Changes to DVC Bookings - effective June 2nd

[KDM31091]

Unless I am missing something, I don't really see how this will improve availability. In demand dates (which are basically all of the year) always book out anyway. Lack of 7 month availability is really nothing new. It's never been easy for most of the resorts. This is why OKW and SSR have long been dubbed the resorts of last resort. They are/were typically the only ones available a lot of the time on shorter notice. Maybe it has gotten worse but a lot of it is social media influence and info about DVC becoming more readily available in that sense, and techniques like walking which most didn't know about before. Stopping rentals, eh. The rooms are getting used, the dues are paid, I don't really see why Disney cares so much.

 

[tanc]

I just rented for the first time before this change luckily lol. But why would anyone want to buy DVC if I could get reservations for half price and not even require a 50 year membership or whatever? Maybe they need to start providing more perks.

 

[Club Cooloholic]

Unless I am missing something, I don't really see how this will improve availability. In demand dates (which are basically all of the year) always book out anyway. Lack of 7 month availability is really nothing new. It's never been easy for most of the resorts. This is why OKW and SSR have long been dubbed the resorts of last resort. They are/were typically the only ones available a lot of the time on shorter notice. Maybe it has gotten worse but a lot of it is social media influence and info about DVC becoming more readily available in that sense, and techniques like walking which most didn't know about before. Stopping rentals, eh. The rooms are getting used, the dues are paid, I don't really see why Disney cares so much.

I can definitely see how it would help to not be renting them out, especially when the middlemen groups are doing searches and actively helping making bookings happen for specific dates if I own a bunch of points and I'm not thinking about booking anything I'm just not going to till I'm ready as it is now if I think I'm going to just throw them into rentals. Well they're going to get eaten up every last one of them