The I Love BWV (yes, Hallways and Clown Pool too!) Thread

[CarolynFH]

It is irritating that they changed the Pool/Garden View to the same cost as the Boardwalk View

They didn’t change anything. Originally the Preferred view included what’s now P/G and BW view, with BW view being only a request. After many expressions of great unhappiness and reportedly even public meltdowns at the front desk when that BW view request wasn’t met, DVC made BWV a bookable category but didn’t change the points costs for either set of rooms.

That made it easy for them a few years later when people kept complaining that the view from the studios and 1BR that look onto the Village Green wasn’t really a BW view as initially classified. They were able to reclassify them as P/G view without having to change the points for those rooms, which immediately became desirable precisely for that partial BW view.

 

[miss0033]

Ah. Thanks for clarifying that.
I misinterpreted a comment someone made that the P/G rooms "used to be fewer points", I made a poor assumption they increased P/G to match boardwalk. Rather than that they probably increased the price for both room types at some point when they were together.

I still feel P/G should be 1-2 points cheaper than Boardwalk and resort view should be 1-2 points more to maybe help relieve some pressure on the category. Unlikely to happen, I get that.

 

[CarolynFH]

Ah. Thanks for clarifying that.
I misinterpreted a comment someone made that the P/G rooms "used to be fewer points", I made a poor assumption they increased P/G to match boardwalk. Rather than that they probably increased the price for both room types at some point when they were together.

I still feel P/G should be 1-2 points cheaper than Boardwalk and resort view should be 1-2 points more to maybe help relieve some pressure on the category. Unlikely to happy, I get that.

The comment about “used to be fewer points” might have related to the reallocations in 2021-23 or 24, when summer points went down and fall/winter points went up and there were other adjustments to the charts. It made the cost of some owners’ usual vacations go up. I think there may be a 1 or 2 point difference for some dates, but in general P/G and BWV villas cost the same number of points for any given date.

I do agree that BW view should cost more than P/G view and a lot more than Resort view, but I don’t expect they’ll ever go through the mathematics to make that happen. Given that the Residential Units at BWV are of so many different configurations and combinations of villa sizes, it would be a nightmare to keep the total number of points for the resort and the ownership percentages balanced and legally accurate. It’s not like changing cash prices!