Boardwalk availability question

[Genie+]

Can you please clarify this statement?

We paid $161pp this month to buy VGF direct. We sold back 2022 points, leaving us with 41 years of points left. $161/41 = $4 per point ($3.93 to be exact and that is just the buy-in cost, not including dues).

Using this same calculation, our BWV resale points cost almost $8.50 per point per year before dues.

 

[Genie+]

We paid $161pp this month to buy VGF direct. We sold back 2022 points, leaving us with 41 years of points left. $161/41 = $4 per point ($3.93 to be exact and that is just the buy-in cost, not including dues).

Using this same calculation, our BWV resale points cost almost $8.50 per point per year before dues.

Taking this a step further, I also make an adjustment toward the time value of buy-in cost. With VGF I’m laying out money now for trips as far out as 40 years. I felt comfortable compounding 2% interest over the next 40 years and averaging that out to around $7.50 per point. So while VGF actual point cost was $4 each, I prefer using $7.50 plus the $7.33 in dues = roughly $15pp. I feel that’s a fair calculation as to the overall cost for each point we use.

Using that same calculation our BWV cost is near $11pp plus $8.53 dues, bringing it just under $20pp.

Definitely not exact science, just a rough figure. Helps us with comparing villa costs, cash offers, rentals, transfers or OTU points. VGF ~$15pp and BWV ~$20pp is approximately our personal usage cost each year.

The small BWV contract is for booking there at 11 months. VGF is for everything else.

 

[AdamsMum]

Using that same calculation our BWV cost is near $11pp plus $8.53 dues, bringing it just under $20pp.

Yeah, but it'll make you smile every time you get that studio booked for Food and Wine.

 

[Cfabar1]

and the points chart is better too, and the location more convenient.

But, I'd still rather buy VGF...

 

[Genie+]

Yeah, but it'll make you smile every time you get that studio booked for Food and Wine.

It sure does! No regrets.

 

[Genie+]

and the points chart is better too, and the location more convenient.

But, I'd still rather buy VGF...

I totally agree with that. BW is great for BW but we also want to stay other places. Like VGF! Hard to beat that direct pricing right now and low dues. It’s like buying designer store brand if there was such a thing lol.

 

[Cyberc1978]

Taking this a step further, I also make an adjustment toward the time value of buy-in cost. With VGF I’m laying out money now for trips as far out as 40 years. I felt comfortable compounding 2% interest over the next 40 years and averaging that out to around $7.50 per point. So while VGF actual point cost was $4 each, I prefer using $7.50 plus the $7.33 in dues = roughly $15pp. I feel that’s a fair calculation as to the overall cost for each point we use.

Using that same calculation our BWV cost is near $11pp plus $8.53 dues, bringing it just under $20pp.

Definitely not exact science, just a rough figure. Helps us with comparing villa costs, cash offers, rentals, transfers or OTU points. VGF ~$15pp and BWV ~$20pp is approximately our personal usage cost each year.

The small BWV contract is for booking there at 11 months. VGF is for everything else.

Yeah, but it'll make you smile every time you get that studio booked for Food and Wine.

and the points chart is better too, and the location more convenient.

But, I'd still rather buy VGF...

The cost of buying the timeshare is one data point, the annual dues another point.

To me one of the most important data points is which resort you buy. I rather have 18 years of great vacations at a location I love, than 40 years of maybe good vacation at a location this is okay or maybe even at a resort I dislike.

Buying a TS is a sunken cost and I dont know about you but I only live once with that in mind I rather have 18 years of fabulous vacation memories than anything less.

However if the choice was between 18 years of fabulous vacation memories and 40 years fabulous vacation memories, I'd go with 40.

 

[intamin]

The cost of buying the timeshare is one data point, the annual dues another point.

To me one of the most important data points is which resort you buy. I rather have 18 years of great vacations at a location I love, than 40 years of maybe good vacation at a location this is okay or maybe even at a resort I dislike.

Buying a TS is a sunken cost and I dont know about you but I only live once with that in mind I rather have 18 years of fabulous vacation memories than anything less.

However if the choice was between 18 years of fabulous vacation memories and 40 years fabulous vacation memories, I'd go with 40.

Agreed. If I had an emotional attachment to BCV/BWV/BRV I absolutely would buy there. I like the location of BCV/BWV, but it’s not something I feel like I need to stay at each and every year (thankfully for my wallet) and I’m just as happy to stay at RIV so it doesn’t make sense for me. But for some people who grew up going there with their family or simply just like the resort that much more than others it definitely makes sense.

 

[Genie+]

The cost of buying the timeshare is one data point, the annual dues another point.

To me one of the most important data points is which resort you buy. I rather have 18 years of great vacations at a location I love, than 40 years of maybe good vacation at a location this is okay or maybe even at a resort I dislike.

Buying a TS is a sunken cost and I dont know about you but I only live once with that in mind I rather have 18 years of fabulous vacation memories than anything less.

However if the choice was between 18 years of fabulous vacation memories and 40 years fabulous vacation memories, I'd go with 40.

Agreed. If I had an emotional attachment to BCV/BWV/BRV I absolutely would buy there. I like the location of BCV/BWV, but it’s not something I feel like I need to stay at each and every year (thankfully for my wallet) and I’m just as happy to stay at RIV so it doesn’t make sense for me. But for some people who grew up going there with their family or simply just like the resort that much more than others it definitely makes sense.

Yes. 18 and 40 yrs is a long time. I don’t want to spend it frustrated. Value to us included: ease, economical, exciting. We want them all! At the same time.

 

[JELLYROLLS4LIFE]

We have most of our points at AKV, but we own a small 75 pt contract at BWV expressly for going to F&W every year. Bought it in 2017 and even then the cost basis ($4.92 / pt / year) is way worse than the AKV contract ($2.46 / pt / year). I don't know that I would even consider a BW contract now as you'd be looking at maybe $140 a point with only 19 years left so now $7.26 / pt / year.

However, to us it was worth it to be able to go for close to a week each year and just be able to walk in and out of the park. The only thing is when they restructured the point prices a few years ago, our 75 points became worth at best 5 nights in a standard, and 4 nights in a lake/boardwalk view. It means I fight a lot harder to get into the standard room and stretch those points.

I do have to admit that if the prices remain this high when there is say 10 years left on the contract, I may sell and let someone eat those high prices. No idea what I'll do in 2042 as we'll be in our early 70s and not sure I will have the money to buy another contract there. Of course by then Disney might be so expense I won't want to go. (Extrapolated daily ticket prices in 2042 - $350 a day.)

 

[JELLYROLLS4LIFE]

Sorry - I rambled on in that last post, but to answer original poster, pretty good chance of getting a one-bedroom between January and August at 7-months advance, at least a Pool/Garden view one. Studios are possible in the same range but not as much a slam dunk.

Standard rooms are almost all snatched up by owners and not given up easily. (It's only 17% of the resort.) Boardwalk view 1-bedrooms are possible at 7 months but not so much for studios.