DVC News-Jan 2026

[DanCali]

Another factor now: I've seen some RIV resale contracts being offered for very close to $100pp. The lowest asking price today is $106pp. So even if you don't fully understand the restrictions, you can see the difference in the "driving the car off the lot" price drop between RIV and Poly pretty easily. The lowest Poly resale asking today is $154pp. So in terms of market value, your value decreases significantly more with a direct RIV purchase.

Not only this, but even though both resorts each have about 5 million points sold overall, and Riviera owners have a much shorter holding period on average simply due to it being a new resort, there are only 30 PVB resale listings vs about 50 RIV resale listings (and that's despite the disparity in pricing you mention and the longer contract life of Riviera).

Moreover, about 2/3 of the Riviera resales have been posted for 45+ days while less than 25% of Poly resales are in that situation. There seems to be a strong appetite for resale PVB since the DVD price increase (a week ago there were 40+ PVB resale listings, now just about 30), but less so for Riviera. This perhaps suggests Riviera resale prices may have more downside risk from here.

 

[coloradogal]

My money is on better actually… Particularly if the restrictions around member cruises, being able to buy annual passes, being able to use points for APs, the new lounges, and the other enhancements DVC has been creating were in place on resale points, as they are now.

The resale restriction thing relies on hypotheticals - what IF I sell, what IF I want to stay at a resort that may or may not even (or ever) exist…

Price is what pushed me to make my purchase, as did the appeal of my home resort. That pushed me to make a direct purchase, when I bought VGF. We wanted the GF, and the price for direct was comparable to resale - maybe a little more expensive, but it helped me buy into the DVC lifestyle - the lounges, the swag, the community.

If I wanted to stay at RIV, it, for me, was tough then, and now very tough to justify buying direct RIV points since I have direct benefits. I’d rather buy resale RIV for a fraction of the cost. And, if I found I didn’t want to actually use those points at the RIV after a few trips, I could sell them and take very little hit at that point. Renting points also comes to mind as an option, or doing a member transfer…

This logic is the same reason why the SSR “flash sale” doesn’t appeal to me…

Just a contrarian view…

Speaking of transferring RIV points - do you know if a resale only owner (not at RIV) can receive and use RIV points through a transfer from another member?

Off topic I know! I’m very curious though if anyone knows. Probably a simple “no”?

 

[Brian Noble]

In general, transferred points retain their home resort and UY. I don't see any fundamental reason why they would not also keep whatever booking privileges they originally had.

 

[coloradogal]

All hypothetical for me as I am not a DVC owner yet. I thought the restricted resorts just don’t show up on your dashboard if you don’t have access to them? So I’m curious how that would work if points were transferred in from a new restricted resort. Guess I’ll cross that bridge if I ever come to it!

 

[DanCali]

All hypothetical for me as I am not a DVC owner yet. I thought the restricted resorts just don’t show up on your dashboard if you don’t have access to them? So I’m curious how that would work if points were transferred in from a new restricted resort. Guess I’ll cross that bridge if I ever come to it!

You may be referring to the search page, not the dashboard. That page is "dynamic" in the sense that your home resorts fluctuate based on the contracts in your membership. SSR shows up in my home resort section on that page after I bought 12 one-time-use points and they happened to be SSR-associated points. And you don't need to transfer RIV to book Riviera - one-time use points can also be used to book restricted resorts (albeit you can only get up to 24 OTU points).

 

[coloradogal]

You may be referring to the search page, not the dashboard. That page is "dynamic" in the sense that your home resorts fluctuate based on the contracts in your membership. SSR shows up in my home resort section on that page after I bought 12 one-time-use points and they happened to be SSR-associated points. And you don't need to transfer RIV to book Riviera - one-time use points can also be used to book restricted resorts (albeit you can only get up to 24 OTU points).

Ah, okay, I think I understand. Thanks for the explanation!