Addonitis Poll: How Long Did You Wait After Your 1st...

[Grumpy by Birth]

I wanted around 500 points total for BLT.

I brought within a month:

200 x BLT Resale
200 x BLT Resale
155 x BLT Direct

Does it count as "addonitis" if you already knew you wanted 500 points and just acquired them through several contracts?

 

[cometdad2010]

Our contract was just submitted to Disney for ROFR, and already, yes -- I'm looking at other contracts to see if I can snatch up a good deal. However, I think what we'll do first is add on points direct with Disney -- just a small amount -- so we get the direct perks. They're not even that important, but I guess I'm getting caught up in the Disney marketing machine feeling like a second-class DVC member?

New plan. We're planning an October 2021 trip and are in ROFR for a contract with an October use year, but the borrowing restrictions (we planned to borrow from 2022) are changing the math. Now we're looking at a small resale contract, same use year, to do after this one closes so we can have it all on the same member number. We're 75-128 points away from where we want to be. Addonitis strikes bad!

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

2009- 1st contract
2010- 2nd
2011- 3rd--Why not? The prices were still so LOW it was hard to resist.

Then, we were content for quite some time in the one-bedrooms....but kids get bigger and the next thing you know, you want more room.

early June 2020- 4th
end June 2020- 5th

Two bedrooms all the way!

Wow! I am curious - based on your signature, it looks like these 5 contracts are spread across 4 resorts, but you are going for large point usage with the two bedroom villas. How do you manage you points? Do you bank and borrow? Do split stays? Book at 7 months?

New plan. We're planning an October 2021 trip and are in ROFR for a contract with an October use year, but the borrowing restrictions (we planned to borrow from 2022) are changing the math. Now we're looking at a small resale contract, same use year, to do after this one closes so we can have it all on the same member number. We're 75-128 points away from where we want to be. Addonitis strikes bad!

This is an oddly specific number of points.

I'm currently on day 35 of ROFR. I don't even have my initial account / points yet but I find myself browsing the brokers considering contract #2. This got me wondering if I'm not alone and was curious about the rest of you. How long after having an offer accepted did you wait to make another offer?

I waited a few months. I was on a waitlist for direct points, but I got impatient. In hindsight, I kind of wish I'd waited and gone with direct for the blue card. My plan now is to add on at the Disneyland Tower.

For you, I'd probably wait until I was able to go to Disney World. Hopefully you can do some resort hopping to get an in-person feel of the resorts you're considering purchasing.

 

[cometdad2010]

This is an oddly specific number of points.

Ha, yeah, it is. Our home resort is AKV, and we're booking a two-bedroom there at 11 months with our current points, but we're looking at getting a 3-bedroom grand villa at OKW if availability plays out at 7 months. We've got our dates picked out, and ideally, we'd like to stay for 8 days (128 points), but we'd settle for just a week (75 points).

 

[ABE4DISNEY]

Wow! I am curious - based on your signature, it looks like these 5 contracts are spread across 4 resorts, but you are going for large point usage with the two bedroom villas. How do you manage you points? Do you bank and borrow? Do split stays? Book at 7 months?

Well, I'm new to managing it--lol. Just added on two of the resorts. But this is my initial thought...

We usually take two trips annually.

BWV/SSR are in the same use year...so one trip will be ten day split stay, 5 days at each resort--booking at the 11 month mark.

BCV/OKW are different use years, but I will book by the 11 month mark for BCV and then just use the OKW points however to round out that trip(same idea--ten days total, split between resorts). I'm doubtful that I will keep the OKW long term as I will flip it eventually.

IF I pick up another contract after that, it will match the BCV's use year.

 

[vacay77]

Just curious ~ what is the main reason for adding on points? The increase in points for future stays? Upgrading from studios to 1 or 2 bedrooms? Stays at different resorts a few times a year or every other year? Just trying to prepare myself

 

[Lorana]

Just curious ~ what is the main reason for adding on points? The increase in points for future stays? Upgrading from studios to 1 or 2 bedrooms? Stays at different resorts a few times a year or every other year? Just trying to prepare myself

For me:
(1) Upgrading accommodations
(2) Home priority for additional resorts
(3) Going more than once per year
(4) Fixed Week Direct purchase to guarantee Thanksgiving week and start of Christmas season weeks

 

[CaliAdventurer]

Our first contract was 600 points which surely was all we would ever need. After we burned through and borrowed in about 18 mos we purchased more and then gave in and bought VGC a year after that . Turns out there is no is such things as enough points.

 

[gharter]

We purchased our second contract just after a year from our first. The first contract was about 60 days from accept to points available. The second was under 30 days.
Haven't regretted either one. Just wish we had purchased earlier, could have saved a lot of money in resort costs.

 

[cometdad2010]

Just curious ~ what is the main reason for adding on points? The increase in points for future stays? Upgrading from studios to 1 or 2 bedrooms? Stays at different resorts a few times a year or every other year? Just trying to prepare myself

For us, it's mostly upgrading in room size. Our first contract was enough for a week in a two-bedroom every other year -- what we (thought) we'd usually do. Now that we're digging deeper into plans, though, my wife wants to bring her in-laws this trip, and then in a few years we want to take a friend with my daughter and son, so we're looking for a second contract to give us that flexibility.

The borrowing restrictions now in place really brought this into perspective. It threw us for a loop -- I didn't realize it until AFTER we had an accepted offer on a resale contract that I planned to borrow in the future from. Short-term, the addonitis is a direct result of that, and the fact that it could happen again in the future. Banking/borrowing is a huge benefit of the DVC model over traditional timeshares, but it's not contractually guaranteed, from what I understand.

 

[lovin'fl]

Just curious ~ what is the main reason for adding on points? The increase in points for future stays? Upgrading from studios to 1 or 2 bedrooms? Stays at different resorts a few times a year or every other year? Just trying to prepare myself

We added to get more 11 month priorities plus have more points for more stays in bigger rooms (once kids all hit teens it was tough to cram the 5 of us in a 1BR so we upgraded to 2BR).

 

[Cattrip]

If I want a bigger place it would be best to add on to original resort rather than having two different ones?

 

[Castillo Mom]

I waited six years between my first and second contracts and a year and a half between my second and third. My case of adonitis has clearly worsened with time.

 

[bobbiwoz]

The “deal” was on BWV, but we really wanted some VWL, and we added on almost immediately. We had tried resale, but it was taken, that was before we bought BWV.

 

[LadybugsMum]

I added on 100 direct points while I was waiting on ROFR for my first contract.

 

[JoshF]

Did they give you any incentive?

 

[FinnFogg]

Under a year for the first add-on:

OKW 310 pts - Feb 2015
AUL 150 pts - Sept 2015
AUL 120 pts - Dec 2018
AUL 240 pts - Mar 2019
Current waiting on ROFR re a 175 pt VB contract (submitted July 2020)

 

[UrsulaWantsYourSoul]

Under a year for the first add-on:

OKW 310 pts - Feb 2015
AUL 150 pts - Sept 2015
AUL 120 pts - Dec 2018
AUL 240 pts - Mar 2019
Current waiting on ROFR re a 175 pt VB contract (submitted July 2020)

Wait... 995?? The 1,000 Club surely is in your future . Jelly.

 

[FinnFogg]

Wait... 995?? The 1,000 Club surely is in your future . Jelly.

Hahaha...Not if my husband has anything to say about it!!!

 

[UrsulaWantsYourSoul]

Hahaha...Not if my husband has anything to say about it!!!

Just going to put this right here: