1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,200 So to kick us off this week, I want to go around the room real 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,120 quick. Has anyone really had like a 3 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:08,200 terrible waste of points experience ever, like with their 4 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:10,520 DVC membership? Like just something where it's 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:16,000 like I would never do that ever again, Like never wanted to do a 6 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,320 redo on that stay or something. You mean other other than 7 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:22,000 staying at Bay Lake Tower? No. 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,680 Yeah, Bay Lake Tarot was the most disappointing studio I've 9 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:28,960 ever seen. Span it is, and it continues to 10 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,240 take the cake until it gets its refurbishment here and. 11 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:33,480 I love Bay Lake. I do too, I. 12 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:35,880 Love the location, I just think it could be so much. 13 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,320 We love the location. You don't love Bay Lake. 14 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,360 There's no way that you walk into that studio and say, oh, I 15 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,720 love it, You love the location. It's OK, but it's the location. 16 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:47,720 Exactly. Some of us don't stay in 17 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:49,880 studios, Derek. We are bougie and only stay in 18 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:53,800 one bedrooms or higher, so and the one bedroom and two bedrooms 19 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,320 at Bay Lake are awesome. This explains why your point 20 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:02,320 broke all the time. 100%. I don't think we've ever stayed 21 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:04,640 somewhere that I was like, Nope, never again. 22 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:09,480 But Speaking of wasting points, I'm still very sad that we lost 23 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:11,880 like. 2. Two, I think it's. 24 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,160 Full Ours too. We lost two points, yeah. 25 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:16,960 Two points lost. When are you here? 26 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:24,600 Yeah, yeah, that, that's six points. 27 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,280 We could have stayed at Hilton Head for one night in January. 28 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:28,440 It's. A whole night of points. 29 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:30,600 If only we could pull our points that way. 30 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:33,640 You know if. Only could have got Grant, Willa 31 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:35,800 and Hilton had in January for six points it. 32 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:45,680 Would have been perfect. Hey, everybody, and welcome to 33 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,200 this week's episode of the DVC Show. 34 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,320 I'm your host, Paul Krieger, and I'm joined this week by my wife, 35 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:54,480 Amy Krieger. We've got John Sacari, AKA Big 36 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:56,800 Fat Panda with us. Welcome home. 37 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,560 Senior sales associate for the DVC resale market Derek Devore. 38 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:06,600 Hey now. And the one the only Jeff has. 39 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,680 Changed his shirt too he. Did everyone else is? 40 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:11,280 Getting in on the change the shirt. 41 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:15,440 Games I couldn't do this show on my Hilton Head show shirt. 42 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:17,080 Hilton. Head shirt. 43 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:19,600 Never mind. Hilton Head show shirt. 44 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:21,280 Yeah. Yeah, well. 45 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:26,000 Say that three times fast. Before I just before I get too 46 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,680 far off the rails, Panda, are you wearing a Park Candy shirt? 47 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,160 I think this is a Roosevelt's. No, no, no. 48 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:34,880 It could be a Park candy. No. 49 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:36,040 You know what? Let's find out. 50 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:38,520 It is. It is Park Candy. 51 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,080 That's what my, my, Hawaii, they. 52 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,760 Make really good shirts. I like have to. 53 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:45,320 Check them out. I've never. 54 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,920 Derek will check them out too. He buys, he buys three shirts 55 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:50,440 specialty for each one of these shows. 56 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,160 So. I just said I literally told Amy 57 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,880 right before we started filming. I go, I think this is like my 58 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:57,400 first redo in a really long time. 59 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,280 It's my old Jimmy Buffett Margaritaville shirt, so I 60 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,720 wasn't sure how it fit in with the theming of everything, but I 61 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,320 think I'm official Tapped Out. Who tapped out of shirts? 62 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,520 Put in the comments below what show Derek wore that shirt on 63 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:10,720 previously and he'll send you the shirt off of his back. 64 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,760 I'll. Send you. 65 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:15,320 I'll send you a bucket hat, yeah. 66 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,400 We're at Moonlight Magic recently and people keep coming 67 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:25,240 up to us and every time I don't think Derek said hello. 68 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,760 At first it just looks really strange. 69 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,520 He's like back in the back shadows and he's like digging in 70 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:34,000 his backpack and then he finally comes, oh, you got fucking 71 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,520 hands. And it's like, that was the 72 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,640 introduction, but like the five seconds before, it's very 73 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,240 questionable as to what Derek's trying to do with his backpack. 74 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,600 Amy told PEOPLE, Amy said if you happen to see us and see Derek, 75 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:47,320 he may have a special prize for you. 76 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,240 So their prize is not meeting me. 77 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,720 Their prize is Hey, where's that special prize that Amy said you? 78 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:55,120 Have for me. Well, is it special? 79 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:56,720 Is. It a special prize if you're 80 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:01,760 handing out 62 of them. You're still special. 81 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:02,240 He. You. 82 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:03,720 You. Got rid of every single one of 83 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:05,440 them, I mean. He stopped a lot in his 84 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:06,600 backpack. I threatened. 85 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:10,080 I threatened to put to bring a sign and hold it up behind Derek 86 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,080 the whole night. That said moonlight magic merch. 87 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,760 Because, you know, DVC doesn't put out any moonlight magic 88 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:17,760 merch. So I mean, someone someone's 89 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:18,680 ought to do it. But. 90 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,839 Hey, that that was the most fun I've had in a long time and 91 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:25,040 being able to be with you guys and being able to meet so many 92 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,920 awesome families that came up to us and it was just it was 93 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,560 incredible. So it just it it was awesome 94 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,600 each. Experience to meet someone is is 95 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,040 amazing and we do have so many people that come up to us and 96 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,880 they say that, you know they're they're scared to interrupt what 97 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,760 we're doing or they're scared to say hello, please we would love 98 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,080 to to meet you, chat with you and you know it. 99 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:50,360 It just means the world to us. Amy and I and Derek, you get 100 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,640 this too you know more so than you know Panda and Jeff get to 101 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:55,360 experience it because of our jobs. 102 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,560 We get people on the phone all the time or via e-mail and it's 103 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,680 amazing all of the messages and and the kind words that come 104 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,000 through and and the conversations we get to have And 105 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,040 some of some of those we've gotten to actually put you know 106 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:10,880 voices to faces over the years and gotten to meet some of them 107 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:12,840 after talking to them on the phone or or something. 108 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:15,320 And Derek, you've you've done this much longer than we have. 109 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,880 So you've you, you've got plenty of those stories as well. 110 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:22,320 But love, love meeting people and thank you guys for making 111 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,800 Moonlight magic special. Thank you you guys that are on 112 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:31,160 this show for for having us along with you and and and for 113 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:32,440 us all being able to go together. 114 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,720 That was a awesome experience and we look forward to doing it 115 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:36,800 again real soon. But yeah. 116 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,320 Thankfully, they don't have my phone number yet, but I have to 117 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,360 say, that was the most expensive moonlight magic I've ever been 118 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:44,320 to cause. Panda made you and I buy new 119 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:46,360 cameras. That is very true, yeah. 120 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,920 Yeah, you're going to see a lot of a lot of similar camera 121 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:54,120 content coming out of Panda, Jeff and I's videos in the in 122 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,600 the very near future. We all now have the same exact 123 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,920 camera and I think we need to go to Panda's house for like a 124 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:02,040 tutorial class on how to use it. But. 125 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,560 I've been watching YouTube videos so I can I can impart 126 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,320 that on to you as well. Perfect. 127 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:07,680 Yep. It'll be good. 128 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,800 Because I had the care on most of melee magic and my camera 129 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,320 skills are so bad, so shaky. How you did a? 130 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:18,160 Great job. And this thing has what 131 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,840 stabilization, So. Well, and I said this too before 132 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:23,400 I think we started filming today. 133 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,720 At one point I said it was so much more fun for me editing 134 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,000 that Moonlight Magic video because normally like, I'm 135 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,840 filming and doing it. So I kind of know. 136 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,440 I know the flow, I know what's going to happen. 137 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,680 And in this video, like I had absolutely no clue. 138 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,000 So when I got to the part when Jeff Haslam and and Amy are 139 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,520 drumming and then Panda comes through dancing, I'm, I'm dead. 140 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:47,120 I'm dying like it was. It was just so cool to. 141 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,240 Oh, you weren't there for the live version of that? 142 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,720 No, I was not. I I don't know where. 143 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,760 I think I was like over with Jeff and Dan talking about God 144 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,720 knows what, but it yeah, I was not there for like the live 145 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:01,360 dance. And like it was just for me. 146 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,280 It was fun to be able to step back for a second and like watch 147 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:07,960 these videos through the through the eyes of a viewer. 148 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:12,920 Just just to be clear, right before the dance, Jeff gives me 149 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:14,080 some. I don't even know what it was, 150 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:16,800 but I had a rum floater on the top and I think I just drank all 151 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,920 the rum and it went to my head. So I was, I was feeling no pain. 152 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,560 I was very confident that whatever dance I did was going 153 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,880 to be like Cirque du Soleil and. It was. 154 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:30,000 Soleil So if you've not checked out that video, make sure you 155 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,880 check it out. And we also have what I what 156 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,760 I've dubbed Pandas cut of the Moonlight Magic experience over 157 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:40,320 on patreon.com/DVC fan. So definitely head over there as 158 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,360 well and we've got a fun video coming up. 159 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,080 Well, at the point of this show going up, it came up two weeks 160 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:51,080 ago, So go back in time 2 weeks and watch, watch Jeff Haslam's 161 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,920 experience at Moonlight Magic 2 days later at Epcot, where he 162 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,960 went there with a bunch of our DVC fan moderators and some 163 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:02,520 other friends and got to snack around the World Showcase for 164 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:04,920 Flower and Garden because the snack coupons for Moonlight 165 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,000 Magic were able for that. And that was a that was a great 166 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,200 time, right, Jeff? Yeah, it was a good time. 167 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:14,200 Yeah, Animal Kingdom, everybody had leftover snack coupons. 