DVC Availability vs Total Resort Rooms

[notaclue]

New owner here with yet another question. When there is 'no availability' at a DVC resort does that mean all the rooms at that resort are booked, or just a specific number of rooms set aside for DVC members? Does Disney hold back some rooms to rent out on a cash basis to non members at each resort? TIA

 

[DebbieB]

New owner here with yet another question. When there is 'no availability' at a DVC resort does that mean all the rooms at that resort are booked, or just a specific number of rooms set aside for DVC members? Does Disney hold back some rooms to rent out on a cash basis to non members at each resort? TIA

There are 2 separate inventories of rooms - member and non-member. Not all rooms are available to the members. Disney doesn't exactly "hold back".

What happens is when a new resort opens, DVC owns all the rooms. As points are sold, rooms are moved over into the member inventory. If a resort is 50% sold, then about 50% of the rooms are available to members.

By contract, DVC must continue to hold about 4% of the total, those rooms can be used for maintenance or DVC can rent to the public through CRO.

Rooms also move to CRO when a member trades out, for example to a Disney Cruise. Then the income for that room is used to pay for the member's cruise.

Also any rooms left 60 days prior to the date, those rooms can be made available to CRO, with the income going back to the members as a dues credit. Members can continue to get those rooms for points.

 

[YourEveryDayAdam]

New owner here with yet another question. When there is 'no availability' at a DVC resort does that mean all the rooms at that resort are booked, or just a specific number of rooms set aside for DVC members? Does Disney hold back some rooms to rent out on a cash basis to non members at each resort? TIA

There are 5 categories of rooms at any DVC resort:

Un-declared inventory: These are rooms that haven't been sold to members yet. These really only exist in the actively-selling "new" resorts. These rooms are owned by Disney and they are available to cash guests only. These rooms aren't available to DVC members. The proceeds from these rooms go straight to Disney and don't benefit DVC members in any direct way.

Declared member inventory: These are the rooms that are available to be booked by members. A room must be declared before it's associated points can be sold. Disney can never sell more points than there are rooms to book. These rooms are only available to DVC members.

Breakage inventory: These are declared member inventory rooms that haven't been booked with 60 days or less to go. These rooms become available to cash guests, through disney. They are available to cash guests and DVC members. First person to book, gets it. The proceeds from these rooms are put in to the annual dues pot and helps reduce the dues for all members. It is a small number of rooms, and is usually a very small amount of money.

Time-share exchange inventory: These are declared member inventory rooms where a member exchanged it to stay at another time-share resort. These are the RCI or II exchanges. Other RCI or II members will book these rooms through the exchange company. These rooms are only available through the time share exchange company.

Non-time-share exchange inventory: These are declared member inventory rooms that were booked by Disney to pay for a member's non-time-share exchange. For example, if a DVC member uses points to book a Disney Cruise, Disney will take those points and book rooms to rent out to cash guests in order to pay for that member's cruise. These rooms are only available to be booked through Disney for cash. You might be able to book them through member services, but only for member-discounted cash.

I hope this helps!

 

[Dean]

There are 5 categories of rooms at any DVC resort:

Un-declared inventory: These are rooms that haven't been sold to members yet. These really only exist in the actively-selling "new" resorts. These rooms are owned by Disney and they are available to cash guests only. These rooms aren't available to DVC members. The proceeds from these rooms go straight to Disney and don't benefit DVC members in any direct way.

Declared member inventory: These are the rooms that are available to be booked by members. A room must be declared before it's associated points can be sold. Disney can never sell more points than there are rooms to book. These rooms are only available to DVC members.

Breakage inventory: These are declared member inventory rooms that haven't been booked with 60 days or less to go. These rooms become available to cash guests, through disney. They are available to cash guests and DVC members. First person to book, gets it. The proceeds from these rooms are put in to the annual dues pot and helps reduce the dues for all members. It is a small number of rooms, and is usually a very small amount of money.

Time-share exchange inventory: These are declared member inventory rooms where a member exchanged it to stay at another time-share resort. These are the RCI or II exchanges. Other RCI or II members will book these rooms through the exchange company. These rooms are only available through the time share exchange company.

Non-time-share exchange inventory: These are declared member inventory rooms that were booked by Disney to pay for a member's non-time-share exchange. For example, if a DVC member uses points to book a Disney Cruise, Disney will take those points and book rooms to rent out to cash guests in order to pay for that member's cruise. These rooms are only available to be booked through Disney for cash. You might be able to book them through member services, but only for member-discounted cash.

I hope this helps!

If your a lumper, that probably covers it, if you're a splitter, you could come up with a few more.

• Undeclared
• Member Inventory
• Member Inventory reserved by DVC using points they own and given up for rental (including declared but unsold, ROFR points, deedbacks, foreclosures)
• Inventory given to RCI or BVTC as direct exchange.
• Inventory reserved with points given up for cash exchange options like DCL
• Breakage
• Unreserved inventory used for maint.

Some of these units will be available for rental through RCI, CRO, other online sources, DVC MS, etc. Either way it suffices to say that there are quite a number of rooms that could be available other ways when no points reservations are available. As a rule, DVC doesn't siphon off the top inventory to satisfy their own needs but they're not going to hold back and only take the unreserved inventory either.