Bay Lake Tower point distribution

[DVCNews]

As sales wind down for the Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort, a Use Year has now been established for all of its 5.7 million Disney Vacation Club points. *



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[DizDays]

I'm very curious to know why they break the percentages down as they do. I'm sure there's a good reason but I can't think of one.

Is the Use Year break down for each DVC resort listed anywhere? I would be interested to know what the percentages look like for the other resorts.

Thanks for always bringing such interesting information to us!!

[TimK]

This story has charts for many of the other resorts:

http://dvcnews.com/index.php/dvc-pro...ts-by-use-year

Look for updated versions of those charts in the near future.

[wdrl]

I'm very curious to know why they break the percentages down as they do. I'm sure there's a good reason but I can't think of one.

Is the Use Year break down for each DVC resort listed anywhere? I would be interested to know what the percentages look like for the other resorts.

Thanks for always bringing such interesting information to us!!

In April 2011, DVCNews had an article showing the Distribution of Points by Use Year for nine of the DVC Resorts (Aulani and VGC are not available). Click here to jump to the article and the charts showing the UY distribution by resort. The data in the charts should be updated soon to reflect current point distributions.

I'm not sure why DVD distributes the points the way it does for the resorts. BLT is heavily skewed for the February UY (37.8%), but AKV is skewed toward December UY (25.9%). When all seven WDW DVC resorts are combined, December (18.2%) is slightly ahead of February (17.2%).

Remember that all DVC resorts will expire on January 31st of either 2042 (BCV, BWV, VWL, VB, HHI, OKW), 2054 (SSR), 2057 (AKV, OKW), 2060 (BLT) or 2061 (Aulani). One advantage for DVC members with a February UY is that when we reach the last year of the lease hold, we'll have a full 12 months to use our last year's annual allotment of points. BLT owners who receive their last allotment of points on December 1, 2059, will have only two calendar months to use those points before BLT's lease expires.

[Goofygrl]

Thank goodness I have my Oct points already!

[RichGBC]

So, based off the last paragraph,

>Availability of a given Use Year can impact a member's ability to purchase additional points at a given resort, either via a direct purchase from Disney Vacation Club or via resale transaction. A DVC owner with a February Use Year will have a relatively easy time adding points at the Bay Lake Tower given that over 37% of all points match the desired Use Year. October owners face the greatest challenge with only 5.1% of all points providing a match.

How does this work out...do you always have to match use year? I have 150 April points now. So, If i bought 150 more via resale I'd match April to get all 300 at once, right. Does it mater if you get points from another period, and you just get 150 in April, and another 150 in say, September? Harder to manage for big point stays, but it would accommodate 2 trips a year. Or is there something else I'm missing?

[DisneyGeek]

To be in a single membership contracts must be the same Use Year and titled in exactly the same way.

If you buy resale in a different UY (September) it would become a new membership. You could transfer points from one membership to the other, but there are limits on doing that. You also would have to log in seperately to look at each membership, have different banking deadlines and dates when points would be borried, etc. It certainly can be done, but may be more hassle & limiting to your flexability than it is worth, ESPECIALLY if you already own at the resort.

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[beepy]

Comment - "If you buy resale in a different UY (September) it would become a new membership. You could transfer points from one membership to the other, but there are limits on doing that. You also would have to log in seperately to look at each membership, have different banking deadlines and dates when points would be borried, etc. It certainly can be done, but may be more hassle & limiting to your flexability than it is worth, ESPECIALLY if you already own at the resort."

I have three contracts. Two (SSR and VGC) are under one member number. the other for Aulani is in a separate contract. They have different UY and there are hang-ups which I intentionally inflicted upon myself based on when I felt I would vacation in Hawaii.

You can transfer from one member number to another, as stated, with restrictions to one transfer per year.

When I log in, both member numbers and contracts appear under one login. The recent upgrade to the DVCMember website appear to be what has made this possible.

Seeing everything that is happening with each contract has been greatly improved this last year or so. Or, I didn't notice what I could do before.

[DisneyGeek]

When I log in, both member numbers and contracts appear under one login. The recent upgrade to the DVCMember website appear to be what has made this possible.

That's cool! Thanks for the info; I wasn't aware of that- all 6 (nearly 7! ) of my contracts are in a single membership...

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[TimK]

I understand that DVC currently does make exceptions to the one transfer rule if there is common ownership among the contracts. However, that seems like a policy that could change at any time.

And transferred points are something of a headache. The home resort aspects tend to get messed-up, requiring phone calls to Member Services to book rather than doing it online. Points also have a way of being lost during transfers.

If you already own one of the more uncommon Use Years, I would simply be prepared to work a little harder when adding points at sold-out resorts. May require a bit more patience.

Buying a different Use Year may seem like the path of least resistance but you could be setting yourself up for 40 years of point management headaches.