What percentage of your WDW spent OKW points are used at OKW>

[d-r]

Originally posted by PamOKW
80% of respondents estimate they use their OKW points 50% of the time or more to stay at OKW. Taking into consideration that people own at multiple resorts (some with OKW as the add-on rather than the primary), it looks like folks on this board are doing their best to keep the DVC system in balance. (I looked at the figures this morning with 8 OKW respondents, 78 at 50% or more.

hmm, it looked to me like about 1/3 of the okw respondents used their points at okw about 1/3 of the time - (40/104 (38.5%) okw respondents reported using the points at okw 70% of the time or less).

Now, didn't someone say something like 9 million points existed at OKW? EDITED: I just saw that it was 7.6 million, so I will change the numbers below. You can't figure out how many points this really represents, because, first, this "sample" can't generalize to the population of okw owners (not representative), and second, it isn't really a case of "one owner, one vote" because people own different amounts of points at okw. So you don't really know how many points are being talked about, of course. But say that one-third of the owners of those 7.6 million points would be 2.5 million points, and that they used 1/3 of their points, that would be almost one million points. Of course, those numbers aren't remotely related to reality, in the least, I'm just pointing out that there is a very different way to view this than "80% of okw respondants use over 50% of their points." Heck, even if that was true, say 20% of 7.6 million, 1.5 million, half of that is still in the nieghborhood of 750K points. Consider that there is only 3-4 million points TOTAL at bcv. So that is a heck of a lot of points floating around. That is enough points to book 1/4 to 1/3 of the rooms at bcv in a year. Of course they aren't all going to bcv, but you get the point. Again, though, those numbers have no reflection at all on reality - none - so it is a pretty useless exercise - I'm just saying that I would interpret those numbers very differently (if they were true, which they aren't of course - this is an exercise in speculation).

It doesn't really matter. I think that everyone agrees that it is easier to book a room at okw within 7 months than it is at bcv on average. It really isn't rocket science. OKW is bigger, there are more rooms (but there are proportionally the same number of points to rooms as at bcv of course, also) and there is more likely to be a vacancy. I don't think that anyone argues with that, and it is the most basic point. This particular poll doesn't make me feel like it will be easier to get a room at bcv within 7 months than my experience has been in the past - or that rooms at okw would be any less available. So, again, I'm glad that dvc had the guts to do what was best for all of dvc and put in a slide at OKW, because I don't doubt that sometime in the next 50 years I will find myself staying at OKW. Thank you, DVC. And thank you in advance OKW owners for paying the dues to upkeep the slide.

DR

 

[PamOKW]

Originally posted by d-r
hmm, it looked to me like about 1/3 of the okw respondents used their points at okw about 1/3 of the time - (40/104 (38.5%) okw respondents reported using the points at okw 70% of the time or less).

I'm not following the numbers -- of course they keep changing as people vote. Right now I see 20 respondents that use their points 0-30% at OKW. There are 105 OKW owners responding (I took out the non-voting numbers). That's 19% using the points a 1/3 of the time at OKW and 2/3 of the time elsewhere. (Looking at the numbers, which are now up to 106 votes, more along the lines used by d-r, I see 72% using them at OKW 70% of the time or more. 28% using them at OKW 60% or less.)

Of course any of these polls are worth just about nothing. Besides being a very small group who also need to be folks that read and post on the DIS, there is also only an "honor" system to prevent ballot stuffing.

I agree that under most circumstances it is easier to book OKW than BCV and that it's also easier to book BWV than BCV or VWL -- because of the size of the resorts.

 

[Towncrier]

Since joining in 1995 and adding on in 1999 (all OKW points):
2140 points used at OKW
725 points used for Disney Cruise
600 points used at BCV (including our planned 2004 vacation)
100 points used at BWV

If it were up to my wife, we'd spend 100% of our points at OKW. Notice that she gets her way the majority of the time.

 

[d-r]

I'm not following the numbers -- of course they keep changing as people vote. Right now I see 20 respondents that use their points 0-30% at OKW.

Yeah, this is why I said we were looking at it different. You are looking at 0-30% at OKW, I am looking at up to 70% NOT at OKW -

70% = 10 votes - they are spending 30% NOT at okw
60% = 6 votes = they are spending 40% NOT at okw
50% - 2 votes - they are spending 50% NOT at okw
40% - 2 votes - they are spending 60% NOT at okw

30% - 4 votes - they are spending 70% NOT at okw - this is where your counting starts - using ther points 30% at okw
20% - 8 votes - they are spending 80% NOT at okw
10% - 1 vote - they are spending 90% NOT at okw -
00% - 8 votes - they are spending 100% NOT at okw-
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total 41 votes / 117 (35%) who spend about 1/3 (30%) OR MORE of their okw points somehwere besides okw - you are looking at the number of people who keep their points at okw - I was pointing out the flip side, the number of people that aren't -
your glass is 1/2 full and mine is 1/2 empty, that's all.

All the previous disclaimers of course but again, if this did reflect reality, we are talking about something in the neighborhood of a million old key west points - the logic for that being fatally flawed of course, but still pointing out that this isn't a negligible amount of points.


DR