VDH as SAP?

[Cfabar1]

I’m considering buying some VDH points once they go on sale. Maybe use them as SAP at WDW to ensure that I can use my points at DL should I ever want to. Does this seem like a crazy idea? It seems to me that DL is the only DVC area that is impossible to use without home resort status. Then again, I live in Florida and am not sure I would ever visit DL… But i bet i could rent!

Maybe wait until a points chart comes out? Hoping that happens soon! Love the resort… have fond memories of staying there in 2013….

 

[intamin]

I’m considering buying some VDH points once they go on sale. Maybe use them as SAP at WDW to ensure that I can use my points at DL should I ever want to. Does this seem like a crazy idea? It seems to me that DL is the only DVC area that is impossible to use without home resort status. Then again, I live in Florida and am not sure I would ever visit DL… But i bet i could rent!

Maybe wait until a points chart comes out? Hoping that happens soon! Love the resort… have fond memories of staying there in 2013….

It’s reasonable to try and use as SAP but I’d still only purchase the amount you actually need for Disneyland. Do not purchase more to take WDW into account. If you purchase more to use as SAP at WDW you might as well buy resale and get the home booking priority and save money. If direct is really important to you bc you want to stay at RIV and newer resorts then buy RIV/VGF. Using your DL points here and there for WDW is totally fine but using them in WDW on a regular basis is just a waste. You’d be paying a premium for no reason on those points.

Purchase some resale SSR/AKV or literally anything else besides VB/HHI and it makes more sense lol

Edit: Just read you’re a FL resident who doesn’t go to DL often.. if that’s the case then just rent the points there if/when you go. Don’t make your home resort a location you don’t plan to regularly visit.

 

[AnnaKristoff2013]

Yeah, this doesn’t make sense. If you don’t go to DL often, buy WDW resale SAP and pay cash to stay at Disneyland, either by renting points, or even just paying rack rates.

 

[AstroBlasters]

Just pay cash if rarely/occasionally go to DL.

 

[Ruttangel]

Kind of depends on how high the dues are whether it’s worth it as SAP

 

[RoseGold]

Why would you buy in a state you don't live in for a place you don't plan to go?

Right now, I wouldn't be buying any timeshare outside of FL. If I were considering this, I would be looking into how California treats timeshares.

I've talked FL residents into buying direct before, but that's a hard sell right now when the bottom is falling out of resale. Resale is in freefall. If you can live with the O14, buying resale points is really tough to pass on right now. I've even considered BW, which I never would have even suggested was a mathematically smart move. As a local, a small cheap resale contract seems pretty smart right about now. And, hey, if you change your mind in a few years, buy RIV3 or whatever is on sale then, and sell your resale contract.

 

[Cfabar1]

Why would you buy in a state you don't live in for a place you don't plan to go?

To be fair, people do this with Aulani, VB and other places all the time.

My thought was right now, the only owners who in practice can book at DL are those who own VGC. There might be some benefit to having the ENTIRE portfolio of DVC available to you. Right now I think VGC is really the only way to do that. Will things change under VDH coming out as well? Maybe?

Not sure I’ll do it, but it is an interesting question. Kind of the opposite of a RIV resale conundrum.

 

[RoseGold]

My thought was right now, the only owners who in practice can book at DL are those who own VGC. There might be some benefit to having the ENTIRE portfolio of DVC available to you. Right now I think VGC is really the only way to do that. Will things change under VDH coming out as well? Maybe?

Sure. But this thread isn't about someone who really wants to book VGC. OP lives in Florida and isn't even planning to go to DL. If OP does go to DL, there are many options that aren't spending five figures in a timeshare in another state.

As OP is local-ish to WDW, buying in CA makes no sense to me.

I have different reasons I wouldn't buy into VB, but that's a whole different issue.

 

[intamin]

To be fair, people do this with Aulani, VB and other places all the time.

My thought was right now, the only owners who in practice can book at DL are those who own VGC. There might be some benefit to having the ENTIRE portfolio of DVC available to you. Right now I think VGC is really the only way to do that. Will things change under VDH coming out as well? Maybe?

Not sure I’ll do it, but it is an interesting question. Kind of the opposite of a RIV resale conundrum.

It can be done doesn’t mean it should be. I wouldn’t recommend someone buy AUL for SAP if they didn’t plan on staying there and wanted to use those points at WDW. I own AUL sub as SAP because I already have a home resort in WDW and at the very least can use that to book 11 months out, I want to go to AUL often but also my family is on the west coast so AUL works out just fine for me. But for someone who doesn’t even plan to go to Cali on a regular basis? I’d strongly recommend against. That 50 point contract that you MAY use every few years at its home resort IMO is less valuable than being able to purchase a contract with likely double or more points at somewhere you know you’ll use it regularly and be able to utilize the 11 month booking window.

I mean at the end of the day, it’s obviously your decision but it’s really not worth. If more people thought like you though and bought VDH to use at WDW it would probably benefit more of us WDW owners because then it gives us more availability at 7 months at VDH so feel free to do whatever you’d like hahah

 

[zavandor]

VGF studios were very very difficult to book and now VGF is one of the few resorts to have availability in September on the night of MM (the others being OKW and SSR). Who knows what will happen when VDH opens. The resort is mostly studios and pods, it might become suddenly very easy to book at 7 months.