Hey DVC fan. Welcome to a special edition of
the DVC show, coming to sort of out of our normal schedule.
We actually were in the studio today.
Filming DVC shows and the breaking news about the new
Disneyland DVC tower out in California, came out.
And so we definitely just wanted to get some information out to
you all as quickly as possible. I am joined here at the table by
Jody, gross, senior sales associate with DVC resale
Market. Derick de bourgh also senior
sales associate with DVC resale Market.
My lovely wife, Amy Krieger who is currently not looking at the
camera because she is frivolous a river rib roll.
That's trying to get in touch with member services, trying to
chat with member server. Has a clarification question, we
can get you some clarity to some questions.
We already do have some clarity out there already due to some
questions that you probably have about some of this news.
And then back in the nook, our lovely producer, Johnson carry
aka, Big Fat Panda. Thank you very much.
Hello everyone? I do.
Apologize first. For most, if we seem a little
bit off the rails, in this episode, we are getting
information from 40 different people right now.
Trying to just make sure that we provide you with the most
updated information, about the Disneyland Tower, but we really
wanted to just get this out that to you as quickly as possible,
Disney did just release some new details about the Disneyland DVC
Tower. And I think the most exciting
aspect of it all. We finally sort of have a what
I'd call a vague date of when this is opening September.
September of 20 23 September of 2023.
It's a lot. So I was kind of taken aback,
and that's what makes this kind of holy cow.
It's already. Like I did seems like it's going
to be here so soon because they haven't even gone on sale yet,
they haven't even done. So this, this this differently.
Yeah, this is sort of getting ahead of the normal news.
We would expect in this cycle which would be like, hey points
are going on sale. This date, hey, here's the price
of, here's the point charts. Here's all of this stuff
instead. No, we're just cutting all
around that and just saying we're open in September Day,
Ever. Trying to think if they ever
announced an opening prior to announcing all the other stuff,
like, Hey, we're opening and then everything else to follow?
I don't know. Not that actually, there's order
that it goes in, right? Yeah.
Because even when they were doing Bay Lake Tower when we
were both guides, that building was literally done and they
still refuse to say that it was the Disney Vacation Club
building. So for this one that still, you
know, not complete but then to come out with this news with
photos and everything else, it stays show us on patreon and
they decided they have Assembled.
Let's release the news. Think that's what I'm going to
do. Exactly.
Yeah. Calvin are watching us live for
the past three hours works for Disney and he put him on his
like, haha, K. Gonna get fired.
Super exciting September. I would agree.
Not really on our radar. I kind of was thinking,
normally, when Disney sort of announces a timeline, we've been
saying for a little while now that we thought, like, fall or
later in the year 2023. And normally when I say, Like
that. I go off of like Disney's
calendar. So if this he says fall that
means Christmas. It's normally not what you think
the actual season is because their fall is a prolonged period
of time. But September was definitely not
on my radar because we were trying, we're still going to be
trying to get out there probably for the opening of this Tower
and some some capacity and and make sure that we get you guys
coverage, show you all of the awesome stuff out there.
So definitely something we are going to be looking into.
But yeah, September surprises me No specific date in September,
which is odd because we do have specific dates on when you can
actually start booking this property and Dayton September,
you're staying. So I need to be one of the first
to book. When are you going September
September along? I don't know.
Okay, well this is this is not actually abnormal.
This is not abnormal at all, this is what happened with Grand
Floridian and actually when I called so so they actually let's
book it. - because they were already owners obviously.
And I was like, okay, we want opening night and the cast
members like, okay? I don't know when that is, I
said okay, well, when is the first date you're allowed to
book their like June, I don't know what it was doing something
and I'm like, okay well book me then.
So the so we took a chance because it could have opened
sooner, right? Kind of had to push it back, and
it did work out and up being the opening day.
But even the cast members were like, we don't know.
We can't promise you what opening day is going to be.
I can tell you that the first A, I'm allowed a book is this day,
so I think we might not know what even when you go to book,
you might not know exactly well the exact same thing.
So when you call to be able to book, you might not know.
And they might say well, we don't know.
