2026 points chart?

[Cyberc1978]

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My main argument is that December points and demand are not balanced. My opinion is that the second half of August makes the most sense to balance it.

We can all have opinions, but fact is that August is not the only month that are high season for hurricanes so that argument hold no merits.

Fact is also that December is high season for DVC members. Fact is also that December has been high season for a long time.

Will that change if the points for studios increases - I don’t know - guess it depends on how much.

 

[tom1944]

We can all have opinions, but fact is that August is not the only month that are high season for hurricanes so that argument hold no merits.

Fact is also that December is high season for DVC members. Fact is also that December has been high season for a long time.

Will that change if the points for studios increases - I don’t know - guess it depends on how much.

Is the allocation of points only determined by the DVC members and not Disney vacation guests? Is the potential of adjusting points based only on the reservations by DVC members for specific time periods?

Are they limited to only a certain number of travel periods with a maximum of 7?

 

[Cyberc1978]

Is the allocation of points only determined by the DVC members and not Disney vacation guests? Is the potential of adjusting points based only on the reservations by DVC members for specific time periods?

Are they limited to only a certain number of travel periods with a maximum of 7?

I don’t know which criteria DVC used but, among others I guess It’s determined by the demand, how fast it books up etc.

Disneys regular resort guests have no impact to the number of points required to book a room. Only DVC members have that - in the sense that a higher demand could demand a higher point cost.

There are no limits to travel periods. We got the current ones a few years ago

 

[Sandisw]

Is the allocation of points only determined by the DVC members and not Disney vacation guests? Is the potential of adjusting points based only on the reservations by DVC members for specific time periods?

Are they limited to only a certain number of travel periods with a maximum of 7?

Based on DVC owners bookings. They can create seasons and there is even a chart in the multi site POS that shows what would happen if every day was the same point level.

 

[tom1944]

Based on that information it seems to me that Disney could easily defend changing the point charts. Whether they want to do that is a totally different discussion.

They easily could breakdown the amount of DVC reservations made per day/week and the least popular weeks get a reduction in points required. If that benefits August or early December or any other month the response to any unhappy individual is the data supports the change.

 

[CarolynFH]

Based on that information it seems to me that Disney could easily defend changing the point charts. Whether they want to do that is a totally different discussion.

They easily could breakdown the amount of DVC reservations made per day/week and the least popular weeks get a reduction in points required. If that benefits August or early December or any other month the response to any unhappy individual is the data supports the change.

They recently (2023 or 2024, I’m not sure) completed a reallocation that made summer cheaper and fall/winter more expensive, including increasing the cost of the first two weeks of December. It took 3 years, IIRC, because there are limits on how much they can change a given night from one year to the next. They also expanded the calendar from five to seven seasons. So they’re probably watching booking patterns now to see the effects of that reallocation before making more adjustments. For instance, already I’ve noticed mention here and elsewhere about booking early May rather than later due to the relative points cost of those weeks.

 

[zavandor]

In theory, if nothing goes into breakage, DVC might decide to not reallocate. It doeans't really matter is sometimes it's sold out at 10 months and others at 3 months. It might even be a positive that for stretches of the year it's possible to find a room at 3 or 4 months before stay. If there is a period of the year when rooms consistently go unbooked and into breakage, that is when they must intervene.

Another reason to reallocate could be if competition for a stretch of the year is so fierce to create distortions like walking for weeks and months. That creates issues in the system, not just the inconvenience, but for example it might cause shorter average stays (because people pick up the pieces after the walkers so end up with split stays) increasing housekeeping costs. Early December seems a candidate for that, but as previously said, if they reallocate further early December Disney loses money, because of the fixed weeks sold. So it's more likely to be overlooked.

 

[Sandisw]

In theory, if nothing goes into breakage, DVC might decide to not reallocate. It doeans't really matter is sometimes it's sold out at 10 months and others at 3 months. It might even be a positive that for stretches of the year it's possible to find a room at 3 or 4 months before stay. If there is a period of the year when rooms consistently go unbooked and into breakage, that is when they must intervene.

Another reason to reallocate could be if competition for a stretch of the year is so fierce to create distortions like walking for weeks and months. That creates issues in the system, not just the inconvenience, but for example it might cause shorter average stays (because people pick up the pieces after the walkers so end up with split stays) increasing housekeeping costs. Early December seems a candidate for that, but as previously said, if they reallocate further early December Disney loses money, because of the fixed weeks sold. So it's more likely to be overlooked.

Since the FW is capped at no more than 35% of any given use day in room type, , and we don’t know that they definitely sold that many, I wonder if it would still come out okay for DVC?

 

[Brian Noble]

if they reallocate further early December Disney loses money, because of the fixed weeks sold. So it's more likely to be overlooked.

I do not think this is a significant concern. There are not that many fixed weeks in the world, and the points involved are likely to be in the noise in the context of breakage and/or the lockoff premium.

Where there might be a problem is if there are statutory limits about reallocations that prevent the management company from reallocating in a way that requires excess points to make some owners whole. I can imagine that such limits exist, but it appears they have already exceeded them in at least some cases, suggesting that either those limits don't exist or they are soft.

 

[ehh]

I do not think this is a significant concern. There are not that many fixed weeks in the world, and the points involved are likely to be in the noise in the context of breakage and/or the lockoff premium.

Strong agree on FW not being a material concern.

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It dawns on me that there might be one big thing to incentivize them to hold off on points charts adjustments and deliberately keep a demand imbalance in their points charts, at least relative to cash booking prices: the fact they can generate more rental revenue with the demand imbalance.

