Buying Aulani

[lilsonicfan]

IDK why I continue to browse Aulani listings, maybe just a touch of boredom leading me down these paths. I'm always interested in the contracts that pop up for a weird number of points but often there's no explanation in the listing for the weirdness. Except I just spotted one for a fixed week in a Grand Villa. It's nice to dream. Any of you have fixed week contracts? Does a fixed week contract also have a Use Year?

 

[intamin]

IDK why I continue to browse Aulani listings, maybe just a touch of boredom leading me down these paths. I'm always interested in the contracts that pop up for a weird number of points but often there's no explanation in the listing for the weirdness. Except I just spotted one for a fixed week in a Grand Villa. It's nice to dream. Any of you have fixed week contracts? Does a fixed week contract also have a Use Year?

Fixed week contracts are just like any other contract, except a cast member will book/hold the week your fixed week is for at a 10% premium before the people at 11 months can get to it.

 

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

Fixed week contracts are just like any other contract, except a cast member will book/hold the week your fixed week is for at a 10% premium before the people at 11 months can get to it.

So it actually costs 10% more more points than the prevailing point chart for those days?

 

[AwfulWaffle]

So it actually costs 10% more more points than the prevailing point chart for those days?

It cost the original owner 10% more but now you get the week for that amount. If the charts have changed then you could be getting it for less or more.

 

[lilsonicfan]

Fixed week contracts are just like any other contract, except a cast member will book/hold the week your fixed week is for at a 10% premium before the people at 11 months can get to it.

Thanks! Was just curious as to the UY, the contract I looked at has a fixed week in August but wasn't sure if that automatically means an August UY. It does look like the week is now more expensive than when the original owner bought it.

 

[intamin]

Thanks! Was just curious as to the UY, the contract I looked at has a fixed week in August but wasn't sure if that automatically means an August UY. It does look like the week is now more expensive than when the original owner bought it.

The use year is not correlated to the fixed week number. It should say which week number it’s for. Just as an example I have an April UY with a week 50 fixed week for Riviera which roughly translates to the week or so before Christmas.

 

[AstroBlasters]

IDK why I continue to browse Aulani listings, maybe just a touch of boredom leading me down these paths. I'm always interested in the contracts that pop up for a weird number of points but often there's no explanation in the listing for the weirdness. Except I just spotted one for a fixed week in a Grand Villa. It's nice to dream. Any of you have fixed week contracts? Does a fixed week contract also have a Use Year?

I don’t think you need the fixed week GV at Aulani outside of the last week in June or December.

Even then…. you could walk it…. such a large contract to have to unload….

 

[BrianLo]

Contract showed up Friday, they were loaded by the time I checked Monday before I had the chance to engage chat. My 2022 points have been rented and swapped already for an Alaskan cruise.

Super easy process!

 

[AstroBlasters]

Contract showed up Friday, they were loaded by the time I checked Monday before I had the chance to engage chat. My 2022 points have been rented and swapped already for an Alaskan cruise.

Super easy process!

Points are fun!

 

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

Contract showed up Friday, they were loaded by the time I checked Monday before I had the chance to engage chat. My 2022 points have been rented and swapped already for an Alaskan cruise.

Super easy process!

How many points did you have to swap for an Alaskan cruise?

Wouldn’t 2022 be worthless by now or were you able to rent out banked 2022 points within a few days?

 

[BrianLo]

How many points did you have to swap for an Alaskan cruise?

Wouldn’t 2022 be worthless by now or were you able to rent out banked 2022 points within a few days?

They were 2022 points banked to 2023. https://dvcrequest.com/ had them matched for a rental within like the hour. I just dropped them to 16$ since it was like barely a week left of the 7 month window before my Dec UY and I didn’t see a strong need to haggle.

It was 92 points in technicality for the full price of the cruise but I used 90.

I think learning that the swaps are treated as like for likes and I didn’t need to entangle myself with the IRS as a Canadian has been a bit of a game changer. I’ll definitely consider the ability to swap moving forward.

My small Aulani contract coming with a “free cruise” helps with that mental addonitis… or doesn’t help rather.

 

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

They were 2022 points banked to 2023. https://dvcrequest.com/ had them matched for a rental within like the hour. I just dropped them to 16$ since it was like barely a week left of the 7 month window before my Dec UY and I didn’t see a strong need to haggle.

It was 92 points in technicality for the full price of the cruise but I used 90.

I think learning that the swaps are treated as like for likes and I didn’t need to entangle myself with the IRS as a Canadian has been a bit of a game changer. I’ll definitely consider the ability to swap moving forward.

My small Aulani contract coming with a “free cruise” helps with that mental addonitis… or doesn’t help rather.

Incredible, nicely done! Recently when I considered booking the DVC member cruises Disney told me it would be over 150 points for a single 3rd/4th berth child passenger— a rough calculation indicated that my point value conversion rate was lower than the cost of my dues.

Was it a non-Disney Alaska cruise?

 

[BrianLo]

Incredible, nicely done! Recently when I considered booking the DVC member cruises Disney told me it would be over 150 points for a single 3rd/4th berth child passenger— a rough calculation indicated that my point value conversion rate was lower than the cost of my dues.

Was it a non-Disney Alaska cruise?

Oh yes, sorry I would never exchange via Disney! For that reason, they give an absolute terrible exchange rate. But the swaps with the rental companies apply the value you'd normally receive with renting... though technically better from a tax treatment perspective. It is with Royal Caribbean.

Which I think the board sponsor should also start doing soon as hinted at by Paul Kreiger

 

[lilsonicfan]

Interesting that you were able to swap for an RCI cruise, I haven't looked into that but it seems pretty wise! I was doing the math at 90 points x $16 and wondering how you were able to take that and translate it to a DCL cruise lol

 

[AstroBlasters]

Oh yes, sorry I would never exchange via Disney! For that reason, they give an absolute terrible exchange rate. But the swaps with the rental companies apply the value you'd normally receive with renting... though technically better from a tax treatment perspective. It is with Royal Caribbean.

Which I think the board sponsor should also start doing soon as hinted at by Paul Kreiger

FWIW, DVCRM does swaps as well.

It really comes down to how much are they giving you to rent the points.

 

[BrianLo]

FWIW, DVCRM does swaps as well.

It really comes down to how much are they giving you to rent the points.

That's what I meant by the board sponsor. They haven't yet started Royal yet, it's only for DCL. David's has all the lines.

 

[ShaneDJ]

FWIW, DVCRM does swaps as well.

It really comes down to how much are they giving you to rent the points.

At DVCRS (https://dvcrentalstore.com) you can get $18/pp for the DCL cruise swaps.

 

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

At DVCRS (https://dvcrentalstore.com) you can get $18/pp for the DCL cruise swaps.

Crazy that Disney is leaving so much money on the table by making it worth our while to seek out 3rd parties, when they can repackage premium villas for more than $25/pt or sell OTUP for $20 and up.

 

[AstroBlasters]

At DVCRS (https://dvcrentalstore.com) you can get $18/pp for the DCL cruise swaps.

I think it depends on what your points rent for… “up to $18pp”….

 

[ShaneDJ]

I think it depends on what your points rent for… “up to $18pp”….

True. In our case, we got $18/pp for our DVC points to swap for a DCL cruise.

DVCRS is great to work with for DCL swaps.