I am confused. Please explain.

[Mom of 3 Princesses]

OK, Could someone explain or send me to somewhere that I can find out about 'renting' or is it 'buying' club level points? I am confused about what this means, how and who to buy them from and where that means I could get a place at Disney?

 

[Antonia]

Sounds like you are referring to renting points from a Disney Vacation Club member. Some people rent points from a DVC member in order to stay in a vacation club villa.

 

[Mom of 3 Princesses]

oooooooooooooooooooooo.... ok Thank you!

 

[Deb & Bill]

Read the sticky threads at the top of the DVC Rent/Trade Board. You'll need to be logged into the DIS to access that board.

Basically, a member uses their DVC points to make you a reservation. You can't call about or make requests, only the member can do that. You pay them on their terms. It's a deal between you and the member, Disney isn't involved in any way at all.

 

[chalee94]

OK, Could someone explain or send me to somewhere that I can find out about 'renting' or is it 'buying' club level points?

2 separate things:

1) club level is a premium deluxe resort room with concierge service.

2) disney vacation club (DVC) is the disney timeshare - rather than sell fixed weeks, disney broke down ownership into "points." rather than hotel rooms, they are set up as villas...studios are sized like hotel rooms but only come with 1 queen bed and 1 pullout sofabed (except OKW which has 2 queens) and a kitchenette. other than that, the villas are much larger with 1,2 or 3 bedrooms, full kitchens and laundry facilities.

if you are renting DVC pts (a misnomer, you are actually renting a reservation and cannot do anything with the points themselves), there are only a handful of "club level/concierge" villas in AKV-jambo house. so it's very rare to rent DVC to stay "club level."

also, DVC pts are a good deal for staying in a villa - not for staying in a hotel room. so renting DVC to stay at BCV (beach club villas - next to epcot) makes sense...but trying to rent DVC pts to stay at the GF is foolish.

DVC is a timeshare, so housekeeping is on a very reduced schedule. and you are dealing with an individual and not disney, so don't count on a refund if you need to cancel.

here is a thread for learning more about renting DVC:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1669863

here is a link to point charts for the different DVC resorts.

http://www.wdwinfo.com/disney-vacation-club/DVCpoints.shtml

here is more info and a list of all the DVC resorts on the left:

http://allears.net/acc/dvc.htm