168 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,080 Epcot everybody used it at the first booth. 169 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:19,400 So that tells you the difference and how that track. 170 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,520 Yep, Yep. But enough chit chat. 171 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:27,080 We're here to talk business, and this week's business is talking 172 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:30,080 about, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna botch it, just like I did when 173 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:31,920 we when we first started talking about. 174 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,440 But we're talking about the easiest and the most difficult 175 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:40,840 rooms to book at each Disney Vacation Club resort, and this 176 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:42,520 was a topic that you came up with, right? 177 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:47,840 Yeah, I just a lot of times we'll see people in the DVC fan, 178 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:51,760 Facebook group or wherever just asking, you know, if I were to 179 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:54,960 try to book this resort at seven months out or I need to set a 180 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,520 wait list for it, what is my best chance of getting a room? 181 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,360 So, so basically like what are the easiest rooms to get? 182 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,400 What is, what has the most inventory or even like some 183 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,480 people we'll try to get a room and be like, well where did it 184 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,600 go, why didn't I get it? And so just understanding what 185 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:13,120 are the really difficult rooms to book. 186 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:16,240 Also, at each resort, what are the easiest to book and then 187 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:19,640 maybe some general tips for for booking, You know, trying to get 188 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,200 what you want. Before we dive into it though, 189 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,320 this and all of our content here on DVC Fan is brought to you by 190 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:31,160 the world of DVC DVC Resale market. 191 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:35,160 If you're looking to buy or sell a Disney Vacation Club contract, 192 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,120 they can do that. Monera Financial. 193 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,040 They can help with that DVC resale contract purchase, buy 194 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:45,120 some amazing financing options and the DVC rental store where 195 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,560 you can try before you buy ransom. 196 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:49,000 You guys are terrible at this today. 197 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:54,600 Rent some points or rent out your own points but please show 198 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,920 some love for our sponsors at the world of DVC who allow us to 199 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:01,400 goof off like this several times a month. 200 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:06,640 So, but we are talking easiest, hardest rooms to book and you 201 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,440 kind of came up with a list of kind of just some general tips 202 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,360 for us to kind of start the conversation off before we kind 203 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,880 of look at each specific Disney Vacation Club resort. 204 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,200 Yeah, actually. Can you bring them over closer 205 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:19,760 where I can see what I'll bring them? 206 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:25,160 I'll bring them. Over here, actually over there 207 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:25,880 is fine. There we go. 208 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,480 OK, so the first one, you said one bedrooms are the easiest 209 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:31,120 category to book. Yeah. 210 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:36,200 So basically obviously studios usually go 1st and that's 211 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,280 because you know they're the cheapest and compared to a one 212 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:43,760 bedroom, some studios can even sleep more capacity wise. 213 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,240 So a lot of families who are looking to kind of maximize 214 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:51,880 their points are going to go to studios 1st and that leaves the 215 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:56,160 the one bedrooms just just a little bit easier to book 216 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,920 because they cost more points. Sometimes you can only stay like 217 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:02,760 four or five people, the same amount as most studios. 218 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:08,120 So my first tip is if you can make the points work for you. 219 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:12,360 If you have enough points to splurge, go for a one bedroom at 220 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,960 harder to book places. So this is going to be helpful 221 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:18,560 to you at somewhere like Beach Club or Grand Cow where if you 222 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:21,280 don't own there, a studio is going to be really hard to get. 223 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:25,000 So that's that's my. I feel like all of us to start 224 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,760 off with Disney Vacation Club. Everyone goes into it saying I'm 225 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,000 going to book studios because it's the cheapest and the 226 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,120 easiest. You know, we are all, we are all 227 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,960 point misers at heart. But then you get the first one 228 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,360 bedroom experience and you're like, panda Panda's like, Yep, 229 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,240 been there, done that. Have enough points? 230 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,040 Yes. Yeah, been there, done that, got 231 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:46,480 the T-shirt like it's like you, you, you, you walked into that 232 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,040 Riviera one bedroom probably, and you're like, Yep, I'm in 233 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:49,920 love. That's it. 234 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,040 That's exactly it. Yeah, and that's that's what 235 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:56,280 most people do. But you know to, to Amy's point, 236 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:00,840 the the one bedrooms don't get eaten up as fast in terms of the 237 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:04,400 availability, especially within the seven to 11 month window or 238 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:05,680 even in the zero to seven month window. 239 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:08,520 Which is how we were able to stay at Hilton Head, is that we 240 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,440 we did a one bedroom, so studios were gone. 241 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:16,120 Yep, so definitely studios are the hardest and one bedrooms 242 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:20,360 tend to be the easiest. You you mentioned Grand Villas 243 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,360 here a little bit. You know, Grand Villas are kind 244 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,240 of hit or miss, I feel like, depending on season and. 245 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,440 Yeah, I Grand Villas to me. Well, I I I mentioned Grand 246 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,960 Villas is one of the hardest to book and that's because 247 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,240 inventory on Grand Villas is pretty low. 248 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,360 Especially if you look at like Grand Cow has like what, 2 Grand 249 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,640 Villas? The The Disneyland. 250 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,680 The new Disneyland Villas has two Grand Villas. 251 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,680 You know, at Grand Floridian, there's only one on each floor, 252 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:52,480 and they they might even still be using one as an open house. 253 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:55,200 Yeah, I think the first floor. So that, yeah. 254 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:59,000 So that leaves out, you know, there's there's not very many 255 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,960 Grand Villas at the resorts. There's just a handful. 256 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,840 You know, some have more, like Saratoga has a little bit more 257 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:09,960 and Old Key West, But those in studios are actually going to be 258 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,240 some of the hardest, hardest to book. 259 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:16,360 The lower the point cost of the room, the harder it is usually 260 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,560 to get. Yeah, this is Derek's. 261 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:21,880 Derek preaches This. I feel like constantly. 262 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:25,320 I I preach it and I know we're going to go through like resort 263 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,520 by resort. But when people ask me and say 264 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:29,840 and Amy, that's why your list was was so perfect. 265 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:31,800 People always ask me like what's the hardest rooms to get. 266 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:35,360 I go the smallest rooms with the worst views. 267 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,960 Those are always going to be the hardest rooms to get. 268 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,000 So you're going to see when we're looking at rooms that have 269 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,880 a regular option versus say, a preferred view or a standard 270 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,240 option. The standard ones are the ones 271 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,800 that are going to go, a place like Animal Kingdom, right? 272 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,040 A value room. Those are going to go. 273 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,840 So yeah, the smaller the rooms with the worst views because 274 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,000 people want to stretch their points out and people say it, 275 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,840 which I'm the complete opposite. I love a good balcony. 276 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:05,480 So get me I won't like to stay at the boardwalk unless I have a 277 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:08,520 boardwalk view because to me that's part of the reason for 278 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,080 staying there. But other people are like, dude, 279 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,640 I was, I booked that thing, that parking lot view at, you know 11 280 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,200 months on the dot and I was able to get that standard view 281 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,600 parking lot view. So to each his own. 282 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,760 But yeah, definitely. The more you can stretch your 283 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,280 points out, the happier most people seem to be. 284 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:28,920 Jeff Panda, which camp do you guys find yourselves falling 285 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,640 into when it comes to this? Oh, Jeff's bougie One bedroom 286 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:35,000 book. Well, well, Amy just threw you 287 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,480 under the bus, so we'll come. Back to that, she does that at 288 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:40,960 least once a week and. Just like. 289 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,880 For the cheapest, I go for the lowest points if I can. 290 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,400 In the worst view, I just don't seem to care too much. 291 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:50,640 It matters who I'm going with and what I'm what my trip is 292 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:52,120 about. And that. 293 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:55,840 Like a party or a a park basically, and just stay 294 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:56,960 overnight. I don't. 295 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,280 And that that has definitely changed since we moved here. 296 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,480 When when we were traveling here, it was always we were 297 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:05,280 bringing kids, grandkids, friends. 298 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:08,880 So we bought points with the mindset that it was gonna be 299 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:13,240 probably a two-bedroom when we came and and fewer trips. 300 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:16,000 Now that we're here, I'm like, I'm not using these points. 301 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:18,480 I booked a Granville at Old Key West this Sunday just for the 302 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:19,320 hell of it. So. 303 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:23,680 And you're inviting all of us, right? 304 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,880 And we're we're. Yeah, we get an invite. 305 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,320 It's it's Sunday. When were you going to tell us? 306 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:32,000 Right now. It was somewhere Where around 307 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:37,680 where you mentioned chicken. Next on on your list here, Amy. 308 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:40,480 It says high point seasons at Disney World are easier to book 309 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,800 than low point season. Right. 310 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:45,800 And that's that's actually the same with any, any resort. 311 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:48,960 So, but but high points at Disney World season means 312 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:50,800 something different. And we talked about this during 313 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,920 the Hilton Head show, right? High points at Hilton Head is 314 00:15:54,960 --> 00:16:00,360 July and August, whereas the low points is December in January. 