Unit assignments at AKL

[drag n' fly]

Why are you assigned a "unit" when you buy at AKL?

 

[drusba]

This is true at all resorts. When you purchase, you receive a percentage real estate interest in a "unit" which usually consists of a cluster of rooms (at OKW and SSR, each building is a "unit"). A "unit" is thus not a room. Rooms are called "vacation homes" in the official documents. For all intents and purposes relating to your reserving and using rooms, it means nothing since you can be assigned any room in the resort. The reason for sale of "units" is somewhat arbitrary but it allows Disney to put on the market clusters of rooms at one time as "units" get completed.

 

[drag n' fly]

Thanks for explaining that. Just when I think I am close to having this all figured out something new pops up!

 

[disneyfan2kids]

... we got that same unit number etc with the % of ownership.

My DH and I decided that we owned the light switch in that unit.

So for those of you touching the light switch in unit 43 with dirty hands... CLEAN IT OFF...THAT'S MINE!!!!

 

[kgc07]

Does anyone have the drawing that shows where the units are located at AKV?

 

[LisaS]

Does anyone have the drawing that shows where the units are located at AKV?

The latest drawing is in post #270 in the AKV DISboard Ownership Chart thread. I'll be updating it soon. Some new Unit numbers are being posted in that thread so there should be some new condo documents appearing soon that show those new units.

 

[wildernessDad]

The only time your unit number matters is when a resort is opening, like, for example, AKV. We got unit 28 and unit 28 did not open up until September 1 of this year. Thus, we could not make AKV vacations plans for dates sooner than September 1. Guess what - we were there September 1!

 

[LisaS]

There is one other time it could matter and I hope it never happens to anyone! If the Unit you own is destroyed Disney can opt not to rebuild it. Say for example if a building at SSR was destroyed by fire or a beach cottage at VB is swept out to sea during a hurricane, Disney has the option to pay the owners of the Units that make up that building the proceeds from the insurance rather than rebuild. Those owners would no longer own points at that resort if that was their only contract there.

 

[wildernessDad]

There is one other time it could matter and I hope it never happens to anyone! If the Unit you own is destroyed Disney can opt not to rebuild it. Say for example if a building at SSR was destroyed by fire or a beach cottage at VB is swept out to sea during a hurricane, Disney has the option to pay the owners of the Units that make up that building the proceeds from the insurance rather than rebuild. Those owners would no longer own points at that resort if that was their only contract there.

Yes, I was avoiding that scenario like the plague. That will hopefully never happen to anyone.

 

[drag n' fly]

Yes, I was avoiding that scenario like the plague. That will hopefully never happen to anyone.

I hope not eek!