Direct purchase Poly or VDH dilemma

[VGCgroupie]

Here is what we finally decided after reading your input, lots of conversation, research, and spreadsheets… we bought a direct Polynesian contract with favorite week 49 (early December!). Ultimately, I had to decide which of my goals was the most important to me right now and understand that one contract wouldn’t solve everything.

I love WDW in December but have been very frustrated with the booking frenzy and tricks that must be used to get a studio at my home resort during the holidays. With the favorite week, it’s an insurance policy that allows me to always have the option to be there in early December. I imagine I’ll be using the favorite week 49 about 50% of the years. We did keep the December use year as that works really well with week 49. Favorite weeks are limited availability, so if we didn’t buy the Poly favorite week we wanted now, then it may not be available in the future. There are people that have recently been told it wasn’t available, so I knew if I walked away from it, I’d be out of luck if I tried to buy it in a year or whatever.

I’ve realized this will need to be a two-part purchase to meet ALL my goals. I will revisit making a VDH or resale VGC purchase in the future to achieve the Disneyland access I would also like. In the meanwhile, I’m hoping our new direct points will allow us to book VDH occasionally, if we aren’t able to snag VGC with our other points. My current plan is going to Disneyland every 12-18 months for just 3 days. With flexibility, I think that looks achievable if I book right at 7 months. There were very strong reasons to buy VDH such as DisneylandForward, and I’m hoping we can make that purchase soon.

We are waiting to make another payment until after the next incentives are released in case there are better deals or we decide to change things up.

Thank you all for your thoughts on this as it really helped me sift through what was the most important to me in this moment.

Congrats!! Kudos on the FW in December!

 

[juliebee]

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[VGCgroupie]

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[intamin]

Here is what we finally decided after reading your input, lots of conversation, research, and spreadsheets… we bought a direct Polynesian contract with favorite week 49 (early December!). Ultimately, I had to decide which of my goals was the most important to me right now and understand that one contract wouldn’t solve everything.

I love WDW in December but have been very frustrated with the booking frenzy and tricks that must be used to get a studio at my home resort during the holidays. With the favorite week, it’s an insurance policy that allows me to always have the option to be there in early December. I imagine I’ll be using the favorite week 49 about 50% of the years. We did keep the December use year as that works really well with week 49. Favorite weeks are limited availability, so if we didn’t buy the Poly favorite week we wanted now, then it may not be available in the future. There are people that have recently been told it wasn’t available, so I knew if I walked away from it, I’d be out of luck if I tried to buy it in a year or whatever.

I’ve realized this will need to be a two-part purchase to meet ALL my goals. I will revisit making a VDH or resale VGC purchase in the future to achieve the Disneyland access I would also like. In the meanwhile, I’m hoping our new direct points will allow us to book VDH occasionally, if we aren’t able to snag VGC with our other points. My current plan is going to Disneyland every 12-18 months for just 3 days. With flexibility, I think that looks achievable if I book right at 7 months. There were very strong reasons to buy VDH such as DisneylandForward, and I’m hoping we can make that purchase soon.

We are waiting to make another payment until after the next incentives are released in case there are better deals or we decide to change things up.

Thank you all for your thoughts on this as it really helped me sift through what was the most important to me in this moment.

I'm going to go yell at my guide now for not getting me a week 49 at PIT