Most Economical Resort - Beyond Year 1

[VGCgroupie]

What are Cabungahouses?

I think Cabins - Bungalows - Treehouses

 

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High point cost accommodations that almost never need home resort priority so you might as well buy the best value SAP/network points you can get to stay in them if that's your goals. Cabins at WL/CCV and Bungalows at Poly fit this bill

I'm sorta in this camp so when I can expand my empire (of points) in the coming decade+ I'll be very tempted to just by very cheap points (dues inclusive) to stay in those.

After the novelty wears off, I think the penthouses at poly will be pretty easy to get seven months as well. May even be the easiest to get.

 

[AstroBlasters]

Thank you so much for this. This is fantastic data and analysis. I'm a numbers person with a finance background and I’m really impressed.

I actually did some modeling and financial analysis myself and came to a similar conclusion, which is why I went with SSR for my first contract a few months ago.

My analysis wasn’t nearly as detailed, but I did calculate NPV, future cash flows versus real-time costs, and ran some ROI scenarios in case I decided to rent or partially rent points in certain years. The results lined up pretty closely with what you found.

Of course, there will always be an emotional factor that can’t be measured in this kind of analysis. But for someone like me, this is exactly the type of insight I look for.

I think SSR has the biggest exit risk of all of the WDW SAP resorts. It also has zero home priority benefit.

 

[VGCgroupie]

I think SSR has the biggest exit risk of all of the WDW SAP resorts. It also has zero home priority benefit.

Yep, thank you for saying what I think is accurate. And now that Ive seen it in person I am so much more in love with my SAP choices of CCV and AUL-S. I bought CCV as SAP even though the upfront was more, and the CCV up front pricing has increased since I bought, I could sell it now and make $$, SSR has declined in value. So happy my very first offer ever at SSR was declined.

 

[AstroBlasters]

Yep, thank you for saying what I think is accurate. And now that Ive seen it in person I am so much more in love with my SAP choices of CCV and AUL-S. I bought CCV as SAP even though the upfront was more and the CCV up front pricing has increased since I bought, I could sell it now and make $$, SSR has declined in value. So happy my very first offer ever at SSR was declined.

It goes back to the “deep value” vs “quality at a reasonable price” debate.

 

[Chili327]

It goes back to the “deep value” vs “quality at a reasonable price” debate.

A lesson some of us have learned the hard way.

 

[Sprinkles&Sprints]

Yep, thank you for saying what I think is accurate. And now that Ive seen it in person I am so much more in love with my SAP choices of CCV and AUL-S. I bought CCV as SAP even though the upfront was more, and the CCV up front pricing has increased since I bought, I could sell it now and make $$, SSR has declined in value. So happy my very first offer ever at SSR was declined.

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I think SSR has the biggest exit risk of all of the WDW SAP resorts. It also has zero home priority benefit.

Vero Beach is probably the biggest exit risk, but it has some home resort priority benefits. Even OKW had the cheap GV that are 11 month only rooms.

I like SSR ( would stay there over OKW/AK ) but I would not buy points - I use my Poly resale as SAP But CCV or BLT might have been a better choice.

 

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Nobody buys VB as SAP. If they are smart enough to know what SAP is they should be smart enough to know VB as SAP is a terrible, no good, very bad idea.

 

[NVDISFamily]

The biggest wildcard is do you want SAP or SAP+ points (+ = direct points to avoid FOMO at future restricted resorts). I wonder how awesome those rooms on the water at revenge of reflections (Lakeshore) will be or other similar expensive to book rooms in future expansion rooms and resort flips (when they rebuild whatever they put at BWV and BCV 2.0 a "few" years from now....).

I do have some regret on not having a big bucket of SAP points but so far my "cheap" Riviera direct points have already been a good buy to get me into some rooms (a few nights in a VDH GV for my sons bday using points that were at least 25% cheaper than VDH direct). A few years from now if I'm lucky to have a chance to buy a big bucket of points at value I'd have a hard choice to make if DVC offers a very good firesale on direct points.