315 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:04,000 But at Disney World, the higher points are going to be like in 316 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,800 the summer. October to December, yeah. 317 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:09,320 Yeah, well, those are the low points. 318 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:12,400 Yeah, October and December are lower at Disney World, so. 319 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,280 So the higher points are always a little easier to get. 320 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,760 So for example, when we got Grand Cow at the seven month 321 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:23,160 window before we owned there, it was much easier for us to get a 322 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:26,800 stay in August than it would be to try to get and stay in like 323 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:28,920 September, October. The Halloween season is very 324 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:32,200 popular there. So just keep that in mind that 325 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,480 if you're willing to be a little flexible with the season and 326 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,440 being a little flexible with your dates, then you're going to 327 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,080 have a greater opportunity of getting what you're looking for. 328 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:43,640 And we get questions about this very frequently, but Disney 329 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:45,320 does. One of the reasons why we 330 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,520 monitor point charts year after year is they do have the ability 331 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:50,480 to kind of reallocate these a little bit. 332 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:54,000 And So what we have seen a little bit of a shift towards is 333 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:56,920 you know that that summer season at Disney World is kind of 334 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,680 calming down a little bit in terms of popularity. 335 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:03,680 And the popularity is increasing in that in that winter season. 336 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:07,160 So July or basically September through the end of the year has 337 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:10,599 been getting very busy. And so we've seen subtle shifts 338 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:14,200 recently on the point charts in which the point charts in that 339 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:17,160 season are kind of starting to creep up a little bit because 340 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,680 Disney is also monitoring that and that's how they control some 341 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,000 of this, that's how they really monitor and control availability 342 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:27,800 is by those subtle movements. So it's always something to that 343 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,840 pay close attention to like they they've done some crazy stuff 344 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,720 over the years, some of it not legal and some of it they've had 345 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:37,720 to redo when it comes to point charts. 346 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:42,880 But you know that's that's one of the reasons that they do 347 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:46,080 monitor that and change that point chart year after year. 348 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaking of point charts offseason at beach hotels are 349 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,640 easier to book than busy season. You kind of covered that a 350 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,480 little bit. You know we we talked about Vero 351 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:00,040 Beach, Hilton Head. You know that that time of the 352 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,040 year when everyone's on vacation is always a little bit popular. 353 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,680 Cheaper point rooms generally book first of course. 354 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,880 Yep. You know the as Derek said, the 355 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,640 worst views normally go first because they're the cheapest and 356 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:15,640 and that's. I have two, like for example, my 357 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:18,720 points are already gone, which they always are almost 358 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:20,240 immediately as soon as I get the meaning. 359 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,520 I've already borrowed all them for next year for this year's 360 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:26,120 trips because I wound up not having with a son in college. 361 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:29,000 Now at Florida State, we had to kind of change based on when 362 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:32,160 he's on vacation. So our annual trip to Vero that 363 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,640 we used to get and milk, you know, 3-4 nights before 364 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:37,880 Christmas, we didn't. We couldn't do that this year, 365 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:40,880 so we had to go between Christmas and New Year's, which 366 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:42,920 almost doubled the points. And. 367 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:46,760 Then on spring break, we're going to the Grand, I think in a 368 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,880 week and a half, the Grand Floridian, just for two nights. 369 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,360 But it happened to be over spring break on a Friday and a 370 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:56,320 Saturday night. So all my points are like, poof, 371 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,160 they're all gone, gone. Yeah. 372 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:04,440 So general rule of thumb that you've kind of outlined is book 373 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:08,480 at the 11 month window and then see what happens at seven 374 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:09,560 months, right? Yeah. 375 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:13,680 So you should always book your home resort at the 11 month 376 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:18,160 window unless unless you're it's like completely not even where 377 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,640 you're planning on going. But if you're going to Disney 378 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:23,000 World and your home resort is a Disney World resort, you know, 379 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,240 you definitely book it at 11 months and then at the seven 380 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,680 month window, that's when you can look to modify your stay 381 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:31,760 without actually, you know, losing the stay you have. 382 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:35,320 You can just simply modify it and and you know, possibly find 383 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:39,000 something that's going to give you the best shot at, you know, 384 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:44,320 obviously getting what you want is booking online 8:00 AM at the 385 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:47,160 11 month window. If you are trying to get 386 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,400 something at the seven month window, it's the same thing. 387 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,800 You want to be there. You want to be online at 8:00 AM 388 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,760 at the seven month window, ready to modify that stay or ready to 389 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:58,600 book. You know, whatever you're trying 390 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,120 to get, that's not your home resort. 391 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,080 Well, and you're you're planning that big Disney vacation and and 392 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,600 you know Jeff, I know you've been there because you know you 393 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,280 recently moved here but you planned that big Disney vacation 394 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:15,360 and you have to you, you kind of lock in when you're going to go 395 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,960 far in advance. And so you've got to make sure 396 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:21,040 that you've got that room, especially if you're travelling 397 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:23,760 with, you know multiple family members or multiple families 398 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,880 like. And so it's like lock it in and 399 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:29,840 then you can be more flexible, you know, down the road like 400 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:31,840 that's that's my general experience. 401 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,320 Yeah, I tend to agree. You know, it's you always want 402 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,360 something. You can change it if you find 403 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:39,600 something better, but it's best to have something in the bag. 404 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,920 You know, Panda? You're security blanket. 405 00:20:43,120 --> 00:20:45,560 So your home resort is your security blanket. 406 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:47,960 So I tell people all the time like book it. 407 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,920 Maybe you don't want to stay at Saratoga or you don't want to 408 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,360 stay at old Key West this trip. It doesn't matter. 409 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:55,560 Just book your dates. And then like you guys said too 410 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,600 at that seven month window is when the fun starts, right? 411 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:00,720 Because then you can go online saying, I don't know, I already 412 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,960 got this, so I already have my room that I needed for my dates 413 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,800 of when my flight is. But let me see what's available 414 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:08,720 and then you start talking to the friends and the family. 415 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:10,840 Hey, it looks like we could move over to the Raleigh, or we could 416 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,320 move over to this resort or that resort. 417 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,680 So yeah, just always book your home resort. 418 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,600 Now Panda, I know we've talked about this before, you know you 419 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:21,000 you typically are a little bit more flexible, last minute 420 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,920 stays, that kind of stuff. Have you utilized the the seven 421 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,200 to 11 month window though for anything specific with your 422 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:28,000 family or anything? Never. 423 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,880 I just don't plan that far in advance for that kind of stuff. 424 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,600 But I've, I've been lucky because I I basically let the 425 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,040 resort to dictate where I'm going. 426 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,320 Because I'll say you know I want to go at this time and I'll look 427 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:40,880 around and I'll always find something when we get to Riviera 428 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:43,160 at the end of this month I'm going to go to one of those 429 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,400 tower rooms and I'll it's really interesting to me because I 430 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,680 found the the cheapest, I think it was like maybe 14 points for 431 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,040 a night. So we'll we'll talk about that 432 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,280 and what I plan to do with that and how I got it. 433 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:57,520 It was pretty easy. And then it looks like the last 434 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:01,920 that you kind of had on here less nights are easier to get. 435 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,200 Consider a split stay to lessen what you need at each resort. 436 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,000 And that kind of goes hand in hand with what what Panda just 437 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,760 kind of said. Yeah, obviously the the least 438 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,760 amount of nights that you need, the easier it is, right? 439 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,120 It's always easy to pick up like one or two nights. 440 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,960 Picking up a whole week somewhere, especially somewhere 441 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:19,520 that isn't your home resort, is going to be a little more 442 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,880 difficult. So if you are looking to 443 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:27,360 possibly stay at a different resort and you have a long stay, 444 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:30,200 it might be smart when you book your home resort to book it in 445 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,920 two chunks, right? So let's say it's seven nights, 446 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,840 book a four night and then a three night and then you can try 447 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:41,200 to modify just one of those at a time and you you could end up 448 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,120 with different resorts. But split days can be really 449 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:44,880 fun. You know, you get a different 450 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:49,800 scenery, you get a fresh room, you can move your resort around 451 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,040 and you could, you know focus on those parks. 452 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,760 So if you're staying at Bay Lake or around the Monorail, maybe 453 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,400 you focus on Magic Kingdom. Then if you're staying Epcot 454 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,120 area next and you focus on Epcot and Hollywood Studios or or you 455 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:03,880 know, whatever. And then one last thing that 456 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,760 that you skipped over. You should always if if you look 457 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,680 for something and it's not there and you're within the booking 458 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,920 range, you should always set wait list and you should also do 459 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,040 what we called stalking the system which we talked about 460 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,960 that on our vocabulary show. But basically you just check 461 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,760 regularly throughout the day. Depending on how dedicated you 462 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:27,120 are, it could be once a day, it could be a few times a day and 463 00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:30,440 check to see you know if that opens up for you. 464 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,760 So let's go, Amy, go ahead. Just to just to go to Amy's 465 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:40,400 point, in May I had BLT Bay Lake tower, I think I had not lagoon 466 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:41,920 view. I had the other side the Bay 467 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,680 view and I wanted 4th of July to see the fireworks. 