In July 2012, DVCNews.com published a set of charts showing the distribution of Disney Vacation Club points across the eight Use Years for select DVC properties. Since then, millions of additional points have been assigned a Use Year, so it is time to update the Use Year Distribution charts.
The updated charts reflect that all of the points for Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas have been assigned a Use Year and that the Villas at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, which opened in October 2013, has a Use Yeas assigned to 68.4% of its 2.5 million points.
The first chart below displays the cumulative distribution for the eight DVC resorts located at Walt Disney World. Unfortunately, data is not available on the distribution of points by Use Year for the Villas at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel and Aulani, Disney Vacation Club Villas, so there is no chart for either resort.
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A Disney Vacation Club Member's Use Year is determined at the time an ownership interest is purchased, and marks the period over which points may be used for a resort stay. Disney Vacation Club designates eight different months as the start of a Use Year: February, March, April, June, August, September, October, or December. The months of January, May, July, and November are not used as the start of a Use Year.
A further explanation of Use Years can be found in the DVC for Beginners section on DVCNews.com.
Once the points in a Unit are assigned to a specific Use Year, the Use Year for those points will never change. Even when Disney Vacation Development reacquires points via foreclosure proceedings, exercising its Right of First Refusal, or other buyback reasons, the Use Year cannot be changed.
Disney's Old Key West Resort, which was the first DVC resort, is the only one that has a fairly equal distribution of points among all eight Use Years. At Old Key West, all eight Use Years are within a narrow range of 10.5% to 14.6%. However, as new DVC resorts have opened, Disney Vacation Development no longer attempts to have all points at a resort evenly distributed among the eight Use Years. Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort has 37.8% of its points in the February Use Year and only 5.1% of its points in the October Use Year. A similar uneven distribution is occurring at Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas where the December Use Year accounts for 32.8% of the points assigned.
