Does anyone else think it's a bad idea to suggest Disney add more charges? I get that it's frustrating when you want a specific room for a popular time, but we're being nickel and dimed to death lately. Every time I figure out how the system works, Disney changes the rules and finds a way to get more money out of me.
Agreed. No need to give that mouse anymore ideas on how to take the money out of our pockets.
I am not a fan of the walking. But it is what it is so I'll do it...a little. I didn't walk for 3 months and I won't. I own at BWV for F&W and we like to save points with standard view. But if we can't get it, that is fine. We just do PG view. We have had to take that about 50% of the time. We added more BWV points for this reason. Yes, I'd LOVE to get a club level room at AKV one time. We have tried. We owned AKV for 2.5 years (then resold it) and we had club level booked once but our travel mates needed to change dates so we had to give it up. SIL owns AKV and she tried to get it for us all as a split stay with our BWV during F&W 2 years ago but she couldn't get it at 8am of the 11 month window (with 2 computers trying). And I'd like the ability to get BLT standard view since that resort is such a point eater...so we just don't book there (have stayed in studio for 3 nights and have 1BR booked for 5 nights in March...that's all we've booked in 12 years of dVC ownership).
So I am fine with just making do with the system at hand. We like 1BR anyway so for our BWV stays we should have little problem. We prefer staying at BWV and own the most points there (255...plus 200 OKW and 125 HHI and 70 CCV). This trip I just walked for the 2BR, my DS-22 and his GF are joining us for his first trip back in 4 years. If I didn't get the 2BR standard view I was going to book 1BR standard plus studio BW/PG view as separate bookings and that would A) take more points and B) put our rooms, likely, far apart (might be preferable to DS though, LOL).
Next difficult booking will be CCV before Xmas 2019. I have to book a 2BR AND a studio for just 2-3 nights (whatever 210 points, 3 years worth, will get us). Waiting for travel mates to book their Vistana timeshare for Xmas week and then will add to the front end, but they don't know if they'll get a Fri, Sat or Sun check in yet. Hopefully they'll have it secured before mid January.