It might have been tied to Reflections at one point.
At the rate sales are going, they may need to replace them again before the resort sells out.It might have been tied to Reflections at one point.
My guess is that some “Sharp Pencil Guy” (as Walt called them) said, “I have a great idea! The cabins are due for replacement. Let’s get DVC members to pay for it!”
Has there ever been a case of dues coming down?
Yea that’s interesting. I could see that being a huge benefit IF they guaranteed it. The fact they won’t is truly bizarre. If you are going to have stand alone cabins, that are more costly to maintain, you should have some benefits/amenities that are worth the price of admission, or a clientele that is uniquely serviced by this property.
Yep everything after the point charts were released has been a negative. I know it would've increased the dues but not having washer/dryer in this resort when you have dogs in there is a miss IMO. I would rather they had moved the bathroom to next to/in the master, get rid of the bunkbed entirely and put the washer/dryer where the bathroom currently is. Like I've said before, this resort is great for everyone who doesn't own there. I think we're going to see some more movement at 7 months as a result.Yeah I don't know what they are thinking. Same price as the other resorts, but more isolated, higher dues, less amenities, etc. The only good thing is the number of people per room and the point charts.
Maybe they should have made the points cheaper and increase the point charts? Right now it's too tempting to have points somewhere else and just use them at the cabins if they want to try them or need a cheap room for 6. And having cheaper points may have tempted some people to get them and use them as SAP+ points at least.
It has happened but extremely rare and it's only been by like a couple cents year over year. Nothing like a few dollars or anything like which this resort would need just to be competitive with it's neighbors.
The last few resorts have seen their dues stay essentially flat the first few years, which in inflation adjusted terms is a decline.
The ironic thing is that the bathroom was between the living area and the bedroom in the cabins that are currently being removed. They moved it to allow them to reposition the queen and bunk beds.
As an Aulani owner, I don’t find the 11.5 million points to be a problem because our dues would go up a lot if they had a more favorable point chart—and they are pretty high as it is…though I wonder if we are paying Disney’s share of the unsold points? I thought I read somewhere that was the special deal Disney gets in these timeshare documents, at least in FL.
I would at least consider a fixed week if they were selling 200 point contracts somewhere between the per point cost of RIV and OKW. I had been planning to try to stay for a park-lite trip this fall, but then our standard BWV waitlist cleared and it just feels wrong to trade out of BWV into CFW. Might try to get in around Thanksgiving for part of a split stay. 
That's not a bad thought.. I guess it would look really bad if they sold points and then had to pause because they sold out. Also I don't know how far along they are in terms of building more of the cabins but they can't sell the points there if those cabins aren't built yet. Maybe once they're done building them we'll see some decent incentives. Regardless of what they do to the buy in though those dues..
If dues collected from owners don’t cover the full amount of operating and maintenance expenses, DVC makes up the shortfall. Dues are calculated by estimating those expenses and dividing by the number of points in the condo association. So if the number of unsold points is significant, DVC is paying to cover those expenses, not you. There should be a statement to that effect in the detailed AUL budget.
That's not a bad thought.. I guess it would look really bad if they sold points and then had to pause because they sold out. Also I don't know how far along they are in terms of building more of the cabins but they can't sell the points there if those cabins aren't built yet. Maybe once they're done building them we'll see some decent incentives. Regardless of what they do to the buy in though those dues..
Exactly, they're probably trying to be cautious so they don't oversell so that once July 1st rolls around, they haven't sold more points than are available at the cabins based on their construction progress.
