skier_pete
DIsney-holics Anon
- Joined
- Aug 17, 2006
Like many of you I look at point charts often. But one thing that always boggles my mind is Why in the World does DVC charge SO many points for a 1-bedroom? There are many cases where the cost of the 1-bedroom is skewed unusually high compared to the other options.
Examples:
Animal Kingdom Villas Standard View Dream Season (One week - 7 nights)
Studio: 95 points
1-bedroom: 200 points (110% more than studio)
2-bedroom: 255 points (28% more than 1-bedroom, 168% more than studio)
WLV - Boulder Ridge Dream Season (One week - 7 nights)
Studio: 120 points
1-bedroom: 255 points (113% more than studio)
2-bedroom: 318 points (25% more than 1-bedroom, 165% more than studio)
SSR - Standard Room Choice Season (One week - 7 nights)
Studio: 92 points
1-bedroom: 192 points (108% more than studio)
2-bedroom: 241 points (25% more than 1-bedroom, 162% more than studio)
I look at these numbers and see the 1-bedroom as such a poor value. Sure you get a kitchen and bigger bathroom, but you don't get any additional sleeping accommodations, and in particular still only one bed. You get about twice the space, but you pay more than twice the price. Meanwhile, the TWO-bedrooms are barely more points than a 1-bedroom. (In the cases here just 25-28% more.) But you get so much more with a 2-bedroom than a one bedroom.
There are examples that are slightly better priced towards the 1-bedrooms, but other examples that are just as bad if not worse. So it seems like this is how it is, and how it always has been.
But does anyone know why it was set this way? It just seems to me that the one bedrooms should be closer to a midpoint between the studios and the 1-bedrooms, you know, where is a studio is 100 points for a week, and the 2-bedroom is 250 points for the week, the 1-bedroom should be like 175 points, not 200 points. But skewed the way it is, I feel like i don't want to ever spend the money for a 1-bedroom, like if I had a enough people that I wanted the extra space I would be way better off with 2 studios.
Has anyone ever heard Disney's reasoning for this? Just curious if its ever been said why the points spread is laid out this way.
Examples:
Animal Kingdom Villas Standard View Dream Season (One week - 7 nights)
Studio: 95 points
1-bedroom: 200 points (110% more than studio)
2-bedroom: 255 points (28% more than 1-bedroom, 168% more than studio)
WLV - Boulder Ridge Dream Season (One week - 7 nights)
Studio: 120 points
1-bedroom: 255 points (113% more than studio)
2-bedroom: 318 points (25% more than 1-bedroom, 165% more than studio)
SSR - Standard Room Choice Season (One week - 7 nights)
Studio: 92 points
1-bedroom: 192 points (108% more than studio)
2-bedroom: 241 points (25% more than 1-bedroom, 162% more than studio)
I look at these numbers and see the 1-bedroom as such a poor value. Sure you get a kitchen and bigger bathroom, but you don't get any additional sleeping accommodations, and in particular still only one bed. You get about twice the space, but you pay more than twice the price. Meanwhile, the TWO-bedrooms are barely more points than a 1-bedroom. (In the cases here just 25-28% more.) But you get so much more with a 2-bedroom than a one bedroom.
There are examples that are slightly better priced towards the 1-bedrooms, but other examples that are just as bad if not worse. So it seems like this is how it is, and how it always has been.
But does anyone know why it was set this way? It just seems to me that the one bedrooms should be closer to a midpoint between the studios and the 1-bedrooms, you know, where is a studio is 100 points for a week, and the 2-bedroom is 250 points for the week, the 1-bedroom should be like 175 points, not 200 points. But skewed the way it is, I feel like i don't want to ever spend the money for a 1-bedroom, like if I had a enough people that I wanted the extra space I would be way better off with 2 studios.
Has anyone ever heard Disney's reasoning for this? Just curious if its ever been said why the points spread is laid out this way.