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  1. sndral

    Just got a phone call and email from not my guide

    I got a flurry of emails & a couple of calls from someone other than my guide around the time VDH opened, I assumed it was because I live on the west coast & thus was part of their target demographic - maybe DVC thinks you’re good for the cabins or Poly 🤷‍♀️.
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    Preferred Method from VGF to EPCOT

    No, there’s no bus from the GF to Epcot unless the monorail is down & when that happens it’s a total cluster, I remember one time we were told to catch a bus at the TTC, another they ran buses from the GF to/from Epcot but it takes awhile for them to sort out the situation.
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    Talk me into/out of buying RIV direct...

    In your situation maybe stay a couple of nights at Riviera before you buy there to see whether it’s what you want? Which, since your resale points are recent, may mean you need to rent points or pay cash for a couple of nights. To me walking out of the IG to your resort like you’ve experienced...
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    What resale resort to purchase

    When would you be visiting? You say you’ll go during more ‘off season times’ but off season for the parks doesn’t necessarily line up with off season for DVC availability & w/out knowing when you want to go no one can really advise you on 7 month availability at DVC. I will note that those times...
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    Preferred Method from VGF to EPCOT

    Whoa - brilliant, I love boat rides. I like the TTC to Epcot monorail ride, although the wait for that monorail can be a bit longer than the wait for the resort monorail & the resort monorail tends to be more crowded IME. I’m not a fan of the hiking down the monorail ramp & then back up the...
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    Pemba Savannah

    Pembe is 4 acres, Sunset is 18 acres & Arusha & Uzima are 11 acres each. Personally, if I’d paid savanna view points I’d be disappointed w/ a Pembe view, if I’d booked/paid for a standard view & ended up on Pembe I’d be happy. BTW a lot of the names at Kidani are from the Lion King, thus Pembe...
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    Animal Kingdom - Do I buy into Kidani or Jambo specifically?

    My two AKV contracts are both Kidani & we always book Jambo at 11 months.
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    *The Official VILLAS AT DISNEY'S GRAND FLORIDIAN RESORT & SPA Owners & Lovers Group*

    I am hopeful, but not convinced, that they’ll be done w/ GF refurbs by our late Dec. ‘24/early Jan. ‘25 visit, it feels like they’ve been refurbing the GF forever & that the Poly tower will be done so we don’t have to cross the street to get to Captain Cooks for lunch. & while I’m wishing -...
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    Booking - speed question

    I avoid the 7 month dance, but thought I’ve read about people who’ve lost time by getting too far before the window opens & having to start over after it opens?
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    Newbie Q: Use Year / Borrowing

    December use years are challenging to wrap your head around I think because 11 of the months the points can be used in are for the following year. I know, I have a Dec. use year. Right now Dec. points are in their 2023 use year - sounds like your contract has 0 current (2023) points & 0 2024...
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    International seller

    AFAIK the only time the buyer needs to notarize documents is if they are borrowing money to buy & securing the loan w/ a mortgage. The one time several years ago I bought from a UK seller they were able to get their documents notarized very quickly, the Queen’s mail, which they opted to use...
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    Possibly stupid FW question, re: merging reservations

    Ah, thanks for the info., I never tried to do it back in our DP era, but thought I’d read of folks doing it - maybe it was cash stays or folks actually doing split stays & moving mid trip. I do remember being able to make all my ADRs at one 60 day window & my FPs even when we were doing a split...
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    Adding on: cheaper OKW or more desirable BCV?

    In my mind this is roughly an $8000 question, which is approximately the difference in cost between a 260 point resale OKW contract ($90 pp) v. a resale BC contract ($130 pp.) Put another way, it’s renting 260 BC points 1 1/2 times at $20 per point v. owning those points (& paying MFs on them)...
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    Possibly stupid FW question, re: merging reservations

    You can’t merge stays at different resorts & obv. you’ll be moving if you have a split stay. But, that is the reason many people start w/ 2 bookings at their home resort, they want a split stay so they make 2 separate reservations at their home resort at 11 months & then at 7 months try to grab...
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    Possibly stupid FW question, re: merging reservations

    Don’t wait until you get there to let the front desk know it’s a continuing reservation, villas are assigned several days before you arrive, thus it’s best to have MS note the fact that it’s a continuing reservation on both reservations well before you arrive so that the room assigner can assign...
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    Dues past due when selling/closing your DVC contract using Magic Vacation Title/DVC Resale Market?

    Thanks & that makes sense given the differing interests of the parties.
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    Dues past due when selling/closing your DVC contract using Magic Vacation Title/DVC Resale Market?

    Typically the buyer pays closing costs, but I’ve read of cases where the parties negotiated for the seller to pay closing costs & I wonder if in those cases the seller gets to choose the title company?
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    DVC and Divorce, will either of us lose our blue card?

    How would they deal w/ a case where, for example, moonlight magic fell on a night where the Riviera villa you reserved ‘cost’ 50 points that night & you ‘paid’ for it w/ 25 points from one of your direct contracts & 25 points from one of your ineligible resale contracts? Maybe you could get in...
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    DVC and Divorce, will either of us lose our blue card?

    No, any resale contract purchased prior to April 2016 qualifies you for DVC-Y because every time DVC took away a benefit/perk they grandfathered in existing resale owners. I first bought resale in 2012/13(?) & have always been blue card/DVC-Y even though I didn’t buy direct until 2023. In OP’s...
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    Pool use

    Ironically in mid 2019 they actually added AKL/V to the list of pools you could hop to & removed the GF from the list of hoppable pools. It wasn’t long after that the pool hopping perk for DVC members ended.




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