468 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:48,920 So I wait listed, you know tower room Parkview. 469 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:53,520 And sure enough it came through so you would think never. 470 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:54,920 You're never gonna get 4th of July. 471 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:59,080 You know Tower theme Parkview. I got it for two nights. 472 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,960 That's a very hard 1 to get on, a very hard date to get it. 473 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:03,240 So yeah, that, yeah. For sure. 474 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,160 Congratulations. Yeah, that's, yeah. 475 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,960 That's awesome. I'm I'm thinking a lot of people 476 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,160 thought not to wait list it because of the chances of 477 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,520 getting it are none. So the people that did you know 478 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,360 some of them got lucky like me. Yeah, I. 479 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,520 Hear you can consider that the 4th of July is my birthday. 480 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:18,760 Oh, you know what room number you're in? 481 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,600 I'll be knocking. OK. 482 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:23,400 Is that this year? I was last? 483 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:24,360 I had it. I had it. 484 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:25,040 I had it. I. 485 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,840 Know I should try? I should try it, yeah. 486 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:29,720 The expectation is set. Do it again I. 487 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,480 Didn't know your birthday was the 4th of July? 488 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,280 You get the best fireworks on your birthdays. 489 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,320 Too. We celebrate you, Jeff. 490 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,680 Thanks for that. Let's let's look a little bit 491 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,880 into each resort now. Now that we've we've talked 492 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,400 about this, why did Derek just show us a bucket hat again? 493 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:48,720 I. Was giving him a hat for for his 494 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,560 birthday. Because I I appreciate. 495 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:55,800 It I have. 2 already. Derek has a million of these at 496 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,320 home and just I. Want to wear it for one of our 497 00:24:58,320 --> 00:24:59,960 shows? You should. 498 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,520 Paul mows the grass in his. I do, yeah. 499 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,360 It's a it's a great grass hat. It's one of those like you can 500 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:08,200 wet it and then wring it out and it's like a cooling hat. 501 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,360 Derek, Did everyone at your house get one for Christmas this 502 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:13,600 year? Like, yes, yes, Soggy in the 503 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:14,720 lobby. That is what he. 504 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,000 Said when when Paul puts his on and gets ready to mow the grass, 505 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,440 he officially transforms into Florida man. 506 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:27,240 So just so you know, like cut off T-shirt bucket that. 507 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:29,960 Pull the black socks up to the knees. 508 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,160 He slips into some sandals. Oh yeah, I could. 509 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,800 Can I give somebody just a really quick tip before you jump 510 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,280 into each resort? Anything you can get us off this 511 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:39,640 topic please? Yeah, for sure. 512 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,840 Because I know we've got some friends that are kind of newer 513 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,120 DVC members and they didn't realize that this was a thing. 514 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:45,600 So we were talking about it the other night. 515 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:48,960 When you go and like let's say you've you've looked at a week 516 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:53,840 in the I want to stay this week at Boardwalk and it says sorry, 517 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,360 no rooms are available. But if you click on the month 518 00:25:57,360 --> 00:25:59,640 like you the drop down that shows the month and it shows 519 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,160 which days are available, make sure you do that because 520 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,600 sometimes it's only one night that's not available. 521 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,280 So book your like Amy was saying, book your first four or 522 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,160 five nights and the ones after wait list that one in the 523 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:12,440 middle. Because one nights. 524 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:16,480 A much easier one to wait list than three weekend nights, for 525 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:17,800 example. So make sure you're looking at 526 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,800 the calendar and seeing that it's actually not available for 527 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,360 the whole time, because if it's one or two nights, that's a much 528 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:26,960 easier grab, right? And it's looking Jeff, you're 529 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:28,160 right. I'm sorry. 530 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,800 No, no, you're fine. It took me a long time to 531 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,080 realize that you can also just modify the dates right there by 532 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,960 clicking on that calendar. I didn't know that for probably 533 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,680 three years. I'm pretty amazed at the power 534 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,560 they've given us in the DVC, you know, website when it works. 535 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,600 So the the thing I did with the if we just go to Riviera, those 536 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,240 those tower rooms, they're like not even real rooms. 537 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:51,760 There's no real bed. It's just pulled down. 538 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,960 It's tiny, but they're very little points and I wanted to 539 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,680 get one. So I put in staying from March 540 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:01,120 1st to March 31st, just like Jeff said, knowing I'm not going 541 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:04,280 to get, I didn't want a month worth of rooms, but that opened 542 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,680 up the calendar for me to look at March, to say there's a night 543 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,040 that's available and just grab the night that I wanted. 544 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,160 Again, I live here. It's flexible. 545 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,440 I get it. Not everyone can do that, but if 546 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,360 you can, it's a great, it's a great tool. 547 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,040 Yeah. If you're trying to build a 548 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,920 vacation around an event, let's say food and wine or power and 549 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:26,200 garden and you do have even if you're not local and you have 550 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,800 flexibility, you're like I don't care when I go, I want to go and 551 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,080 I want to stay here Boardwalk because it's close to Epcot. 552 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,400 Then you know by by searching that broader date range and 553 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,280 pulling up that calendar, that's really going to show you any 554 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,880 availability that that that could exist out there. 555 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,400 And that's a that's a great tip Jeff, for sure. 556 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:51,640 First up on our resorts list, Animal Kingdom and in terms of 557 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,600 the hardest rooms to book at Animal Kingdom we've got down 558 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,800 the club and value level rooms, which I will. 559 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,800 I will put a caveat on that and say those are the hardest rooms 560 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:06,240 of all of DVC, probably to book. Yeah, I don't. 561 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,360 Does anybody know how many club level rooms there are? 562 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:11,560 It's such a small amount. A handful. 563 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,320 I I thought it was like either 10 or something. 564 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,520 Like 6 they're. Only a jumbo, right? 565 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,200 Yeah, yeah. Yeah. 566 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,040 Yeah, I. Could ask. 567 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,000 Concierge is fantastic. Yeah, and then the same thing, 568 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:28,000 the same thing with and the other thing about Animal Kingdom 569 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,360 club level is it's the only club level DVC that there is. 570 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:36,840 So you know it's very popular. It's a very good value for the 571 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,880 points compared to if you were buying club level hotel, you 572 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,360 know cash. So and it's there's so few rooms 573 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:49,800 so those go very, very quickly and the value rooms are the 574 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,240 same. There's like 10 of them. 575 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,080 I think someone correct me if, you know, I think there's like 576 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,960 ten sets of like 10 studios and then ten one bedrooms that can 577 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:03,640 also be a two-bedroom lock off. I might that number might be off 578 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,760 by a little bit. Really it's it's a small amount. 579 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,720 You hear value too, and people think that they're going to be 580 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,200 incredibly different than the other properties we're talking 581 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,400 about. Maybe a couple square feet less 582 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:19,560 like they're they're very like. It's an unnoticeable amount and 583 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,800 sometimes you can even get a Savannah view. 584 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,160 You know some of them are Savannah View, some of them are 585 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,560 Pole view and then actually the least amount of them our our 586 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:32,360 parking lot view which we we got when we played value roll at. 587 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,080 And the real reason they're they're they're kind of labeled 588 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,400 value is I think just based off of the location and based off of 589 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:42,080 not wanting to convert some of the standard hotel rooms that 590 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,440 they had, it just made more sense for this area of the 591 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,480 building to basically fall into that value category. 592 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,440 But they are some of the hardest. 593 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,520 Anybody know what the easiest category or the most like 594 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,040 plentiful category at Animal Kingdom would be? 595 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:02,200 Derek for a bucket hat go. I'm going to go with Savannah 596 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,480 View GET. Get closer, I. 597 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,640 Forgot that we gave you guys the, you are right though there 598 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,120 are way more Savannah views than any any inventory at Animal 599 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:14,280 Kingdom. So those are going to be your 600 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,640 easiest. If you're trying to get, you 601 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:17,880 know. If you're just trying to get in 602 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,680 there or wait list or. Yeah, this is the this is the 603 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,440 next resort's the one that blows me away. 604 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,920 Hardest to get at Disney's Boardwalk Villas Standard View 605 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:32,120 or Boardwalk View, but easiest to get is the Pool Garden View. 606 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,520 I love the Pool Garden View. Like, I know I always take a 607 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,120 gamble with it, but I absolutely love it. 608 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,640 He says that as someone who has only ever had a pool garden view 609 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,880 over village green, that is true on the basically where he can 610 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,200 see the boardwalk I. Request it every time. 611 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,400 And we've done it every time. Yeah, we we failed it. 612 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:54,480 Roulette on that one. Yeah, you've never survived if 613 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,680 you've never survived having a pool garden view of the creepy 614 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,760 clown slide. Boy, I tell you there's like. 615 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,080 Spaghetti O'Hare used. To have those. 616 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,280 At night the eyes would glow up at night and sitting outside, it 617 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:11,000 was crazy. We've tried. 618 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,240 We've tried twice to play a pool garden, view roulette, and the 619 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:19,720 first time we were on the 1st floor at the pool, so like, 620 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,280 everybody's walking past our room on the way to the pool, 621 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,640 soggy and on their way to the lobby. 