMO subpar views. Value is more intriguing but how would I like a smaller villa & what if I ended up in one of the few villas that overlook the parking lot
What I love is when I save points by booking a standard view at Jambo & get one of the many standard views that have ‘lesser’ or ‘partial’ savanna views & get to spend time on my balcony looking for animals!

While I’ve sometimes scored value studios over the years, I totally agree that Jambo standard view are a fabulous often overlooked bargain. Never an issue booking these at 11 months… no walking necessary