Quote Originally Posted by DizneyRox View Post
Who is they?

I don't see this as Disney's fault. The property sold out, so really what does Disney care? They have recouped their development costs and will continue to collect maintenance fees so the resort has/will pay for itself. Sure some points will default back into Disney's hands if people stop paying or foreclose or whatever but all Disney will need to do is raise the maintenance fees to adjust for whatever they are holding, IF it doesn't sell back to someone.

Everything else I agree with mostly...
'They' is DDC.....

and "they" knew exactly what they were doing with saratoga.....exploiting an already developed, but failed, area....with the unending line of timeshare takers.....

so they got what they want....a bunch of units comprising what is by far the biggest location.....at arguably the least desirable location....removed from the gated attractions that people by and large go for....and plopped next to the retail complex.

whether or not it was a good move from a financial standpoint for Disney is not the issue....it was....

What they did was upset a somewhat delicate balance by padding their overall membership list with 40% at Saratoga....which is the least in demand by a healthy margin....

if everybody (ok...not everybody....many/ most) wants to get out of the biggest pool.....how could that not make movement to the other locations near impossible?

Perhaps Disney doesn't care where you stay....they probably don't....but they will care if they see dirt cheap resales....and they will care if they see one location getting nothing but overflow from the others....

this is already underway....

Saratoga was cheaply constucted on the "outside" edge of WDW.....it looks it...

they didn't theme it....the layout is sloppy around the central hub.....there's alot of highway traffic visible from the grounds....

it's just not up to the standards of the others....

it's not a "bad" place....it just falls short.

We'll see how demand changes when the new building at Animal Kingdom and the Contemp open up....

if they logjam...as they likely will....and saratoga becomes even more available (along with okw at times).....the theory will become a fact.

but again....it all could have been avoided if they had put the same point structure in place as okw.....giving people more usuage to stay there.....

the 1 point a night difference for a studio between saratoga and boardwalk/beach club/ wilderness lodge is laughable....animal kingdom having cheaper categories available is downright hilarious.....