martin785 said:We prefer the comforts of our RV and enjoy the solitude and serenity of fort wilderness. Is it worth purchasing a dvc membership if all we do is stay at fort wilderness campsites?
Lynne M said:The most important thing to consider, is that the campsites are not part of the Disney Vacation Club. DVC members currently have the ability to use points to reserve campsites, but that's a perk, not part of your membership. As with all exchanges, there's also a $95 exchange fee that is applied when you make the initial reservation, and again for any subsequent changes to the reservation.
The ability to use points for campsites, and the point cost for those campsites, is negotiated with another part of the Disney company on an annual basis, and is subject to change or being discontinued at any time.
Keep in mind, also, that you would need to purchase direct from Disney to use your points at campsites; resale contracts don't have access to the Disney Collection (non-DVC) resorts. That would mean you'd be paying the highest possible price for the contract, and that if you decided after purchase that it wasn't a good value and you wanted to sell, the price you'd get on resale would likely be far, far lower than your purchase cost.
So, in short, no, I couldn't recommend purchasing a contract just for use at the campsite.
Lynne, correct me if am wrong, but I am pretty sure the 95$ fee is being waived for the Fort?? I do agree with you that if the only intent is to use your points at the Fort it is not worth it.
I'll go a step further, it'll be more expensive than booking on cash and it's not guaranteed in addition to the extra steps and complications being introduced with this method.I don't see any advantage to buying DVC to use at the campsites. It will most likely be more expensive to do so, and you are adding extra steps as opposed to just calling Disney and booking directly. More money and more work, doesn't seem like a win.
We prefer the comforts of our RV and enjoy the solitude and serenity of fort wilderness. Is it worth purchasing a dvc membership if all we do is stay at fort wilderness campsites?
Unless things have changed, we wanted to camp with our TT at the Fort campsites, and it would have cost us the $95.00 fee to do so. We parked our trailer in the parking lot and stayed at DVC. Did a cross country drive last summer, which is why we had the TT for our travels.
No.We prefer the comforts of our RV and enjoy the solitude and serenity of fort wilderness. Is it worth purchasing a dvc membership if all we do is stay at fort wilderness campsites?