622 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,080 The second time we were on the third floor and there was this 623 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,520 giant tree. There was no view. 624 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,760 It was just a tree with kind of a little bit of hazy Tower of 625 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,800 Terror in the distance. I've heard of that view. 626 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:43,280 That that tree was full of birds and it's they am Oh man. 627 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,240 The one of the best that I've seen recently over on the DFC 628 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:52,080 fan Facebook group was a boardwalk view and it was a 629 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:56,160 first floor I think it was and it was right next to the preview 630 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,520 center. I'm here, but wait, it gets 631 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:02,240 better because they took a picture and the food truck that 632 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:06,040 are that are that are now coming the food truck parked right in 633 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,920 front of their room. I would ask for a new room or 634 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,280 give me give me my points to to a standard give. 635 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:14,880 Me. I'm not quite sure that that 636 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:16,920 equates to a boardwalk. Hey. 637 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:18,800 Oh, what a shame. I didn't even think about the 638 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:23,000 food truck blocking the view of some of those first floor rooms. 639 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,720 Although I any any first floor situation I'm not a fan of. 640 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,960 Yeah, same. We used to always request when 641 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,240 we used to stay at the boardwalk and book you know far out 642 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,960 because we flew down from Chicago, is we. 643 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,480 It used to be a hiking app and I know it still is. 644 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:42,080 But those rooms all the way near the Crest of the waves next to 645 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,680 Jelly rolls have walk and a half. 646 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,680 Like you know you might have to get a room just to sleep halfway 647 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:52,360 before you get to your actual. But it's so worth it because 648 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,760 those views, you see everything, you see the entire span of the 649 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,600 whole entire boardwalk. You see fireworks every single 650 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,880 night. So they all ended in 001 that I 651 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,280 do. And you can see spaceship Earth 652 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,040 from from those rooms as well, yeah. 653 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:13,680 Next up, Beach Club. Hardest to get at Beach Club are 654 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,120 studios, historically. Pretty much everything. 655 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,960 Yeah, I feel like everything here. 656 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,880 Easiest to get one bedrooms, although you wrote still 657 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:26,720 difficult but Beach Club is just such a small resort that it's 658 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:31,160 like if you don't book at 11 months you you are playing 659 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,920 roulette at that. At that time it is very hard. 660 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:38,360 Although our good friend Mandy, she she pieced together a good 661 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:40,640 stay. But she pieced it together, 662 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,720 literally one night at a time. One night at a time, stalking 663 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:48,640 the system, checking day in, day out, you know, But it happened. 664 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,240 It, it can happen. So there is hope. 665 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,240 And we have stayed at Beach Club several times, but they've all 666 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:59,280 been like single to two night, four night Max stays, you know 667 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:00,360 what I mean? And. 668 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,760 I've heard people have complained too that have stayed 669 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,200 at the beach club. Obviously not about the location 670 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,520 because they're perfect or not about the pool, but it's always 671 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,800 like, yeah, we got a bad room, you know, we had a horrible 672 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,480 view. I don't think there's good views 673 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:15,480 at the beach club. I. 674 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,040 Don't think so either. Where the resort is built, 675 00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:23,040 you're literally going to sit on your patio and watch people walk 676 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:24,719 by, like on their way to the park. 677 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,920 So don't feel bad if you don't get a good view at the beach 678 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,760 club, because there are none. I remember one of our first 679 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,639 beach club stays. We got the coveted view. 680 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,920 We we got a coveted view, but it was also through a forest. 681 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,800 Oh no, you're thinking the the first day we ever had, we got 682 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,120 the view where you can see like the I think is it the land 683 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,360 pavilion? Yeah, but it was. 684 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:48,960 Like, no, There was a crane right in. 685 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,600 Front it was a crane. I forgot it was a construction 686 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,520 crane. But it's also like, even though 687 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:57,240 it's like the perfect view at that resort, it's also you, you 688 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,480 you go into it and you're like, this is great, I could see 689 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,880 Epcot, I'll see fireworks and it's like you see like 1 spark 690 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,640 come up over something every 5 minutes. 691 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,800 Yeah, we've watched fireworks. But it's so it's it's so 692 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,360 thrilling to sit there for 5 minutes. 693 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,400 Oh, there's one like. Another thing about Beach Club 694 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,640 too. At least the times that I've 695 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,280 stayed there, I don't know what it is. 696 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,920 But you know, last episode we talked about Hilton Head and how 697 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,840 spacious the balconies are. Balconies, the Beach club are 698 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,960 like this big. There's no rocking chair 699 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:30,760 there's. I don't know I I. 700 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,400 Oh, beach club is like balcony roulette where you might get 701 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:41,000 like this weird, you know, isosceles shaped balcony. 702 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:42,760 There's a. Word you didn't expect to hear 703 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:47,200 today, ladies and gentlemen. You might get a little square 704 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:48,760 like. You're right, it's just so 705 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,400 random. Do you remember on our one of 706 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,560 our our. I think it was my birthday trip 707 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:54,280 or your birthday trip to beach club? 708 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,320 We stayed in a room and we looked down. 709 00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,840 This is also what's weird about it is we were in like a very 710 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,360 tiny balcony. But we were if we looked 711 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,720 straight down, there were giant balconies below us. 712 00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:07,040 So like, we were literally standing above people if they 713 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,120 were on their balcony, yeah, but there were two. 714 00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:12,000 We were on a corner and there were two balconies, but then 715 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:16,240 there was this weird area where it was like a triangle of 716 00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:19,240 nothingness, but neither balcony could get to it. 717 00:36:19,240 --> 00:36:21,680 Yeah, it was and. So it was like a time out zone. 718 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,720 I felt like in between the two balconies I don't like. 719 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:26,600 I don't know why they didn't. Open that up. 720 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,640 Why didn't they open that up to one of the sides? 721 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,680 Like, it makes no sense. Unless they were like, oh, 722 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,200 that's going to be the place where the person above you spits 723 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:35,640 or something. I have no idea. 724 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,760 Like, but yeah, Beach Club's weird, That's. 725 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:45,720 A new member. Lump yeah, I'm going to lump the 726 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:48,560 next two together because you know they kind of fall into the 727 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,200 same categories. Copper Creek, Boulder Ridge, 728 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,760 both at Wilderness Lodge, hardest to get at. 729 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,720 Those properties are going to be studios, easiest to get are 730 00:36:56,720 --> 00:37:01,120 going to be 1 bedrooms and I think I'll I'll take that a step 731 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,120 further with Copper Creek. And say Cabin. 732 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,720 Well, copper, no, Copper Creek in general, just extremely hard 733 00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:09,880 for both studios. I would even say one bedroom, 2 734 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:12,040 bedroom because of what the cabins have done. 735 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:13,520 To that resort, right? Yeah. 736 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:17,200 I don't think that the cabins are too, too hard to get except 737 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,560 during like popular times, just because they cost so much and 738 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,160 points. So a lot of people kind of stay 739 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,360 away from those. And that's what's put the stress 740 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,040 I think on the, on the other properties there's as you know 741 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,480 the the studios, the one bedrooms, 2 bedrooms. 742 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,440 That's why everyone bought Copper Creek except for the rare 743 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:38,040 few that did buy for the cabins. But you know the the cabins are 744 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,280 what have kind of caused the biggest issue there. 745 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,800 And then Boulder Ridge, beautiful property recently 746 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,160 refurbished. The studios look great. 747 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,480 The one we the one bedrooms look great. 748 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,760 You know, all of all of those are are amazing, but they fall 749 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,280 into what would be kind of the standard when it comes to, you 750 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,400 know, what we're seeing across the board with availability in 751 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:03,000 in in in kind of what the what the rooms are doing next on the 752 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:07,600 list Grand Floridian. And it's interesting you didn't 753 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:12,240 go by room type here, you kind of went by the original 754 00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:14,600 buildings. So hardest to get are the 755 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,920 original villas at the Grand Floridian. 756 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,520 So the original building and the easiest to get are the new 757 00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:23,560 resort studios as our dogs decide it's playtime. 758 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,680 Hermie's favorite toy is this pink pony. 759 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:33,280 This pink pony that came in a bark box that I thought we were 760 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:38,640 going to give to our friends dog Abby, but he likes it so much so 761 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,720 Paul's gonna have to take it off him 'cause he's squeak again. 762 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,920 Oh, big pony, there's. Pink Pony. 763 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,360 Pink Pony. Does he want a bucket hat if I 764 00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:54,880 can get him a bucket? Hat Yeah, so Grand Floridian, 765 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,040 basically. Grand Floridian used to be so 766 00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,160 hard to book. Do you guys remember before they 767 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,360 opened Big Pine Key, how difficult it was? 768 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,840 And I remember that's why we bought points there and it was 769 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,320 it was so hard. And then they opened up Big Pine 770 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,000 Key and I don't it's not as hard anymore to get into Grand 771 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:15,600 Floridian, but it is hard to get into those original villas and 772 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,160 that's the Deluxe studios, the one bedrooms, the two bedrooms 773 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:20,880 and the the three bedroom Grand villas. 774 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,280 But the resort studios are definitely a lot easier, easier 775 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,040 to get now. Yeah, because, I mean, you have 776 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:31,440 10s of thousands of, if not more points that are now floating 777 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,120 around for people that are competing with just that 778 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,800 original building. For the one bedrooms, for the 779 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,600 two bedrooms, for the three bedrooms. 