Psychological traps of DVC

[ShaneDJ]

This is the biggest thing we gained... The sense of a forced vacation, a respite from the world for that one week where we can connect as a family, know the hotel bill is already paid, and just enjoy each other's company. It is a really special feeling...

The perceived psychological traps may be dumbed down to feelings of joy, happiness, and fulfillment. I have never had a bad trip to Disney.

When we're there, we're having our best times. It brings me a great deal of fulfillment that my wife and I's hard work has allowed us the financial freedom to continue to invest more of our money into experiences and memories with our kids. I don't feel trapped psychologically at all.

As others have mentioned… it is the forced vacation. We used to always put off vacation. It just seemed frivolous. Honestly, we were kind of tense and miserable. Now all we do is vacation. We go somewhere pretty much every two months. I don’t know what has happened to us, but wasting a lot of money on dvc has made us really happy. It’s made it so that we don’t have an option anymore. We have to vacation.

So for us dvc has relieved us of the psychological pressure of deciding to vacation.

Love these comments! They resonated with us.

Before we owned DVC, I dreaded thinking about the massive hotel bill from WDW stays (and we've stayed on hotel rack rates at Value, Moderate, and Deluxe WDW properties). I never liked the trip planning due to the stress of money "wasted" in on-property stays.

Now owning DVC, I'm excited about the future stays with our points! It's exciting owning DVC points and thinking about how we might use them. Makes planning future trips fun!

Before DVC, there was no way that I would ever pay cash rates to stay at the Copper Creek Cabins or the crazy beautiful Riviera 3-bedroom Grand Villa. But now we've had wonderful, amazing family experiences at these insanely priced room types. We won't spend that many points often, but we also will never go back to just a studio.

DVC ownership has made our vacation planning fun again, and we are still excited about owning DVC points.

 

[Cfabar1]

Love these comments! They resonated with us.

Before we owned DVC, I dreaded thinking about the massive hotel bill from WDW stays (and we've stayed on hotel rack rates at Value, Moderate, and Deluxe WDW properties). I never liked the trip planning due to the stress of money "wasted" in on-property stays.

Now owning DVC, I'm excited about the future stays with our points! It's exciting owning DVC points and thinking about how we might use them. Makes planning future trips fun!

Before DVC, there was no way that I would ever pay cash rates to stay at the Copper Creek Cabins or the crazy beautiful Riviera 3-bedroom Grand Villa. But now we've had wonderful, amazing family experiences at these insanely priced room types. We won't spend that many points often, but we also will never go back to just a studio.

DVC ownership has made our vacation planning fun again, and we are still excited about owning DVC points.

Another thing... a couple years in... it has "uncomplicated" our vacations.... Having fewer options, and knowing there are repercussions like holding, etc. has made it easier to just book the trip and forget about it and not worry and stress about rebooking our vacations ad nauseam in hopes of "getting it right".

 

[atthebeachclub]

Another thing... a couple years in... it has "uncomplicated" our vacations.... Having fewer options, and knowing there are repercussions like holding, etc. has made it easier to just book the trip and forget about it and not worry and stress about rebooking our vacations ad nauseam in hopes of "getting it right".

This is it for me too. After kids and after one of my parents died and the other sold my childhood home, I stopped vacationing at all (we used to go visit my parents and stay with them as our only vacation destination).

It was too complex and difficult to deal with kids and my schedule (which requires PTO requests over 8 months in advance). But I can do a DVC vacation. I love it. It’s simple. It’s fun. It gets us out of arctic type weather. We all enjoy it. And I can bring my own parent (the one remaining). The predictability is a huge plus for me.