ParentsOf4
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When you look at it purely from a business perspective, converting existing Deluxe Resort rooms to DVC is a low-risk, high-return investment whose potential downside is many years into the future. For an organization that's reluctant to make significant capital investments in Orlando, it's a (financially) sound move.I think the point a lot of people are ignoring is that the Deluxe Customers are the target DVC Customers. If you look at @ParentsOf4 analysis from the opposite perspective, Disney has to expand DVC to the Deluxe resorts if it continues to poach Deluxe customers and convert them to DVC.
I don't view this as a tragedy, this is simply adjusting their inventory to align with what the customers are doing. DVC is successful right now and they are rallying around that strategy. If this is the wrong strategy or if the market changes I expect that TWDC will adjust accordingly.
All things considered, construction of the Villas at the Grand Floridian (VGF) is more difficult to fathom. (And I've heard stories.
I understand that you might not consider it a tragedy, but I find it thoroughly depressing to realize that between the Poly and apparently now the WL, corporate Disney effectively is signaling that WDW is 'done'. Yes, there will be updates from time-to-time but WDW's glory days are firmly in the past.
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