BWV Boardwalk view - Is it worth the extra points?

[LSchrow]

let's see: it's almost impossible to stay off the balcony due to nightly fireworks, you miss not being squished watching the street performers, your heart will flutter (probably unhealthy!) waking up to a glistening Crescent Lake & Spaceship Earth, AND it even can make you hungry as the scent of bakery goodies wafts across the BW.
If it weren't for the BWVs & BW view, we likely would have never purchased DVC - nothing else compares

 

[bobbiwoz]

Only had BWV once and neither of us were wowed. I am fine with leaving it for those who appreciate it.

 

[disneynutz]

Only had BWV once and neither of us were wowed. I am fine with leaving it for those who appreciate it.

I agree, stay away especially in early December, and for sure never book a boardwalk view. Because we care about our fellow DIS'ers we will be there every year to warn people away!

Bill

 

[crazywig]

I would expect it would be a great view as long as you don't have a room with a solid balcony and not near the noise of Jellyrolls. It will not be the quiet view you get facing the quiet pool though. The Boardwalk can be noisy even when Jellyrolls isn't open.

Those solid balconies are studios 5013 and 5015. We got 5013 on our very first dvc trip fifteen years ago. I have gotten them several times since as part of the 2br. If you request high floor 2br chances are high you'll get one of these units. The only upside is the balcony on the 1br half is enormous.

We own at BWV and only book the boardwalk view now. I have actually never stayed pool view in all these years but we used to book standard back when we had less points.

 

[crisi]

Here is a different way to look at it - what would YOU do with the extra points? The time we stayed in a standard view, we were saving points to take my whole family - which meant two two bedrooms.

Are you at the point in your Disney lifecycle where every extra night at Disney is meaningful and scraping together enough points for an extra day at the parks is awesome? Or are you at the point where an extra day over the course of the next year or two really won't make that much of a difference in your Disney experience - and it might even be nice to have an excuse to spend a night over at Universal?

We've stayed four in a Grand Villa because we had points to spare and no huge need to spend more days (we combined that trip with a few days at Universal).