DVC Rent Question - Not home resort?

[thedarksyde]

So I am seeing a lot of rental points, and I have done the math and well I am sold frankly. I did the math on AKV and I could save a lot of money. Problems I am seeing are, right now, I don't see many AKV points for sale and I will be booking late to when I want to travel maybe only a couple of weeks before the trip due to money moving around so here are my questions.

1. If I want to stay for a set amount of days in a studio at AKV and that total points is 114. How do you buy points for lets say SS and book at AKV? Do you still get the AKV points cost? How does that work? Is there a penalty transfer? I see a lot of people just asking for bookings at other resorts...

2. How likely is it to get ANY resort studio in a short time frame, especially AKV? 2 or 3 weeks out? 10/19/2008-10/31/2008

Thank you very much!

 

[salmoneous]

"Renting points" is a misnomer. What happens is that an owner uses their points to make a reservation, and you pay them to use that reservation.

An owner can make a reservation at their resort 11 month out; they can make a reservation at any DVC resort 7 months out.

DVC resorts are mostly full. At popular times, rooms can be fully booked before the 7-month mark, so you need to find an owner at the resort you are interested in to make a reservation. At less popular times, you can get an owner at a different resort to get a reservation at the 7 month mark.

Being able to get a reservation only a few weeks out is extremely hard.

 

[thedarksyde]

"Renting points" is a misnomer. What happens is that an owner uses their points to make a reservation, and you pay them to use that reservation.

An owner can make a reservation at their resort 11 month out; they can make a reservation at any DVC resort 7 months out.

DVC resorts are mostly full. At popular times, rooms can be fully booked before the 7-month mark, so you need to find an owner at the resort you are interested in to make a reservation. At less popular times, you can get an owner at a different resort to get a reservation at the 7 month mark.

Being able to get a reservation only a few weeks out is extremely hard.

Do they make the reservation under my name? Or do I have to say I am this person all week?

So home resort only matters in the sense of when you can book the room? The points would be the AKL cost?

So it is the general agreement of the community that a reservation a few weeks out would be very hard, I guess I could try, and if it fails just book a regular room.

 

[salmoneous]

They make the reservation in your name. No sneaking or lying. It's all on the up-and-up.

Home resort only matters for when they can make your reservation.

I noticed that you are thinking of October - very busy time. Essentially no chance of a reservation on short notice.

 

[eva]

Because you are only able to book a few weeks out, you will have more luck with reserving direct with Disney. Most owners would not book that close to the reservation to begin with. The only way I would is if you paid in full before I made the reservation. Since members must cancel reservations 31 days out to return their points back to their original status, you won't find many that will book in that last 4 or 5 weeks unless you paid in full first. And as stated before, it is very unlikely that you would be able to get a reservation that close anyway. Most DVC members book very early during the 11 to 7 month windows.

 

[PamOKW]

It would be difficult for someone to take your request a few weeks out and book a room for you. At the 60 day point, Disney tries to rent any remaining inventory for cash rather than let it go empty. But....you could get lucky and find an owner with an existing reservation who finds they can't use it and would be more than happy to offer it for rent to you. You might want to give it a try and if it doesn't work out go to your "Plan B".

All of these are personal transactions...there are no hard and fast rules as to how to do things

 

[LisaS]

Sometimes people have to cancel a trip at the last minute. If it is 30 days or less from check-in, they can post that reservation for rent on the Rent/Trade board. This doesn't happen very often and the chances of someone posting exactly the dates, room size and resort you want are extremely unlikely but it would be worth checking the R/T board once you are 30 days from the date you want to check in.

As far as the price you would have to pay, that is between you and the DVC owner.

 

[CarolA]

While I am the "queen" of last minute booking even I think that right now the chances of getting a AKV studio that late are slim. Maybe in a few years when the entire resort is open.

As a general rule most of my last minutes wind up at either SSR or OKW. It's also easier to get a 1 BR vs a studio then. Of course that costs more points.

 

[DaisyDebbie]

I tend to book close in now that I live here in Florida and decide to make last minute trips. My experience has been the same as Carols, usually get SSR, sometimes OKW

 

[Simba's Mom]

2. How likely is it to get ANY resort studio in a short time frame, especially AKV? 2 or 3 weeks out? 10/19/2008-10/31/2008

Thank you very much!

I just called MS this morning, and there's no availability for an AKV studio 10/16. And although I'm not positive, I think I took the last one on 10/15. Those dates are close to yours, so I thought I'd give you some idea. Actually, on 10/16 the only studios available at this point, 6 months out, are at SSR or OKW.