780 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,120 Studios are not that hard to come by and I prefer the new 781 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:45,000 tower ones, you know, way better than the original building just 782 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,600 because of the location and all that. 783 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,200 But you're still dealing with people that bought the Grand 784 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:53,120 Floridian in that second phase. That said, we only want one 785 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:54,600 bedroom when you want two bedrooms. 786 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,720 But that building itself didn't get any bigger, so it still 787 00:39:57,720 --> 00:40:00,040 stayed the same prize as when it was sold out. 788 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:03,640 So. Derek, I will take everything 789 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,120 you just said about the Grand Floridian and actually transfer 790 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:10,280 it to our next resort, which is the Polynesian, because I think 791 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:11,960 we're going to run into the same problem there. 792 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,840 Amy, you marked out on here. It's pretty easy in most 793 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,240 situations to get the studio or the bungalows currently. 794 00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:21,240 Because it pretty much is all studios and then the bungalows 795 00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:25,040 are just so high in points that you know, unless you got them, 796 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,560 you don't get it so. But that's going to change. 797 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:32,800 If you know that this new resort come, you know, the new tower 798 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,200 comes on and there's one bedrooms and there's two 799 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,960 bedrooms, then all of these people that have stayed in 800 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,560 studios all these years are going to say, oh, I want, I want 801 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,600 into the one bedrooms, I want into the two bedrooms. 802 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,000 And so you're going to run into the same exact problem that 803 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,600 we're seeing over it at Grand Floridian, which is everyone's 804 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:51,000 fighting over those one and two bedrooms, which for me, I'm fine 805 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,600 with, you know, I love studios. There's going to be some of the, 806 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:57,120 you know, resort studio or tower studio type concepts in this 807 00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:01,000 resort as well, so those will be available probably just as hard 808 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,280 to get. As Panda has said, you know the 809 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,320 the Tower studio at Riviera was as hard to get for him. 810 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:11,720 But you know, hey, more studios for us and I don't know if 811 00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:13,400 anyone will stay in the bungalows at that point. 812 00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:15,680 Those will. Those will always be up for 813 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,840 grabs. I have a quick question. 814 00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,920 Does Copper Creek or Boulder Ridge have Grand Villas? 815 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,400 That's a great question. Copper Creek does have Grand 816 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,440 Villas. Boulder Ridge and Beach Club do 817 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,360 not. OK, I was just wondering if if 818 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,680 Polly, because of the bungalows, we're going to have a grand 819 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:37,040 villa as well, so. I I it looks like it does look 820 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,280 like that. I mean it it kind of the the 821 00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:43,520 overall design of that tower mimics a lot of what they did 822 00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,120 with Disneyland hotel. And so I think we're going to 823 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:50,400 see maybe 234, you know very, very small number. 824 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,080 But you know those top two floors or so are going to have 825 00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,600 those Grand Villas and they're only going to do that to boost 826 00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,960 what they can sell points wise of that resort. 827 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:02,880 That's that's really where that you know the Grand Villas when 828 00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,320 you look at a point chart as a whole it makes up the total 829 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:09,520 number of points per day per year for each each room in the 830 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,080 building. And what is the best opportunity 831 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:15,320 while we, you know, we know it's the Grand Villas, we've seen it 832 00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,240 with Polynesian and and Copper Creek. 833 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:21,520 What they did was they inflated those charts by the bungalows 834 00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:25,040 and the cabins and so they they need something to eat up some 835 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,960 points, they can sell some more and and and recoup the cost of 836 00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,720 building that resort. So that's what we'll probably 837 00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:33,520 see there. Jeff, just to answer your 838 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,920 question to a refurbished Copper Creek Grand Villa I think is 839 00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:40,400 like the flagship Grand Villa 'cause it's different than all 840 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,960 the others. It's really just yeah. 841 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:44,240 Interesting. OK, cool. 842 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,920 Next on our list, continuing around the monorail loop, we're 843 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,920 back to Bay Lake Tower, Amy's favorite. 844 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,720 I just love it. It's not my favorite, but I do 845 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,240 love it. Hardest to get. 846 00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,560 There. Hardest to get there standard or 847 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,800 theme park view unless you're Panda and you luck out on that 848 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,680 July 4th day. And then the easiest to get is 849 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,520 the lake view. Well, and interestingly enough, 850 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,240 out of all of the resorts, I think that we've talked about, 851 00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:17,280 if you're punting and have to settle for a lake view at Bay 852 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,080 Lake Tower, that's not a bad settle like that. 853 00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:23,640 It's a beautiful view. Especially because if you can, 854 00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,880 if if you want to, you can just hop in the elevator and go up to 855 00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:31,280 the observation deck or go to top of the World lounge and you 856 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,440 can see the fireworks from there, so you've got the same. 857 00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:35,960 Yeah. And Lakeview, obviously it's 858 00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,280 because it has the most inventory at Bay Lake, but some 859 00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:42,320 of the lake view is on the inside of the horseshoe facing 860 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,360 Bay Lake and some of them are actually on the other side. 861 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,800 So some some Lake views do have theme park views. 862 00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,440 So. But that but that theme park 863 00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,080 view like during the day, which is what I tell people all too 864 00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:56,800 all the time. Like don't be sad if you don't 865 00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,520 get it because during the day it's almost like a parking lot 866 00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,280 view just because you see it all the way to like the Magic 867 00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,840 Kingdom, it's parking lot, parking lot, but at night it's 868 00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:07,080 really really pretty. But I just don't think it's 869 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,080 worth the points. I I would rather get a like view 870 00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,320 if that's a beautiful. Scene for me, though, Derek, 871 00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:14,560 it's the sounds I'm telling you, there's something about here in 872 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,560 the and here in the Haunted Mansion. 873 00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,720 You can hear the howls from the your balcony, and there's just 874 00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:22,600 something magical about that whole spot. 875 00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:23,840 Good. Point I've. 876 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,600 Never listened that intently that I could hear Haunted 877 00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:28,880 Mansion you. Can hear Haunted Mansion. 878 00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:30,280 You're hearing the next door, neighbors. 879 00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:32,480 No, no, I swear. You could hear the Haunted 880 00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:34,320 Mansion. You could hear the ferry boats 881 00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,640 obviously you just there's certain sounds of the of the 882 00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,920 lagoon that are just ah yeah, it's alive. 883 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:49,400 It's alive when it comes to. Crazy point charts and views and 884 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,400 the most irregular thing we've ever seen. 885 00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:53,840 I have to put it on our next resort, which is Riviera. 886 00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:59,520 For Riviera, the hardest to get unless you're paying the Tower 887 00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,680 Studios or anything. That is. 888 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:03,320 You heard how I got it. It wasn't special. 889 00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:06,280 I looked at a month, yeah, and said OK, I'll go this day. 890 00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:11,320 Yeah, you know but so the The Tower Studios, very hard to get 891 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,080 very limited number of those available. 892 00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:18,480 But standard view is very difficult to get and this this 893 00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:24,200 is I think twofold, one, because it's cheaper and two, because it 894 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:28,800 actually faces a park like it actually faces fireworks in most 895 00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:33,120 scenarios, whereas the preferred view is what I call the splash 896 00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:39,080 pad view or the the kind of lake view and the point charts for 897 00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,960 those are outrageous. So most, I mean panda you're 898 00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:44,720 you're our resident Riviera owner. 899 00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:48,600 Would you book a preferred view knowing what those cost per 900 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,560 night with the points versus a standard view when you can see 901 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:55,120 Epcot and see fireworks? I'd go for standard first, but 902 00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:58,480 I've had the preferred view and I've had, you know, the the like 903 00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,000 that they have out there and the gondolas and it looks nice, it's 904 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,240 nice, it's nice. It is nice, peaceful it. 905 00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:08,560 Is nice if you get that view we we were over the splash pad but. 906 00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:10,560 Yeah, we had the kids. Even the parking lot view, I 907 00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,520 didn't. I don't mind it at the Revere. 908 00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:13,840 Everything seems nice there to me. 909 00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,520 We we rode out Hurricane Ian facing the parking lot and that 910 00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,000 was a that was a good time because we just watched this 911 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,600 guy's Jeep fill up with water because he didn't have a top on 912 00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:25,640 it. So that was pretty great. 913 00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,680 We just filmed it like in time lapse. 914 00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,280 It was awesome. Not for him, but for us. 915 00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:30,880 That's. Pretty cool. 916 00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,640 We need this video, Jeff. We need this video. 917 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,520 I feel bad. That's that's Patreon content. 918 00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:39,880 Really want to see the video? And and especially Jeff's 919 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,800 probably commentary and the and reactions in the background of 920 00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,160 it. Also time lapse, so I don't 921 00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:47,400 think you get all that it'll. Be It'll be squeaky and fast, 922 00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:48,720 but you'll still get it, so it's. 923 00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:55,440 Gonna pay the price for. Not having a move? 924 00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:57,960 Rounding out the Walt Disney World properties? 925 00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:01,160 Old Key West Hardest Near Hospitality House. 926 00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:05,880 Easiest. The regular booking category You 927 00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,360 know, agree. There's what, two buildings that 928 00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,640 are The near Hospitality House, I believe, No. 929 00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:11,760 Clue. It's not very many. 930 00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,840 Two or three buildings that are categorized as near Hospitality 931 00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:16,960 house, which is near the the central location. 932 00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,040 So people there's no difference in points. 933 00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,120 So most people try to book those first. 934 00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,040 They don't. They don't charge extra points 935 00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:26,920 like surge pricing to be near hospitality. 