Disney Vacation Club just had its best January sales month in at least eight years.
In January 2018, Disney recorded its best start of a year since we began tracking direct sales in July 2010. 236,957 Disney Vacation Club points were sold for the 10 DVC resorts at Walt Disney World, surpassing the 206,790 points that were sold in January 2012
For the first time since its sales began, Copper Creek Villas & Cabins at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge outsold Disney’s Polynesian Villas & Bungalows in January. This is not surprising since Disney stopped actively marketing the Polynesian in December 2017.
In January 2018, 115 deeds were sold for 25 points or less. These small point deeds accounted for about 5.9% of all deeds sold in the month but only 1.2% of the total points sold. Recently, Disney announced that beginning February 25, 2018, new DVC members will need to own at least 75 points that were purchased directly from Disney to qualify for Membership Extras. Until that rule goes into effect, new members can own as few as 25 direct-purchased points to get these additional perks.
Copper Creek Villas & Cabins at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge — Not only did Copper Creek outsell the Polynesian for the first time, it topped the 100,000 point mark for the first time as well. The resort sold 109,442 points in January 2018, exceeding its previous high of 75,576 points in October 2017.
Copper Creek has sold 622,667 points, which is about 18.8% of its 3,321,954 total points. Disney still has over 2.6 million Copper Creek points it can sell to the general public.
Disney has declared 48 of Copper Creek’s 184 vacation homes for the DVC inventory. In terms of points, the 48 declared vacation homes account for about 1,021,430 (30.7%) of the resort’s 3,321,966 points. As Disney sells more points for Copper Creek, it will declare more vacation homes for the DVC inventory.
Three Guaranteed Week deeds were sold for Copper Creek, including two deeds that have the new Special Event feature that was introduced by Disney in January. In the 10 months since sales began for Copper Creek, only 12 Guaranteed Week deeds have been sold, accounting for only 0.22% of the points sold so far. By comparison, the Villas at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort had sold 216 Guaranteed Week deeds in its first 10 months.
Disney’s Polynesian Villas & Bungalows — The Polynesian sold 103,166 points In January 2018. Disney still has 88,896 unsold Polynesian points in its inventory, but the majority of these points have probably already been committed to sales awaiting closing.
Since sales started in January 2015, it took the Polynesian 36 months to reach “sold out” status. In those 36 months, sales ranged from a low of 44,582 points (April 2015) and a high of 169,377 points (April 2016) , averaging 107,353 points a month. The Grand Floridian, averaged 104,595 points a month while it was being actively marketed.
The sales data includes all 10 DVC resorts at Walt Disney World, as well as Disney's Vero Beach Resort, Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort, and Aulani, Disney Vacation Club Villas. Point sales data is not available for the Villas at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel. The data is compiled from deeds filed by Disney Vacation Development and recorded with the Orange County (FL) Comptroller, the Indian River County (FL) Clerk of Court, and the Beaufort County (SC) Register of Deeds.
Wil Lovato is a contributor to DVCNews.com and has been a Disney Vacation Club owner since 2009. His DVC Home Resorts include Bay Lake Tower, Animal Kingdom Villas, and Aulani. He can be found posting on many Disney discussion forums under the username of “wdrl.”
