Do last minute DVC rooms become available?

[madfiredan]

At this time there are no DVC rooms available at AKV for what I need, 2 nights starting on 5-9-09. As I would be renting points I can't be put on a waiting list it that was possible. At this point do I give up?? Or is it possible or better yet, is is likely that something will be "released" in the next 45 days? But at the same time I don't want to waste renters time buy having a million call for me. Thanks in advance, this site is great along with the posters!!

 

[Deb & Bill]

Well, 60 days out, any available DVC villas are given to CRO to sell. There isn't really any time when they are brought back. If it was available on points, they would be able to make the reservation. I think you are out of luck for AKV.

 

[madfiredan]

Figured I was out of luck, maybe just a bit too late. Your explaination explains a lot though. Were hoping to visit friends in AKV. Will go to plan "B"... stay off grounds or at the All Stars as they are close and will only need a place to sleep because we will likely be at the parks or visiting our friends at AKV... or maybe skip Disney this trip. Thanks again!

 

[pickles]

I must disagree, I was waitlisted AKV 2 bedroom for the last week april and my waitlist came thru just last week


if you are renting why can't who is renting to you waitlist for you?

 

[tink'smom2B]

If all rooms are given to CRO (at 60 days) to sell, how can I be waitlisted? MS told me I could make a cash reservation for the room I wanted through CRO, but member inventory was gone. Do rooms that go unsold revert back to members before the waitlist expires? Does my waitlist expire? I'm just wondering how this works.

 

[crisi]

If you were waitlisted, no unused rooms were turned over to CRO. However, some USED rooms may have been turned over to CRO.

CRO gets their DVC resort inventory from several places:

1) Disney continues to OWN part of the resort. Those rooms don't belong to members to book. In the case of a still selling resort, they haven't sold those rooms yet, so Disney rents them out. In the case of sold out resorts, the rooms Disney owns are generally used for maintenance.

2) DVC members trade out - using their points to cruise or go to Hawaii or go skiing. Those points are turned into rooms and sold to CRO to pay for the trade. Those rooms are what causes a lot of discontent with members because they are 'available' to CRO when they are not available to DVC members. The thing to remember is that a DVC member has already used that room.

3) Unused rooms - in the case that no one books a room, that room is turned over to CRO and if it rents, that income offsets our dues as breakage income. Those rooms can be reclaimed by member services, but they are the exception, the vast majority of rooms CRO gets are from the previous two categories. If there is a waitlist, no rooms will be turned over to CRO.

 

[SunnieRN]

Just curious, but how do they decide which week to give to cro if a member has booked a cruise or rci trip with their points? Is it the same week the owner of the points is on their trip or cruise? Also how do they decide which sized unit will be given to cro?

 

[mouse]

If you are on a waitlist, the wait list ends 7 day before you check-in. At that point you can call MS every day. In January, we were on the waitlist for OKW. Our wait list did not come thru, but we began calling every day at the 7 day mark starting on a Monday. Monday and Tuesday we were told that nothing was available. On Wednesday, they had all five nights that we wanted. This was four days before our check-in date.

 

[crisi]

Just curious, but how do they decide which week to give to cro if a member has booked a cruise or rci trip with their points? Is it the same week the owner of the points is on their trip or cruise? Also how do they decide which sized unit will be given to cro?

No one outside DVC really knows. But they have to turn over rooms and units CRO believes will be in demand, otherwise CRO can't recoup the money. If they only turn over rooms at SSR and OKW in September and January, it would cost a LOT more to trade out. I suspect its a little like horse trading.....

They also have to keep the rooms in the use year the points were in....postponing those trades would leave no availability at the end of the contract for those of us that are entitled to use our points.