How much is added in tax to a room cost for DVC members if paying rack rate?

[poggs]

Phew. Bit of a title that!

I am planning to stay sunday 25th nov to friday 7th dec @ BCV and use DVC points for the ten cheap week days, paying cash for the one weekend. I know I can get a 25% discount but how much is added on in tax and other sundry expenses? here in the uk everything must be advertised at tax inclusive prices. I phoned up MS to ask them, but after much humming and hawing, they didn't know! they thought it was 6% in tax plus some other fees they didnt know.

Now, putting aside the obvious problems with MS not knowing how much they charge to rent a room Does anyone here know how much is added in tax to the 25% discounted price to enable to work out if its worth it to remain on site for the weekend or not?

I havent yet decided whether to remain at BCV or try and swap to VWL or AKV or split stay yet. I do have the 10 days at the bcv already confirmed though.

thanks

 

[tiggercrew]

I think the resort tax is 12.5% but maybe others can chime in with additional info.

Enjoy your trip!

 

[drusba]

It is the usual resort (sales) tax applicable to hotels in the area in general and that Disney charges for all its hotels. At all DVC resorts other than the new AKV it is 12.5% of the room rental charge. At AKV, when the ability to rent becomes available (and that may not be possible for November), it will be 13% (AKL/AKV is in a different county than the others, and that county has an additional 1/2% in tax).

 

[castleri]

Phew. Bit of a title that!

I am planning to stay sunday 25th nov to friday 7th dec @ BCV and use DVC points for the ten cheap week days, paying cash for the one weekend. I know I can get a 25% discount but how much is added on in tax and other sundry expenses? here in the uk everything must be advertised at tax inclusive prices. I phoned up MS to ask them, but after much humming and hawing, they didn't know! they thought it was 6% in tax plus some other fees they didnt know.

Now, putting aside the obvious problems with MS not knowing how much they charge to rent a room Does anyone here know how much is added in tax to the 25% discounted price to enable to work out if its worth it to remain on site for the weekend or not?

I havent yet decided whether to remain at BCV or try and swap to VWL or AKV or split stay yet. I do have the 10 days at the bcv already confirmed though.

thanks

I was recently quoted $309 as regular price for studio at OKW which then becme $347 with the tax. There was no discount available for the day I was looking for. We opted to stay off site during the Christmas week because I was able to get a room for two nights for a total of $123. It wasn't fancy but did have a coffee maker and frig and we checked in Friday late afternoon and out again early Sunday morning. Saturday we spent at Typhoon Lagoon and Downtown Disney before shopping at Walmart and eating at a Dennys offsite. Depending on the size unit you need you could save quite a bit by being offsite. I checked some of the internet sites such as Hotel Kingdom and Hotels.com until I found something that worked for us. You might also want to check with DU on this board as they frequently have rates for the Swan/Dolhpin or DTD hotel plaza hotels that might work for you.

 

[Caskbill]

And you might look for the taxes to go up considerable. My understanding is that Florida is looking closely at reducing property taxes and making up for it with higher sales taxes.

 

[richardsa98]

And you might look for the taxes to go up considerable. My understanding is that Florida is looking closely at reducing property taxes and making up for it with higher sales taxes.

That is interesting! Does that mean our maintenance fees will drop since a portion of that is property taxes

 

[drusba]

If property taxes actually dropped, yes.

Now, the chances of that really happening are (fill in zero or any negative percentage number).

Even if a reduction occurs in tax rates, actual taxes usually don't go down -- for example, you can easily get an increase in the assessed value of the property which can actually raise the taxes even if the rates go down. Where I currently live I have had two supposed tax reductions over the years which just happened to coincide with reassessments of our property value and the net effect was that my taxes went up about 8% each time.