936 00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:27,680 House. No. 937 00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:32,320 So actually, why Derek might be able to shed more light on this. 938 00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:34,680 I think this was just reactionary to them. 939 00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:38,000 I don't think this is actually how they originally came on. 940 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,480 No, this is all reactionary, right? 941 00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,400 So it's whenever you talk about the point charts, it's always 942 00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,680 the phrase reallocation. So that's what legally it's 943 00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,560 called is reallocation because every resort has a total number 944 00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,160 of vacation club points assigned to it. 945 00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,240 That total number can never ever increase just like we said. 946 00:47:55,240 --> 00:47:57,800 So they can move stuff around like we've talked about. 947 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,800 So you know that early December, that time frame and now might be 948 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,200 a couple more points tonight then maybe during the summer's 949 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:06,240 less, but I think that truly and I could probably find out for 950 00:48:06,240 --> 00:48:09,880 short, but I think when they revised it, obviously the total 951 00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,760 number of points never changed but they just had so many people 952 00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,880 requesting that we want to be near hospitality House that they 953 00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:19,320 just made it it's own booking place. 954 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:22,400 So yeah. Yeah, that was always my general 955 00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:25,840 impression is so many people whether it be mobility related, 956 00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,560 you name it, but they wanna be closer to the amenities of the 957 00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:32,720 resort and so it was just easier for them rather than to have 958 00:48:32,720 --> 00:48:35,200 this onslaught of a million requests. 959 00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:39,120 For that let's make it its own booking category and and make it 960 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,160 easy. But old Key West on the whole 961 00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:44,160 fairly easy to get into because it is one of the one of the 962 00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:49,240 larger properties and by far the largest property at Walt Disney 963 00:48:49,240 --> 00:48:52,920 World When it comes to Disney Vacation Club Saratoga Springs 964 00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:58,480 hardest you wrote most are easy. That is true, but studios in 965 00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,520 Grand Villas will go first in the standard. 966 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,080 Category just because it's lost points. 967 00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:05,960 Standard usually goes first, even though it's usually easy, 968 00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,320 but you know they're if you're booking last minutes sometimes 969 00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:12,000 Saratoga is gone. So usually if if it pops up, 970 00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,280 what we normally will see is like a preferred you know be 971 00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:19,200 more expensive points. But yeah, not much to say there. 972 00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,240 And same thing there. Preferred's gonna be a little 973 00:49:21,240 --> 00:49:23,760 bit closer to the amenities and a little bit closer to Disney 974 00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:25,640 Springs and a lot of those elements too. 975 00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:29,960 So more points equals easier to get in most. 976 00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:33,280 I I think that's probably the general theme of the show. 977 00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:38,600 Yeah. Over the years, if we move real 978 00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:42,880 quick just to finish this off to some of the properties that are 979 00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:47,000 outside of Walt Disney World, Aulani is a big one that a lot 980 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,680 of people question. So we have a lot of owners that 981 00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:53,040 are Walt Disney World DVC owners that are like, I want to go to 982 00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:54,920 Aulani, I want to do an Aulani vacation. 983 00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:57,560 You know, what are the odds of me getting in seven months? 984 00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:59,800 I don't know, Derek, You probably get that question just 985 00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:01,800 as much as we do. A lot, yeah. 986 00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:03,200 Yeah. And so. 987 00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:06,480 So the odds are pretty good. It's just during the busier 988 00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:09,760 times of year, especially maybe if you want like in Ocean View 989 00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:12,320 during Christmas week might be a little bit hard at seven months 990 00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:15,400 out, yeah. Yeah, in general though, Ocean 991 00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:19,040 View can be one of the easier categories to get offseason just 992 00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,280 again because of the point charts and and because of the 993 00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,640 cost it is to have that view. Right. 994 00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:26,040 And the hardest are those hotel rooms. 995 00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:29,880 And I I've heard, and I don't know if this is true or not, but 996 00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:33,160 those came about because there's only like what, six of them, 997 00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,160 it's it's some random, really small number value. 998 00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:38,560 They're very cheap on points. They're just, they're hotel 999 00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:42,600 rooms. And I always heard that they had 1000 00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:46,400 taken out a grand villa to put in Alma. 1001 00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,320 Alma. Or is it is that the name of the 1002 00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:51,800 AMMA, which is the specialty, you know, resort or the 1003 00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:55,120 specialty restaurant? And because they did that for 1004 00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:58,840 the hotel, the resort, the hotel resort had to give something 1005 00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:02,280 back to DVC. So they gave them a handful of 1006 00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:05,560 hotel rooms to make up for that loss of that grand villa. 1007 00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:09,240 And that's why we have like 6 random hotel rooms in the DVC 1008 00:51:09,240 --> 00:51:11,240 inventory. Interesting. 1009 00:51:11,720 --> 00:51:13,480 Interesting. Yeah, we knew it. 1010 00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:16,760 So they are the cheapest on points, they go very quickly by 1011 00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,720 owners and then then standard view is gonna go next. 1012 00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:24,040 But if I'm going clear to Hawaii and flying for 11 hours, I'm 1013 00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:27,920 going to Ocean View. Though, unless you get sick and 1014 00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:29,680 then you settle for whatever room you can get. 1015 00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:34,480 We still can see the ocean, but. Although pro tip, if you get the 1016 00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:39,240 garden view you can often see the luau from your from your 1017 00:51:39,240 --> 00:51:40,720 room. That is true. 1018 00:51:40,720 --> 00:51:43,040 Then you. Don't have to pay $179 or 1019 00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:45,720 whatever it is. But nobody will throw you up 1020 00:51:45,720 --> 00:51:49,400 food. I love that Jeff's equation of 1021 00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,440 watching the luau from his balcony is the same as being 1022 00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:55,120 there drinking and eating. Like, are you stealing from it? 1023 00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:57,760 He's like instead of spending 179, just sit and watch the 1024 00:51:57,760 --> 00:51:59,280 people. No. 1025 00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:00,600 Yeah. Go get the pizza from 1026 00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:03,800 downstairs, Bring up, have a way better meal and still see the 1027 00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:05,880 luau you. Got to find out the 1028 00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:07,160 entertainment. Especially if you have a 1029 00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:09,320 two-bedroom and friends, that's. Right. 1030 00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:15,400 Also off property we, I think we touched on a lot of this in our 1031 00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:18,960 Hilton Head show and also in our previous Vero Beach talks. 1032 00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:24,240 So both of these I kind of think fall into the same realm which 1033 00:52:24,240 --> 00:52:27,600 is that Vero Beach and Hilton Head peak season that's going to 1034 00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:30,600 be your hardest to get these these different properties, you 1035 00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:33,000 know, perfect summer vacation season. 1036 00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:35,760 You know it's going to be hard to go to the spring spring 1037 00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,400 break. Easiest is going to be offseason 1038 00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:41,440 when most of us have have historically gone to some of 1039 00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,440 these properties at at Vero when Amy and I recently went to 1040 00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:50,280 Hilton Head and and Derek will speak quickly to Vero Beach. 1041 00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,960 Those 3 bedroom beach cottages boy and and the in rooms 1042 00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:58,800 actually also they are they are the go to and and and ones that 1043 00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,440 most people want at Vero. But I think unless you own 1044 00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:02,560 there, they're pretty hard to get. 1045 00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:06,920 People will and our very own Webmaster doc recently bought 1046 00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:10,280 some Bureau Peach points for that exact same reason because 1047 00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:11,880 he wants to get the beach cottage. 1048 00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,400 Not every year but maybe every other year because there's not 1049 00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:18,600 many of them and the in rooms I think are a way better use of 1050 00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:21,320 points than the studios. I think the location in that 1051 00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:24,960 main building at Bureau with the 2 queen beds in it, you still 1052 00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:27,760 have a mini fridge, you still have you know the microwave, so 1053 00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,400 you still have that, but it's in a much better location and a 1054 00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:33,120 great use of points. I have gotten a standard view, 1055 00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:36,320 which we just did in December, but I was able to see the ocean 1056 00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:40,000 if you kind of look over this way and stand on your tippy toes 1057 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:43,120 and all that. So even a regular standard view 1058 00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:45,040 in the in room is pretty, you know. 1059 00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:47,160 So yeah, you you can't go wrong either way. 1060 00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,000 Heading to the West Coast? Grand Californian Disneyland 1061 00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,240 Villas for the Grand Californian you wrote down hardest to get 1062 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,080 everything. Everything, but especially any. 1063 00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:00,560 Studios in Grand Villas because there's only two Grand Villas. 1064 00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:04,720 Studios in Grand Villas go first, they go at about, you 1065 00:54:04,720 --> 00:54:09,200 know, 8 O 1:00 AM and then eight O 2:00 AM the one bedrooms go 1066 00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:12,920 and then there's nothing left and you know it. 1067 00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:16,120 Grand California is just you've got to own there to get in. 1068 00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,440 That is that has historically been the role there's been the 1069 00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:24,360 off off scenario where we're we're testament to that where we 1070 00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:26,160 we somehow got. A studio. 1071 00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,560 A studio. And so again, if you stock the 1072 00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:32,200 system and and you kind of pay attention to what's going on. 1073 00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:35,360 But I did try and fail multiple mornings, so we had to be 1074 00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,400 flexible, You know what I mean? Tried and failed. 1075 00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,800 Try the next morning and failed. And so our dates moved as the 1076 00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:42,640 time moves. So then we finally got it. 1077 00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:44,080 Got it. Got to be flexible. 1078 00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:46,840 And then Disneyland Villas. So far, from what we've seen, 1079 00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:50,320 the easiest to get are those preferred view rooms which make 1080 00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,880 up a lot of the resort. They've they've labeled a lot of 1081 00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:56,440 them that that property the the preferred view studio and then 1082 00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:59,320 hardest Grand Villas. There's two when they when they 1083 00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:01,880 first opened there was one because the second one wasn't 1084 00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:06,840 ready. 1 bedrooms. 2 bedrooms, the duo studios, so like the 1085 00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:08,760 tower studio type concepts there. 