Island Tower at Polynesian Villas & Bungalows

[eticketplease]

If I added @wdrl DVCNews sales numbers correctly (July 2010-July 2024), here are the numbers I come up with for each months sales. (I rounded up/down based on .5) NOTE: that's 15 years of data for July and 14 years of data for the other months.

Month	Total Points	Monthly Avg Sales	Ranked by month
January	2,468,100	176,293	3
February	2,123,018	151,644	10
March	2,410,637	172,188	5
April	2,570,796	183,628	1
May	2,247,009	160,501	7
June	2,348,927	167,781	6
July	2,703,434	180,229	2
August	2,432,186	173,728	4
September	2,166,702	154,764	8
October	2,155,008	153,929	9
November	1,840,221	131,444	11
December	1,857,186	132,656	12

April really surprised me coming in at #1

 

[CarolynFH]

April really surprised me coming in at #1

Remember these stats are based on deeds filed with the Orange County Comptroller, so the actual sales may have occurred the month previous - or even several months previous, now when folks spread things out over 2-3 months with various credit cards. So April deeds might reflect Spring Break sales (March and early April).

 

[Ruttangel]

April really surprised me coming in at #1

Could be due to new incentives and/or new resorts launched

 

[Mexacajun]

Could be due to new incentives and/or new resorts launched

Down payments from tax returns?

 

[CastAStone]

Down payments from tax returns?

I think a lot of business people and sales folk get their annual bonus in the spring too.

 

[maui22]

April really surprised me coming in at #1

Pretty sure most points are purchased by new buyers. Spring break is very popular for family trips. (Summer is hot and people can be Grumpy).

 

[eticketplease]

Pretty sure most points are purchased by new buyers. Spring break is very popular for family trips. (Summer is hot and people can be Grumpy).

We go during that time but I just figured the November and December would be higher

 

[maui22]

We go during that time but I just figured the November and December would be higher

Not sure about everyone else, but I dread that time of year because it means we are paying a lot of money in dues. Buying more points in the 4th quarter means a double whammy…cost of contract plus full year of additions dues for
those points coming in Dec/Jan.

 

[Mikey15]

No. Island Tower about 60% of the size of Riviera, which has 6.7 million points. IT will skew toward smaller rooms, with greater ratio of Studio and Duo rooms. But also I'd expect the baseline rate to be slightly higher for Poly, albeit with 3 different view categories.

Unless I'm missing some important element, let's conservatively estimate somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 - 3.5 million points?

Early estimates were that it'd about match the ~4 million (3.8? 3.9?) points of existing PVB. I think you're in the ballpark for a conservative estimate.

VGF moving 2 million in a year and a half was fairly strong, but it took last summer's incentives to really close it out. That's about what Riv has remaining to sell now (~2.2m),

 

[eticketplease]

Not sure about everyone else, but I dread that time of year because it means we are paying a lot of money in dues. Buying more points in the 4th quarter means a double whammy…cost of contract plus full year of additions dues for
those points coming in Dec/Jan.

True but at least the previous years dues are almost nothing if you have a December use year

 

[achinforsomebacon]

There have been many posts about issues the original PVB had with timeshare license approval in various states. Back then, California was the last state to approve the PVB timeshare license. Most states were 1-2 weeks after Florida. I think New York and possibly one more required about 4 weeks after Florida.

Also, on DVC website for Island Tower at PVB, they show it is not approved in all jurisdictions. Delay in sales may be because they want to avoid the fiasco they had the last time with PVB. I think we started seeing DVC releasing a lot more news about Island Tower in early August so perhaps that is when they submitted amendments to all states?

I found a website that I believe shows California Timeshare licensing/amendments.
https://www.dre.ca.gov/Licensees/CurrentTimeframes_3LicenseChanges.html

If this is the correct web site AND it's a "Sales License Change", here is what they show as current processing times.
View attachment 891821

If they're currently licensed to sell PVB, what needs to change to sell PIT given that it's the same association?

 

[MicheyMouse]

Are we are going to have to start referring to this as PVR and PVB? Disney has two separate listings but both include tower rooms.

 

[Xalthon]

Are we are going to have to start referring to this as PVR and PVB? Disney has two separate listings but both include tower rooms.

The PVR is just the hotel side, while PVB are the villas and bungalows or the DVC side. I assume it's just a mistake on the website?

 

[pkrieger2287]

 

[Mikey15]

Are we are going to have to start referring to this as PVR and PVB? Disney has two separate listings but both include tower rooms.

The PVR is just the hotel side, while PVB are the villas and bungalows or the DVC side. I assume it's just a mistake on the website?

Disney’s cash booking site works this way for Animal Kingdom Lodge too. There’s a listing for “Animal Kingdom Lodge” and for Kidani Village and for Jambo House, but you click one and you see rooms from the other too (on the cash booking site).

In Poly context, PVR refers to the whole resort, including hotel-side longhouses, common areas like pools and GCH, DVC-side longhouses and bungalows, and now the PIT.

 

[Lorana]

April really surprised me coming in at #1

Tax returns. ;-)

 

[lukemorenus]

Tax returns. ;-)

...or tax refunds

 

[Lorana]

...or tax refunds

Ha! Yes that’s what I meant to say.

 

[kanerf]

So we are in Sep, will we see sales start next month?

 

[Sandisw]

So we are in Sep, will we see sales start next month?

I do still think we will see sales by October 1st…for current members with new members starting a week later.

I can’t remember how far in advance they announced the sale date for VGF but I don’t remember it being too far..a few weeks?

So, still plenty of time.