Question about points

[MMSM]

If dvc says there is no room avail but I see there are Villa (dvc) rooms for cash can they use points to book? Is there a penalty or same amount of points

 

[Chuck S]

Short answer is no, longer answer is maybe, but probably not. It depends upon how Disney Cash reservations acquired the room.

Disney retains an ownership interest in each resort, represented by a percentage of points, they also can use any points in a resort that is not "sold out" and offer those rooms as cash reservations, and another alternative is that a member used their pointsd\ to trade to a Disney cruise or cash hotel stay (ie, using the points to stay at Paradise Pier or Disneyland Hotel) In these instances the answer is no.

If, however, the cash reservation arm acquired the room becasue is was sitting empty and NOT reserved by a DVC member at 60 days our (referred to as "breakage inventory" Member services can sometimes recall one of those rooms, if it has not already rented to a cash guest. That is very rare, however. When a room is rented for cash becasue it is breakage status, a portion of the money collected is used to offset dues at that resort. It will show on the annual budget as Breakage Income.

 

[Narcoossee11]

The inventory you see for cash, is from gst that have done an exchange.
A DCL cruise, actual hotel around the world/Dland/WDW .

Those points units HAVE to be sold for cash since the above companies are paid in $$$$ only.
History has proven that those rooms will sell. Sometimes it is day of.

 

[MMSM]

Thank you so much for this information.