Use year question

[stuartsong]

This question might have been asked before, but is there a specific reason why there are no use year for January, May, July and November?

 

[D-Trick]

A more tenured owner might have a better answer, but from what I understand is:

Remembering that DVC started in the 1990s before the internet, the different UYs are/were a way to spread out and encourage membership usage throughout the year as you would need to call in to make reservations. To me, 12 UYs is too many, 6 seems too few.

Not having a January makes sense because that would give an unfair comprehension advantage to those owners. Why not the other 3 months-- dunno.

 

[Sandisw]

This question might have been asked before, but is there a specific reason why there are no use year for January, May, July and November?

I do not think I have ever seen an answer as to why DVD created only 8 UYs vs all 12.

 

[Fangorn]

This has been an ongoing source of bewilderment for me. As an operations, systems and process consultant for over 40 years, I know there had to have been some reason for doing this (even if it wasn't rational). I'm guessing that reason may be lost knowledge at this point. I even emailed DVD about it many years ago and got a vaguely worded reply that amounted to "we don't really know - just the way it was set up".

I've come to the conclusion that this falls into some version of the category: "We've always done it this way"

Steve

 

[FlyingDonut]

Several contracts end on January 30, 2042, so the lack of a January UY at least makes it clear that those contracts don't gets points in 2042. IDK about the others though.

 

[disneylandtour]

Several contracts end on January 30, 2042, so the lack of a January UY at least makes it clear that those contracts don't gets points in 2042. IDK about the others though.

There's going to be a huge issue with the DEC UY at the 2042 resorts in about 18 years.

 

[disneylandtour]

A more tenured owner might have a better answer, but from what I understand is:

Remembering that DVC started in the 1990s before the internet, the different UYs are/were a way to spread out and encourage membership usage throughout the year as you would need to call in to make reservations. To me, 12 UYs is too many, 6 seems too few.

Not having a January makes sense because that would give an unfair comprehension advantage to those owners. Why not the other 3 months-- dunno.

I don't think there is any real advantage. UY mean when they can used, not when they can be booked.

I think the real thing to consider is the date that they can be banked. If you think you might make a regular last-minute trip to WDW in Dec, then Mar is a terrible UY because you needed to decide to bank or not by Oct 31. That's the real issue, the banking cut off. I would look for a banking deadline that fits your travel patterns.

 

[Sandisw]

Several contracts end on January 30, 2042, so the lack of a January UY at least makes it clear that those contracts don't gets points in 2042. IDK about the others though.

The last set of points for the 2042 resorts will be in 2041 since the resort ceases to exist as DVc Janaury 31st, 2042.

How they will deal with that no one knows.

 

[atthebeachclub]

The last set of points for the 2042 resorts will be in 2041 since the resort ceases to exist as DVc Janaury 31st, 2042.

How they will deal with that no one knows.

I do believe they will do something that seems fair to all use years. Disney isn’t in the business of trying to make people angry.

 

[Sandisw]

I do believe they will do something that seems fair to all use years. Disney isn’t in the business of trying to make people angry.

I agree and there are a lot of things that could happen that will give owners flexibility to use up their points at their home resort in the last few years.

 

[TheDailyMoo]

The no January makes sense as per the above posters and the only thing I can even remotely come up with is that having June as the only UY in the May, June, July period is that they may have wanted to keep the nice Spring months lighter thinking most would want to book during that time period? That's grasping at straws because then it leaves November as the outlier and who knows what the reasoning for that would be. I bet if you aske Michael Eisner even he wouldn't remember.

 

[E2ME2]

This question might have been asked before, but is there a specific reason why there are no use year for January, May, July and November?

I think it’s because the job of picking use years was the first position held by the individual who just designed the exterior railings at the new Poly Tower. This person is big on symmetry!!

 

[CarolynFH]

I think it’s because the job of picking use years was the first position held by the individual who just designed the exterior railings at the new Poly Tower. This person is big on symmetry!!

And that person is very, very old too, given that the UY were established by the time OKW opened (as The Disney Vacation Club) in 1991!