We are villa members. We booked in February for a trip this June and the villas were not available during our stay, so we are staying in a passion suite. Same with some prospective dates in July and August, except for 2 nights in August. We often travel to Desire with less than 3 months notice, although we try to get away somewhere every month. Planning ahead seems to be a requirement now for the villas. Building more is great, but it won't be great if they keep overselling the new inventory. That's one hesitation we have for the new Mansion at Pearl (besides the location). For the top end units, there are only 2 of them. Imagine how hard those will be to book.
Skulls wrote:@ JDS and Naughtykitten
Are both of you guys members? We bought our Villa package back in Aug 2016 and until just recently, last 6 months or so we haven't had any problems booking. One of the things we were told when we joined was that the Villa's would only be available to members with the Villa package. I'm not blaming you guys, but it might explain why it is so difficult to get a villa now days and just another example of the sales people telling us whatever they had to in order to close the deal. I do give you guys props for planning ahead, we have been 10 times, every few months since we joined and most of our trips have been last minute getaways. It's been 7 months since our last trip, mainly due to availability and we are overdue for one. We are booked for May and again in June, they can't get here soon enough.