Can Someone Explain DVC To Me?

[dnamertz]

Can someone explain the Disney Vacation Club program to me...especially as it pertains to hotels at the Disneyland Resort?

I'm also curious to know how the "renting" of DVC property works.

 

[LisaT91403]

Can someone explain the Disney Vacation Club program to me...especially as it pertains to hotels at the Disneyland Resort?

I'm also curious to know how the "renting" of DVC property works.

DVC is Disney's timeshare program. People buy a certain number of points at their home resort, and then are able to use the points for reservations. The only hotel at DLR that has DVC rooms is the Grand Californian. People sometimes rent points from DVC owners, and use the points for stays at the Grand Californian.

I'd suggest looking around the DVC board on this site for more info. There is a board dedicated to renting points. You can rent from an individual owner, or from a "middle man" type of company. We have rented for Aulani, but not GCH.

 

[Nonsuch]

DVC can be a good value, but prospective owners should do some research

The DVC Forums have the answers to all your questions

Details about VGC
The Villas at Disney's Grand Californian Owners & Lovers Group

 

[bcla]

Theoretically one can do a trade to get into a DVC property, but I heard it's pretty near impossible at Grand Californian. When a timeshare was being pitched to us, the salesman was showing us the number of points needed. However, I know this is highly contingent on space being available, and frankly a regular timeshare owner will probably be last in line for any opportunity that comes up.

DVC is interesting in that Disney holds the right of first refusal on sales. They rarely go on sale on the open market because Disney will typically buy it back. So they maintain their value really well. However, the costs are also pretty high. There are other timeshares that people are literally trying to dump for free just so they can stop paying the maintenance fees, but DVC isn't like that.

 

[hjgaus]

]Theoretically one can do a trade to get into a DVC property, but I heard it's pretty near impossible at Grand Californian. [/B] When a timeshare was being pitched to us, the salesman was showing us the number of points needed. However, I know this is highly contingent on space being available, and frankly a regular timeshare owner will probably be last in line for any opportunity that comes up.

DVC is interesting in that Disney holds the right of first refusal on sales. They rarely go on sale on the open market because Disney will typically buy it back. So they maintain their value really well. However, the costs are also pretty high. There are other timeshares that people are literally trying to dump for free just so they can stop paying the maintenance fees, but DVC isn't like that.

Yes you CAN exchange a non DVC timeshare to TRADE back INTO DVC timeshare through RCI !!
Although I have yet to EVER see The Grand Californian Villas available......
but most WDW DVC's usually are!!
Besides our DVC we have one other timeshare and keep an account with RCI intentionally so we CAN trade back into DVC when we may run out of DVC points at any given time! I check like a hawk all the time and usually find availabliity @ WDW DVC's but they JUST DO NOT match to our desired dates!!