Both Disney’s Riviera Resort and The Villas at Disneyland Hotel saw their sales improve, helping overall direct sales to register its best January since 2020.
In January 2024, 138,609 Disney Vacation Club points were sold for the 11 DVC resorts located at World Disney World and The Villas at Disneyland Hotel. January’s sales total was over 40,000 points more than in December 2023 and over 28,000 points more than a year ago in January 2023. In was the best sales for the month of January since 2020, when 222,185 points were sold in advance of the COVID-19 pandemic.
January 2024 sales benefited from Disney’s Riviera Resort having its best month since April 2022. Disneyland Hotel rebounded in January, selling 11,274 more points than it did in December 2023. Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort also helped boost sales by selling 5,000 points, its best month since April 2022. The Villas at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort, which averaged over 78,000 points a month in 2023, sold only 2,265 points in January.
Several large point purchases were made in January. The largest single deed was a 1,300-point Riviera deed, followed by an 800-point Riviera deed. The largest cumulative purchase was for 2,400 Riviera points, split evenly between four 600-point deeds.
Sales for The Cabins at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort opened to existing DVC members on February 1, 2024. It will take another two or three weeks after that for the first deeds to be filed and recorded with the Orange County Comptroller, with the direct sales report for February 2024 offering the first glimpse of sales for DVC’s newest property.
Disney’s Riviera Resort — In January, Riviera sold 93,025 points, its best month since April 2022 and far better than the 48,429 points it averaged a month during 2023. Disney has now sold 4,125,328 points, about 61.2% of the resort’s 6,739,966 points. Since sales started in April 2019 the resort has averaged 71,893 points a month. If Riviera were to maintain that sales pace it would take it 35 months before it is completely sold out.
Disney is still selling Fixed Week deeds for Riviera. In January one such deed was sold for a standard view studio for Week #50. Disney has sold 118 Fixed Week deeds for the resort.
On December 15, 2023, Disney declared another 32 vacation homes for the Riviera’s DVC inventory. The resort now has 256 of its 341 vacation homes included in its DVC inventory. There are still 85 vacation homes that have not yet been declared and are under the control of Disney. The declared inventory accounts for 5,081,401 points, or 75.4% of the resort’s total points.
The Villas at Disneyland Hotel — In January, 28,079 points were sold for Disneyland Hotel, up from the 16,805 points that it sold in December 2023. January’s total is the second lowest monthly total since sales started in May 2023. However, the 67.1% jump in point sales month over month may signal that sales for Disneyland Hotel have, at least, stabilized.
Disney has now sold 597,101 points since sales were first recorded in May 2023. About 18.3% of the resort’s estimated 3,255,992 total points have been sold to the public.
Because the data available from the Orange County (California) Clerk-Recorder’s Office is limited, it is not possible to track some items such as Fixed Week sales. Even the exact number of points sold cannot be measured directly; instead, the number of points can only be estimated based on the Transfer Tax paid on each deed.
The sales data includes all 11 DVC resorts at Walt Disney World, as well as Disney's Vero Beach Resort, and Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort. 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. Thanks to Chris from dvc.market for assisting in the compilation of the sales data.
Wil Lovato is a contributor to DVCNews.com and has been a Disney Vacation Club owner since 2009. His DVC Home Resorts include Copper Creek Villas, Bay Lake Tower, Animal Kingdom Villas, and Aulani. He can be found posting on many Disney discussion forums under the username of “wdrl.”
