Does Anyone Know What Demand Is?

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I've been following the Poly threads. We have owned at BW since 2004, and have never had a problem getting the reservation we wanted, always a 2br. We've taken an occasional last minute trip and have stayed at OKW, SSR, BCV. I'm curious if anyone knows what accommodations are in greatest demand. Is it studios? We've hardly ever used one. Is it grand villas? With the addition of these studios, though higher point values, is DVC meeting a demand?
 
I've been following the Poly threads. We have owned at BW since 2004, and have never had a problem getting the reservation we wanted, always a 2br. We've taken an occasional last minute trip and have stayed at OKW, SSR, BCV. I'm curious if anyone knows what accommodations are in greatest demand. Is it studios? We've hardly ever used one. Is it grand villas? With the addition of these studios, though hire point values, is DVC meeting a demand?

BC, BLT, and GF are highest demands followed by BW, then OWK, AK and SSR.

Studios fill up 1st, followed by 2 bedrooms, and 1 bedrooms. GV at OKW are 1st, others not as fast.
 
BC, BLT, and GF are highest demands followed by BW, then OWK, AK and SSR.

Studios fill up 1st, followed by 2 bedrooms, and 1 bedrooms. GV at OKW are 1st, others not as fast.

I don't agree with your order of demand.

My guess is more like GFV first because of the small number of villas available, then BC and BW, BLT, AKV, OKW, SSR.

I also don't see it as 'demand' so much as actual number of villas available at these locations. If the numbers were equal, it would be easier to determine what the highest demand is.
 
I don't agree with your order of demand.

My guess is more like GFV first because of the small number of villas available, then BC and BW, BLT, AKV, OKW, SSR.

I also don't see it as 'demand' so much as actual number of villas available at these locations. If the numbers were equal, it would be easier to determine what the highest demand is.

i.e. demand isn't important until you match it against supply - which is one of the BCV problems.

And time of year plays in as well - BWV is fairly open for preferred view rooms year round - until you hit F&W when its possible to get locked out at seven months - and then through Early January availability is spotty. HHI is a very high demand resort in the summer - but if you want to go next month, rooms are still available in Feburary.
 

i.e. demand isn't important until you match it against supply - which is one of the BCV problems.

And time of year plays in as well - BWV is fairly open for preferred view rooms year round...

yep, BWV is a pretty large resort...unless you limit yourself to the standard view rooms that only make up 20% or so of it. similarly, BLT-lake view is a different animal than BLT-standard or theme park view.
 
The reason I posed the question is that our stage of life is providing changes that impact our traveling plans/flexibility. We've always had to plan our trips according to time of year and points available. Suddenly, we have way more flexibility and a myriad of possibilities which we've never considered before-different resorts, 1br vs. studio, park visits vs. non park visits, renting a car vs magical express. So I like to hear other people's experiences.
 
Interesting.

Not one post mentioned VWL.

The monorail resorts took a lot of pressure off VWL from the "MK crowd"
VWL is still very popular during the Christmas season, but the rest of the year seems to be more available.
 
It is somewhat difficult to make clear conclusions about whether one room size has higher demand than another because the fact that one room size may usually disappear sooner than another does not necessarily mean it is in higher demand if the number of rooms in that size is low. However, based on what I have seen in reservation patterns in the last three years, one can make some reasonable conclusions for WDW resorts:

Studios are the highest demanded room sizes overall. They tend to disappear in the sequence of reservations before any other room sizes. At VGF they usually fill long before other sizes fill and there 2BRs and GVs are very often open even well beyond the 7 month window while studios are often gone before that window opens. Sometimes you see some exceptions, like BLT theme park and standard dedicated 2BRs and 1BRs may some times disappear before studios in those view categories, and some times studios are still open for AKV value when 1BRs are gone, but overall studios are no.1 in demand at all WDW resorts. However, VGF became the resort that demonstrates more than any other that Disney's substantial increases in the last four years in prices and points needed per night can take studios from being the ones of highest demand to the room size that is almost the only one in demand. During summer 2014, a usually low to moderate DVC demand time, VGF dedicated 2BRs and GVs were often open even at 6 months out while the studios often disappeared before 7 months out and a similar pattern has occurred for many times in 2015. BLT has had some of that in that studios usually disappear there somewhat longer before 2BRs than at the remaining WDW resorts. At OKW, BCV, VWL and SSR studios tend to go first but usually not a very long time before 2BRs disappear. At BWV, stuidios including the dedicated usually disappear at the same time as the 2BRs (all of which are lockoffs).

2BRs are the second highest demanded rooms overall at WDW except for VGF where it is 1BRs. There are times when AKV value and BLT standard and TP view 1BRs go before 2BRs but that is only some times. On a few occassions I have seen BCV 1BRs go before all the 2BRs but that is a factor of the fewer number of potential 1BRs (note that the dedicated two queens 2BRs at BCV usually fill before any other rooms but that is mainly a factor of low numbers in relation to other rooms).

It is difficult to say whether 1BRs or GVs are the lowest in demand. GVs often disappear before 1BRs and more often before studios and 2BRs but that is likely more a factor of their lower numbers than higher demand. For example, the BWV GVs usually disappear before 7 months out year round because there are only seven but standard and Boardwalk view studios and 2BRs often disappear more quickly during the 11 month window during the high demand last quarter of the year. Similarly, the one or possibly two GVs at OKW in the Hospitality House booking category are often gone even before 11 months out but that is definitely caused by the small number of them. VGF GVs are often the last room size to go there. Elsewhere, GVs, despite low numbers, are often open at 7 months out between mid Jan and mid Sep, DVCs low to moderate demand season. As far as the room size which is open beyond all others, it is usually the 1BR with possible exceptions noted above but there are times when GVs are the last to go (e.g., for most of April 2015 right now, GVs are still available at three months out at BLT, OKW, VGF, SSR and AKV).
 















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