So that's $10,000 upfront and another $400 in dues each year for two nights. That's what I don't understand, and I'm asking genuinely and not trying to knock anyone who bought RIV. It's just that with the high point cost, the high point requirement, and the high dues, I don't really understand what the allure is. There's clearly a line of thinking that I just don't see. Compare that to the fact that I recently booked two weekend stays during Food and Wine at the Swan for $250 a night, taxes and resort fee included. I booked each of these stays only two weeks in advance. I've been able to do this multiple years in a row so I don't think one can say it's a small sample size. Compare that to DVC studios that have to be booked 10-11 months in advance and it would take 30 years of these stays to cost what a RIV contract would set me back in the form of purchase price and dues.
Again, my problem is not with DVC. My problem is with the cost structures. They just don't make sense to me. And maybe that's it. Maybe DVC has become something that you buy for the love of buying it, and not because it makes sense financially. If that's the case, that signals a huge paradigm shift: one that I am not on board with.