Question about 20 Reservation Rule

[todd222222]

It's my understanding that "they" will be looking at members who have 20 or more reservations in a year and determine if they are a commercial renters, whatever that is.

So what makes a "reservation"?
Here are some examples, lets assume of these reservations are NOT in the members name:

7 night stay booked day by day. 1 Reservation of 7 reservations

7 night stay shifted by one day. For example old reservation was Jan 15 thru Jan 22 and new reservation is Jan 16 thru Jan 23. Same names, same resort, just one day different. 1 Reservation or 2 Reservation (because of change)

7night stayed shifted by one day and an extra day. For example old reservation was Jan 15 thru Jan 22 and new reservation is Jan 16 thru Jan 24. Same names, same resort, just one day different plus 1 day. 1 Reservation or 2 Reservation (because of change and addition of day)

So I guess the questions is....What is a reservation in regard to this rule?

Or do we even know? Would any answer be speculation?

 

[RobDoc]

DVC has never published how they count the number of reservations. The limit of 20 seems to be what would initiate a review of the account - meaning that no action is likely to automatically occur just because 20 reservations have been made.

Using the examples in the question above, if the names on those reservations include the member for same or similar dates it's likely that nothing would happen at all. My personal opinion is that those examples would not count as multiple reservations (day-by-day reservations linked together, extending a stay by a day, etc.).

We've not seen any reports here that any reservations have been cancelled as a result of this policy. I view it as more of a clarification about the definition used by DVC for "commercial purpose".

 

[drusba]

They don't define but none of yours sounds like more than one reservation. If you do day by day, you end up with only one reservation number. If you add or subtract a day or days, which is what you are doing in the other two examples, you should keep your original reservation number. Net result, you have at most three reservation numbers (could be one if all your examples apply to the same trip). I seriously doubt they are going to count any one reservation number as more than one reservation.

Realistically, the 20 rule is not going to affect many people no matter how many things you actually count. Example: we tend to go three to four times a year. One of those, because it is partly holiday time (Christmas) we make day by days. Others we sometimes add or chop a day. The thing is, even if I counted all those events, including day by day, as a reservation, that we have done in the past years, I still can't get myself up to 20 in any given year.

 

[TisBit]

As already stated, one reservation number is pretty much one reservation, regardless of the changes that were made to it. If it is for the same names and under one number, I don't think even Disney could justify that one. Also, members are NOT limited to 20 ressies, but rather this is supposed to be the point that they look at them to see if there is a pattern that could be commercial use (i.e. 15 ressies in 15 different names, although they have not said what the criteria would be).

One situation where one stay could be multiple reservations would be when there are split stays or multiple rooms booked, because these would all generate seperate numbers.

 

[BirdsOfPreyDave]

This rule is meant to catch people who buy many, many points simply to rent them out to others for the purpose of making a profit. If you're using your account for your own personal use and occassionally making reservations for friends and family, or occassionally renting out points you can't use, you don't have anything to worry about.