They can only rent X number of points each year via what they own, exchanges, breakage, etc. They're also incentivized to get the most money they can from those limited number of points. Disney can, and does, take swaths of inventory out before members can book (for non-refurb reasons) for what I presume are rentals (i.e., they don't just wait to see what shakes out as available in inventory; Disney gets what they want). All this combines to add up to the best way for them to maximize rental revenue is similar to how 'confirmed reservation' rentals maximize their rental revenue: rent out the rooms that have the highest cash demand.

A semi-hypothetical example (in reality, early December vs. August is often more extreme than this):

• A Studio can be booked on the cash side for $900/night in early December (and will sell out prior to discounts being published), or 20pt/night on the points side
  • This works out to $45/pt
• That same Studio can be booked for $800/night in August, or 21pt/night on the points side
  • This works out to $38.10/pt
  • Also, this room might not sell out on the cash side and need to be discounted, so that $800/night might end up being more like $600/night, or $28.57/pt

If you were Disney, why would you deliberately dilute your opportunity to rent (your main source of ongoing revenue from these rooms) at $45/pt and smooth out the demand vs. points? Leaning into the 'hotspots' is good for business and that means it's good for business to have hotspots.

Related: this is why it's so hard to book a Cabin or Bungalow on cash these days, the $/pt exchange rate is terrible for Disney so Disney avoids renting them.

 

[ehh]

Also, 2026 points charts are now live:
https://disneyvacationclub.disney.go.com/vacation-planning/points-charts



Spotchecked Riviera, looks like just minor date adjustments for spring break and Thanksgiving, no notable changes.

 

[ehh]

Also spotchecked a few more:

• Bay Lake Tower, same as Riviera, only had very minor date changes.
• Disneyland Hotel had Grand Villas go up ~2% in all seasons with no corresponding decrease anywhere else, odd.
• Grand Cali had some minor date adjustments, but not as minor as WDW's resorts.

 

[E2ME2]

Also, 2026 points charts are now live:
https://disneyvacationclub.disney.go.com/vacation-planning/points-charts

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Spotchecked Riviera, looks like just minor date adjustments for spring break and Thanksgiving, no notable changes.

Looks mostly unchanged from 2025 with one GLARING exception for me --
BWV Studios have increased in January by 5 points per week, and are lower in the two other seasons covering February.
Who else has been negatively impacted ???

 

[Phatscott25]

I notice how now they replace the title of "standard" view with "resort" view for all the resorts.

 

[Genie+]

Also, 2026 points charts are now live:
https://disneyvacationclub.disney.go.com/vacation-planning/points-charts

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Spotchecked Riviera, looks like just minor date adjustments for spring break and Thanksgiving, no notable changes.

Oooooh they got rid of 9 point BWV studio!

 

[pkrieger2287]

2026 Disney Vacation Club Points Charts​

https://dvcfan.com/general-dvc/2026-disney-vacation-club-points-charts/https://dvcfan.com/general-dvc/2026-disney-vacation-club-points-charts/

 

[Genie+]

Looks mostly unchanged from 2025 with one GLARING exception for me --
BWV Studios have increased in January by 5 points per week, and are lower in the two other seasons covering February.
Who else has been negatively impacted ???

I just gave it some thought about our personal booking patterns and how important the studios are to using our small contract.

It might be to my advantage if it makes those previously 9pt weeks slightly less of a confirmed reservation target (11 weeks I think?). And now there’s almost 30 weeks where weekdays are either 10 or 11 points/nt. Maybe that helps spread demand a bit better? It can’t get any worse I think soooo…. Lol.

Now first half of Feb and most of Summer are one point less weekdays. That might pull more bookings over there, and also I get to save that handful of points if we decide to book those dates.

Maybe net positive?

 

[zavandor]

I do not think this is a significant concern. There are not that many fixed weeks in the world, and the points involved are likely to be in the noise in the context of breakage and/or the lockoff premium.

Where there might be a problem is if there are statutory limits about reallocations that prevent the management company from reallocating in a way that requires excess points to make some owners whole. I can imagine that such limits exist, but it appears they have already exceeded them in at least some cases, suggesting that either those limits don't exist or they are soft.

I think everyone here would agree that the first two weeks of December are the hottest weeks for DVC, and yet they've been increased less that others in October in the last reallocation. The only reasonable explanation I could think of (actually, others have made this hypothesis, I don't remember who suggested it first, but I agree with it) is the existence of Fixed weeks.
Of course it's not a certainty, but it makes sense.

 

[zavandor]

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It dawns on me that there might be one big thing to incentivize them to hold off on points charts adjustments and deliberately keep a demand imbalance in their points charts, at least relative to cash booking prices: the fact they can generate more rental revenue with the demand imbalance.

Sometimes I've thought that as well, but THV were a very hot ticket when they were added to SSR, some people bought contracts especially to book them at 11 months. And yet they reallocated them soon after they sold out.

 

[E2ME2]

I just gave it some thought about our personal booking patterns and how important the studios are to using our small contract.

It might be to my advantage if it makes those previously 9pt weeks slightly less of a confirmed reservation target (11 weeks I think?). And now there’s almost 30 weeks where weekdays are either 10 or 11 points/nt. Maybe that helps spread demand a bit better? It can’t get any worse I think soooo…. Lol.

Now first half of Feb and most of Summer are one point less weekdays. That might pull more bookings over there, and also I get to save that handful of points if we decide to book those dates.

Maybe net positive?

We’re obviously booking the same BWV studios every year!!