Royal Consort
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 14, 2012
I was looking at the guaranteed week charts from 2020 and the week I'm interested in was only 130 points, It's 153 now! That particular week also costs 130 and 139 points for 2022 and 2023, respectively.
DVC finally clued in to the flaw of keeping a static opening year FW chart and corrected it. Can't leave money on the table right!?
Our thought process on getting the guaranteed week is two-fold. First, we'd like to have a guaranteed studio as a means of future proofing if it becomes a copper creek like situation where it's hard to get in at 11 months in November.
I didn't buy CCV for this reason. Flirted with a FW there but if we cancelled availablity would still be an issue. RVA has more studio availability. I dont think RVA will be like CCV for the reason above. Yes, standard views are in demand but there are other options if you miss out. I am more comfortable with RVA v CCV. If you are happy to be online right at 8am 11 months out you should be relatively okay with RVA standard studio most times.
Second, we also want to an exit strategy and see a guaranteed week contract as being more marketable (although not sure how marketable it'd be in the future if there's that big of a point gap between the guaranteed week and the point cost for that week). But in reality, we'll most likely cancel the reservation most years and use our total pool of points to book a 1BRs or higher for the space.
I see limited evidence that a FW adds any notable resale value or makes the contract more appealing. This gets thrown around on the Disboards every so often but I just dont think there's data to support it.
Seems like you don't need the Standard View Studio in the first place.
Does any of this make sense? We plan on adding 250 points total so the higher point requirement for the fixed week won't really matter if we cancel the guaranteed reservation and book something else. I'm just wondering if we'll be cancelling it every year to book a different room type (and sometimes rebooking that studio if the point cost is lower than 153 pts), is it even worth getting?
I wouldn't.
I was a big supporter of fixed weeks until the renewed point chart. I can't see how you'd ever come out ahead. Disney wins and has ensured that they do.
We bought our FW before the resort opened in anticipation that the point chart would increase for the fall season. 130 points was WITH the 10% premium! We came out ahead and don't have the annoyance of trying to get a standard studio. But we aim to use it. It was worth it in 2019 but if I was buying now? I'd just purchase floating points. The premium Disney has placed on FW is poor value and prohibitive.