Is there "inflation" in terms of the points a resort costs?

[DebbieB]

What I was not aware of until the recent reallocations is that it's total points for all units at the resort that has to balance out annual. I thought it was within each room size. What happened with some of the reallocations is grand villas went down and all the other room sizes went up. I only book studios or 1 bedrooms and they have definitely gone up. Since I currently do not have a set time of year to go, I have been able to work with it. I have been borrowing the past 2 or 3 years but this year I only have 1 trip and will have points to bank.

 

[Garthilk]

Disney has not thus far taken new resorts as an opportunity to simply raise the points costs and thus devaluing existing points.

I certainly wonder what Hawaii's point costs are going to be like.

 

[Dean]

I certainly wonder what Hawaii's point costs are going to be like.

To a degree, we all do. My guess is if you look at BLT Magic and Premier you'll have a pretty good idea. To me I think the bigger question is what will the dues be. Looking at other DVC resorts dues AND other top HI resort dues, I'd venture that the dues will be roughly $1800-2000 (possibly even more) on enough points for a 2 BR for a week at the second highest season which should be Magic.

 

[KPOP]

Disney has not thus far taken new resorts as an opportunity to simply raise the points costs and thus devaluing existing points. Other systems have done this over the years, Fairfield comes to mind.

Hi -

Can you elaborate on this? I'm not familiar with other point systems -
How do they devalue existing points?

Thanks,
Ken

 

[Dean]

Hi -

Can you elaborate on this? I'm not familiar with other point systems -
How do they devalue existing points?

Thanks,
Ken

When resorts open a new resort, or new and separate section of an existing one, they must designate a points structure. If the resort is comparable to existing resorts, it should be around the same points structure. In this situation a significant increase in points would simply represent a move to raise the price of the new resort and devalue existing points. OTOH, a resort that was inherently nicer and or offered more amenties might legitimately be higher priced. The 2 ways a points system can raise prices is to rasie the pp price or to raise the total number of points. DVC has generally not done this though I suppose one could argue that BWV, VWL and SSR represented an increase in this manner.