I think given the 2 week lag from the sale date to the recording by Orange County, it’s unlikely to have included more than a trivial amount of sales from the new incentives.
FWIW @wdrl got the same numbers when he did his monthly analysis. Brutal sales.
I bought SSR at $180 this year. Cannot believe that it is now $205pp. Would reconsider another resort had it been the latter. We only wanted to add on because resale was SSR and still was the best option for us at the time.
I know inventory on direct points is limited on the ones they're not actively selling, but this is still interesting data.
Two instances come to mind on why a Guarantee week is desirable. First is during the big Holiday seasons where you do not have to worry about getting your room in peak demand times. The second is a recent phenomenon, weeks around Disney marathon runs. Getting rooms during the weekends of any of the Marathons is not easy, and getting the guarantee week solves the aggravation.
Yea, they can be converted back to the amount of points of that fixed week contract.
They used to be worth it before they updated the fixed week charts earlier this year. Prior to the update, a fixed week for the second week of November for a RIV standard studio was 130 point contract. Now, it's a 153 contract for that same week, and from the 2023/2024 point charts it only costs 138 points to book. So you're paying a significant premium (almost one night's worth of points) to have a guaranteed week. Haven't done any additional analysis for other weeks/resorts (we almost purchased that week in November until we did the math). I don't care how much demand there is for a particular event, I'm not paying that much extra to get a room.
