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- Dec 11, 2006
In December they ran a car rental type of bus between resorts, 10 minute wait.
Bill
Bill
12 passenger van or 12 passenger bus (don't need commercial license to drive these)In December they ran a car rental type of bus between resorts, 10 minute wait.
Bill
I just went to book a June trip and the only choice I have is a savanna view. Really?! Why is it getting so hard to book anything?
I used to be able to book jambo house five months out no problem.
I know it’s june. But I never had issues.
I never stayed at kidani. Am I going to like it there? I’m going to miss having the quick serve for when at the pool with kids. How is the walk to grab lunch and take it back? Is their a bar by that pool?
Can a moderator please fix the subject and AutoCorrect has been brutal on my phone
If memory serves, about 75% of the rooms at Jambo are savanna view. If you're limiting yourself to the other views at Jambo only, frankly I'm surprised you've been consistently successful in the past booking non-Savanna rooms on 5 months notice. At that stage, you're competing with literally hundreds-of-thousands of DVC members, owners at AKV and every other resort.
There is nothing in Jambo. The savanah view is kidani. I don’t care what view I have to book to be in jambo house.
And I have never had a problem booking a standard at jambo 6 maths out.
This past year it seems like akl is filling up quicker. Even at my 11 myth window I had a hard time getting a value room for my parents for when I take them in the fall as usual. For 7 years never had an issue for 1 value at 11 maths out.
So Savanna View villas are nothing? What a misleading title on this thread.
So Savanna View villas are nothing? What a misleading title on this thread.
So does anyone think that Disney might stop commercial renting of points?
So does anyone think that Disney might stop commercial renting of points?
Given that the resorts are suppose to be operating at close to 100% occupancy, the proper process to spread out demand is to reallocate the points. Disney can already do this if they wanted to, but they haven't! So the real problem is Disney failing to adjust the point charts
Summer should be lowered by some and moved to the fall. Spread the demand around a bit more. If it is called "fall frenzy", Disney should do something to account for that.
Disney's peak time historically has been summer and a few holidays (Easter, Christmas, New Years). In setting up the points charts, they made rooms less costly, point wise, during lower demand times. Since they introduced Food and Wine Festival, Arts Festival, Flower and Garden Festival, and Run Disney events, all of which are run during periods which were low attendance periods, you now have a reason to use your DVC points during the lowest crowd periods and lowest point cost period. Having DVC rooms open in summer is better for DVC, since it can release that inventory to CRO for cash.
I don't have the exact numbers with me, but I am pretty sure that I have read that summer attendance has been dropping the past few years. I know anecdotally I can agree with those reports. By no means is it dead, but I remember the parks being much more crowded during that time of the year in the past. This may be due to people getting in on the "secret" of going during the fall, or that they are being enticed by all the festivals.
I like the idea of being able to pick any resort of my choosing, even at the cost of an extra $20 or so per night in terms of points, but feel bad for those who can't even get the room type that they are interested in at their home resort during the fall as a tradeoff.
Or the tix increases have priced many out entirely, especially those doing it on a dime at the values. Even discounted rooms there can be pricey, was shocked twice last/this year to pay in $200 range on weekend dates - Columbus Day & MLK.