Disney Vacation Club members, you’ll want to hear this. We just found out about a rule change that could affect the way you modify your stays.
Disney Vacation Club Sign
And more importantly, a potential loophole that this rule change has officially closed. So let’s dive into everything you need to know.
While the majority of DVC members simply use their points for their own stays with their family and friends, there are those who do sell their points and can, at times, use loopholes to exploit the system and make bookings more unfair for other members. One way this is done is through booking a reservation at the beginning of a booking window and then slowly “walking” the dates of your trip later and later until you reach your desired dates.
Grand Floridian DVC Rooms
However, this technically means you are getting access to these dates before other members can. For example, if you book a trip November 1st through November 8th but you really want to visit later in November, you can slowly modify your reservation day by day until you reach your desired dates, and therefore you get access to those later dates earlier than other members. This is a slightly complicated method, but one certain members were using to exploit the system, which is why Disney has made an official DVC booking rule change.
Vacation Club Villa
Now, modifications to your reservation can only be made within 11 months of the original check-out date, which will still allow guests to change reservations if needed but on a much more even playing field than before.
DVC rooms
While this change will not eliminate every DVC booking loophole, it should make the booking process more fair since now everyone will need to wait until they are within 11 months of their check-out date, which should help reduce members taking advantage of the booking process in order to modify their reservations unfairly.
DVC kiosk in EPCOT
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The walking booking changes should work if the current reservation can’t be changed until 8:00AM – 11 months out. If they can get in at 6:30 they have the same old advantage.
And walking would explain how we couldn’t get a reservation for December at our home resort. For 4 consecutive days, one day before our 11 months, all the days we wanted were available. Then on the 11 month day, all days were available except the first day which meant I could do nothing. This experience was repeated the next 3 days. I asked the DVC how, in the preceding 24 hrs, could anyone get in to make a reservation and with the same logic for 3 more consecutive days. They said it was just a bust season and even though I was online at 8:00:00:00 each day – I just wasn’t fast enough. Maybe I helped make this change?
We’ve been with DVC since 2010 and always stay at Bay Lake Tower. We use our own points and don’t give/sell them to others. We set a calendar reminder 11 months out and have never had a problem booking what we want.