Question when DVC first started

[Tozzie]

I am just curious. When I was at WDW in June, which is when I purchased DVC, there was a woman at my resort who stated that when DVC first started that you had to buy a certain week like traditional timeshares, I was under the impression that DVC has always been based on the point system and you were never locked into a particular week. So which is it. Thanks

[Dean]

I am just curious. When I was at WDW in June, which is when I purchased DVC, there was a woman at my resort who stated that when DVC first started that you had to buy a certain week like traditional timeshares, I was under the impression that DVC has always been based on the point system and you were never locked into a particular week. So which is it. ThanksNo, but the minimum for OK initially was 230 points then 210 then 190 eventually hitting 150 before going back up to 160 a few months ago (with the 100 pt AKV exception this year).

[Chuck S]

Dean is correct, DVC was never a traditional weekly timeshare, it has always been a points based system.

[Ducky4Disney]

It's up to 160 points? I didn't know that.

I also heard that early members got park tickets too, and there was such a thing as a Lifetime AP, anyone know?

D4D

[Dean]

It's up to 160 points? I didn't know that.

I also heard that early members got park tickets too, and there was such a thing as a Lifetime AP, anyone know?

D4DOKW buyers the first few years (and a few VB ones as well) did get free park tickets. I've heard the rumors of a lifetime AP but never seen anything to suggest it was a reality and I have a friend who was a charter member from 1991.

[drusba]

I do not think there was ever a lifetime AP, and there definitely was not for DVC. Owners who bought in the early years got free park tickets through 1999. I don't recall exactly when that ended but it was not available when we bought at BWV shortly after it opened in late 1996.

As far as Disney World in general, when it opened in 1971 and until the end of the 1970s, you actually bought ticket books that had individual tickets, called A to E tickets (with E being for the premier rides), that you used for various rides. 1979-1980, Disney introduced the first daily and multiple day passports and the A through E tickets disappeared. The AP came into being in 1982 after Epcot opened. It was an annual ticket then (I started buying it then with the result that I was a "Charter member" and could buy the AP later at a discount annually; I have now gone to the DVC discount because it is better.

[WebmasterDoc]

The DVC Park Admission Program began with OKW sales in 1991 and continued into 1995 - even extending the program fro early buyers at VB. Byt the time HH and BWV began sales the incentive had ended - and was replaced with a 10% discount on Park Hopper passes.

Those OKW and VB owners with the admission program received free park passes thru the end of 1999 - based on 1/2 the occupancy of whatever reservation they had. For Studios and 1BR villas - members received 2 free LOS admission passes - for 2BR villas members got 4 free LOS passes and those with GVs received 6 free LOS passes.

[BCV23]

The A-E tickets were still used during our first stay as a family in Nov of 80.

[Tozzie]

I remember going in 1978 or 1979 and they had both the A-E Tickets and the all day tickets. We had the all day tickets.

[BCV23]

I remember going in 1978 or 1979 and they had both the A-E Tickets and the all day tickets. We had the all day tickets.

Ah, thanks. That explains that discrepancy.