Psychological traps of DVC

[GrumpyInPhilly]

Talking about wrong “bones”, I stayed at an SSR 1BR beginning of october, and have to point out the unusual nexus of doors to the bathroom to and from the living room to and from the bedroom to and from the bathroom. IIRC, BCV, BWV, and VB all have this three door oddity!

Yeah, I'm pretty used to it by now seeing as BCV & SSR are my homes.

 

[Lumpy1106]

The DVC magic band sliders are kinda clunky though. I don't think we'll use ours.

I took one of my daughter's hairbands, looped it over a couple of times, rolled it onto one end of the MB, fastened the MB, rolled it back over the place where the two ends came together - bingo! You've got yourself a flawless slider. If you've got a daughter with long hair you know those hairbands multiply like rabbits anyway - might as well use one for good.

 

[bakerworld]

Personally, I think we largely avoided the DVC Psychological traps. Maybe because we bought when we were older. We've never been big on souvenirs and we've never been park commandos. We've been enjoying WDW since the 70's. We took the 80's off because it was beyond me to lug anyone in diapers on a plane and around a park.

The 90's we hit the ground running. We had family planning meetings and the kids were well aware of expected behavior. I enjoyed mousekeeping making beds, vacuuming, providing coffee and extra pillows. DH said I would start smiling when we entered WDW and didn't stop until a few days after we were home. We looked into the Vacation Club when it arrived and it wasn't in our budgeting means. Every few years I'd look again. When our eldest joined the College Program we finally stayed at OKW and we were glad not to have joined there - just not for us. Then 9 years later we were finally seeing the end College and I dragged DH into the DVC BW Open House. We started out with the 'then' minimum of 160 and have added small contracts over the years so we're up to 345. Considering DVC doubled the points as part of the incentive back then, we're about where the guide thought we should be but with three Homes versus one. Now we're retired and coming to the end of our WDW vacations so we told the kids we're planning to sell in 2028. Suddenly, they didn't want us to sell so this year we added our daughters onto our contracts. They'll both be in their late 60's when the contracts finish so the timing works.

We have enjoyed our DVC villas. Our ideal locations and park habits have changed over the last 17 years but we still are amazed by DVC. DVC let us return to our Polynesian 1970 roots. I know our youngest can't wait to return to a Fort Wilderness cabin, which was our 90's destinations until the 'wild Indian' stage deceased. One of our homes is the Beach Club, which girls loved in their 20's. There's nothing quite like a girls trip in a studio villa - hanging by the pool during the day and enjoying the WS or Disney Springs or a monorail bar crawl at night. I'm sure there will be a Gondola crawl in their future.