newfangled
Mouseketeer
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A few years ago we purchased a DVC contract with Wilderness Lodge Villas as our home resort. We sold a couple of years later for various reasons.
I don't want to buy again only to regret it. Our stay at Beach Club that Christmas was really terrible (I think they started refurbishing the next spring). AKL wasn't much better, and although we never did get to stay at our home resort, I wasn't hearing good things on the boards at the time about WLV either). I was starting to think that our DVC rooms, while roomier, felt dirtier and more out-of-date as a whole. Anyone know if the refurb cycle is less frequent or the same as deluxe resorts?
And for those that used to stay in deluxe resorts regularly before buying DVC....do you miss staying in places like in the atrium at the Contemporary or closer to the volcano pool at the Poly?
Thanks for the feedback!
- As Florida residents we wanted to be more spontaneous with our visits...yet stay "where we wanted". That was hard to do using points.
- We had a string of bad luck, like our weekend family gathering in a grand villa booking being ruined because the room went down for maintenance (the day before the trip!), and we needed to change our Christmastime at Wilderness Lodge plan because of the construction for the new additions - Beach Club at Christmas just wasn't the same)
- We started to feel like the DVC areas were the most distant to other resort activities....was it exclusive or just shoved off to the side?
- The value of our points had increased with the announcement of the expansion, so we actually made a profit - effectively resulting in 3 free vacation stays over the course of our ownership....given our other issues this made the decision somewhat easy.
- Finally....and the reason for this post. We felt our DVC stays ended up in rooms that were not kept up to date as diligently as normal deluxe resorts.
I don't want to buy again only to regret it. Our stay at Beach Club that Christmas was really terrible (I think they started refurbishing the next spring). AKL wasn't much better, and although we never did get to stay at our home resort, I wasn't hearing good things on the boards at the time about WLV either). I was starting to think that our DVC rooms, while roomier, felt dirtier and more out-of-date as a whole. Anyone know if the refurb cycle is less frequent or the same as deluxe resorts?
And for those that used to stay in deluxe resorts regularly before buying DVC....do you miss staying in places like in the atrium at the Contemporary or closer to the volcano pool at the Poly?
Thanks for the feedback!