DVC Chit Chat Thread

[AstroBlasters]

Saw this in PDX today….

 

[Wedgeout]

Saw this in PDX today…. View attachment 1073132

Fun promotion for a SNA flight. Even cooler if one of the skinned Disney planes pulls up to C10 this morning.

 

[DVC Gma]

Have you seen the 1500 pointer out there for sale?? California Dreaming here.......

 

[VGCgroupie]

Have you seen the 1500 pointer out there for sale?? California Dreaming here.......

Yep. No amount of Disney math makes it work. And I can usually justify anything with Disney math.

 

[AstroBlasters]

Yep. No amount of Disney math makes it work. And I can usually justify anything with Disney math.

Yeah…. this is why I never support the “well if a direct buyer bought it then it must have made sense for their situation” argument.

Resale restrictions and renting restrictions obliterate the value here.

 

[Tatebeck]

Yeah if it was a huge contract at an O14 resort I could see someone making it work. But at a restricted resort . Ouch.

 

[AstroBlasters]

GeoTrackers

 

[kilik64]

And even IF you were buying that many points, why do it in only 1 large contract? Even 500 splits would be easier to MAYBE sell.

Any additional closing cost etc would be almost immaterial at that amount...

 

[IsDVCForMe?]

People who had or now have young school age children - what use year do you feel would be best and why? I’m thinking August as it will allow one summer month, the holidays, and early spring. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

 

[Flash_Sloth]

1500 resale restricted points in a studio-heavy resort. If you crudely say 150 points for a week in a studio, that would be 10 weeks. And annual dues of 15k, and TOT of another 4.5k. I'm not that baller yet, and even if I were able to afford it, DW would divorce me. She already thinks that I overdo WDW/DLR trips.

I suspect the original buyer was eyeballing those grand villas with that many points.

 

[kilik64]

People who had or now have young school age children - what use year do you feel would be best and why? I’m thinking August as it will allow one summer month, the holidays, and early spring. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

It mostly wont matter in the end, and your kids wont be in school forever.

 

[tx911]

1500 resale restricted points in a studio-heavy resort. If you crudely say 150 points for a week in a studio, that would be 10 weeks. And annual dues of 15k, and TOT of another 4.5k. I'm not that baller yet, and even if I were able to afford it, DW would divorce me. She already thinks that I overdo WDW/DLR trips.

I suspect the original buyer was eyeballing those grand villas with that many points.

Almost as effective at initiating divorce proceedings as having an affair, and the expiration date on an affair is much sooner.

 

[tx911]

It mostly wont matter in the end, and your kids wont be in school forever.

I agree, I wouldn't choose UY based on school-aged kids

 

[kilik64]

1500 resale restricted points in a studio-heavy resort. If you crudely say 150 points for a week in a studio, that would be 10 weeks. And annual dues of 15k, and TOT of another 4.5k. I'm not that baller yet, and even if I were able to afford it, DW would divorce me. She already thinks that I overdo WDW/DLR trips.

I suspect the original buyer was eyeballing those grand villas with that many points.

Ive not kept up, but wasnt only like 1 GV declared so far and there are only 2 total?

 

[Flash_Sloth]

People who had or now have young school age children - what use year do you feel would be best and why? I’m thinking August as it will allow one summer month, the holidays, and early spring. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

August will be blazingly hot in WDW; I'm assuming you're looking at WDW area. August UY has a March 31 banking deadline. If you also consider canceling 31+ days in advance to avoid points going into holding, that somewhat extends trips into April. I think that it seems like Aug could be a good choice if you generally avoid May-July trips.

 

[IsDVCForMe?]

August will be blazingly hot in WDW; I'm assuming you're looking at WDW area. August UY has a March 31 banking deadline. If you also consider canceling 31+ days in advance to avoid points going into holding, that somewhat extends trips into April. I think that it seems like Aug could be a good choice if you generally avoid May-July trips.

Excuse my ignorance, but please explain the holding part. I never really understood and really just wanted to avoid it.

 

[Flash_Sloth]

Ive not kept up, but wasnt only like 1 GV declared so far and there are only 2 total?

I think you're correct. 1 is used for tours and is not declared into inventory, and the other 1 is declared into inventory and it is an accessible room, if I remember right. Kinda stinks if more than 1 owner wants to book it over popular holidays, but I guess that's what fixed week contracts are for. Well, I take that back. If there are only 2 grand villas, then 1 of them is 50%, and that's higher than their percentage of maximum allowed FW contracts for a room/villa type for a week. (30% or 35%; I forget exact number.)

 

[kilik64]

Excuse my ignorance, but please explain the holding part. I never really understood and really just wanted to avoid it.

https://disneyvacationclub.disney.go.com/faq/holding-account/definition

Pretty good rundown actually.

 

[Flash_Sloth]

Excuse my ignorance, but please explain the holding part. I never really understood and really just wanted to avoid it.

If you cancel a reservation 30 days or less before check-in, the points for that reservation go into "holding". Those points can only be used to book something up to 60 days in advance. As you can imagine, availability will be fairly limited that soon to check-in. I don't think that holding points can be banked (can somebody please confirm?).

So theoretically, if you have an Aug UY, and you have a reservation beginning April 28, you could cancel that reservation on March 28 and bank those points just a few minutes before your banking deadline at midnight on March 31. But if you cancel it April 1 or later, they go into holding AND you are past your banking deadline. You'll have to try to book something within 60 days and before the end of your UY.

Another theoretical, if you have an Aug UY, and you have a reservation beginning Aug 2, if you cancel that between July 3 - Aug 1, those points go into holding. You'll have pretty much your entire UY to find something available within 60 days to use those holding points.

 

[Disdreaming479]

People who had or now have young school age children - what use year do you feel would be best and why? I’m thinking August as it will allow one summer month, the holidays, and early spring. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

We traveled as a family during Jan (end of winter break + skip 2 days of school), March spring break, and June. Our school district starts in Aug and ends late May or early June if we have snow make up days.
December Uy is where most of my points are because I still want to travel mostly Jan- May or June. Some day I want to go during the holidays but not yet. I do have BLT Aug uy for potential holiday party trips.
Edit- the university has an extended winter break so we can travel after the marathon week, which is a great time to go also.