I posted in this thread a few pages back and said I was torn on how I feel about this rumor. I said that we'd be spending less time in WDW parks if this rumor was true...but we could make the 4day/4park deal work if that's all they offered.
Here's the thing. Yes, we didn't consider the discounted AP deal as a big factor when we first bought
DVC in 2006. We didn't buy an AP for a few years. BUT we only did 1 WDW trip a year and we bought 5 day hoppers (wanna say $300-ish). We'd do a week long trip with 2 non-park days. We began adding on points once we began buying the AP/PAP...with them we'd do several trips (like 3) for 14 days total and hit the parks every day...2 parks a day most of the time...eating a TS meal 1-2 times a day (more so 2 times a day as of late). Like others have mentioned, we don't feel the need to go into a park and conquer it ALL in 1 day since we go so often. We can do very little but we always spend tons of money on dining (DH and I just went for 3 nights and spent $700+ at WDW alone...not counting airfare or parking at airport).
The 4day/4park thing doesn't work for us. I see they have to be used within 14 days of 1st use and you CANNOT repeat parks. We will not buy 4 or 5 day hoppers 3 times a year. We could do 2 trips and get the 4day/4park thing but we prefer to be in Epcot nearly every day and it would stink for us to have to do all 4 parks and not get into Epcot more. We could do 1 trip and get the 5 day hopper but we would NOT do that twice in a year (not at $388 a pop...like another poster said, we can do about $500/year for ticketing...that's our threshold). We might sell some points or rent them. We would do 1 WDW trip and 1 HHI trip each year and go back to cruising. We'd also spend a lot more time at US. WDW would lose OUR money. Sure, someone will buy our pints and fill our DVC room...but will they be folks who spend like we do...will they be once a year families or 3 times a year like us????? Will points keep selling like they are as the multiple trips a year folks stop going multiple times a year...will DVC be able to sell so many to once a year families (which I would think would be the new buyer and not existing add on buyers)????
Yeah, not happy to lose the AP discount...unless they offer the special PAP deal every year-year and a half. We have added on 2 contracts every year since 2012 (6 add ons to our original that we bought in 2006) and was looking to continue. We will put a freeze on our addonitis for now.
ETA: after looking at
point charts, this is what I'd do: book a (just 1 per year) 10 night stay for F&W or F&G in a 1BR. We'd likely get the 4day/4park deal and then go to US for 2 days. We'd eat at US and off site (eat at the WDW parks the 4 days we go). That would eat up most of our points (if we went in Jan, we could do maybe 14 nights). We'd also do 5 nights in a 1BR at HHI in early June or Sept. I'd think this will save us some money and maybe give us some new experiences (we have only been to US twice and have never really eaten off site). Jeesh, this thing has me kinda fixated.
Bill
