Does Disney ever release rooms into DVC inventory?

[TexasChick123]

I know that Disney owns at least 2% of all the DVC resorts. Do they ever release those rooms back into DVC inventory when they haven't booked through CRO by a certain date? My instinct is that they don't because there is always a chance that someone may come along and pay cash rates. I do wonder if they ever put the unbooked rooms into DVC inventory either simultaneously with the cash availability or just back into DVC when the rooms don't book to get members to use their points. I have no idea if the simultaneous system would even work since DVC and CRO are different systems, but I don't know the inner workings of Disney IT. I mean, do any of us really know how their IT is set up, including Disney?

 

[Sandisw]

Nope. Not the ones that represent the % of points they own. Sometimes, they can call back rooms sent over to be sold for breakage, but that’s about it.

The other thing is that some of those rooms are there because of trade outs so they seem them as technically booked on points and there to pay for the trade

 

[TexasChick123]

Nope. Not the ones that represent the % of points they own. Sometimes, they can call back rooms sent over to be sold for breakage, but that’s about it.

The other thing is that some of those rooms are there because of trade outs so they seem them as technically booked on points and there to pay for the trade

When you say they can call back some rooms sent over for breakage, what do you mean? I know they get rooms as breakage at a certain point, but what do you mean they call them back? Sorry. I am not following this.

 

[Sandisw]

Sometime, when one calls last minute, they somehow find a room that wasn’t there online

It happened to me once when my DD was visiting her friend and they lost power, Called up and got a room that wasn’t showing on the website

I was told that sometimes they are able to “call back” a rooms since it says that all rooms not booked 60 days out are released for cash.

I don’t know now it works exactly, Just reporting what was said!

 

[TexasChick123]

Sometime, when one calls last minute, they somehow find a room that wasn’t there online

It happened to me once when my DD was visiting her friend and they lost power, Called up and got a room that wasn’t showing on the website

I was told that sometimes they are able to “call back” a rooms since it says that all rooms not booked 60 days out are released for cash.

I don’t know now it works exactly, Just reporting what was said!

Ahh. So this was when you called DVC MS and they "called the room back" because it had been given to CRO as breakage?

It's so frustrating when I have a WL going for a room, and I see it in the CRO. I have owned long enough that I understand that Disney owns some of the rooms, but man is it frustrating just seeing it sitting there when I cannot book it with points because it's unavailable.

 

[Sandisw]

Yeah. It was a last minute call to MS around 4 o'clock for check in that night. Maybe that was why.

The easiest way for me to have "come to terms" with it when I first bought in was thinking of Disney as another owner who booked on their points and are now renting those rooms out.

 

[chalee94]

It's so frustrating when I have a WL going for a room, and I see it in the CRO. I have owned long enough that I understand that Disney owns some of the rooms, but man is it frustrating just seeing it sitting there when I cannot book it with points because it's unavailable.

It's not just that 2%, though. Whenever an owner trades their points for cruises or ABD or similar, Disney has to turn those points into cash to pay the cruise division or whatever. So that reservation you see in CRO cannot be booked (again) on points because it is already booked on points.

So I get that it's frustrating but it's part of the deal with allowing trades out of the system.

 

[AvidDisReader]

Once again a good question. I have on at least 2 occasions have not been satisfied with the room assigned and gone to the front desk to complain. Both times magically rooms were available that were what we had originally requested--could this be rooms Disney owned (the 2%) that had not been booked for cash and now were reassigned to me??? Or I guess they could just have been rooms there were never booked in the first place. There is so much about the inner workings of DVC I guess we will never know.

 

[Sandisw]

Once again a good question. I have on at least 2 occasions have not been satisfied with the room assigned and gone to the front desk to complain. Both times magically rooms were available that were what we had originally requested--could this be rooms Disney owned (the 2%) that had not been booked for cash and now were reassigned to me??? Or I guess they could just have been rooms there were never booked in the first place. There is so much about the inner workings of DVC I guess we will never know.

There are not specific rooms that are put aside for DVC vs, cash guests. All rooms at a resort can be used to satisfy your points based reservation.

In your case, it sounds like you got a room that had not been booked,

Even right now with RIV. 29% of the rooms can be booked on points, but they can put DVC members in any of the rooms there.

 

[DebbieB]

There used to be a note on the reservation page that for stays within 10 days to call for availability. I think that's when they may decide to move inventory, I believe they have to call the resort to see if they want to do it.