Do point usage amounts ever go up?

[gatorincs]

Considering joining DVC, so this probably sounds like a stupid question, but I'll ask anyway.

Does the number of points needed for a specific type of room increase as time wears on? For example, right now a studio during "value season" at SSR costs 11 points per night for Sun-Thurs and 20 points per night for Fri-Sat. Are those rates locked forever, or is there some chance that the rates will be raised to, say, 15 points per night Sun-Thurs and 25 points per night Fri-Sat in 2008 (or every year thereafter)?

We're considering buying 200 points, but the value of the DVC doesn't make a whole lot of sense if they can unilaterally increase the number of points it takes to get a room in the future . . . .

 

[brianm27]

The total points at the resort will never change. If a time period or room type went up, another must come down an equivalent number of points at the resort to compensate.

 

[Plutofan]

Disney can re-allocate the number of points that it takes for a room. But any points that are added to one room type must be taken out of another. Disney can never increase the overall number of points but it can re-allocate them on the charts. Most of the time the point amounts do not change only the dates usually change (ie Easter etc based upon the upcoming Calender).

 

[Daitcher]

Not a stupid question at all. We would all be out of our minds to buy into a program where the number of points can change. That would be like buying a week at a Marriott only to find out 10 years from now it only gets you 4 days. Your 200 points will have the same "buying power" now as they will 50 years from now.


DAVE

 

[DrTomorrow]

Good explanations - but make sure you understand Plutofan's last point. It is possible for a date like March 20 to increase or decrease in points as it swings in and out of the Easter season. But if March 20 did go up, then another date - no longer in the Easter season - would drop correspondingly.

 

[greenban]

Not a stupid question at all. We would all be out of our minds to buy into a program where the number of points can change. That would be like buying a week at a Marriott only to find out 10 years from now it only gets you 4 days. Your 200 points will have the same "buying power" now as they will 50 years from now.


DAVE

Actually, some people think 'we' are crazy for purchasing a timeshare that expires!

I'm not one of them (LOL), but 'they' are out there!

-Tony

 

[rayzke]

...or one that "makes" you go to Disney nearly every year... oh well...just one less person in front of me in line (or at least in theory)