Low Room Availability

[Lisa01]

It seems room inventory is extremely low at those DVC resorts that have their retail rooms closed due to covid. Is inventory low because the resorts are selling our dvc rooms to cash paying public? If so, I'm very annoyed. Once again, DVC members are treated like second class citizens!

 

[BillPA]

What resort are you looking at and how far ahead are you looking? You do understand most of us have lots of extra points this year due to the Covid close down. The 50th anniversary is this year and several resorts are in the middle of renovations,

 

[Lisa01]

I looked at them all and for the month of March. I realize it's short notice, but never had this issue before. We are Florida residents and periodically go on short notice. Even Vero Beach was unavailable.
You make a good point about the extra points members have.

 

[BillPA]

Once inside the 60 day point, the breakage period, the units are open to cash thru CRO.
This is a very strange year, COVID has everything messed up.

 

[The Jackal]

Also SSR has 3 buildings out of service for the refurbishment. They should be done soon. That’s up to 210 rooms unavailable. BCV has 282 rooms, CCV 210 rooms, BRV 181 rooms, VGF 147 rooms.

 

[Philsfan77]

Spring Break is also earlier this year for most places due to Easter being at the beginning of the month of April. Colleges are earlier, and school aged kids are earlier (we are going the last week of March for instance because of our Spring Break).

With that being said, Poly still has good availability, and so does SSR, and it seems like the only week really fully missing dates across all resorts is the 14th-21st (a lot of college spring breaks starting then).

 

[puffkin]

We are going right after Easter (checking in 4/10) and just booked on Monday and was surprised at how much availability there was on such short notice. Can you play around with your dates? We aren't even visiting Disney this time (Universal and Seaworld Parks) but have a glut of points we need to use up in 2021.

 

[AliceIn]

I saw BLT being offered for cash on the Disney site for January 2022. Is that normal?

 

[drusba]

I saw BLT being offered for cash on the Disney site for January 2022. Is that normal?

Normal. Disney owns a 2% to 4% portion of each resort, even after a "sell out" of the resort. Also, it gets additional points via trade-outs and some other events, such as a foreclosures. In other words, it can rent rooms for cash beginning 11-months out using the points it has.