How many BLT points

[grumpeeduck]

would it take for 1 week each summer in a studio?

Thanks!

 

[Ed T]

Here is a link to the point chart for BLT. If you need to get to it again it is at the top of the disboards website

http://www.wdwinfo.com/disney-vacation-club/BLT-Points.htm

 

[grumpeeduck]

Thank you very much! That is exactly the chart I needed!

 

[Maistre Gracey]

I wouldn't cut it to the exact number of points needed. If there is a point reallocation it would be nice to have a buffer. If there isn't a reallocation, you can bank a little and get a 1br every several years.

MG

 

[grumpeeduck]

I wouldn't cut it to the exact number of points needed. If there is a point reallocation it would be nice to have a buffer. If there isn't a reallocation, you can bank a little and get a 1br every several years.

MG

Do they do that?? That would be terrible to spend that much, and then have it not be enough.

 

[Maistre Gracey]

Do they do that?? That would be terrible to spend that much, and then have it not be enough.

Yes, they can, and they have. In fact, they just did it from the 2009 to the 2010 point charts. Many people here bought just enough BLT points to stay during a certain time period, only to find out they were three points short of what they needed.

Please don't confuse "point reallocation" with "point increase". There is a subtle, yet very important difference.

MG

 

[YourEveryDayAdam]

Do they do that?? That would be terrible to spend that much, and then have it not be enough.

They can only reallocate points. They can't add points to the system without building new villas/rooms.

Basically, the total number of points to book rooms at any particular resort can't change, but they can make changes to what the different bookings cost.

For example, DVC finds that december is a popular time of year, so they might raise the number of points in december, but in doing so they have to lower the cost of another time of year. Studios might be more popular, so they'll raise the cost of a studio but lower the cost of a one and/or two bedroom.

The reason they do this is to keep the system balanced. In a perfect world, all rooms should be booked 100% (with the exception of maintenance and refurbs). but, if everybody wants to book christmas, they have to make that time less desirable by making it more expensive, which would encourage people to book other times of year.

That being said, they've only ever given the point charts a major overhaul once. And that was for 2010. They increased the points of the more popular times, but lowered the points of less popular times.

Real example: Many members only do a sun-thursday night booking because the points for those nights are much cheaper than fri-sat nights. This created an imbalance and they corrected it with the 2010 charts by lowering the weekend cost a little bit and raising the weeknight cost a little bit. In most cases, the number of points for any given full week didn't change except by maybe a point or two.

This sun-thur point increase caused a lot of the people who only travel sun-thur to not have enough points for their usual trip. But for people like me who tend to go for long weekends (4-5 nights) it actually helped out just a little bit.

All that being said, dramatic point chart changes are EXTREMELY rare for DVC. Buy maybe 5-10 points more than you calculate you'll need and every few years you can go for an extra day, or upgrade to a bigger room. If/when they make a change to the point chart, you'll have a few points buffer. But if you buy exactly the number of points you'll need, and they change it so your week costs one more point than it used to (this actually happened), then you're hosed.

 

[Maistre Gracey]

That being said, they've only ever given the point charts a major overhaul once. And that was for 2010. They increased the points of the more popular times, but lowered the points of less popular times.

I believe there was another time they reallocated. Maybe somebody can chime in here to set it straight, but I think in the earlier days of OKW they adjusted points.
Actually there may have been another time also when BWV started a standard view.

MG

 

[grumpeeduck]

I appreciate all of the information you all have given. We want to know all the facts before we do this, and this is good to know.

 

[Kmango]

They did reallocated once before, in about 1996, but DVC was small then and only at OKW (then just DVC). Also, the minimum buy-ins were a good deal higher then (230, I think), so it was not as broadly traumatic as this last one seems to have been.