Would you support a point "tax" for staying at other resorts?

[disneyistheone]

No!!!!!!!

 

[OneMoreTry]

So where would all the points go??
Divided up among the resort's actual owners?
To Joe the Plumber?
To help pay for the Wall STreet bailout?


Newton's law of DVC-o-dynamics is that there is no total increase or decrease in points for a resort. Once all purchased, the points floating around remain the same. An action requires an equal and opposite REaction.

Am I not correct?

 

[Mississippian]

So where would all the points go??
Divided up among the resort's actual owners?
To Joe the Plumber?
To help pay for the Wall STreet bailout?


Newton's law of DVC-o-dynamics is that there is no total increase or decrease in points for a resort. Once all purchased, the points floating around remain the same. An action requires an equal and opposite REaction.

Am I not correct?

Actually, Newton's law says that lots of points never get redeemed.

Some resorts, because of their popularity, operate at near 100 percent capacity. At least one resort tends to have lots of empty rooms. An empty resort has no wear and tear. A resort booked to capacity gets lots of wear and tear.

My thought is that the extra points collected by the highly in demand resorts would be used to allow rooms to be rented through CRO. All the money that is made could go to reducing members dues at the resort that is getting worn out by 100 percent capacity. It would also lower member dues at that resort, thus compensating the members for it being harder to book rooms in their more desirable resort.

 

[kendzee94]

In a nut shell, NO!

 

[Anal Annie]

My thought is that the extra points collected by the highly in demand resorts would be used to allow rooms to be rented through CRO. All the money that is made could go to reducing members dues at the resort that is getting worn out by 100 percent capacity. It would also lower member dues at that resort, thus compensating the members for it being harder to book rooms in their more desirable resort.

Look at me when I say this so you can hear me! NO!!

10 pages into this thread you are still only (really) thinking of yourself and of your own pockets because you are still talking about where ever it is that you own...since your complaints are all concerning size and the limitations created I am thinking it's BWV. Anyway, I think I am not alone here when I point out that you have obviously been out-numbered and out-voted here! The "higher demand resorts" as you call them already have higher points in place and the established dues cover the maintenance for wear and tear. There is no need to make the points worse. You are proposing 2 sets of point charts. One for owners and one for the rest of us. You may only have an interest in staying at your home resort but the rest of us like the flexibility of staying at any of the DVC resorts we choose without penalty.

(PS) "compensating the members for it being harder to book rooms in their more desirable resort." Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What are you calling "more desirable" anyway? More desirable to WHO?

 

[TDC Nala]

Some of this is assuming that many DVC owners would never agree to stay anywhere other than their home resort.

I hardly ever stay at the resort where I own the most points (and it's BCV which is apparently one of the more "desirable" ones.)

Am more than happy to stay in another resort if I can't get into that one. Yes even Saratoga Springs (which of course is my other home resort)

Home resort advantage is only interesting to me when I am talking about the food and wine festival and since I am not sure yet how long I'd spend at it next year, I now run the risk of staying at OKW or SSR because I'm not booking BCV at 11 months. Oh the horror. I can handle a few bus rides - price I pay for my hesitancy.

 

[dzorn]

How many pages of

NO

do we need?

Denise in MI

 

[TDC Nala]

as the late great Fletcher Hodges would have said...... no.

 

[OneMoreTry]

Actually, Newton's law says that lots of points never get redeemed.

Some resorts, because of their popularity, operate at near 100 percent capacity. At least one resort tends to have lots of empty rooms. An empty resort has no wear and tear. A resort booked to capacity gets lots of wear and tear.

My thought is that the extra points collected by the highly in demand resorts would be used to allow rooms to be rented through CRO. All the money that is made could go to reducing members dues at the resort that is getting worn out by 100 percent capacity. It would also lower member dues at that resort, thus compensating the members for it being harder to book rooms in their more desirable resort.

If the resort is at 100% capacity, how would CRO have access to the rooms?

Members can book at their own resort by booking before the 7 month window.

It's gonna be hard to get 100,000 members to agree on changing a system they accepted and probably for the most part wanted when they paid their tens of thousands of dollars -- for a few that want to change the same system they agreed to when they bought in.

 

[Deb & Bill]

...My thought is that the extra points collected by the highly in demand resorts would be used to allow rooms to be rented through CRO. All the money that is made could go to reducing members dues at the resort that is getting worn out by 100 percent capacity. It would also lower member dues at that resort, thus compensating the members for it being harder to book rooms in their more desirable resort.

I'd think that this would reimburse Disney for all the rooms they did not sell when a member redeemed their points for non-DVC Disney vacations.

 

[ont/ohana]

I vote NO!

When you buy DVC, you know that you can book your home resort at 11 months out, and try for another one at 7 months. We bought at SSR because we love SSR, but we do like to try other resorts as well. To me all Disney resorts are beautiful in their own way, and Hey- you are on vacation!!!!

 

[kdepot]

NO!!!!!!

Buy where you want to stay
Buy enough points
Book early and often

If you can't get exactly where you want under 6 months then take whats available!!! It's still a Disney vacation!!!

When you bought in to DVC they told you if you can plan your vacations well in Advance then this was a good idea.

I look at it as we plan at least 1 vacation early and if we decide to take a trip on short notice I'll take a room where I can.

 

[jpeka65844]

My son's teacher always says "you get what you get and you don't get upset"

Around here, us teachers say "You git what you git and you don't throw a fit!"

And for the record, NO on the point tax for staying somewhere else. It already costs a lot of points to do other things outside of DVC (other WDW resorts, cruise fees, etc....). Why nickel and dime what you do within DVC? That would be bad mojo for a lot of owners.