Resort takeover - when one group books all the rooms in a resort for a week(generally) and if you wanted to go that week you would have to book thru the group (usually via their designated TA) - the resort, any other TAs and on line agencies cannot sell rooms for that week since they have already been completely booked by the takeover group.
We wanted Desire but like everyone has said, they were booked through May so if we were bumped to Desire, no problem.
May at Desire has been booked for several months. We tried booking a week there last October for early May but it was already fully booked. We're actually on the site that have the take over going on there and it was even fully booked through them. As the site is world wide its easy for them to fill 112 rooms xx
Just a fyi - as one of the host couples for the YNOTS group, we run several group trips a year to Desire. Our takeover for May 8-15 of this year was planned and booked solid almost a year ago - our group trip for Sept 4-11 still has some space, for those of you that might be interested in this trip pls PM me and I'll send you details