Look you if they don't have a date or do they feel they have
told her they have, do they know they can start booking people,
but it's fluid like there's there's a chance it could open
sooner and they would just open those days off my head of that.
You mean or I mean, anything could get pushed back.
Look at, which Cruz has got pushed back to the end of move
people. Move.
Hold both of people, so anything's possible.
So they will likely have a date. When you called, it's like,
okay. The first day I'm allowed to
book. Is this day?
Does that mean? It's opening day likely, but
there are possibilities. That might not be.
Yes, kind of challenging for people.
Sorry, too, for people who are booking tickets and flying, and
I would think. Yeah.
That's I don't think you're going to kick you out without a
room, but I think that true, you know, hopefully, I think if
you're, if you're looking for opening day and it's, you're
just Taking a small chance. Yeah.
So that were clear on dates and everything.
Since we're talking about it, that, that at the moment let's
be clear on what is going to be happening very soon.
So, Disney Vacation Club at and this is coming from multiple
sources. But we also received an update
related to Disney travel agents which really provided the most
Clarity on this so far. So it says Disney Vacation Club
members will have Early Access to cash rental reservations
beginning March 15th He 23 again, that's going to be for
bookings. Sometime in September as we just
sort of outlined. We don't know that specific date
yet. Hopefully by March 15th.
We're going to know what that exact date or time frame is
going to be what I can also, probably verify for you right
now. I believe Amy's, getting some
official information on this. Are you talking about the, the
okay, so I was what's going to happen on the 15th?
Is it going to be just for regular mode?
Okay, so, So I so I asked in the chat and I could not get into
member services chat and I don't think that they would know
either. So, so if you're actually signed
out, you get a guide, did you know that?
So if you're on the DVC website and you go to the chat and
you're not signed in to your doozy membership, you're
actually gonna be talking about the DVC guide, right?
Who's asking, if you want to buy?
If you say, you need help with your membership, they'll tell
you that you need to either call or.
But anyway, if you login, you get member services.
But I talked to a guide they said that, Unfortunately, they
did not Know yet. If it was going to be just for
drug members, total cash, she she let me know that they have a
big meeting at 2:00 and and asked if if I wanted my guide to
contact me after that meeting, I said yes, sir will update to
station. Well, I went under a fake name,
so I'm not gonna now, you know what we do here in the great,
your household, like all good. Investigative reporting weeds,
fake. They will probably be able to
get you some info after 10:00. Definitely?
If anything exciting comes out, that's the It's updated past
this video will definitely get that to you in an update video
or potentially in an article over on DC fan.com.
I know that as we are talking right now, the wonderful Lauren
double Cruz is typing river river.
I can't say that. I tried all day frantically,
frantically to get all this information up over on DVC fan.
So thank you, Lauren for sort of working on that as we're working
on this. Again.
It's sort of a fluid situation but so our understanding as of
now That Disney Vacation Club members have Early Access to
cash rental, reservations? I emphasize cash.
You will not be able to book with points as we know as of
this time on the 15th so that's cash.
Rental, reservations on March 15th 2023 for reservations in
September. We don't know at this time
whether or not that is just for direct members with access to
membership extras and benefits or if it will be access to, you
know, direct and resale. Members.
We were talking about this a little bit before we got
started. Jody Derek you guys sort of said
Disney likes cash. So most likely they're going to
just take cash where they can get cash.
Yeah maybe I mean Jody brought up the great point that when
this blog came across right before we were about to tape a
different show. We said, okay panda is there any
way that we could do a quick show?
So bless you bless you panda for helping us with this, but your
Jody was going through the blog. And again, she's been with
Disney a long, long time and she's like, I'm looking through.
And I don't see the all important.
Disclaimer about the Restriction.
I was looking to see if like, okay, do you have to be a direct
member or and it doesn't say that anywhere that I saw?
And I think we're all kind of looking didn't say anything.
If you, you know, had to be a direct member or at be, you
know, like the blue card member, right?
They like to call it. I don't do book just because
like, this is not like an ongoing perk, right?
So it's nothing that you know, there, that's just bugging.
It's just booking and it's paying cash.
