did i read that right?

[daddiojiggy]

just got my latest dvc update pack with 2007 cruise info , disneyland dvc info and adventure info. the letter that came with it said that they were not increasing 'vacation pts and reservation pts' for 2007 and that they remained the same as 2006. i'm sure i'm missing something here--i thought points stayed the same year after year within the context of the whole year .some weeks goup but some go down and the year on the whole is neutral. the way i read this, we'll need to be buying more pts every year?!
please set me straight , somebody!

 

[castleri]

QUOTE:
just got my latest dvc update pack with 2007 cruise info , disneyland dvc info and adventure info. the letter that came with it said that they were not increasing 'vacation pts and reservation pts' for 2007 and that they remained the same as 2006.


The points needed for a stay at a DVC resort do not change unless they are "adjusted" for a time frame such as lowering weekend points and raising the ones for S-T but the ones for use outside the DVC resorts(reservation points) can and have changed since I bought back in 1997. Some have gone up and a few even went down- DL hotels this year for example. From what you quoted these are the points they are talking about. It looks like they are giving us a two year heads up on what the points will be instead of doing it year by year.

 

[CarolMN]

According to contract, the total number of points to reserve every room for a year in a DVC resort cannot change. If points increase for some days/room sizes/room categories, then points must decrease by the same amount for other days/room sizes/room categories. Practically speaking, DVC point charts are adjusted each year to account for the date change of Easter and Thanksgiving. But everything else remains the same. And FWIW, the week before Easter and the week after Easter have always cost the same amount of points as have the days around Thanksgiving. It's just that the dates for those Holidays move each year.

This is not true for the non-DVC options. Those nearly always increase each year. Apparently this year, Disney is not increasing the points required to reserve the non-DVC options.

Terminology: Your membership is represented by "vacation points". If you use a vacation point to reserve a non-DVC option, it becomes a "reservation point". Should you cancel the non-DVC reservation, you cannot use the reservation points to reserve a DVC resort.


Best wishes -

 

[caven553]

In general it will relate to the price inflation of the DVC rental rate vs. the price inflation of the offsite location. If Disney needs to pay the cruiseline $3000 for you to cruise then they will set the points needed to cover $3000 worth of room rental (plus a little I am sure for overhead). As the cruise goes up faster than the room rental rates then the points go up. Hopefully at some point the cruise will rise slower than the resort and points will drop again a little.

Tradeouts with II shouldn't really increase as that is a simple exchange between you and an owner in II with no money changing hands between DVC and II.

 

[MrShiny]

What DVC meant in that letter was that the points for a given stay in a given season stayed the same for the first time ever. In the past, there would be diffrences.

Still, the total number of points has stayed the same. So if you booked a room for all 365 days of a given year, it would be the same total number of points. I think that would be 5,856 points for a SSR studio. So while a given date may change, that total should stay the same.

 

[mydogdrew]

Your DVC points offer no inflation protection for non-DVC resorts.

 

[daddiojiggy]

thanks all!!