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I am considering purchasing DVC for the first time. Given the amount of points it takes to stay at a resort why do people buy like 50 point contracts that would not be at their home resort? Also given the incentives from disney to add-on directly does it make sense to buy all the points you...

LOL, we've been to WDW the past couple of years and while she doesn't know as much about the parks as I do she definitely knows about Beverly :) Thanks for the tip on the perfume - I will look into that one.

My wife and I will be in EPCOT on her birthday this year - I'm taking her to Le Cellier for dinner but I would like to be able for her to buy something unique at the park that evening as well. For a previous birthday I took her to choose a pearl in Japan and that was a big hit so I'm curious if...

We always fly non stop - the 8 to 9 hours I'm talking about is drive to the airport (getting there two hours early), the plane ride, waiting for the ME and the ride to the resort. Yes the plane ride itself is only 3 hours but its still 8-9 hours of travel time. There is no way we would do a...

Well we have a mini van already and it is a tight squeeze just loading us up to get to the airport - with the luggage every inch of that van is covered. I thought maybe a small RV or perhaps one of the large vans or conversion van would work better - maybe even the train??? The extra days are...

We're a group of 7 that likes to travel to WDW - four of the group are kids 6 and under. In the past we've flown but have grown tired of the hassle of the airport and are considering driving down this year from MI. So for all you experienced drivers what should we rent? I don't think a...

We're considering driving next year and I've heard how bad it is trying to get through Atlanta - Google Maps shows an alternate route that goes down I-95 through the Carolinas - its about an hour more drive but I was curious if anyone had taken this route? I thought maybe we could drive to SC...

Sorry - guess I should have made it clear that they have five kids. Basically he said they would sleep +2 instead of +1 with the under 3s rather than move to a more expensive resort or get a second room. I don't know the exact ages of his kids so I don't know if they lied about some of the ages...

We've always listed our children on the reservation when they were under 3 even though they obviously don't need park passes or the dining plan but a friend of mine says they've left theirs off in order to stay in a less expensive resort. I didn't really feel like making an issue of it with him...

Along these same lines lets say you have two 160 pt contracts - one at BLT and one at OKW. I understand that in year 1 you could use the BLT and borrow from year 2 BLT while banking year 1 at OKW. My question is when it comes to year 2 can you use your year 1 banked and current year 2 OKW...

Thanks DVCGeek - I certainly have a better understanding of the system now. I'm assuming that if contract #1 and contract #2 are at the same resort and have the same UY that you could combine them at the 11 month mark so that we could buy smaller contracts so that maybe we could sell one...

So really if you want to book 11 months out then all the points should be in the contract(s) of the place you want to stay at then, right? Or could you just book the resort with borrowed points from contract #1 and then at 7 months "unborrow" those points and use the points from contract #2 to...

Thanks everyone for the replies - seems we brought home an unwanted souvenir from our trip (the whole family has been sick) so I'm just now catching up with the thread. We're not a family of 6 yet - right now its 5 and our fourth baby is due later this year and the last two years we have...

We just got back from another great Disney trip and of course I'm thinking about a trip in 2011. I got to wondering if DVC would be a good fit for our family but in looking at the price of the points it seems like it would take 15-20 years for it to be "worth it" and that's assuming we would be...

We went last year with kids ages 4, 2 and 7 months and we used a double stroller for the two oldest and then one of those backpack carriers for the baby and it worked great

sorry, double post

We just came back after taking DS4 and DD2 (and DD 8 months) to the world. We have a double stroller that we use for the two older ones - they are never given the option to walk from place to place at any of the parks or resort so they know they have to get into the stroller or we don't move -...

We were there Apr 29-May 6 and had the same experience as the OP. At the front of the parks we would see a couple but we didn't see them anywhere else in the parks at all.

Our DS has done great with his food allergies - he's only 4 1/2 now and we've had him on his special diet since he was 3 so he's going to grow up eating his allergy free foods - its all he really knows and he loves most of the stuff. It took alot of work and research but we've been able to find...

Our son has gluten/corn/milk allergies so we basically never get to eat out except at Disney and the chefs at every place in the parks and of course our hotel were exceptional. We just made sure to tell the server that we have a child with food allergies and that we would like to speak with the...