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What's going on with Disney in RCI? Last year around this time, there were lots of drops. This year it doesn't look like much. I haven't been hanging around lately so I've probably missed what's going on. I would have thought with RCI prices going up, more Disney would be available.
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I believe it's just flat out higher demand. I have a DVC, too, so have been lurking around the 7-month window and am amazed how little is available -
Little has been showing up in weeks. Usually, they're either LM, or 4/5 months out, from what I can see.Angela
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
BTW, I'm still keeping track of how many times you annoy me.
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I haven't been watching as faithfully as I once was, but my impression is that there aren't as many as there were. It may be a lot of people have been putting off their Disney vacation for one reason or another and are going now, or it may be that a lot of people have gone before and just really like being onsite. It also may be more people are putting in requests who used to take their chances.Comment
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I believe the better educated timeshare owners (us and on other popular sites) realize the way to go is with an ongoing search.
I mean, why wouldn't you put a search in if you want to go?
I have an OGS in for Late April 2015 that I started March 1, 2014 in weeks for a 1BR unit at 4 resorts, and I expect to get it. Just need to be patient.
With the opening of several new vacation club properties in the last 2-3 years, "old" owners are using their points for the newer properties leaving more deposits of the older resorts for us
Have also read that the window is now more like 7 months out as opposed to 10 months out before...Comment
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Thanks all! Last year it was about 6 months out, so I assumed that's about the same this year. I have access to both points and weeks and seeing not much. @stan2u, yeah, not much in dvc either for a SSR owner trying to get BLT
, but hopefully something in the less busy season. I do hope to go one year during the first week of Dec. and expect I'll have to stay at SSR or OKW then, but I would like to try all the resorts eventually, just prefer BLT while the kids are little.
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They are there, but Weeks inventory is going to ongoing searches, and Points inventory gets snapped up as soon as it drops, so for the most part there is nothing to "see" in terms of just searching by hand. As noted, the deposit window continues to shorten---I confirmed a 2BR at BLT for the first week of April '14 in early December '13 via OGS, so only four months prior. There were a couple of other 2BRs that hit a week or two prior to that.
If you are planning a WDW vacation for a family, you are already expecting to spend thousands of dollars on park tickets and food, even if the lodging is free. The extra $10 in RCI exchange fees is in the noise.I would have thought with RCI prices going up, more Disney would be available.Comment
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The hard part of not being able to see exchanges online is trying to guess what TPUs have changed to. A year ago I got an OKW 1 bedroom in September for 18 TPU. This year I matched a studio at BLT for 33 TPU for the same week. Fortunately I decided to take it. It helps that people are posting trades in the forums so we know the going rate.Comment
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Yes, I wish more people were bluegreen owners and posted the going bluegreen points rates. A year ago Disney was incredibly cheap through bluegreen, now it's not as much of a discounted price (at least for the cost of my points).Comment
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The DVC I can see now are 8000 BG points for one bedrooms in September, which is what they've been whenever I looked. They kick up to 11000 points for most of the year (okay, at least for most of the weeks I keep track of, which are admittedly off season), and although they're a lot rarer, the two bedrooms I've seen were 11000 and 18000 Which is about what the other Orlando exchanges cost with BG -- or at least, everytime DVC and Wyndham info overlapped, Orlando points cost was the same for DVC and Wyndham Bonnet Creek (and a bunch of others, if I remember rightly). It does seem like there are more 18000 weeks, though -- I thought I remembered May and December had more 11000 weeks, for example, but unfortunately I didn't always write them down so I'm not sure.Originally posted by ptlohmysoul View PostComment
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You guys are getting a great deal if your BG points for DVC are the same as Bonnet Creek....In weeks, a Sept. 1 bdrm at Bonnet Creek is 17 pts, and a Sept. 1bdrm at DVC is 36 pts.Angela
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
BTW, I'm still keeping track of how many times you annoy me.
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I think it is a good deal for DVC. OTOH, we don't have the option of last minute discounts, and Club International (way up at the north end of International Drive) and Vacation Village at Parkway also cost the same. So a great deal for DVC is kind of balanced out by the grave lack of discount weeks.Originally posted by ArtsieAng View Post
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But last year (strangely) it was the opposite. Bonnet Creek had the higher TPUs and DVC was lower.Originally posted by ArtsieAng View PostComment
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RCI Disney
The Bluegreen to RCI points grid is fixed. No surprises. Almost the whole year is considered red except September.Originally posted by ptlohmysoul View Post
There is a link on the Bluegreen forum that has the grid.it is the same for weeks and points.
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You definitely have a point there. But I had also thought tpu's and points went up too. Maybe I was mistaken.Originally posted by bnoble View PostComment
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