As someone who has been checking for availability at least 20 times a day for the past month, I am surprised that Disney tried raising the points on 1 bedrooms. I can not put together a week anywhere outside of SSR for my family of 6. I am consistently seeing far more availability in every resort for 1 bedrooms over studios or 2 bedrooms. We have owned for 12 years and book either studios or 2 bedrooms so I haven't noticed this previously. Unless my observations of the 1 bedroom units having greater availability are wrong, why increase the points for them???
Exactly. Even if they actually are changing the point totals, for the reasons they claim, which is to adjust for demand, then there is absolutely NO WAY you could justify increasing the 1 bedroom rate.
It looks like they might not be able to change point totals in a way that they could raise one type of unit and lower another type of unit. That is the way some people are interpreting the language. In other words, if you raise Studios in one season, then you must LOWER STUDIOS by an equal amount in another season. Rather than raising Studios and lowering 2-Bedrooms. I guess we will wait and see how it works out in the end, but they still, in no way, can justify raising Studios AND raising 1-bedrooms.
1-bedrooms are the least desired unit at most resorts (except for Bungalows at Poly and Cabins at CCV). And they are almost universally the last to book up, in any category. So, if they CAN use one type of unit to offset a different type of unit, then 1-Bedrooms should actually be LOWERED, and not raised. It was this problem which TRIGGERED most of the fuss. If Disney had done it right, there would not have been such a massive outcry. Instead, it looks like what it probably was, and that is a massive point grab by Disney.
Now, here is something Disney should pay attention to: We will never forget this. In the future, EVERY Disney decision with respect to DVC will be run through the filter of: 1. Is it legal. And 2. Is it good for the members, or is it mostly only good for Disney. They have a fiduciary relationship and they violated our trust. And it takes a lot of work to get over that.
First time poster here. I own at Poly (since 2015) and have been following this discussion closely. I just want to give a huge thank you to all of the members who called DVC to complain about this, resulting in them reversing their changes to the 2020 points chart. I considered calling myself several times, but never did. Thanks again!
