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Between owning VGF or Riviera, is it more helpful to have home resort priority at VGF or at Riviera? Which is more advantageous and why?
Also to piggy back on your comment at Riv, Standard and Tower are the best luck at getting an Epcot Fireworks View. Most Preferred look at Caribbean beach. I book standard view because of this.Riv for standard anything as well as tower studios.
Great question. If the Polynesian tower is the same association as existing Poly then I am 100% buying points. If it’s a separate association with restricted points then I am extremely unlikely to buy because I already own at existing Poly. I wish I knew the answer to the association question. Because I don’t know, and the summer incentives are so tempting, I’m thinking I should buy Riviera for Epcot/HS access because I will probably buy Riviera if the Poly tower is not the same association. But I also like VGF for the price for unrestricted direct points that would hold their value if I ever decide to sell. Or I can just try to ignore these enticing summer incentives and continue waiting to find out about the polynesian tower association, and possibly miss out on these current great deals for direct pointsSomething else to consider that I didn’t mention in my original post - what are your feelings about the polynesian tower? Is that somewhere you could see yourself staying? Do you like it more than VGF? My ideology behind buying my resorts is to diversify location, I have Aulani- Hawai’i, AKL- AK, RIV- HS/Epcot. I know I’ll be interested in Poly tower and depending on the association will determine if I buy direct vs. resale but because of me knowing I like Poly so much I opted to forego VGF. After I obtain poly down the road I’ll likely end up buying VGC for my California home resort and call it a day. Doing this essentially lets me have 11 month booking priority near any resort I please within reason. Is it necessary? Definitely not. But that diversification is something I took into account when choosing my resorts.
If Poly tower is part of the old association then you're competing with a stack of other owners for rooms in it. No thanks. If it has its own association you're going to have a greater chance of booking there. I'd personally want it to be separate for that reason.I wish I knew the answer to the association question. Because I don’t know, and the summer incentives are so tempting, I’m thinking I should buy Riviera for Epcot/HS access because I will probably buy Riviera if the Poly tower is not the same association. But I also like VGF for the price for unrestricted direct points that would hold their value if I ever decide to sell. Or I can just try to ignore these enticing summer incentives and continue waiting to find out about the polynesian tower association, and possibly miss out on these current great deals for direct points
Based on you already owning Polynesian, why buy VGF next door then? Go buy Riviera and diversify your stay/portfolio. When we split between VGF and Riviera they feel like two entirely separate trips.
We chose VGF as our first contract due to close proximity to Magic Kingdom. We love how easilly it will be to go back and forth between the park and our resort.Between owning VGF or Riviera, is it more helpful to have home resort priority at VGF or at Riviera? Which is more advantageous and why?
If Poly tower is part of the old association then you're competing with a stack of other owners for rooms in it. No thanks.
Could be a problem if you are buying for the 1-2 bedrooms. All the sudden you have all those points that have studios only being really interested in the 1-2 bedrooms making them more difficult to get.I don’t think competing with a stack of owners if it’s all one association will be an issue until the 7-month mark, so not a problem for Poly owners. It will potentially be a problem for non-Poly owners.