Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Animal Kingdom. Bay Lake Tower. Beach Club. Boulder Ridge. Copper Creek. Grand Californian. Grand Floridian. Hilton Head. Old Key West. Riviera Resort. Your deed would stipulate that you had week 36 in Room on the 4th floor. Same room. Same location. Same week. The developer sold a week for every single unit in the timeshare resort. This system was incredibly inflexible, and consumers hated that.
Often contracts were in perpetuity which is a headache in and of itself for succession planning. It led to a network called Interval International so that you could trade intervals with other members.
This product catered to everything consumers hated about the fixed week — fixed unit timeshare system. DVC reimagined the timeshare by looking at inventory differently.
They realized that consumers wanted flexibility in how they could use their timeshares. With DVC, consumers are now afforded the flexibility to change their room sizes, change their dates, change the seasons they travel, and change the length of the vacation stay they require from one trip to the next.
DVC affords its members the option to stay at different resorts within the system. The Disney timeshare model even has the option to skip a year here and there, rolling those skipped vacation accommodations into another Use Year altogether. The flexibility in the DVC system is made possible not by selling a fixed week and fixed unit in a resort — but by using a flexible points system.
Each resort has a total number of points that can be sold. Rather than divide the year into weeks, DVC divides the year into seasons and accommodation types. The points needed to stay in a given accommodation type fluctuate with the seasons. Even within these seasons, any given resort can require more or fewer vacation points than other resorts — allowing members to choose to splurge or save points for any given stay. For example, staying over the Christmas break will require more points than the second week of January because it is a more popular season.
Staying at the Grand Floridian will require more points than staying at Saratoga Springs for the same period and accommodation type. Lastly, DVC did away with the timeshare perpetuity problem, setting its contracts to expire after 50 years.
Knowing that their contract has a lifespan leaves many members with an odd sense of security, that they won't be trapped in a timeshare forever. However, the concept of Use Year cannot stand alone. You also have to understand the relationship between Making Reservations, Banking Points, Borrowing Points, and Cancelling a reservation fully comprehend the flexible nature of a Use Year.
The very nature of the use year is best explained in terms of the flexible nature of points. We want it to be flexible, but we have to limit how you use your membership. You have nights — a whole year during which you can USE your points to make a reservation. So for a March vacation, the current use year is For that reservation, you may use the current use year points from the use year, any banked points originally from your use year and you may borrow points from your use year.
Again, Use Year has nothing to do with when you can call to make the reservation. Use Year only matters if you have to cancel a vacation that was scheduled to occur in the last four months of your Use Year. No one Use Year is inherently better than another. If you travel about the same time of year on a regular basis, it may be best to choose a Use Year that starts right before that timeframe, or at least falls no more than 7 or 8 months prior to that time.
So, if you frequently visit during the summer months, perhaps a June UY might be best. If you always visit in the fall, then perhaps a September or October UY would be best.
Selecting a Use Year that precedes frequent travel dates allows for maximum flexibility in the event of a cancellation. However, keep in mind that your travel pattern may change over the course of your DVC ownership. Policies limit Point Transfer transactions to one transfer per Member or Membership, either as transferee or transferor, during a given Use Year not calendar year.
However, vacation points may be banked from your current Use Year into your next Use Year. Points can only be banked once.
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