Home Resorts

[MaraBelle28]

I am looking into buying DVC and I was wondering what role your home resort really makes in booking reservations. I go to WDW at least 6 times a year and I always stay at either BCV or BWV, so should I wait on a resale for those, or can I book there and never stay at SSR?

Thank you!

 

[iloveokw]

Buy where you want to stay - that way you aren't disappointed.

 

[Mich Mouse]

I was asking this question for a while before we decided to just get on the waitlist and buy BWV. I would not be happy with SSR for every trip, lovely resort, but too spread out, and it just does not have the same ammenities as BWV that we enjoy so much. Everyone advised me here on the DIS to "buy where you want to stay"
I don't know how our guide got us our points so fast, but within a week we had exactly what we wanted at BWV

PM me if you would like more information or our guides name. He is great!

 

[Granny]

I am looking into buying DVC and I was wondering what role your home resort really makes in booking reservations. I go to WDW at least 6 times a year and I always stay at either BCV or BWV, so should I wait on a resale for those, or can I book there and never stay at SSR?

Thank you!

First off, welcome to the DIS Boards!

If you go to WDW that often, it makes me think that perhaps you live relatively close to WDW?

And how many of those trips do you plan out more than 7 months in advance?

If you tend to make a lot of trips that are not pre-planned well in advance, then home resort is meaningless since all points are the same when booking within 7 months of your reservation. At that point, you would probably decide on where to buy based on lower buy-in and annual dues, or perhaps SSR for the extra 12 years.

If you tend to plan your trips farther out, and really want to stay at a particular DVC resort at busy (busy for DVC, not WDW) times of the year, then you would do well to consider buying at the resort you want to stay at the most.

 

[paults]

. I go to WDW at least 6 times a year and I always stay at either BCV or BWV, so should I wait on a resale for those, or can I book there and never stay at SSR?

OK your not a member yet but you stay at BCV/BWV all the time and you go about 6 times a yr.

Are you renting pts for these stays or paying rack rate? If your paying rack rate you should have joined a long time ago.

Going 6 times a yr. you must hit some of the popular times. If you still want these times at BCV/BWV as a member then you should buy at one of them.

 

[Dean]

Whether becoming a member is a good choice for you depends on a number of factors. But specifically it depends on what days of the week and how long you stay. If you're doing mostly long weekends, DVC would never work for you. If you have different visit patterns it might make perfect sense.

 

[Trebor]

I was wondering what role your home resort really makes in booking reservations.

Thank you!

To answer this specific question: at your home resort, you can book a trip 11 months in advance at that resort. For any other resort, you can only book 7 months in advance.

As to what you should do: as others have responded, that really depends on how far in advance you schedule your trips -- if you schedule them (or will be scheduling them) far enough in advance to take advantage of the 11 month window, then you should buy where you want to stay. If not, then it doesn't really matter.

Rob

 

[OneMoreTry]

I am looking into buying DVC and I was wondering what role your home resort really makes in booking reservations. I go to WDW at least 6 times a year and I always stay at either BCV or BWV, so should I wait on a resale for those, or can I book there and never stay at SSR?

Thank you!

If you have to have one of these two then you'd be sorry if you don't buy there.

 

[starbox]

If you are local and those six annual trips are spur-of-the-moment,weekend trips to WDW, you're better off paying cash and using a AAA or AP discount since enough points for six weekends will be very high. In order for owning at BWV or BCV to have any booking advantage, you'll have to reserve more than 7 months in advance.

If you usually call a few weeks or a month or two ahead, you probably will never get BWV or BCV going through DVC - even if you own there and will end up at the larger resorts of OKW or SSR anyway. If lots of weekend BWV trips are important to you and you can't book far in advance, you'll want to continue booking through CRO with cash.

 

[Destination Disney]

Usually everyone says, "Buy where you want to stay". We are DVC and live right outside of Tampa Fl. We own at Vero Beach, but had NEVER had any problem booking OKW, BWV (During F&W), BCV, SSR (2x), and I just booked VWL for March Spring Break. The way I see it if you stay up on the 7 month windows, you should not have any problems. Also, being a Fl. resident an hour and a half away, we are more flexible at to the times we travel by not having to book airfair, etc. So there are a few factors to consider, but we have no problem making ressies and we did not BUY where we AlWAYS want to stay.

 

[MagikMom]

I own at HH and SSR. Besides staying at HH and SSR we have stayed at BCV and BWV. We never had a problem booking at the 7 month window. BUT....we also don't go during the more popular times of the year like christmas and Thanksgiving. If you plan to go during these times then definately buy where you want to stay.

 

[Pluto 2]

i have never had any trouble booking where i wanted to stay. since i have been a dvc member i have been to all 5 dvc resorts at wdw.
i joined dvc in aug2000

in 2001 stayed at bwv
in 2002 stayed at vwl
in 2003 stayed at bcv
in 2004 did not go
in 2005 stayed at ssr
in 2006 stayed at okw

i might of got 2002 and 2003 backwards forgot which one opened first.
but anyway that goes to show you the ease of getting in on the 7 month window.
i own at bwv and ssr.
and never had to go on a wait list.

 

[Deb & Bill]

But if you want the Boardwalk view or the standard view at the BWV, buy BWV. If you want one of the BWV GV, then buy BWV.