DVC occupancy statistics?

[DVC Grandpa]

Has anyone seen statistics on the occupancy rate at each of the DVC properties, both by week days and week-ends? It would also be interesting to see them by Season and by points vs. cash.

Perhaps DVC doesn't publish this information.

 

[Granny]

I don't believe that Disney makes that information available to the public, or to DVC owners. If they did, we would surely have seen a lot of threads about it on this board!

 

[Plutofan]

The only place I have seen information like this was for non DVC resorts and it was an over all % not broken up by resort. This was disclosed in Disney's SEC filings.

 

[drusba]

Actually, a number of years back, when DVC was floating the possibility of lowering weekend night points and raising weekday, it provided some charts on weekly and annual occupancy. I don't remember what i did with them but I do remember that they showed that for most times of year occupancy for Sun night through Thurs night was in the mid-80's to mid 90's range (depending on time of year), and for weekends it was only in the 60's to mid 70's range.

 

[Granny]

Actually, a number of years back, when DVC was floating the possibility of lowering weekend night points and raising weekday, it provided some charts on weekly and annual occupancy. I don't remember what i did with them but I do remember that they showed that for most times of year occupancy for Sun night through Thurs night was in the mid-80's to mid 90's range (depending on time of year), and for weekends it was only in the 60's to mid 70's range.

Interesting. I wonder if those numbers were total occupancy or only occupancy from points.

 

[TroyWDW]

The Florida Timeshare Bureau used to require some of the occupancy numbers to be published. DVC stopped publishing the information when the rules changed.

If you look in one of the old Component Site or Multi Site POS, there is a table that lists occupancy information. I think it was sometime between 1995 and 1998. This is really tugging on the memory cells, but I seem to remember Doctor P writing a message with this information 5 years ago.

My recollection matches drusba. The weekends had much lower occupancy rates.

Troy

 

[Plutofan]

This is stats on Disney's non DVC rooms from the latest public report. I just thought it was interesting:




........................................East Coast......West Coast....Total Domestic
.......................................Quarter Ended...Quarter Ended...Quarter Ended
......................................July 1, July 2, July 1, July 2, July 1, July 2,

.......................................2006....2005.....2006....2005....2006....2005
Inc/(decrease) in Attendance..7%....(1)%......1%......6%......5%......1%
Inc in Per Capita Guest Spending.1%......4%......9%.....11%......4%......6%
Occupancy.........................92%.....88%.....96%.....96%.....93%.....88%
Avlble Room Nights (in thsds).2,207...2,193.....202.... 202...2,409...2,395
Per Room Guest Spending.....$ 225...$ 209...$ 296...$ 276...$ 231...$ 215

 

[CarolMN]

Interesting. I wonder if those numbers were total occupancy or only occupancy from points.

My vote goes for point occupancy - I think it would be even between weekdays & weekends if all guests were considered.

Non-DVC guests prefer weekends to weekdays. We often go in a "slow" season for the parks (early December) and usually check in to the BWV on a Friday or a Saturday. Every time, the front desk CM says they are completely sold out. DVC members may avoid the weekends, but the cash guests sure don't.

Best wishes -

 

[Granny]

My vote goes for point occupancy - I think it would be even between weekdays & weekends if all guests were considered.

Non-DVC guests prefer weekends to weekdays. We often go in a "slow" season for the parks (early December) and usually check in to the BWV on a Friday or a Saturday. Every time, the front desk CM says they are completely sold out. DVC members may avoid the weekends, but the cash guests sure don't.

Best wishes -

Carol...this is what I was thinking too. It would seem that many of Disney's cash reservations for DVC resorts would include a weekend...probably a higher percentage than point-only reservations. I just didn't know if the cash reservations were a big enough quantity to make much of a difference in the numbers.

I could see Disney playing with the point schedule for weekend nights if the disparity widens considerably.

 

[ralphd]

Memory tells me the occupancy rate was higher on the weekend in the beginning. Members within driving distance were coming in for the weekend. Some members were unable to book a full week because of the 'weekenders'. The point spread was adjusted to make the weekends higher to balance the occupancy rate. That has now led to some members avoiding the Friday and Saturday night points and has evidently skewed the occupancy rates the other way.
I am sure there are members that remember the change in the points charts.
Weekdays became cheaper and weekends became more expensive.
If the point charts are adjusted, the resorts will be more likely to fill on many weekends (because of members staying only for the weekend) and possibly make it more difficult to book a full week.
The total point cost for a week will not change!

EDIT NOTE: Hit a wrong button Post has been restored to original - Chuck S

 

[Chuck S]

Memory tells me the occupancy rate was higher on the weekend in the beginning. Members within driving distance were coming in for the weekend. Some members were unable to book a full week because of the 'weekenders'. The point spread was adjusted to make the weekends higher to balance the occupancy rate. That has now led to some members avoiding the Friday and Saturday night points and has evidently skewed the occupancy rates the other way.
I am sure there are members that remember the change in the points charts.
Weekdays became cheaper and weekends became more expensive.
If the point charts are adjusted, the resorts will be more likely to fill on many weekends (because of members staying only for the weekend) and possibly make it more difficult to book a full week.
The total point cost for a week will not change!

Actually, weekends have always been high, the only major point chart change was in 1996 to OKW point charts...value season increased, other seasons decreased slightly. Originally, a studio in value season was 7 points weekdays, 17 points weekends. (69 per week) Now it is 8 weeknights, 20 weekends (80 points per week).