Oh no- more 'cabins' seem to be coming

[YorkshireT]

I give ample warning- MOAN ALERT.

I am very disappointed to see this, yet more cabins seem to be featuring, given the availability issues they seem to create. They are however very profitable. Hopefully the cabins v studio balance will be much better than at Copper Creek.

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[KarenG]

Add me to the moans. Not loving these at all but as you say, very profitable... so should we be surprised?!

[Florida-Sarah]

Please excuse my ignorance, but cabins / bungalows rarely seem to be fully booked. Why are they so profitable? Is it because of the number of points Disney can sell for a handful of units?

[YorkshireT]

Originally Posted by Florida-Sarah

Please excuse my ignorance, but cabins / bungalows rarely seem to be fully booked. Why are they so profitable? Is it because of the number of points Disney can sell for a handful of units?

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2 reasons. The points on them are massive. So each one nets DVD a huge sum of money.

Then when they don't rent to members, the points go into breakage. This means DVC can rent those points cash. They have to return a percentage of this to the Club, but they meet the maximum anyway, so it goes to their profit.

Bad news for owners. As you've observed, the cabins/ bungalows are often not booked at all or until v late. This is because the people who buy points don't intend to stay in these generally, they mostly want studios first, then 2 beds, then 1 beds. But of course hundreds of thousands of points sold to the average punter are attributed to these cabins. This means many more people chasing the points allocated to the normal rooms. And significant non availibility problems, especially at Copper Creek.

But it got even worse. In the now abandoned points re-allocation attempt, Poly owners saw points then being taken from the bungalows and placed onto the normal rooms, allegedly to 'balance' demand.

But the points were still so large on the bungalows, many speculated it would make zero difference to them not being booked.

But what it would have meant is the average punter now being short of points at Poly, now having to take shorter stays or buy more points.

I doubt the cash rental prices of the bungalows would have changed

Who would have benefitted?

And we wonder why Poly owners were unhappy! I expected the same to be done at Copper Creek once it sold out. Hopefully that now won't happen- I hope for the Copper Creek owners, if it doesn't they can thank the moaners who stood up.

[Dewdropdazzle]

I’d read something earlier today about the bungalows possibly being on the cash inventory rather than DVC. Not sure if that was just wishful thinking though. It certainly seems like it’s going to be huge a resort

[bighal]

Why are people moaning? If you don't plan on owning there it will have no effect on people.. People moaning for the sake of moaning..

[BevS97]

They are stunning but my annual allotment of points will get me 10 nights in a copper creek studio and not quite 1 1/2 nights in a cabin.

I can sometimes stretch to a 1 bed and I can see the day we manage a 2 bed. But it would cost me 3 years worth of points for 4 nights. That’s never going to happen..

[Mr Tom Morrow]

YT. Good find, won't ever effect us as we will never buy more Points.
The cabins create problems for owners but some choose to ignore that issue.
I think the ones at WL look stunning. The ones at the Poly look awful and have a terrible location.

Let's just hope they follow the WL theming

A very strange thought process to build more. cannot get my head around it.

[YorkshireT]

Originally Posted by bighal

Why are people moaning? If you don't plan on owning there it will have no effect on people.. People moaning for the sake of moaning..

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Because if they are in the DVC inventory it means that the normal rooms may be much harder to get. So it has a big effect Hal, not just on owners but non owners.

A lot of DVC owners simply don’t seem to understand the intricacies.

[bighal]

Originally Posted by YorkshireT

Because if they are in the DVC inventory it means that the normal rooms may be much harder to get. So it has a big effect Hal, not just on owners but non owners.

A lot of DVC owners simply don’t seem to understand the intricacies.

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Yes may be but if you are not going to own there or even stay there it won't effect the owners at other resorts and if you do buy there then as it will be in effect from the on set it still won't make any difference either ad you won't know any difference...

At the end of the day this will have NO effect on current members and their ability to book rooms at the current resorts.