If they are reducing the points of some rooms by moving them from Preferred to Partial, then other things must go up to compensate (or they sell fewer points). Considering the small gap between SV and PV currently, I suspect most of the bump would land on the Preferred side to create clearer tiering between SV, PaV, and PrV.
In theory, moving rooms to a mid-tier 'Partial' is less impactful to everyone else than moving to Standard (in terms of points impact), but I'm curious which rooms would actually move?
Standard View at VDH is pretty rough across all the rooms. Then there's all the PrV rooms with some sort of Palette Pool view, but one wing of the
highest floors (usually the most sought after) also have a street view (a negative). So would the high-floor-with-street-view change to Partial? Or the lower floors that get exactly what's promised: view of a pool.
Then there's Monorail Pool view, which I do think is the superior view and would remain as Preferred, but I'm still not at all clear which rooms on the other side would move to Partial.
Then there's also the matter of what to do about the 2BRs, which are at the far edge of the full-tower wing facing both Palette and Monorail Pools. Would some of them convert to Partial view too?
IMO, the categories they need to make are:
- Duo with Balcony
- Duo without Balcony
- Deluxe Studio with Tub
- Deluxe Studio with Walk-in Shower
But they won't, because low-inventory room categories can make things messy, especially when only a limited number of rooms have been declared.