Well, and, and normally You know, as we're talking here and
again, I apologize, we're going to be looking at phones
computers and everything because this is sort of evolving by the
minute. I jumped onto the Disney
Vacation Club website. I clicked on the link that they
have on the BBC website if they were going to have that
disclaimer on here is like, would you normally be to the
Disney Vacation Club website? But right now, Disney Vacation
Club is actually just linking over to the Disney parks blog
where all of this information was dropped.
So wait, yeah. So and they don't know real
Clarity on, they do like to, okay.
I don't know about this, huh? Here's what I can tell you
looking through older Disney Parks blogs, because I was like,
maybe it's because they don't want that in a, in the Disney
parks blog. I'm looking at the one from when
they announced the lounge, this coming to Disneyland.
And at the bottom, they do have that disclaimer.
So they don't currently have that disclaimer on this story
about booking cash with a Disneyland, Iraq, but Calvin's
listening to us right now. So, Calvin's going to probably
update that know you've got a lot of attention.
Tension on our show today does that this I'm not trying to
throw a conspiracy theories or anything but with no disclosures
at all or, you know the little asterisk.
Do we know what if they're going to be respected as there going
to be any restrictions? I mean I think that nothing's
been mentioned, nothing's been mentioned, and again, we don't.
So based off the information that we have today that's been
released on the Disneyland Tower.
There's not enough information. In to know what point charts
are. We don't know the cost.
We don't know when points are going to go on sale.
We don't know when you're going to be able to book with your
points at this point in time. So, all of that is unknown, what
I would say is if there is any Resort where there are going to
be resale restrictions, it is going to be this Resort if they
are going to continue with that Trend continue with that DV C
2.0 concept. This is the ultimate test.
This is the ultimate interpretation as to what
Riviera there's there's going to be something, you know, it's
like the redheaded stepchild and I don't think they gotta give it
a. Yeah, your sister is something.
I think it needs a sibling. Yeah.
Honestly and I think the things like, Amy pointed out about the
lounges and about that and having the disclaimers on those
is because those are ongoing things.
This is literally almost like to me, my take on.
It is, this is breaking news. We just need to let members
know. We don't care if their resale or
direct. Yes, cash is cash.
This is not like, Playing. Hey, everybody.
Every time we launch a new resort.
Remember, you have to be a direct owner?
If you want to go ahead and pay cash, they just don't even want
to deal with it. They're just going to sell so
many rooms on that first day on the 15th.
So I think just my take on it. Yeah, anybody who knows?
So let's, let's go over the dates one more time real quick
because I know I don't think we've gotten through all of them
just yet. So on March 15th, that's going
to be when Disney Vacation Club members can contact member
services on the member services. Phone number to book cash rooms
for sometime in September on March 16th Disney Disneyland
Resort. Magic.
Key holders can then book cash rooms for the new Disneyland DVC
Tower by calling. The number that will be in the
DC fan article and all the other information.
And then lastly, any room still available as of March 17th.
March 17th is when these will open to the general public and
you can make reservations by contacting them.
At that time. So sort of a almost like what
Disney Cruise Line does with any release or anything like that,
it's a little bit of a tiered booking depending on what sort
of status, you have things like that.
And I will say that I if you're planning on doing this and
paying, I would expect it to be pretty expensive per night.
Oh yeah, hash prices. Like it like as much as Paul and
I would love to be there for the opening night, I don't know that
I would pay, what is probably going to be?
We were hoping for a point situation like with all the
other openings of DVC Resorts. But yeah, I would expect it to
be alive. We have time to talk about the
rooms because I'm sure you're going to show the links to the
pictures that they publish on the blog's, but the pictures of
these rooms, they look amazing. I can't stop staring at the
picture of the grand villa. Villa.
Oh my God, Grand Valley absolutely amazing.
You know, it's going to have subtle themes of Frozen.
Moana it absolutely looks gorgeous.
And I think the crazy thing to talk about here for members or
for anyone really booking this on cash or whatever the
situation is, There are two, there are two Grand Villas in
this new tower, but let I mean, as Derek said, they are
beautiful. Just they make me giggle, what
you look at them. I don't like, is that for real
based on that fireplace, based on how they look?
