It’s the same for any DVC member who doesn’t live n Florida. It’s a sore point for the majority of DVC members.
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I understand wanting to be out, and I understand the frustration with the lack of APs. But "stay for free (or the nominal cost of dues) for a couple of weeks in a place that's 80 degrees when home is 20 degrees" will always have value for me, even if they shuttered all four theme parks tomorrow.Suggesting you sell points, on the open Market. DVC degradation is approaching "peak zero value".
We've deeded our major contract to our children - free. I'm not sure why they wanted it, but they did, and they are in their 40's.
Our minor 30 point contract? SOLD. And we got a fairly nice price for it
We are thankfully OUT of this entire thing - before it totally collapses.
How do they know those figures though? It’s a huge talking point on Disney forums like this. I guess it depends on what you deem “not that high”. My (totally random) guess is 5-10k. Could be double that, who knows?
I don't think these forums are a representative sample, even among DVC owners.
I have been told that this problem doesn't impact a significant number of members to warrant any changes since APs will return this year anyways. This decision was also based on the original plan to resume AP sales this past December; which clearly was cancelled.
Yeah, exactly. I'd imagine most members here probably need an AP.
I agree 100% that they should have had a DVC AP of some kind.
It would just make so much sense. If they are concerned about Florida residents using their AP as a local would and negatively impacting attendance, a DVC specific AP for use only with eligible resort stays would solve that completely.
We’re in a similar boat (no fourth baby though!) of having passes that are about to expire. We’re DVC, but the points this coming year are being used on a trip to Aulani. And my sister wants to plan a big family trip over Christmas in a couple years, which will mean needing to bank some points. They already borrowed some of 2024 points for the Aulani trip. So we’re not coming down again for a couple years. Which means renewing our passes would be just to hold them. And I don’t have that kind of extra money laying around. But Disney has planted this seed now where I have to think “but what if we can’t get passes again when we want them…?
We were in the same boat in 2020. We had 2 cruises booked with only a few resort days at WDW planned, so we let our APs expire. Well, then COVID hit, both cruises ended up being cancelled, and we had no APs. We ended up having to pay a lot more for regular park tickets to visit. When the APs went back on sale, we immediately bought them, and just renewed a few weeks ago. We are saving for a house, so we may skip our normal 2 trips next year, but we may still bite the bullet and renew next year just in case we decide to visit anyway. It's only the 2 of use, and we have the Sorcerers Pass. We don't go during the blackout periods anyway, so no reason to buy the IncrediPass.
Yeah we have the sorcerers pass too. I don’t want to renew because I don’t think we’ll make it down this year, but I’ll be kicking myself if they don’t bring them back
That's us for next year, but we will, in all likelehood, renew anyway, just in case we decide to make a trip down there.
