JayhawkFans
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- Aug 25, 2010
Make sure your expectations meet booking requirements. If you are looking for almost anything 11 months out, you might be disappointed with no vacancy. DVC owners book their Sept to mid-Jan reservations 11 months out. Run Disney events, F&W, holidays, Jersey Week, all require 11 month bookings. Standard views go quickly at 11 months out. BW views go quickly at 11 months out. Studios go before one bedroom villas. The biggest issue you will have with "renting points" is having an owner with the points you need at the time you need them. From 11-7 seven months out, only owners with home resort advantage can book those resorts. If the points brokers don't have an owner with enough points for the resort you want to book at 7-11 months out, you won't be able to book it until seven months out. From seven months out, all DVC points are equal, but many of the villas will already be booked. What you see available online at the Disney Reservation Center is not what is available for points stays. They are two different sets of inventory.
Thanks for the great info. Our stay is the end of July. I did check and purchasing thru David's we are able to get a Preferred View 1 BR Villa but nothing available in standard view. We will likely find that we will have to stay in the "standard room" that we have booked as I don't see DH agreeing to shell out the additional money and I don't want to move offsite to Wyndham Bonnet Creek (we have stayed there several times but nothing beats being "on site".)