Hi Nicola, firstly congrats on your upcoming nuptuals. We got married a couple of weeks ago and had our honeymoon at WDW (were going there on holiday before we decided to get married but was just the best place to be on honeymoon!!). We loved it so much we are thinking of buying into DVC at SSR but finding cheap enough flights difficult at the mo - can I ask how you are finding it as it's something we would really like to do?
On the wedding front again, re the Illuminations from the terrace, we managed to get booked on the Illuminations cruise, which I know is usually nigh on inpossible, and we had a great skipper who explained everything to us, which made it much better, and seeing the whole thing from the boat and so close made it even better, so if you get the chance I would really recommend doing it this way. It's very romantic too, as a guy in the next boat to us proposed while we were out there, so for part of your wedding it would be lovely, moonlight, champagne and fireworks - lovely!
Best wishes x
Hi scousetink,
Thank you for taking the time to read and reply to my thread
I love the idea of the illuminations cruise, but thought i read somewhere that it could only take 13 people and we will have 15 in our party... maybe df and i will do this on our honeymoon, once the families have gone home though
I have always loved Disney, however the month i bought into DVC was the absolute first time i had ever been to Disney, and America as a whole, but i just knew that this is where i wanted to spend every holiday and df felt the same (although he had been every other year since about 1995). DF's sister and brother-in-law had been DVC members at SSR for a few years by the time we bought into it, so we felt an element of reasurance from this but in reality it's Disney, if something goes wrong, it's not like we wouldnt get some sort of compensation from it lol
We approached one of the DVC stands (at DTD i think) and they arranged to pick us up from our hotel the next morning at around 8am... we had a looked around and loved everything about the resort (even though it wasnt finished as yet). we had a question and answer session with our guide and we felt very informed about the whole thing. When we left they even drove us to the entrance of Magic Kingdom so that we could meet up with our family, which i thought was really lovely of them. They agreed to us calling them once we had got back home and assessed our finances as to whether we wanted to join. As soon as we got home we weighed everything up and decided that this way over the course of the (48 years) that we were buying into that it would work out cheaper in the long term, once we have children etc it will make it more feasible to holiday there so we went for it!
This will be our first time staying at SSR this year but we've never had any probs with booking anything. Our points are allocated each dec, it is annoying to have to pay the annual dues in Jan (after xmas) every year but due to the exchange rate theyve not been too bad, and we pay by our debit card and our bank (halifax) only charges us £1.50 for this transaction which i think is very reasonable.
We havent had probs with the flights, we are members of virgin frequent flyers and use miles plus money fares (we're flying premium economy this time and are very excited).
I would say if you know your gonna spend the majority of your holidays in Disney then go for it! Obviously. unless your very wealthy it's not poss to visit Disney every year but the points can be banked or as there are other places in the world the points can be used, we had a lovely week's holiday in the Lake District last year which was relatively inexpensive.
I cant praise DVC enough but you have to feel comfortable with it as it's a lot of money to spend in one go.
Sorry if i rambled but i hope that helped
in December (seems like ages away) 
Any ideas yet? There is so much choice but they really do a fantastic job!
