DVC Survey

[Cfabar1]

without first formally changing the existing applicable Home Resort Priority period to a shorter period, which can never be less than a month.

I think we are saying the same thing. I believe Disney does have the right to do that, though it would require them creating a change to do so.

 

[J-Dog]

A. The first survey question clearly says at select resorts and pending availability. They could use undeclared inventory at new resorts (which they may have quite a bit of if they keep building) in order to afford this. Pay an extra fee to book DVCs own rooms in addition to the units declared to the members. That's basically how welcome home stays work and they have been doing those for a loooong time. Or they can just enable it in the contracts and documents of the newer resorts going forward and that would still be "select" resorts.

I agree with you on this point, and I think that the key wording is "pending availability". If they were just creating a new booking window illegally, then "availability" wouldn't be an issue, since everything would always be available at >11 months out. But if they are utilizing other unused points, then "availability" would obviously be at least something they would need to account for.

Kinda scary, IMO...

 

[BrianLa]

I agree with you on this point, and I think that the key wording is "pending availability". If they were just creating a new booking window illegally, then "availability" wouldn't be an issue, since everything would always be available at >11 months out. But if they are utilizing other unused points, then "availability" would obviously be at least something they would need to account for.

Kinda scary, IMO...

As I posted earlier in this board, I believe this is truly about allowing non-declared rooms at new resorts to be swapped for your points plus some amount of cash. Your points are not technically being used at 12 months to book a DVC room but instead you are trading your points to DVC for some cash value to book a non-declared room. Those non-declared rooms are already available for cash reservations and do not impact inventory of rooms that are declared already for DVC bookings.

WRT HHI - I think this is about them being able to ROFR HHI contracts at low prices. Then they can trade those “cheep” points to you for your “expensive” points at the newer resorts. All this is while they a providing a “benefit” to direct membership.

 

[emchen]

As I posted earlier in this board, I believe this is truly about allowing non-declared rooms at new resorts to be swapped for your points plus some amount of cash. Your points are not technically being used at 12 months to book a DVC room but instead you are trading your points to DVC for some cash value to book a non-declared room. Those non-declared rooms are already available for cash reservations and do not impact inventory of rooms that are declared already for DVC bookings.

WRT HHI - I think this is about them being able to ROFR HHI contracts at low prices. Then they can trade those “cheep” points to you for your “expensive” points at the newer resorts. All this is while they a providing a “benefit” to direct membership.

This post boils it down nicely for us non-legal minds.

 

[Carouselofplanning]

The last president of DVC was an accountant. D’Amaro moved her out of the role after less than 3 years. With accountant executives, the spreadsheet is usually the starting point and end point of all decisions and unfortunately the victim of that approach is often experience/quality. It’s hard to measure how a better value and experience for customers benefits the company long term. Much easier to say x tactic will yield y results in the next 1-3 years.

I was optimistic with the new executive that took over earlier this year who has more of an experience and operational background. Seems like the shenanigans may not be over though. I remain hopeful there’s a better big picture view now but it’s been dented with a dopey survey like this.