We are from the UK so visit Disneyland Paris often. We now stay on property as the annual passes for DLP tend to make the rooms really quite good value considering. I took at a look at the DVC points chart and I couldn't believe my eyes. I don't understand how they can justify the amount of points. For example, this Christmas, we are staying 5 nights in Sequoia Lodge (our favorite hotel on property, including the more expensive Disneyland Hotel, and the others of the same tier), we are in club level (called "Golden Forest") and paid £620, which is £124 per night (at the current exchange rate, this makes it $162 per night). A
standard room (non club-level) for this same stay would have been 130 DVC points. Oh, and I forgot to mention, to use the DVC points, you'd need to pay a $95 transaction fee on top of this - which is not far off the cost of a one night stay! If I had rented that same number of points out via David's, that would have made $1,690 (£1,289 at the current exchange rate). So it just makes no sense to use points.
Bottom line - if you rent the same number of points though David's as the stay would have cost you, not only will you be able to get a better room using the cash, the amount you have left over will probably be enough for all your spending money too!!
Disneyland Paris gets a lot of stick, but I've noticed in the last year or so they are beginning to up their game. I can only assume the
recapitalization from the Walt Disney Company has had a major impact. The biggest thing you'll notice is that the cast members are nothing like their US counterparts. I would probably liken it to saying that a significant number of DLP cast members see their job as just a job, where as a significant number of US cast members live and breathe Disney. There are always exceptions to this, at in both countries. So, don't rely on the cast members to make magic - though it does happen - make it yourself and embrace DLP for what it is. For example, we enjoy Main Street in DLP more than WDW. We love just having a coffee and a warm pastry down one of the 'side streets' for an hour or so in the morning. We also love being able to walk everywhere on property and not have to rely on any transport. The Tomorrowland equivalent on DLP ("Discovery Land"), is, in my opinion, far more interesting architecturally too.