What is the total number of points available...

[CrazyDuck]

Just curious about the total number of points available per resort. I read on a post (fogset which one exactly) that there are over 5 million points available at BLT. Now are they calculating for all 12 months or do they only count the use years that they are selling? Since they don't sell certain months are these the points they are using for cash ressies? Do they add these non-sold months in the total number of available points? Does anyone know they total number of points available at VGC? I'm not very good at the mathiness!

 

[CrazyDuck]

Did I stump the experts?

 

[tjkraz]

The points are determined by totaling the annual cost to spend 365 nights in a single villa X the number of villas constructed.

If the point charts demonstrate that it would cost 25,000 points to spend every night of the year in a Two Bedroom and they build 300 2B villas at that property, DVC can legally sell 7.5 million points.

They hold back 2-4% of the total for maintenance purposes. That permits the management company to periodically take rooms out of service for painting, new carpet, and other renovations.

Unsold points (points that Disney still owns) can be used to make rooms available for booking by CRO. Rooms are also given to CRO when owners trade out of their resort for things like Disney Cruises, Adventures by Disney, Concierge Collection, etc.

Use Year doesn't necessarily play a role in any of the numbers. The purpose of the 8 months designated as the start of a UY is simply to spread out the dates on which members receive their points. But I do not believe there is necessarily an equitable distribution of points among the different UYs.

 

[wdrl]

Just curious about the total number of points available per resort. I read on a post (fogset which one exactly) that there are over 5 million points available at BLT. Now are they calculating for all 12 months or do they only count the use years that they are selling? Since they don't sell certain months are these the points they are using for cash ressies? Do they add these non-sold months in the total number of available points? Does anyone know they total number of points available at VGC? I'm not very good at the mathiness!

Several disboard members, myself included, have tracked point allocations for the various DVC resorts. I estimate that BLT has about 5,733,530 points allocated to it. My estimate is based on Declarations and deeds recorded on the Orange County (FL) Comptroller's website, which show that each two-bedroom villa is allotted 19,640 points and each Grand Villa is allotted 34,975 points.

As noted by tjkraz, UY has nothing to do with the allocation to points to a DVC resort. Its a myth that a resort's points are evenly distributed among the 8 UYs. In BLT's case, over 54% of the points declared to date are in the February UY. Even if all of the remaining undeclared points were placed in UYs other than February, February will still have over 34% of the total BLT points. In AKV's case, December is the predominant UY, while August is the predominant UY at VWL.

As of 2/24/2010, Disney has sold about 49.52% of BLT's 5,733,530 points. This means that almost half of BLT is available to the DVC membership to book reservations on points, and that the other half is still owned by Disney and available for booking through CRO.

Let me know if you have any other questions.