DVC in the Caribbean?

[mikayla73]

Another Huricane hotel, great.... Why don't you guys learn your lession. It maybe a fun place to visit but will definately have trouble selling out. Hope they make it small.

Expain the attraction of going to some island in the Caribean over HH or VB? VB has a beach and when it is not flooded is a nice place to visit. The advantage of VB is tha you can drive there from WDW in 2 hours or less.

For me, I agree about HH and VB vs. Carribean, but I have never been a huge fan of the Carribean. Plus a large part of my VB and HH trip is golf, which can't be beat for golf (even VB is pretty good). But I think there is plenty of market for DVC there, and I too would visit occasionally. Give me Hawaii , though, and I might buy.

As for hurricanes, if the threat really bothered people that much, you would't see the huge development along these coasts, with immediate rebuilds after the storms. People want the waterfront too much and don't care (or at least forget in a year). Plus, maybe maintainence fees in a place like Mexico would still be cheap due to cheaper labor?

I agree about the hurricanes, we get them on the coast in the US too so the threat of a hurricane in the Caribbean shouldn't be different.

 

[PamOKW]

I think when/if they go ahead with this offsite development they are going to move out of the "Disney" mindset and go after vacationers of all types. While I'm not big on "the islands" it is a very popular vacation. I mentioned this in passing to some friends and their reaction was "great! there really aren't many family friendly resorts in the Caribbean -- more geared to singles or couples".

 

[tubtruck]

True, but I just don't see a DVC there without a park tie-in or a recreational/resort draw. Besides it would be way to seasonal. I also suspect that when the Brits go on vacation, the want to get the heck off their island. A EuroDisney DVC might work, it has the park and the draw of Paris that would pull Americans too. I think Bermuda would be a good place for the Brits, exotic enough, but their territory.

You would be surpised Bermuda is not a particular popular place for Brits to go, it is almost as far as Florida which after Spain is the second most popular destination. Go to any European holiday resort and you will find large quantities of Brits who are also in the habit of buying both villas outright and timeshares in these places. Euro Disney is also full of Brits though this is often used as a short break rather than a main annual holiday (vacation). During the summer we tend to take foreign holidays that are at least two weeks long and 3 weeks is certainly not uncommon, the UK is the second biggest market for WDW and there are more than twice the number of DVC owners than there are in Canada, in fact only a handfull of individual states have more owners, this is amazing given that we live almost 4500 miles away from the place. One of the main reasons for this IMHO is because we speak the same language unlike our nearest countries, or yours to the south. Disney realise this given the number of commercials on TV for WDW in the UK and the fact that we have a dedicated WDW UK website and booking available in uk pounds and can buy 21 day UK hopper tickets rather than the maximum 10 day magic your way tickets. They recognise our vacation habits are different. Our breaks at WDW also tend to be long for the simple reason of the cost of getting to the place, in our school summer holidays you are unlikely to find a direct flight to Orlando International costing less than the equivelent of $1200 - $1700 per person so the cost of the accomodation for us is actually secondary to the cost of actually getting to the place.That said I can well imagine that a Euro Disney DVC may possibly be on the cards and if ever one does become available the largest majority of it will be bought by British tourists due to the very short travel time from England to France. Personally I would probably buy a few points at a Euro Disney DVC for the odd short break but this would only be for extra trips on top of my one or two annual trips to WDW.

 

[UConnJack]

Of course I was just speaking out of my **** on assumed British travel habits, good to hear it first hand from our fellow British DVC'ers!

 

[UConnJack]

Completely disagree. Cancun is fully developed, nothing left. That would mean buying an existing resort and I don't see them doing that.

Good point.

 

[Happy Birthday Cat]

I agree about the hurricanes, we get them on the coast in the US too so the threat of a hurricane in the Caribbean shouldn't be different.

Some places in the Caribbean aren't in the main line for hurricanes. Take Aruba for example. Now that I think of it, Aruba would be a great place for a DVC.

HBC

 

[Mickmse2002]

Last time I looked, Florida and the Carolina's get hit by a lot of hurricanes. Sure doesn't seem to stop a lot of development. I don't think building in the Caribbean is inherently bad because of the potential for hurricanes.

 

[3DisneyKids]

Hurricanes or not, the Carribbean is a huge vacation destination, so I think this is a real possibility. Plus, again hurricanes or not, it is a year-round destination location. I would go in a heartbeat with a DVC there!

Of course, I would also love NYC, DLRP, UK, Hawaii...see, I'm not picky at all!

 

[DBBN]

NYC and the Caribbean would make us very happy.

I have to admit I could be convinced to purchase at a resort in the Caribbean depending on where the DVC resort was located and the quality of the villas. Without a good location we'll stick with our plans to purchase more points at OKW as it's our preferred resort and we consider it the best value at WDW based on our travels patterns and personal likes and dislikes.

 

[tomandrobin]

Some places in the Caribbean aren't in the main line for hurricanes. Take Aruba for example. Now that I think of it, Aruba would be a great place for a DVC.

HBC

Turks and Caicos also rarely get hit. Putting something in the US Virgin Islands or Puerto Rico would keep it in US territory.

 

[disneymom8589]

We would love a DVC NYC. That would be a great idea and Disney would be able to market a stay along with it's Broadway Plays.

HBC

A DVC in NYC would be awesome!!