world passport resorts??

[AreWeThereYet]

Does anyone know how to find the list of world passport resorts on the website now? I was looking but couldn't find it.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks!!

 

[Connears]

I had the same problem last week with "the new and improved site". I e-mailed MS and they told me that portion "will be operational mid-June". I am not impressed with the new site and told them so.
Connears

 

[PamOKW]

That was my first big disappointment with the new site -- no listing of the resorts. The only place to check currently is the supplement guide book (the one with VWL on the cover).

Dean also very kindly provided the following link that he saw on the member site for a brief shining moment. I guess we need to consider it "unofficial" information until Disney puts it up.

Interval Resorts

 

[Kerlynne]

All those resorts on that site, is all part of DVC. If so, then wow! There is a lot! How or even does it work any differently, when you use the other "non" disney resorts?

 

[mbw12]

thanks for that link PamOKW!!!!! I used to get on the member website alomst weekly to check out my options.......but not with the new website. That link you sent is awesome!!!!!
Bobbi

 

[Dean]

Originally posted by Kerlynne
All those resorts on that site, is all part of DVC. If so, then wow! There is a lot! How or even does it work any differently, when you use the other "non" disney resorts?

I think there are more like 400 of the total 1900 plus II resorts. The link goes to an II website where they've linked ONLY the resorts on the DVC exchange list. According to MS, they added 40+ resorts and deleted about 12 though when I went through the 2 lists, I got 63 and 18. The difference could be that some changes had been made several months ago but after the last published list. Most of the additions were for newer top notch resorts like some of the new Marriott's, as well as some very good resorts that recently switched to II such as the Embassy's in HI.

I guess the most notable deletions to me were The Polo Towers and Villa at Polo Towers in LV; Flagship in NJ and La Cabana in Aruba. To me, the most notable addition was just down the road at Marriot's Ocean Pointe in West Palm Beach. It's been open for 4-5 years and since they hadn't added it already, I'd figured they had decided not to due to it's closeness to VB. The most notable deletion with the list last fall was Harborside, a mistake IMO.

 

[Kerlynne]

What I noticed on the site, was it had Hershey Pa hotel. Which is very nice and normally $$. So could a DVc use thier points to stay there then?

 

[Dean]

Originally posted by Kerlynne
What I noticed on the site, was it had Hershey Pa hotel. Which is very nice and normally $$. So could a DVc use thier points to stay there then?

It's not the hotel. It's the "Vacation Club and Resort of Hershey". From what I'm told, it's maybe a mile from the park and decent but not spectacular. So don't start dreaming of those chocolate baths just yet.

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

Originally posted by Dean
Most of the additions were for newer top notch resorts like some of the new Marriott's, as well as some very good resorts that recently switched to II such as the Embassy's in HI.

I'm surprised that Marriott’s Village d’Ile-de-France at Golf Disneyland is not on the list. This Marriott timeshare resort has been open for about a year or so, and it's on Euro Disney SCA property

I've read reports that Marriott has sales desks in the Disneyland Paris hotels, similar to the DVC desks at Walt Disney World hotels. So Marriott and Euro Disney seem to have a close relationship.

Of course, the regular Disneyland Paris hotels are available to DVC members through the Disney Collection. But for families that prefer full-week stays in 2BR condos, it seems to me that Marriott’s Village d’Ile-de-France would be a great option. It would be similar to the Doral Resort in Miami, where DVC members have a choice between the Doral Resort through the Concierge Collection or Marriott's Villas at Doral through the World Passport Collection.

Dean or anyone else... Any thoughts why Marriott’s Village d’Ile-de-France is missing? Is it just too soon? Or is there another explanation?

 

[Dean]

Originally posted by Horace Horsecollar
Dean or anyone else... Any thoughts why Marriott’s Village d’Ile-de-France is missing? Is it just too soon? Or is there another explanation?

Personally, I think it's just too soon. It took that long or longert to add the two new Marriott's in HI.