OK, Dec UY, yeah so you need to book something through Nov 30 of this year or bank them by July 31. If you bank the points you can use them any time between Dec 2012 - Nov 30, 2012. That's why I suggested you call MS. You can book VGC anywhere up to Nov. 11 of this year (7 months). You might think about your pre Thanksgiving trip. MS can tell you if there is any availability between now and 7 months.
You will feel so luxurious in a one bedroom! The jacuzzi tub, all the space, the two bathrooms, the washer and dryer. I can't wait for you to stay there!
I was considering the pre Thanksgiving trip, but DH wants to go somewhere in the Summer. Last night, he kept looking online at the Intrawest Resorts in Palm Desert and San Francisco. The only way we could do VGC during August is
if he gets the new job that's available here in Tulare. He turned in his application and is waiting for the call back for an interview. If he gets it, that means his Summer is extended by about 2 1/2 weeks. If not, he goes back to work on July 27, so no VGC for us.
Congratulations, how exciting!! Those are very attractive incentives too..I wish I could get DH to go for DVC. I working on him LOL.
Thank you! The funny thing is, I didn't push DH whatsoever, to make this purchase. We've been thinking about DVC for a long time, but always thought it was going to be too much of a dent in our pocketbook each month. Turns out, we were pretty wrong. Perhaps a DVC tour is something you two should do together when you're in WDW one day. Will give him an idea of how flexible it can be, plus you'll probably get some FP's out of it
Congratulations on your DVC purchase
We bought into DVC last year and it was just soooooo exciting when we finally did it
Just think of all the amazing family trips you have to look forward to
Thank you! We are both very excited that we did it. DH moreso I think...he talks about it all the time when he gets home like, "Okay, we really need to start planning our trips now." etc.
Congrats on becoming a DVC member. We had looked into a couple of months ago.
Gina I hope you guys will one day!
WOW!!
I wish I was a member, what sort of incentive did they offer you? Maybe I should sigh up for a meeting this coming november. Are you a member in Cali of the world?
EDIT: So I guess I should have finished reading, but can you tell me more about it, in a PM if you don't want to put numbers up here. I have always thought of buying in, more as a late since we seem to be going every 1-2 years now. Should have bought in back in 2004 like I wanted before the stock market crashed ::sigh::
The incentive that was offered was giving us an additional 160 points for the year 2011. The other incentive was only paying for 140 point contract but getting 160 points for the life of the contract. Or you could do 100 points and get 110 or 120 point contract, etc, etc. It was a great offer, IMO.
They need a down payment (10%) of the contract (a little under $20,000) and you're able to finance the loan for 10 years. After the 10 years are up on the loan, you just pay for maintenance fees, which comes out to about $1,000 a year.
Recently, yes.. it has been very expensive to go to Hawaii. There are low seasonal months to go like May, Sept or October. January through April are pretty popular because one the snow birds want to get away from winter and 2 it is whale season. Also, the summer holidays and school breaks are also expensive times to fly. Somethings you can do to lower cost of air flights are to fly during the week and not a FRI, SAT or SUN. If you can fly Alaskan Airlines they have a credit card where they give you a coupon for buy one flight and get one free. The card is about $75 a year but totally worth it for the free flight. We mostly use points to fly. I have the American Express Starwood card. We own on Maui at Starwood so, we go yearly if not twice a year. Anyways, my dh owns his own business so we make a lot of work purchases on the card and get points that way. I know the average person can't rack up as many points as we can but it is helpful to start earning them. So, definitely sign up for frequent flyer miles on whatever airline you fly. We love Hawaii and have been going forever. It is one of those vacation spots where you go and do nothing. My kids even look forward to it where you just hang out on the beach, snorkel and watch sunsets. Sometimes other vacations are just too much go-go-go. Good luck.. If I think of anything else. I'll let you know.
Wow, sometimes twice a year?! That would be nice. You must rack up some major points with the cards. I have a Southwest card (was able to get 2 free roundtrip flights last year) so we've been using the card for every purchase we make including paying bills so we can get points to go to WDW or PA to visit my grandmother, but it seems like it's taking forever!
Congrats on buying DVC! We've considered it but haven't taken the plunge yet. DH would love AKV though, so maybe in the future!
Thank you! We both have always wanted to stay at AKL, so now we're thrilled that we get to call it 'home'
And we were given 16 additional Fast passes to use at the parks! What a fine time to be pregnant since the only FP rides i'm able to go on are Soarin' and Roger Rabbit LOL
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of course i'm joking but wondering if we did go in January, do we take the baby or not...
