1) Holy Cow.
2) Up to $850 per year MORE in fees.
3) Not the total.
4) That is additional.
Sounds like a lot, but if I'm reading the newspaper article correctly, that additional $850 in mf w/b based on an 2 bedroom ocean view room for a week in peak season. Looking at the Aulani
points charts, that comes to 595 points! At the $120/point cost (when I bought) that's $71,400!
I wonder how many of those contracts they will be writing, or if people will do whet I did and buy enough to go there every 3 years by banking/borrowing (and certainly NOT to a 2 bedroom, either).
On the other hand, the lower range from the article (studio in slowest time) is 175 points, or $21,000. Again, that's assuming people are buying enough points to cover a trip there each year. You don't even need that many points for an every other year or every third year trip.
Of course this is my perspective since it's what I did, but going to Hawaii is not cheap, and for a lot of people might well be less of an annual (or more frequent) destination than WDW or DLR. So I could see more contracts with fewer points.
But anyway you slice it, this was certainly a black eye for
DVC.
