To the question on VGC - I did a quick totaling of the year (easy to do at VGC since 46 2-bedrooms and 2-GV.
2020 - Total number of points - 1,176,392
2021 - Total number of points - 1,141,710
Difference = 34682 less in 2021
However, the information I found says VGC has 1,136,865 points, meaning that in 2020, they were actually overcharging members pretty significantly - while in 2021 the number of bookable points is less than 5000 points off, which is less than 0.5 pt per room per day. Someone with more patience than me would have to look into why they were overcharging in 2020. (Perhaps they had to take a room or two out of commision?
On the other side of things:
@Bing Showei mentions whether Disney is doing this with true sincerity - and I can see where he would question it based on their past behavior with last years charts - but to me it seems very fair.
I decided to do the full dig down and find out if they were being fair or not.- I added up the
points charts for BWV same as I did last year.
2020 Points needed with all LOs as 2-beds 4905875
2020 Points needed with all LOs as studios/1-beds 5247170
LO Premium for 2020 341295 (Note this is the "normal" number for the LO premium
2021 Points needed with all LOs as 2-beds 4893840
2021 Points needed with all LOs as studios/1-beds 5232567
LO Premium for 2021 338727
No not only did they not increase the LO premium in 2021, it actually went down ever so slightly (2568 pts, or 0.8%)
(The original 2020
point charts that we protested increase LO premium at BWV by 41% to 481676 points)
So VERY good news that they did not increase the LO premium.