Believe it or not, they wrote the language with RIV that allows them to have different rules for different members,
I know they can write in whatever they want. My thing though is that for existing members at the original resorts they can't say you can't trade in via resale to our resort but our resale can trade in to your resort.
Banning both sides resale contracts from trading in/out is fine as its fair. They can't open up a one way door though I wouldnt think. That seems like it would break some regulation or something.
have you stayed at RIV yet? The skyliners are very comparable to the monorail. It’s 10 mins to both Epcot and DHS.
Location wise, I’d say that BCV is like BLT and RIV is like Poly.
CCV/BRV aren’t good analogies location wise. They have access to only one park whereas poly/RIV have great access to two parks.
Except Poly has a lake side view of Magic Kingdom, RIV has a view of CBR.
Now like most threads I expect people to call be stuck up because I put looking at and being attached to CBR as a negative instead of a positive.
I think there's a lot of willful ignoring of actual geographic distance on the part of people who want to focus on time-of-travel instead. It's a huge benefit to me to look over and see MK or Epcot right out my back door, to feel the proximity. If Riv had a rocket ship which delivered me to MK in 0.4sec, I'd still prefer looking across the lagoon from Poly.
I have went over this before and agree there are great things about RIV that people will love. I will not entertain that RIV is even in the same realm as park side resorts in terms of location.
Do the monorail resorts have a view of a park.. MK? Yes they do and RIV doesn’t really...other than some far off views...that is a fact,
Does that make them better? Depends on what you want, Being better is a matter of opinion.
Being parkside vs further out is 100% part of the equation for location value. Being able to walk vs ride transportation is also part of it. Having multiple non-bus options to get to the parks is also part of it.
BWV/BCV is superior to RIV in the location category. You can argue any other category and I likely would agree with many of them that RIV is better. Location though they are not in the same tier.
Just keep this in mind from the far end of Riviera to the Skyliner is .2 miles. From the far end of BWV to Epcot SKyliner is .5 miles (far side to boat is .2 miles). This is not exact but a rough estimate based on GIS. Then if you do far side of BWV to HS its around .75 miles to the Skyliner.
To put the walking in context from front to back of HS is .5 miles and half way around the world showcase is .5 miles.
So yes slightly longer walking if you don't want to wait on a boat but a small fraction of what you walk in a day. If you don't value location as much you get the benefit of the Skyliner which is a dramatic benefit of Riviera and rescues it from SSR/OKW status (which should be two resorts also connected in to Skyliner honestly, although I know its pretty unlikely as there is no benefit to Disney really).