Home Resort - Bolder Ridge or Copper Creek?

[Figment's Girl]

I own at CCV and have not had issues with booking studios at the 11-month window; we travel in October, December and March. I do not walk reservations. I have not tried to book a one-bedroom yet for CCV.

BRV is up for renovations after SS is done.

 

[ElizabethG]

Summer is notoriously open. We are just into the October 2021 booking timeframe ( 4days exactly). We shall see what is left in two weeks. I own at Copper Creek. Believe me, it is very very tight to book almost the year round, except for a month or so in the summer. I chalk up any availability under 10 months due to Covid.

I own at CCV too. I always book at 11 months and haven't had issues. For 2021, January through May, there are only 18 out of the 151 days that are NOT available in a 1-bdrm (as of this minute). That is 88% availability for 2-7 months out.

 

[DSLRuser]

we have found 1 bedrooms are plentiful at 11 and 10 months @ CC. 7 months at other resorts are still pretty good for 1 bedrooms.

Studios are what become harder to find.

 

[RoseGold]

This is the downside to BRV: the math

https://www.dvcresalemarket.com/blog/best-economical-dvc-resort-to-purchase-spring-2020/
I'd get CC unless the upfront cost is outside the budget. An extra $50 more than doubles the length of the contract. I can deal with having to walk it for that. When your kids are grown, you sell it, and it still has decades left on it. Or, hold onto it and rent for a while until grandkids come along! As the last of the O14, the length of that contract is valuable!

For Thanksgiving, you really need 11 month priority, and CC points are good value anyway. I'm usually a fan of rolling the dice with cheap points, but not for this.

 

[Stargazer65]

This is the downside to BRV: the math

True that, regarding the math. However, if taking the long financial view you could also invest the savings if you bought BRV up front.
Let’s say…if you had two identical contracts, one BRV and one CCV and cash to buy either…you could buy BRV and invest the savings for 22 years. Then when your contract for BRV expires you would use the growth of those savings to buy another contract. That is, if you even want more time by that point in your life.

 

[RoseGold]

True that, regarding the math. However, if taking the long financial view you could also invest the savings if you bought BRV up front.
Let’s say…if you had two identical contracts, one BRV and one CCV and cash to buy either…you could buy BRV and invest the savings for 22 years. Then when your contract for BRV expires you would use the growth of those savings to buy another contract. That is, if you even want more time by that point.

Depends on what you think happens in the future. I think that points will continue to inflate, making the O14 resorts get more and more valuable, like BCV and BWV right now. CC has the combination of a good chart and very long contract. IMO, it should hold value better than BR, and BR is going to dive as it runs out of time. But maybe your crystal ball is different than mine. Or maybe you just want to run out the clock on BR.

 

[Stargazer65]

IMO, it should hold value better than BR, and BR is going to dive as it runs out of time.

I agree that is what will most likely happen.

Or maybe you just want to run out the clock on BR.

Yep, that is me at present