Disgusted?

[Drew729]

One thing that I found interesting that I had not thought of before until I had a situation where I had to modify plans to use less points and was past my banking window.

When I contacted a broker and let them know my situation and that the points expired in 90 days the broker suggested I just login and book whatever I could especially anything with multiple nights available and sell them as a confirmed reservation. I may not get top dollar but it’s better than nothing.

I guess this makes sense since the rental market is has expanded a lot over the years, maybe in the past those points would be wasted and there would be more availability but those days are gone.

 

[Carol_]

It’s actually loosened up a little from my perspective.
I just booked single nights in December at OKW, AK Kidani, and could have added another night at Riviera but for my one family member’s seething hatred for Riviera (and the fact that it would have been 50 pts for one night .)
Previous random checks revealed less opportunities (in all the room sizes)
Notable that not one opening was seen in any of my random searches for Poly.
I think some people are walking reservations and rooms open up one night at a time every day.

 

[keishashadow]

Plus letting folks borrow again hit hard too.

Likely made a very big dent in availability

Plus the 50% borrowing measure just ended - so people who might have wanted to borrow 100% were forced to not touch half their points & likely had to economize their point usage - now the floodgates are open again & that has to have some near term impact

I could be looking at this wrong, wondering if perhaps the reason DVC opened the borrowing floodgates wasintended to get folks to splurge and use up whatever Covid points and any banked/current UY points Perhaps will right things back to the norm

 

[sethschroeder]

Last chance to get in before before point chart increases during this time next year.

Plus first time in a large reduction of Covid hesitation for fall/winter.