RLL is going to have restrictions. It is also going to be more expensive than Riviera price per point. I just can't get over the maintenance fees. It is the highest of all Walt Disney World DVC Resorts and they go up every year.
They do, One thing that has changed with RIV is the reduction in bus service to/from Epcot and HS. It is now once an hour,
What we don’t know is that when setting the 2020 budget, did they account for this? Dues were set before that change was made,
While I am pretty confident they figured out a way to estimate Skyliner costs, but it was still only that. Could this have been overestimated in year 1? Dues have to reflect actual costs, but I would think that year 1 allows some wiggle room for those unknown expensive so you don’t have a massive increase year 2.
So, it will be interesting next year to see how RiVs fees change in relation to other resorts. Some resorts went up a good deal for 2020...so we already saw the gap close a little from when it went on sale and compared those fees to 2019 figures.
Not saying it will ever be lower than others, but there is a chance, depending on how those initial fees were determined with things needing to be estimated, that it’s increase next year, could be only the smaller end vs, the larger end,