4-night BW 1BR Villa 12/14 for $587/n or 19% under median
Price Drops:
2-night BLT Studio 5/5/25 orig $390/n now $330 or 26% under median
5-night BLT Studio 5/31/25 orig $426/n now $361 or 19% under median
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I also don’t think 2 previous years of data would be useful to most people… But do keep it somewhere! My inner nerd will probably be chasing a decently large curated dataset at some point in the future 
My very first ever data science project at university was actually using the data that used to be available on touring plans. Obviously , it was a choose your own adventure project, the university didn’t ask us to analyse touring plans data 
. Some fun analysis and the world’s most predictable graphs ensued. Well, predictable to liners. Who on earth would have guessed that September had the average lowest ride wait times prior to 2018 
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Don’t know what’s up with these prices, but I do know they are surprising!
2-night OKW Studio 1/7 for $170/n or 39% under median
3-night OKW Studio 1/13 for $170/n or 39% under median
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Wow those are great!
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There’s still another one that posted the other day out there as well for $180!
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2-night DisneyLAND hotel Studio 1/3/25 for $400/night or 23% under median
6-night Aulani 1BR Villa 1/26/25 for $805/night or 20% under median
Many of the lower-priced dots in this chart are for rentals less than 6-nights as this one is.
If you limit to just look at 6-nights or longer, this is the lowest price in this and mostly only in this time frame.
11-night (NOT A TYPO) GF Studio 3/3/25 for $419/night or 19% under median
That price is QUITE LOW for that time period, and that is looking at all rentals 2-nights or longer.
In the chart below you can see there were only a couple around this price last year and zero in 2023. If you limit the chart to just 4-nights or longer, ALL of those lower prices in March go away.
If this number of nights works for you: SUCH A DEAL.
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2-night Poly Studio 1/13 $408/n or 22% under
3-night CC Studio 1/17 $313/n or 20% under
3-night Grand CALIfornian 2BR Villa 1/17 $1,211/n or 18% under
2-night OKW Studio 5/30 for $225/n or 20% under
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Set my sheet to generate a Copper Creek studio scatter for a nice January rental and noticed the Y-axis was compressed - due to a $5,661/night listing for that room in April.
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Gotta love outliers
Is it worth removing them from your analysis for summary stats/graphs?
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That’s a spenny studio 
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Oh, For sure! 
They’ll keep popping back in to the data each time I refresh so I usually wait for it to be fixed or just go away and then I shift that old krazy data to a different holding sheet for posterity.
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I guess I’ll be the outlier here and say that it was helpful for me, in two contexts. One, comparing today’s prices with the post-COVID travel boom prices is just a really interesting historical travel period to examine. And two, how different resorts accumulate or depreciate value in the eye of the consumer over time.
Data from 2 years ago probably isn’t useful for pricing a room dated in 2025, but it could be helpful in predicting where the market will go overall.
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Actually I’ve been meaning to ask, is there a reason you’re still manually refreshing the data?
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I’m not a programmer and my skills are very varied from 40 years of general IT and a lot of old school scripting.
I can usually get my scraping done much more quickly with stone knives and bear skins (Excel, sed, awk and grep etc) than more current methods. Because these sites all have the data out there in different formats, over time I built different workarounds to grab it and clean it up.
Also, it isn’t so much manual as I’ve got a boatload of macros and scripts that fire after I push a button and it all is imported, normalized, and new medians etc crunched in ~4 minutes.
I had an even more automagic system set up so the refresh ran a few times of day on its own, but there are a couple of sites that continue to confound that automagic at odd intervals so it is mostly just easier for me to run it, go heat up 
and then come back to see if my sheet saw any errors each time.
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Yeah, I’ll probably just publish the deprecated data in some static scatter charts for the geekier among us to reference. 
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That’s a good deal!
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2-night Poly Studio 1/13 for $340/n or 35% under median
Both: Vacation Club Life | DVC Rentals
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