Best Deal on current incentives

BZW

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These boards are SUPER helpful and I need some advice. We are a family of 3 and bought 150 resale points at OKW, our first contact. We love how DVC has impacted our vacation habits and now we are looking to purchase 150 points directly from Disney. Do you think the current incentives are good enough to pull the trigger?

We’d be happy at Riviera, Poly or AKW.

TIA.
 
The best time to buy is when you will use it. Generally, the prices go up. Occasionally, they will run a special with better incentives, but you can't count on that.

When you are ready to regularly use the points, buy them. As far as home resort goes, look at the point charts and see what 150 points will get you in different times of the year. Consider if you'll be content at that resort over the course of many years. Your vacation preferences will change over time, but focus on what works best for the immediate future.
 
The current incentives for 150 points at Riviera are pretty good - as I recall, they actually got better from the prior incentive period which is very unusual. I’d say it’s a pretty good time to pick up 150 points there, especially if you have a September or October UY because you can use magical beginnings on the 2024 UY points for an effective $3,000 off.

Of course, I’d only buy RIV if you’re planning to keep for the long haul because the “drive off the lot” depreciation is pretty steep. Wasn’t a tough sell for me! I have 600 direct points there 🙂.

Current Poly incentives aren’t anything special, but hard to see them offering much in the way of better incentives given how sales are going there. Because Poly points are not subject to same resale restrictions as RIV, you don’t lose as much if you later decide to sell. If you don’t have a September or October UY, I’d say there isn’t a big risk of waiting - the price probably won’t come down, but that will be partially offset by paying less dues.

I believe today is the last day for AKL incentives so I’d make a pretty quick decision on that one. I’m not as familiar with that deal as it isn’t a resort for which I have wanted to own points (great place to stay, just don’t need home resort priority there as much since it is so big).
 
















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