Stupid for joining DVC !!!

[Donald Duck 57]

Hi All,
We know this topic has been covered before but we needed to vent. We are sick and tired of friends and family knocking us for joining DVC. They just can't understand why ANYONE would want to go to Disney World year after year. Duh, hello it's only the BEST place on earth to vacation. We try and explain to them that we DVC'ers LOVE going there and that's not are only option for travel but they still don't get it. So fellow DVC'ers lets sound off so we can print this out and show them that there are ALOT of us out there. Thanks

 

[jade1]

We are right with you, but we actualy have been suprised with the Royal Sands Cancun (160 points at spring break, 1 BR for a full week) and Grand Timber Lodge CO (208 poiints 2BR entire week-summer). No need to justisfy DVC (just for WDW is well worth it) but these trades are pretty good also in our opinion-I'm sure there are more examples.

 

[todsue99]

Well, Donald I do not know about you, but most DVC'ers like to go to Disney more than just once a year. LOL.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

1) Forget about trying to justify to your friends/relatives.
2) Simply say that this is the place your prefer to visit.
3) We get the same questions, and use this answer ALWAYS.

4) I have had people persist in questioning, and I firmly say something like, "Everyone has choices, and this is just our choice. I am sure others make their own choices, and I do not question their selection.)

 

[Chuck S]

Well, then call me stupid

We've always enjoyed vacationing at WDW annually - I grew up near DisneyLAND and have been a Disney fan since I was young.

We always stayed on-site, so DVC was a no-brainer when OKW opened. While we have MANY trade options available to us, we have not taken advantage of any of them yet. What DVC has done, is allowed us to visit WDW 2 to 3 times per year for the cost of one week at a Delux resort. However, if friends and family don't "see the magic" of Disney, they'll never "get it."

 

[KyBill]

OK Donald Duck.

We joined in 1998 at OKW. We are retired and have kids and grandkids.
We have a good lifelong friend who told us a couple years ago that she couldn't imagine why we would go to DW all the time. This past January we invited her and her DH for three nights in a 2 BR at OKW. Her DH told us that that was the best three days he has spent in a long time.
Now we are returning with them this Nov in a 2 BR at OKW for four days at the W and F festival at Epcot.
Other friends have said "what do you do at DW". It's hard to explain the magic of OKW 2 BR, the secrets of the theme parks and the world class resorts and very good restaurants.

 

[Scott H]

We get the same questions and response from some family and a few friends.

Look at it this way,

If you have to explain WDW and DVC, they just will not understand WDW and DVC.

Their loss.

 

[disneyberry]

Originally posted by TheRustyScupper
1) Forget about trying to justify to your friends/relatives.
2) Simply say that this is the place your prefer to visit.
3) We get the same questions, and use this answer ALWAYS.
4) I have had people persist in questioning, and I firmly say something like, "Everyone has choices, and this is just our choice. I am sure others make their own choices, and I do not question their selection.)

ditto.

many people choose to go to the same vacation spot over and over again, year after year.
whether it's a ranch in Arizona, a casino resort in the Caribbean, a cabin in the Hamptons, or a beach house at the Jersey Shore, etc. it's really not our place to question them.
so why is it okay for them to question us?

 

[caverill]

We live in Minnesota and go pretty much every February.

After getting tired of explaining to people why we enjoying going to WDW, I finally found an answer that doesn't get questioned.

Instead of telling them we are going to WDW, I just tell them Florida. Since Florida in February is nicer then Minnesota in February, I rarely get additional questions.

It is not my problem that they just don't understand the attraction to WDW...I see this as their problem, not mine .

 

[crisi]

I've been known to tell people its a golf resort....

(I'm also from Minnesota and there are lots of people here who pack up every weekend in the summer and head up to their cabin - I don't get that. Lots of people around here hunt - don't get that. People go skiing every year - don't get that. My in-laws go to Italy as often as we go to Disney - I've been to Italy and you have to drag me back. To each their own. Isn't it nice that you aren't clogging up their favorite vacation spot.)

 

[Granny]

I've heard it put well on these boards, and it echoes the sentiment expressed by Scott H:

Those who "get it" will not question your decision to go to WDW often.

Those who "don't get it".....never will. They just won't understand the attraction.

So it's a question that has no answer.

