Help me understand.....

[luckyman_apd]

So I've always known that as far as points use bargains.....2br are a bargain. 1br are typically @ double the points use as a studio for a night. And then a 2 br is less points than a 1br+studio....and a 2br lock-off is a studio and a 1br but being used as 2br. So my question is how they get allocated in the reservations system and also for counting a resorts total points.

Let's take BLT for example. BLT has several dedicated 2br.....but the rest of the rooms are 1br and studios. ANY studio and 1br could conceivably used as a 2br lockoff. Now when allocating total points for sale at the resort.....how many of those studios and 1 br are counted as 2br? The math can't work if they are all counted as a 1br and a studio.....because there would be more points sold than available to book each year. Correct?

And in the reservation system...I have seen a resort with no studio availability, but there were 2br lock-offs available. That would leave me to assume that each resort would have a certain amount of 1br+studio's dedicated for use as 2 br. How does one go about finding how many in each resort (or just a single resort) has in each dedicated room class?

More of a curiosity question as we are traveling with friends and we were going to get a 1br....them a studio and we decided to book a 2br together somewhere and saved a few points.....and it got me thinking about the math of it all.

 

[miTnosnhoJ]

The lock offs are counted as 2BRs when DVC counts total number of points Available for sale. This became painfully obvious when DVC massively raised the point cost of 1BR and studios with no corresponding decrease of any other category. (A massive outcry on these boards caused Disney to reverse that land grab.)

 

[BillPA]

Disney makes the rules, and as always, they favor the rules maker. Disney now averages just over 12% extra points when they rent a studio and a 1 BR unit compared to a 2 BR. When the resorts were sold the points were based in a 2 br unit. This has created millions of points used for cash rooms for Disney to sell to the public at the DVC owner's expense. They use to call it 'breakage period' and the $$$ collected would help with the DUES. They have done away with that and just pocket the cash, actually bonus buck for the bean couner that developed the trick.

 

[Sandisw]

Disney makes the rules, and as always, they favor the rules maker. Disney now averages just over 12% extra points when they rent a studio and a 1 BR unit compared to a 2 BR. When the resorts were sold the points were based in a 2 br unit. This has created millions of points used for cash rooms for Disney to sell to the public at the DVC owner's expense. They use to call it 'breakage period' and the $$$ collected would help with the DUES. They have done away with that and just pocket the cash, actually bonus buck for the bean couner that developed the trick.

This is not accurate. The breakage period still exists and owners still get the maximum allowed by contract.

The lock off premium has existed since the beginning so that is also not new.

They had to sell based on 2 bedrooms so not to have more points than booksble.