Has moving to Florida changed your DVC habits?

[DVCSunDevil]

For those saying you can’t find a room with short notice… even for one night?

Consecutive nights is expected to be limited. At least with one night, I’d have two full days at the pool.

Good question. I haven’t really looked for last minute rooms before. I did just check to see what was available this weekend (just to see) and there’s literally not one room available in all of DVC. I think it’s one of those things where you would have to stalk.

 

[lexxus379]

For those saying you can’t find a room with short notice… even for one night?

Consecutive nights is expected to be limited. At least with one night, I’d have two full days at the pool.

I think it depends on time of year. We have had no issue getting last minute in Sept., Feb. and even July 4th last year. But I can’t seem to find one for next weekend yet. Just have to stalk and not be picky on resort.

 

[pklein09]

For those saying you can’t find a room with short notice… even for one night?

Consecutive nights is expected to be limited. At least with one night, I’d have two full days at the pool.

Stalking is what got us the rooms we have used for 1 night.

 

[DVC-Don]

We became "Snowbirds" back in 2010. At the time we had 4 DVC contracts spread between VWL and OKW. We sold off 3 of the contracts and kept one OKW contract (sold 2 of them for more than we paid for them). We became full time Floridians 3 years ago and now book 3 to 4 short stays at WDW a year. For example, for 2022 we stayed at OKW in January for 4 days, have a VWL (or whatever its called now) 3 day stay coming up next week and another short OKW stay booked for Sept.

As for AP's we switched to a Silver pass 3 years ago and don't mind the blackout dates.

 

[Emily921]

I am about 2:15 away and I take a lot more shorter trips of 3 nights. I find myself constantly checking the website for availability and booking trips within a month or two. I have already had 4 short trip this year. Headed up for Moonlight Magic this afternoon. I couldn’t get a room though.

 

[corpcomp]

I lived in Orlando 30 years ago and was transferred to Bridgeport, CT with a full 3% increase in salary. AGHHHHH.

For all that time I've been trying to get back to Orlando and bought into DVC as a partial lifeline to sanity 12 years ago. We visited DVC twice a year prior to the pandemic.

Last month after looking at about 50 homes over a three year period with 6 offers on various homes and getting badly beaten, I finally beat 20 others on a townhouse (a perfect example of The Money Pit) and am doing major renovation.

I will now buy a Florida AP at about 1/3 the price of the old gold pass (and Disney getting rid of the DVC AP discount really helped me with buying a house down there), plan to stay 6 times a year at DVC on weekends and also visiting with day trips during holiday periods. - I'm 30 minutes north on I-4 in Longwood and yes I still run my own business.

Going in 3 weeks to supervise renovation and since I don't have furniture in there yet, staying at DVC for the first two nights till I get a bed. I got a room immediately last week via waitlist (like one day later) at the Boardwalk which shocked me.

Now need to stock up on sunscreen.

 

[mac_tlc]

We don’t live in FL full time or even snowbird, but have a house in Lake Nona, about 20 minutes from the Epcot parking lot. We use our points when the kids are there, maybe for a GV. Maybe an isolated 2-day stay For the two of us.

Sometimes the kids may use the points for a more extended stay, they like staying close since they still tend to do 12 hr park days——- those days are gone for us…

We rent the remaining points to cover the maintenance fees. Best thing is being able to get a FL resident AP. Had “silver” and just recently downgraded to ”Pixie” pass. We are not going on weekends anyway so the blackout dates are no big deal. It’s the only way to counter the crazy prices for unrestricted AP’s.

mac_tlc