I can't even begin to imagine what the per night Point.
Certainly going to be on those. Like there's going to be you
know how I just heard the Bungalows laughing, right.
Was in the cabin, sort of like inflated the point charts there.
These two Grand Villas are gonna triple the point chart of the
Disneyland Hotel. So also when you're talking
about rooms in inventory so the Granville is that that's very
little but there's also kind of a very small amount of there's
only twenty two bedrooms and 19 one bedroom so that's a small
amount for anyone that's looking to book for a larger family.
There's To be over, 250 to Look Studios.
And then there's going to be 38 of the smaller, like the tower
type Studios that we have our Riviera.
But the thing with the Look Studios is that they're only
supposed to sleep for the last that we heard, unless that that
has changed. So, if you have more than four
people, your inventory options are very limited, you're limited
to the, the 19, one bedroom. Villa has a twenty two bedrooms
are the two grand fellas and we've got we've got a bunch of
great pictures that are going to be in that DVC fan article.
But in looking at a pictures that they have included today,
specifically for the deluxe Studio property, looks like
you're going to have that king size bed or queen size bed.
And then a pull down Murphy style bed, which is normally a
full/queen size. So that's going to be that for
people and looking at the furniture and other things
doesn't look like there's going to be a fifth sleeper or there's
room for a sleeper chair or anything like that.
It looks more contemporary furniture and things like that.
So I agree. It's probably going to be sort
of a four-person room. The other thing to note is that
they are calling the new Do this, this new addition to
Disneyland Tower they announced it was going to have sort of
these Tower Studio think of the tower Studios at Riviera and
stuff like that. They are calling these at the
Disneyland Tower Duo Studios. And again they look very small
in that same way of, you know, the tower Studios, they've got
the pulldown Murphy bed which are going to be how that how
that room function. So expect those to be more
compact. Small.
If you're doing like a long weekend or something like that,
from what I've read, it looks like they're going to be like
Jungle Book themed and the pictures here, look pretty good
for the regular studio Studios. We've got Sleeping Beauty and
Princess and the Frog themes. Some of the artwork and stuff
like this, they're really going down that contemporary aspect of
these rooms for the one, bedroom two bedrooms.
We've got princess in the Frog, Fantasia featured in those and
just beautiful artwork. I like how in the Disney parks
blog. Is that on the Tower series?
You can discover the bare necessities because it's Jungle
Book thing but also probably because it's such a small,
there's no rope that is perfect Disney flowery language.
It reminds me of when you watch those home shows where they're
talking about like a place with a really small kitchen, what
they do? They don't say, the kitchen is
small. It's called a stepsaver kitchen,
right? So, you don't have to reveal my
studio is a bare necessity necessity.
That's, that's also. There are there's No, balconies
on Studios Tower Studios, I don't know.
Do you know, one bedroom and up? I think that there's definitely
gonna be some balconies on some of the different options I
believe. So, you know, we'll see more of
that. Some of the concept art, I think
it also depends on where you're at in the building as to whether
or not you're gonna have a balcony on some of these.
Yeah. But I don't think any studio is.
Yeah. Have a balcony.
Yeah they're definitely. I think it's going to be very
similar to what the Disneyland Tower looks like and it
currently the the At Disneyland towers and stuff like that.
But a little bit more contemporary nature.
So that is sort of our update as it comes to the Disneyland DVC
Tower. We didn't want this to be a huge
show, and pan is gonna be working, double time to get this
up for you. Also, thank you so much for
panda for your hard work. Thank you Lauren for writing up
these particles that are going to go up over on DC fan.com,
with all the information and things like that.
One, last time for review, we know that the Disneyland DVC
Tower is going to be opening in September.
Remember question, mark, what day and we know that on March,
15th, DVC members can begin to book cash rooms only for
sometime in September on the 16th Disneyland, magic key
holders and on the 17th, the general public, we do not have
information at this time. As to when you can book via
points what point charts are going to be or when this
property is going to go on sale, but I can promise you, we will
get you all of that information as we have.
Of it and that's going to do it for this special edition of the
DVC show. We'll see you back on Monday and
during our regular time frame. Thanks so much everybody.