Points Used for Regular Room not DVC Room?

[mkcvol]

How do I find out how many points it will take to get a regular room at a resort, not a DVC room?
Trying to rent someones points but they cannot be used for a DVC property because time period was off.
Thanks for any information.
mkcvol

 

[Deb & Bill]

It uses a whole lot more points to stay in a non-DVC WDW room than a DVC villa. No points can be used for value resorts. Plus there is a $95 fee to use points at non-DVC WDW resorts.

 

[RobDoc]

It uses a whole lot more points to stay in a non-DVC WDW room than a DVC villa. No points can be used for value resorts. Plus there is a $95 fee to use points at non-DVC WDW resorts.

The $95 fee would also be in addition to the cost of the points used for the reservation itself.

Why not just ask the member what the total cost for the stay would be and then compare that to what you could get the same resort/dates thru Disney directly.

 

[Caskbill]

You'll probably never find that renting points for a non-DVC resort would ever save money, and most likely would probably cost more than reserving the hotel room through CRO.

Suppose you can get points for $10 each and you want to stay at the Poly later this month, Sunday through Thursday night (5-nights). That's 49 points per night for a Garden view, or 64 points for a Lagoon View.

5-nights garden view would be 245 points. Or $2,450 at $10/point. Plus $95 booking fee, so a total of $2,545. That's an average of $509/night.

Want to stay 7-nights, and have a Lagoon View, it would be 550 points. So at $10/pt plus the $95 it would total $5,595. Or an average of $799.28/night.

Want to go as cheap as possible, then it's Carribean Beach, Port Orleans, or Coronado, in January, Aug, Sep, Nov, early Dec. 16 points/night weekdays, 29 points/night weekend. go for 7-nights and it's 138 points. So you'd be looking at about $1,475 or an average of $210/night. Now I don't know offhand the rack rate for these resorts, but I'll bet anything that in January they're less than $210/night.