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    choosing between two--help please!

    I vote coral reef... You can get RFC in pretty much any city and the fish tank at the reef beats RFC by far (it's a whole wall!)
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    Stroller Question

    We have the city mini double for a 3 and 6 in the 99th percentile and we LOVE it for Disney, it folds up with one tug and fits past normal doors. The kids can also sleep there no problem. We would never use something else!
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    Best way to wait list a 10 day stay?

    Hi All - My first trip is coming up in 7 months... we go for 10 days, 9 nights... Should I: Wait until I can waitlist the whole 10 day trip (~6 months, 27 days) Waitlist a week at 7 months, then one day extra each day to have a 7, 1, 1 waitlist. Thoughts? I am thinking the whole 10...
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    Maybe I'm missing something.... why doesn't Disney ROFR everything?

    I agree with this, but on the other side of that coin by not doing ROFR on these properties they are making resale look more attractive. If they started heavily using ROFR the resale market would start to rise (people will sell higher if they know Disney will take it for a higher price) and...
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    Maybe I'm missing something.... why doesn't Disney ROFR everything?

    So, I know no one will know what Disney is thinking, but maybe just so thoughts? Let's do some quick math: OKW direct from Disney - 160 (pts) x $100 = 16000 OKW from TTS today - 160 (pts) x $52 = 8320 Profit - 7680 Am I missing something? Even if the contract were stripped and they had...
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    7 month mark for New Year's Eve?

    I know it doesn't help too much but everything other than the treehouse villas is free at SSR.... but isn't that always the case? ;-)
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    Happy Point Mix

    Hi Everyone- Well, one month into DVC and we already had addon-itus (sp?) :rotfl2: We only have 100 points now and find that we want to move into the 1 bedroom range so we have an easier time switching at 7 months. We don't take out loans so we want to buy in 100 point chunks as we can...
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    First time booking, I have no idea what I am doing

    We actually might not mind a split stay since we want to try all the hotels sooner than later... the only problem I can think of is how to get from one hotel to the other without a car... I don't really want to take a bus to a park with all our stuff, maybe I can get disney to drive us?
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    First time booking, I have no idea what I am doing

    So, I only really have enough points per year for one trip. I would like to go in December and would like another resort than my home resort. I can book my home resort now without problem, then at 7 months lets say all but 2 days are free. Do I just waitlist the whole thing and hope for the...
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    YIKES!!! Does DVC really book up this fast?

    I feel your pain, we closed a couple weeks ago and I asked our "guide" repeatedly how many issues we would have booking the 7 month window, of course the answer was no problems at all. Now almost all of the resorts are free except for a couple of days. I am always asking myself how a hotel...
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    Annual Pass Numbers Game

    Thanks for all the info! Looks like I am on the right track with splitting the two stays over one yearly membership, then waiting for the next year. As for the tables card we think we will still get the ddp... The reasoning is we are big eaters while on vacation and I have a problem where I...
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    Annual Pass Numbers Game

    Hi Everyone- First DVC Trip coming up and me being the tightwad that I am I want to get the best deal on park tickets. We go on one 10 day trip per year. I am thinking of staggering my trips so that we take one in Dec and one in Sept of the next year so we can double dip on annual passes...
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    Thoughts on first trip

    Ah, I didn't even think about doing a transfer if I run out... that is a good idea... All I could think is if I kept borrowing points into the future I would run out and then be in trouble... As for the deluxe resort, this will be our first so I was hoping to sneak it in while we had no idea...
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    Thoughts on first trip

    Hi everyone We just got into DVC and it's time to plan our first trip. We have 100 points per year, nothing banked. We went with a smaller contract so that if we decide we don't want to go every year we can do every other year with a bigger room, etc or buy on more later. Anyways, we...
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    New DVC Owner! And question about paying loan with Chase Visa

    Also your rate will raise 1% if you use any credit card to pay the loan, so unless you are paying it all off you dont get much benefit =)
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    Close on our DVC in May... need to book for October!

    Resale or direct? If it is direct they will save some rooms and let you book off their 2% of rooms for your first booking
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    Help me create a spreadsheet, please

    I created this while I was shopping around, hope it helps ... let me know what you think http://www.kylecaulfield.com/disney-vacation-club-calculator Also, don't forget you can rent points for 13 dollars a point... so you should do that math too.. if you buy for 50 dollars per point and it...
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    More points -> rent vs transfer

    Hi everyone - I see a lot of people renting their points out, but what if you already have say a 100 point contract but want to have a family reunion and need an extra say 300 points... I see you can transfer points from DVC to DVC but I thought I read in the contract that it was a no no for...
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    New member - vote for my first stay

    Thanks for the advice -- as for the points it is okay if it is a little off as we could just borrow points to cover it and go on a 100 point vacation another time... As for VB... I didn't even think of that! We actually drive from chicago (take 2 weeks off work, 14 days total, drive for 2...
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    New member - vote for my first stay

    We only go during the adventure (off peak) times... our guide said it would not be a problem getting us into a room we wanted as they will convert cash rooms to points for us because it is our first booking and we didn't get our 11 or even 7 month window... we will go sometime sept-dec. Also...




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