Is DVC what you expected?

[CarolA]

Yes, I was not under the illusion that I was buying anything but a place to stay....

So I got what I paid for!

 

[mickeymom629]

Yes, we're happy with our Home away from Home since November 1999! We have been able to stay in places we would never have budgeted for before and I have had an excuse to plan as many WDW vacations as I can!

We've always stayed in 2 bedrooms, so having the washer/dryer and kitchen and 2 bathrooms on Disney property without having to book 2 adjoining rooms has been great.

The AP discount was nice the one time we've been able to use it so far.

We didn't buy with any "perks" in mind, so we are only disappointed when we find out what was (i.e., how they used to include tickets for members' stay). Oh well.

We didn't finance, so we only pay dues. Of course, we've spent more on our membership than I would have paid over the years staying at lower cost places and I wouldn't have spent so much in tickets because we wouldn't have gone so many times, but we have had many magical vacations thanks to DVC membership!

So glad we have been members and only wish we had done it sooner!

 

[rutgers1]

I haven't been a member long enough to really comment, but my only regrets and remaining question marks stem from the fact that I jumped into it on a whim while on an awesome vacation. I believed everything my guide said ("It's a slam dunk!") and only later realized that it is a good deal for some, an ok deal for many, and a bad deal for some too. There are pluses and minuses to everything, but I bought the pluses hook, line and sinker when I went on the tour. I remember leaving that meeting thinking that it would pay for itself in a few years, which it won't. I remember thinking that the perks were going to transform my vacation experience, which they won't.

In the end, I am just happy that I can afford to be part of it and that my family now feels a bit of ownership at our favorite vacation place in the world. Many people I know have a beach house. We can't afford a second home, and we wouldn't necessarily want one at the beach even if we could. Our friends love the beach, but we love Disney. So, for us, the opportunity to own a little piece of the mouse was too good to be true.