1086 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:12,200 And then those elusive garden studios that are down in the 1087 00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:15,160 pool area, which don't even attract me. 1088 00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,000 Like, I I think it's cool that they're like off to the side, 1089 00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,320 but I don't like that. They sit so low. 1090 00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:22,520 They sit so low and. You're probably loud from the. 1091 00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:24,680 Pool. Yeah, Like when we were there, I 1092 00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,080 felt like I could look up at them and scream at the people on 1093 00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:28,720 the 2nd. Balcony and just have a. 1094 00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:31,640 Conversation with them. So like yeah the privacy is is 1095 00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:35,200 is little to none but overall in that resort the bigger problems 1096 00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:38,520 with you know no balconies on some of the some of the main 1097 00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,680 rooms and stuff like that. So, but you know it'll be 1098 00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:46,120 interesting to continue to watch the Disneyland Villas as they 1099 00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:51,720 sell more and we as we see what the availability does there, if 1100 00:55:51,720 --> 00:55:55,800 you guys had to guess with new properties coming down the road. 1101 00:55:56,040 --> 00:56:00,040 So we talked about Poly a little bit in its own right. 1102 00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:03,800 The Poly Tower though, if you think about the tower 1103 00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:07,000 specifically, what is it? What is going to be hard to get 1104 00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,280 at the tower? Can I go? 1105 00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:13,240 Yeah, for a bucket hat go. Yeah, I literally was just going 1106 00:56:13,240 --> 00:56:15,640 to bring this up and ask, 'cause I know, obviously we're all 1107 00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:18,320 speculating at at this point, but I'm sitting here thinking 1108 00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:20,440 about it and thinking how many people love. 1109 00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:23,960 And I still cannot get over the fact that there's one DVC resort 1110 00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:27,760 with a concierge level that I think the Polynesian has always 1111 00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:30,040 been famous for their concierge level. 1112 00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:33,000 I think it's what like King Kamehameha Club or something 1113 00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:36,320 close enough? It seems to me like it would be 1114 00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:40,800 such an absolute no brainer to include a concierge level club 1115 00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:42,840 as part of the new Polynesian town. 1116 00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:46,080 You don't have to have many rooms, but my God, is it 1117 00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:48,720 enticing for people to look to say okay God, There's a point 1118 00:56:48,720 --> 00:56:51,720 chart and there's gonna be a lounge and everything else 1119 00:56:51,720 --> 00:56:54,400 that's there, so I would personally love to see that. 1120 00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,120 I think the point chart itself is going to rival the Grand 1121 00:56:57,120 --> 00:57:00,200 Floridian 1, so I think the one bedrooms are going to be pretty 1122 00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:02,880 similar to the two bedrooms and the three bedrooms and whatnot. 1123 00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:05,520 But man, they'll be awesome if they could add a concierge 1124 00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,160 level. That would be cool. 1125 00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:10,520 Now I'm now now I'm just going to be hoping for the next six 1126 00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:11,680 months until. We launch something, Yeah, I 1127 00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:14,120 agree. I hadn't even thought of that, 1128 00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:15,640 yeah. If this paid out. 1129 00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:19,400 If if this pans out, this show will go down in history, Is 1130 00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:21,800 Derek the future teller? But you're right. 1131 00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:26,720 Like Grand Destino, Like top floor, like Grand Destino Lounge 1132 00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:31,720 that you can see the park, yeah. People pay an insane amount of 1133 00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:34,800 money for the original hotel rooms at the Polynesian Hotel to 1134 00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:37,600 be part of that concierge level. And I'm talking, I hear stories 1135 00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:40,800 all the time from people that started going there in the 70s. 1136 00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:44,640 They've never stayed anywhere else but concierge level at the 1137 00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:46,280 Polynesian. And if you've ever seen that 1138 00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:49,760 lounge, it's kind of got the two-story huge notes that look 1139 00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:51,440 the whole. Yeah, I look up in it from time 1140 00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:52,080 to time. It'd. 1141 00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:55,800 Be awesome. If they could do, they'd. 1142 00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:57,000 Be printing money. I used to. 1143 00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:59,920 I used to stay there for 9 nights a year when I lived back 1144 00:57:59,920 --> 00:58:02,000 in New York and I would always get the Tonga. 1145 00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:03,880 Building with those with the concierge was great. 1146 00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,720 Wow. Do we think it was 100 and 170 1147 00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:11,640 dollars a night, 'cause I was a travel agent? 1148 00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:13,560 That was my discount, $170.00 an hour. 1149 00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:16,160 Oh my. God, do we think that because of 1150 00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:18,560 the way the Poly is designed that the one bedrooms actually 1151 00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:22,040 might be harder here because we already have so many studios? 1152 00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:25,520 And if they add a bunch more studios, like people that want 1153 00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:28,040 to stay at the Poly don't because there isn't a room 1154 00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:29,800 that's big enough for their family. 1155 00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:32,400 Oh, there are going to be studios also in the tower. 1156 00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:34,960 I thought the tower was just I. Would assume so, yeah. 1157 00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:38,240 Yeah based off of based off some of the blueprints we've seen 1158 00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:41,560 there will definitely be lock offs at least and and you know 1159 00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:45,160 maybe some some dedicated and the duo or the tower type 1160 00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:49,640 studios as well. Jeff, my thought on that is 1161 00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:53,520 Polly's such a weird one because it does. 1162 00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:57,840 I feel like Polly does attract some of the same clientele that 1163 00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:01,080 one bedrooms do because of how the bathroom layout is. 1164 00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:05,520 You know, the the room is a little bit bigger. 1165 00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:08,960 It's one of the bigger studios. I think on property you have the 1166 00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:11,880 split bathroom concept, so there's a little bit more room. 1167 00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:14,440 Now are people going to obviously want a one bedroom 1168 00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:15,720 over that? Yes. 1169 00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:19,400 Like so I I completely agree that you know, the one bedrooms 1170 00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:22,520 that are going to be very difficult to get as are the two, 1171 00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:25,640 the two bedrooms. But I do wonder like what does 1172 00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:27,440 it do for the the resort as a whole? 1173 00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:32,000 Because like it's like the the standard, but the real, the real 1174 00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:35,280 comparison I think is gonna be looking at what they do with the 1175 00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:39,240 studios in that tower compared to the existing studios, the 1176 00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:42,560 existing long houses. Like when we compare the split 1177 00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:44,120 bathroom concepts and everything. 1178 00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:48,880 So what what kind of space is there between those two and how 1179 00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:52,400 do those two categories maybe rival each other? 1180 00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:56,120 So I'd be, I'd be totally fine if they made the studios in the 1181 00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:58,720 new tower the same as the ones like at the Grand Floridian, 1182 00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:00,600 right. So you have your regular studios 1183 01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:03,960 that you can get that have already been there, but but then 1184 01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:07,160 if you want two dedicated queen beds, you know, then perfect, 1185 01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:10,200 then I got to stay in the tower, you know, that's that's how I 1186 01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:13,240 would separate it. But they don't pay me for that. 1187 01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:17,400 Last but not least on the list, the cabins at Disney's Fort 1188 01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:19,720 Wilderness Resort. Now do we think the one bedroom 1189 01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:22,680 cabins or the one bedroom cabins are going to be harder to book 1190 01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:25,640 at that? Property at Seasons for this 1191 01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:30,240 one. Yeah, Christmas. 1192 01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:32,360 And. Halloween are going to be hard. 1193 01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:35,560 I think they're going to have to give them away the rest of the 1194 01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:36,960 year. I that's my prediction. 1195 01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:39,720 I don't think these are going to do as well as anybody else 1196 01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:41,760 thinks. So that's I'm I'm going to die 1197 01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:43,560 on that hill. You heard it here first. 1198 01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:46,440 I hope Jeff is right, Easier for us to book. 1199 01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:47,560 Right. Yeah. 1200 01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:51,240 They'll get so desperate they'll let you have another dog. 1201 01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:56,240 That's the hill she's going to die on, so there we go. 1202 01:00:57,600 --> 01:00:59,400 You'll have a whole loop yourself. 1203 01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:02,120 Just Jeff Haslam in a whole entire loop. 1204 01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:03,560 He's going to be the only one staying there. 1205 01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:06,000 I love it. Well, hopefully we've taught you 1206 01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:09,520 a thing or two about using your points this show and at least 1207 01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:11,720 giving you some ideas. We know we've we've gotten a lot 1208 01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:16,840 of questions from members over over the time of just you know 1209 01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:20,160 can I get in here what are the odds of me getting in here and 1210 01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:23,080 that's a big question When people are looking at buying a a 1211 01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:26,520 contract too is like OK this is what I'm thinking is it going to 1212 01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:28,040 work out. And I think that's a great 1213 01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:31,000 question to ask and into those people that think on that level 1214 01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:33,720 when they are making that purchase are kind of getting 1215 01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:38,040 ahead of the game rather than I think a lot of people buy direct 1216 01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:41,280 you know instinctively emotionally when they when 1217 01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:44,160 they're at the parks and then they have absolutely no clue 1218 01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:47,280 what they just got into. And so they don't realize that 1219 01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:51,880 what they were sold on in those in that in that presentation is 1220 01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:54,760 actually pretty hard to get 9 times out of 10. 1221 01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:59,120 And so you know coming into it with a game plan, coming into 1222 01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:01,120 it, knowing some of this information about what the 1223 01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:05,520 availability is like at those properties can give you a step 1224 01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:08,360 up and hopefully make that vacation that you're planning 1225 01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:10,800 for you and your family a little bit easier for you to get. 1226 01:02:11,080 --> 01:02:13,800 And as we've said, if you can be flexible, I think that's the 1227 01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:17,080 number one thing is maybe when you have those family 1228 01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:23,960 conversations, kind of not necessarily put it into, hey, we 1229 01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:28,880 want a vacation June 7th through the 12th, How about, hey, we 1230 01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:32,360 want a vacation in June. Like if you can, if you can kind 1231 01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:36,080 of be a little bit more flexible, it's going to really 1232 01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:38,760 open up the opportunities that you have available to you. 1233 01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:42,880 And then as always planning you know 12 months in advance so 1234 01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:46,880 that you're ready at 8:00 AM on on the 11 month window day so 1235 01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:50,440 that you can book what you need and then maybe play the game a 1236 01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:53,640 little bit as we get closer to 07 month window. 1237 01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:56,200 Wait list in stock, Wait list in stock. 1238 01:02:57,200 --> 01:03:01,080 And on that note, that's going to do it for this episode of the 1239 01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:03,520 DVC show. We hope you all enjoyed it and 1240 01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:05,600 we will see you all next Monday.