We enjoy everything that Orlando has to offer. WDW, Busch Gardens, Sea World, Kennedy Space Center....and great weather. Some see it as a mass of humanity to be avoided.

So did we....so we joined DVC.

 

[LUVDVC]

Finally, I'm among friends.

We don't even tell everyone about our vacations anymore. We realize that if others don't feel the magic, our descriptions of Disney vacations isn't going to be the solution to their problems. We've also decided that there are people who can't ever be happy no matter where you put them, so they can't possibly understand or connect to our excitement and satisfaction as we share highlights of these magical moments. You've got to feel sorry for these people. But those bewildered and blank looks do kind of put a wedge between you and the "non-believers."

 

[mamarobin24]

Right after my father was diagnosed with cancer in 1998, we all went to WDW (Contemporary) for a week. Prepared us for the next two years by bringing us together as a family. This was kind of a return of sorts, since I also grew up near DisneyLAND, and always felt like it was home.

After my mother was finally settled in her nursing home and my sister and I could stop using all our vacation time traveling to MA to care for her, we went back to WDW this past Feb. (PR and the Wonder). We took my BIL, my sister, her two small (ages 3 and 4.5) children, my spouse, our housemate, our two large (ages 12 and 14.5) children, and had a PHENOMENAL time. Everyone had fun. Including our housemate's parents (ages 70 and 72), who met us there.

I usually tell people WDW is always changing, always growing, and there's no end to what you can do, or not do (as sitting around by the geyser is one of our favorite occupations). And then there's the rest of Orlando.

good luck with the convincing. If they can't take a joke . . .

 

[Maxwell]

Those who knock are jealous!

 

[yesdisneyfool]

Let them keep knocking, we won't answer because we're in Disney having the most magical time ever.

 

[jimmytammy]

My brother USED to ask me all the time "Why do yall go to Disneyworld so much"? Then I turned the tables and asked him why he and his wife go to the mountains so much? That took care of that. Find something they really enjoy doing, then ask them why they like to do that particular thing so much, when they answer, tell them you enjoy WDW as much if not more than they do there thing they enjoy so much. It helps to turn the table back to them without being rude. It becomes an eye openning experience.

 

[dbond]

We get that same question all the time, which is so surprising to me because where we live in Texas, EVERYONE, goes somewhere to get away and they all have their favorites. No one questions the people that go skiing in CO every year, or rent a beach house on the Gulf every summer, or Cancun every spring break, or Annual Thanksgiving trips to NYC Christmas shopping, or have a lake house that they go to every weekend, or the husband's golf trip that he takes every year or the wife's annual spa trip. I can't tell you how many times close friends and family have said the word "AGAIN?" to us. It's a puzzle to me, I'll never understand it.

 

[jaysue]

These people just do not understand - too darn cynical - give me WDW or VB anyday over lying on a beach......

thanks
jaysue

 

[CK1]

When my sister joind in '92, we thought, "She's nuts." I mean, we all loved Disney, yes, but a permanent investment in it? She and her fam of 4 lived in Florida at the time, though, so we reasoned it out that, for them, they could probably make use of the accommodations. But for the average person -- no, DVC was a scam. Big investment, with a themepark payback, and Disney raking in the dough.

And then my dh and I got married. And on a visit to WDW, she loaned us some points for OKW... wow, nice place, we agreed. And then we had kids. And we took the kids to WDW, again thanks to my sister. And so it was that one rainy afternoon, dh and I said, hey, let's go tour BWV -- it said on the TV they would come and pick us up! It was just meant to be "for fun"... and 205 points and 3 years later, it still is!!

Seeing is the only believing, but even then -- like Dr. Phil sez, you either get it or you don't. We didn't, but sure do now, and gee, we don't even live in Florida!!

Cindy

 

[mitcam]

We figured out it is the only way we can -


Year (1)
Rented Points paid cash for family of 4 on DCL cat 11!- will include meals, entertainment and enough profit from rental for our shore excursions!

Year (2)
- Go to WDW at least 1x/yr (studio)
- Girls golf weekend (studio) (our friends are treated! FREE! (THEY GET IT!
- Guys golf weekend (studio) (guys pay for hubby's golf - (what a deal! (THEY TOTALLY GET IT!)

Without having exact numbers, I can tell you this, if I were paying out of pocket for just the first 2 years we would be looking at close to $10,000! If that doesn't sum it up for them, "THEY WILL NEVER GET IT"