Hello....OP here.......so DVC told me on the phone theme park view point rooms are all floors EXCEPT 1, 2, 15 & 16. I was in 7416 which was 4th floor. MS told me there are BOTH theme park and standard on this floor. I am going to try and post photos of my view. I know 2-3 yrs ago I was told "above the 4th floor". I asked MS about this and if there had been any changes. He told me he had not heard of any changes in past few years. So what do you all think about this?
1st - it's absolutely impossible that the 3rd floor has any remaining MK views. However it is the story that is told to members time after time when they call in. The point reallocation for 2013 moved 10 rooms out of the MK view into the standard view. At that time we already were seeing that the 1st and 2nd floors in the front of the U were being assigned to standard view bookings. So the 4th floor? I'd say it's unlikely that those are still MK views. I believe people have reported being assigned it as standard view and also MK views. They really need to produce the information on the views just as they did for the Boardwalk views.
Here's a quote of one write up on the reclassification:
"A number of rooms at Bay Lake Tower are being reclassified as of January 1, 2013. DVC reallocated points for the 2013 Vacation Point Charts making several rooms that we’re previously classified as Magic Kingdom view, now standard view. These 10 rooms had previously been classified in most expensive Magic Kingdom View room block. However, Disney listened to it’s fans and DVC owners who complained that these rooms were fairly obstructed and that they didn’t deserve to be in this category.
Increases and decreases within these two Resorts' point charts keep the total number of Vacation Points for each Resort unchanged, as dictated by the member contract, however Disney believes that the changes are “designed to better reflect the rooms' views.”
The Theme Park views are in the portion of the building above the lobby facing toward MK. See maps here https://www.disboards.com/threads/b...-update-of-post-1-10-21-2015.2257082/page-144. There are no rooms on the first floor in that area. Originally, the standard views there were only on the second floor, where there are just four rooms, two dedicated and two lock-off 2BRs. The third floor also has only four rooms, the fourth floor five rooms. The only way they could have done what they say they did in 2013, convert "10 rooms" from theme park view to standard view, was to convert all the theme parks rooms on the third and fourth floors, plus one on the fifth floor, to standard. If they are now claiming 3 and 4 are still theme park view, then they are either lying about the current status of the rooms or they were lying about the change made in 2013, and if the latter that means the raise in points made for theme park and lake view rooms that was done in 2013 to offset the the decrease in points needed for the 10 theme park view rooms converted to standard was a total fraud and a violation of statute.
You should be contacting DVC member satisfaction and likely sending a letter directly to Teri Schultz to get a definitive answer.
This is exactly it......and I really appreciate your input.The only way they could have done what they say they did in 2013, convert "10 rooms" from theme park view to standard view, was to convert at least all the theme parks rooms on the third and fourth floors to standard. If they are now claiming 3 and 4 are still theme park view, then they are either lying about the current status of the rooms or they were lying about the change made in 2013, and if the latter that means the raise in points made for theme park and lake view rooms that was done in 2013 to offset the decrease in points needed for the 10 theme park view rooms converted to standard was a total fraud and a violation of statute.
You should be contacting DVC member satisfaction and likely sending a letter directly to Teri Schultz to get a definitive answer.
Thank you Kathy.....I will read this over on my next day off. Appreciate the link!!!And here's the page where the discussion about the reassignment started on the DIS:
https://www.disboards.com/threads/b...t-update-of-post-1-10-21-2015.2257082/page-84
Me too!Good luck. Curious of the outcome.