OT-We are DVC Members!

[TexasCourt]

Ok, ok, I know this is not totally wedding-related, although now we will be using our points to stay at the Beach Club for our honeymoon , but my fiancee and I are officially members at the Beach Club Villas! I have wanted this for sooo long! I am so excited!!!

 

[Glorydaz]

congrats and "welcome home" ....we've been DVC members since February of last year and we love it!! we have 250 points at SSR but have also stayed at the Boardwalk. thanks to DVC, we now visit 2 to 3 times per year and it's still not enough!!

my DF and I are using some of our points to stay 3 nights at GF concierge for our DisneyMoon!!!

Michelle

 

[D&R love Disney]

Congratulations and Welcome Home! We joined 1 1/2 years ago, bought at SSR and love being members.

 

[myprincessgirlisa]

I wish DH would let me join

Congrats & Enjoy....your so lucky!!!!

 

[Swmhc]

Congratulations ! My DF hs been a DVC member for ten years (of which I have benefited since I met him). We have discussed possibly buying more points in the future though, because we always seem to use them up sooo fast. This year it is taking care of all of our lodging needs for the wedding, so it makes it even easier to justify the wedding expense when we can say, "well, we would already spend XXX for flights, meals, etc.. for our annual trip anyway." And the lodging is "free" so go for it !

 

[kmab00]

That's fantastic! DH and I are looking into it for the future...we haven't made a final decision as to when...but hopefully soon!!

 

[KT27]

Congrats & Welcome Home!

We joined while aboard Disney's Magic at SSR in December!

 

[Tabetha]

Welcome home! I bought in last year in a fit of Disney Melancholy, and I hope to put up as many people as I can when we finally have our Disney Wedding...

 

[SorcerersApprentice]

Congratulations! We joined in 2000. By banking and borrowing, we were able to accomodate all of our guests at our VR at OKW. May you have many happy years enjoying it!

Mary

 

[TexasCourt]

Thanks everyone! I am super excited about it!

 

[imnotaprincess]

I absolutely love DVC and DF and I joined last September at Saratoga, then did an add on while on the cruise in November!

It's going to come in handy next year with the weddings. We banked a ton of our developer points and are going to give our attendants their first two nights as a thank you for traveling to be apart of our day.

DVC rocks! So far it's a big part of our wedding, because we used points to stay at the Hotel Del Coronado where DF proposed.

 

[DisneyFairy19]

CONGRATULATIONS... HOW EXCITING

 

[karentan]

i'm curious about how DVC works, how much money do you normally spend? do you have to pay every year? how many points do you get/how many do you need to use per night?
thanks

 

[kmab00]

i'm curious about how DVC works, how much money do you normally spend? do you have to pay every year? how many points do you get/how many do you need to use per night?
thanks

We are kinda hesitant about joining because we are unsure of the same things! I even ordered the video from DVC and I STILL don't understand! How much money is each point worth?? How many points do you need for say a 7 night stay??? I'm just confused!!!!

 

[zalansky]

Congrats & welcome home! We're SSR members but have stayed at Boardwalk twice, SSR twice, Wilderness Lodge once and we have a week booked at Beach Club this Sept. We LOVE it.

 

[jodeeluvsdisney]

Yay for you becoming a DVC member! I too am very jealous of all DVC members! It sounds great, but I admit, like others that it seems very confusing, and from what I did understand from reading online, it sounds EXPENSIVE!!

We thought about joining for wedding purposes, but just not sure it is worth the $$. Hope others receive better info about it.

 

[zalansky]

We think of the DVC as pre-paying for vacations in better Disney accomodations. In my mind, there is no saving money or breaking even.

When you buy DVC you buy a set amount of points. We have 200. When you buy, you have a "use year" and ours is August....which means that every year in August, we are credited 200 DVC points. Then you can use those points to book rooms based on a point chart. The points are based on room size (studio, one, two bedroom or grand villa) - the bigger the room, the more points it will cost you. Also the time of year affects the amount of points as does days of the week. You'll use alot more points to stay on a Friday or Saturday night than you will on a Sun - Thurs night. There are higher seasons (think Easter, summer, Xmas) and lower seasons when the points will be less too. Here is a link to a chart to give you more an idea: http://www.wdwinfo.com/disney-vacation-club/DVCpoints.shtml

Right now I think DVC new sales at SSR and/or AK are going for about $101 per point. We bought in for $86 per point. I wish we'd bought years ago when it was even less. So you do the math on what we spent. The cost does not end there. We also have to pay membership dues which run about $800 a year. Every year, and that is subject to increases if DVC sees fit.
So its not exactly cheap, but it is well worth it for some people - like us. But we're probably a little older than most of the posters on this board!

I should mention that points can be traded out with other timeshares, but we've not done this yet. On the DVC board, people say it is hard to do and that DVC should be purchased with Disney stays primarily in mind. I am no expert in that dept!

I hope that explains it a little bit to some who asked. I am not the best at explaining things!

 

[kmab00]

THANK YOU!! That makes much more sense now!!!

 

[Laurafoster]

congrats!!

 

[Tink143]

Congratulations! My DF bought DVC with his first wife in 1999, and got it in the divorce...Woo Hoo!
Anyways, we have stayed there together 2 times for long weekends, and at the end of this month for a whole week. Our home resort is Boardwalk, which we've never stayed there, but since we're getting married at SBP next March it works perfect, because we are using our points for our families to stay Sun. night - Wed. night - works out good because we could make our reservations for them 11 months out.

Just another side note, you can stay at ANY DVC resort using your points - but you can only make reservations 7 months out, instead of 11 with your home resort. 50 of our points are at Vero Beach (which were cheaper at the time) but it's causing us to have to wait 3 more months to make OUR wedding reservations.
Oh! You can also bank your points, say for example you have a baby, and like me aren't too keen on going while pregnant, or just post pregnant! You can save up your points to use I think you are allowed to bank 3 years worth of points, and can borrow a year ahead as well.

Anyways, Congrats on y'alls "investment"...I know it will bring you years of enjoyment now and when y'all have babies!