Home Resort Advantage

[NoleFan]

I totally agree with buying where you want to stay & more so if you are able to plan your trip 8-11 months in advance. I have not visited all the DVC properties (yet) & I hear factors such as time of year, room type,, room size, size of resort, & more factor into home booking advantage. What is the home resort advantage of each resort? For example, I have heard home resort advantage is huge if you want value & concierge level @ AKL.

 

[dmunsil]

I'll take a stab. As I understand it, these are the things that are hard to get at 7 months for each resort:

BWV: Standard view rooms and Grand Villas
BCV: Any room, esp studios (it's a very small resort)
VWL: Any room, esp studios (see above)
OKW: Grand Villas (the lowest point cost of any Grand Villa)
AKL: Value rooms and club level
SSR: Grand Villas and Treehouses
BLT: Any room, esp studios (it's the only monorail DVC resort until VGF opens)
VGF: Any room

At all the resorts studios sell out before 1 bedrooms because they hold the same number of people but cost roughly half as much. Grand Villas go quickly because there are so few of them.

I get the impression that the following is a rough guide to what sells out first in general (though there will be many instances where this won't hold for one reason or another):

Grand Villas
Studios
2 Bedrooms
1 Bedroom

The result is that if you are looking at a 1 or 2 bedroom, you have a higher chance of finding something at another resort at 7 months. If you want/need a value or standard view studio, you need the luck o' the Irish. And if you are going to want a Grand Villa at a specific resort, you had better own there.

 

[markj2911]

Nopes, i did not found any advantages with the home resort at all.
My friend suggested me to use them but i disappointment with many factors.

 

[drusba]

For the information you are seeking see my post #11 in the following thread: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3131968