staying elsewhere..Help???

[t-bone]

We are in the process of deciding to buy at SSR. Here is the question. Just how easy is it to stay "outside" of a disney property? We have the book with all the places that swap points or whatever it is called, but just how flexible are the other hotels? (for example if we want to go to San Fran. without kids for a few days, do we have a lot of choices or just the 3 hotels listed? We wouldn't need a suite, just a reg. room ) Any info on staying elsewhere will be helpful.. Thanks for all your help. This is a HUGE purchase for us and we want to have all our ducks in a row.!!
Tracey

 

[RobDoc]

The Concierge Collection includes a select number of resorts where points may be used for individual nights. Only the resorts on the list are available for reservations thru MS.

The World Passport Collection will have many options for exchange using Interval International (II) resorts - also available thru MS using DVC points. However, those options are only for stays of 7 nights.

 

[CarolMN]

We are in the process of deciding to buy at SSR. Here is the question. Just how easy is it to stay "outside" of a disney property? We have the book with all the places that swap points or whatever it is called, but just how flexible are the other hotels? (for example if we want to go to San Fran. without kids for a few days, do we have a lot of choices or just the 3 hotels listed? We wouldn't need a suite, just a reg. room ) Any info on staying elsewhere will be helpful.. Thanks for all your help. This is a HUGE purchase for us and we want to have all our ducks in a row.!!
Tracey

FWIW, my advice is not to buy DVC if you anticipate using your membership to stay somewhere besides one of the DVC resorts. Staying elsewhere is relatively easy to do, but it is not very cost effective. Better economically to buy fewer DVC points and pay cash for the non-DVC stays.

DVC is a fairly expensive timeshare -it "locks in" the price of your DVC accomodations, but the cost of the non-DVC options are not locked in. With only a few exceptions, the number of points required to use DVC points for non-DVC stays has increased every year - sometimes significantly!

It's nice to have the option to stay elsewhere once in a while, but if you want to do it on a regular basis, there are less expensive timeshares that will meet that need.

Best wishes-