Aulani stopover on the way home.

[Rusty Coyte]

Hi all, I'm back on here after many absent years seeking advice please. Will keep this as brief as possible. Live in Australia. Stayed with my wife at WDW for 7 days in 1983 as 27yo's. Then took our 3 kids there in 1999 and stayed for another 15 days. Eldest daughter of those three got married in 2014 and went back to WDW as part of their honeymoon for another 7 days. She is now in pre-planning phase to take her three sons (will be 9, 7 & 3) there (plus us two oldies to tag along so 7 in total 4A 3K) probably in 2024 some time. We have been able to rent DVC points in the past and I'm a bit out of touch with it all but wondering if that is still possible for both WDW and then Aulani to break up our travel on the way back home. Was thinking around 7-10 days WDW and say 4-5 days Aulani. I believe there may be 2 bedroom villas that would accommodate the 7 of us in Aulani but not sure about WDW. That may need to be 2 rooms in Art of Animation or similar if DVC not available?
Can anyone please give us some insight or thoughts on the DVC rentals please and any other tips that might help us with this plan. Thank you, Dean

 

[catsrgr8]

You can definitely rent points for WDW and Aulani. We rented points for our trip this summer at Aulani via Dave’s DVC rental

 

[jimmymc]

Yes it is still possible for both WDW and Aulani. DVC Rental Store is one of the sponsors of The Dis, and there is also David's DVC Rentals. Both of those will be pretty easy, you just give them your party's names and a deposit. Then they send over a contract. The only caveat is that you will lose a good chunk of money if you need to cancel less than 120 days before the trip, and the returned money will be as a credit and not a refund.

If you want to save a bit more, there are also rent/trade boards here where they will bypass the rental agency and use a 3rd party contract service. It's a little more work to find someone with points you can use but it will save a few hundred dollars. IMO I would just go with one of the sites.

Any 2 bedroom will fit 7 people, depending on how you want to sleep. At minimum there will be one king bed, one queen, and two queen-sized sleeper sofas (and 2 bathrooms). Many 2 bedrooms will have a king, 2 queens, and the sleeper. Some also fit a 9th person with a fold-down single bed or sleeper chair. With 7 people you are also free to bring an air mattress if you don't want to fit 7 people in 4 beds. All resorts except the Polynesian will have these configurations. The Poly has bungalows which are 2 bedrooms but very different than any other room. https://dvcrentalstore.com/plan/resorts/