How did you get seriously interested in DVC?

[heathpack]

Do you like the Hyatt in Carmel? I love Carmel and am rather partial to Hyatt as well!

The Hyatt in Carmel aka Hyatt Highlands Inn is lovely and the staff is great. However the Hyatt timeshare system has changed a lot and now is one to avoid. I didn’t mention this in my post, but if I thought Hyatt was still worth owning.i still own it. This has nothing to do with the properties themselves, though. If you’re thinking of going as a non-owner, I’d give it 4-5 stars out of 5!

 

[bakerworld]

We are walkers. On vacation we like to park the car and not get back in until it is time to go home. We also like to feel 'safe' walking. When we discovered the BC we discovered Disney was this type of a vacation. SOLD. (There is, of course, a lot more to the story but that is the basics.)

 

[DVCyore]

Read about it and watched some videos out of interest before going to WDW for the first time. A matter of months before my first (solo!) trip to WDW I starting dating someone who is a DVC member, so after my first trip I started thinking about DVC more seriously. It would be cool to bring the same amount of points “to the table” so to speak.

 

[Minniemoo15]

Resale as well made it a real possibility for us. We did a low pressure tour, went home and researched resale more , then dove in. My parents also bought in at the same time and it has brought us so many years of vacations and memories.

 

[Spivey378]

Picture of Goofy with one ear up and the caption “Disney’s best kept secret.”

 

[Massachusetts]

We first heard about DVC in 2000 when my sister got married. She and her then husband at the time were considering it but their lives got complicated pretty shortly thereafter. We also had friends whose family had DVC and one of my cousins also had DVC. Did not think much of it for us until after our first trip with our son in 2008. Then we started doing research. Finally pulled the trigger in 2013 with a 100 VGF point direct contract. We figured that it would hold its value pretty well while we tested out how much use it provided based on our travel patterns. We found our selves renting from David's for almost every trip. Over the years our family grew to 5 and there is always a grandparent or 2 or a sister or a niece or a nephew that wants to go so we picked up a bunch of resale BWV and BLT in 2024. No regrets!

 

[Frederic Civish]

At a park kiosk?
At a resort?
From another member?
Doing your own research?

For 15 years, I passed those kiosks thinking it was beyond my reach and really having no clue how it worked. Discovering resale really open things up for me, for several reasons.

Obviously, the official DVC infomercials and kiosks never really drew me in.

I had owned time share, on and off, for many years, but I didn't get interested in DVC until I stayed at a DVC Resort, Jambo, by using a 'trade in' from RCI. I was blown away by the resort, the club and realized that I had really been missing something.

After that I almost immediately turned around and bought 325 Poly points, direct. I used the initial purchase points to stay at Grand Californian, and it was still one of my best vacations ever.

And then I went even farther and bought another 700 points or so on the resale market.

I have a large family and we stay at Disney 6 or 7 different times a year, between all of us.

It also was great enough that my wife's sister and her kids bought some, and then one of my daughters also bought some of her own DVC.

Everybody wants more. It has been a great investment. The only problem, of course, is the cost to buy more, which keeps going up and up.

 

[VGCgroupie]

I had owned time share, on and off, for many years, but I didn't get interested in DVC until I stayed at a DVC Resort, Jambo, by using a 'trade in' from RCI. I was blown away by the resort, the club and realized that I had really been missing something.

After that I almost immediately turned around and bought 325 Poly points, direct. I used the initial purchase points to stay at Grand Californian, and it was still one of my best vacations ever.

And then I went even farther and bought another 700 points or so on the resale market.

I have a large family and we stay at Disney 6 or 7 different times a year, between all of us.

It also was great enough that my wife's sister and her kids bought some, and then one of my daughters also bought some of her own DVC.

Everybody wants more. It has been a great investment. The only problem, of course, is the cost to buy more, which keeps going up and up.

Use some of your rental profits to offset the costs going up and up.

THE IRONY....

Like how do you come on here saying you want to buy more points and woah is me they are charging more fees and accusing DVC of breaking rules and clearly rent your your points which may in fact break rules. Also you get paid for transfers which is a violation of your contract.