I wasn't looking for anything in particular, I was more curious to know if they did anything "special" for DVC guests. I don't know, maybe a little bit of preferential treatment?. All in all, it seems like a good deal, but I need to look into it a bit further. I need to know how the points work when used at a non "DVC" resort. I always stay at the caribbean beach resort. I honestly do not want to stay at any other resort.
Thanks,
Mike
"1WDWFAN"
Eh, it'd be hard to offer preferential treatment for DVC members, first of all because there's really no way of knowing who's a member - not until the tattoo becomes mandatory. Even if you are staying at a DVC resort, you could be renting the room from WDW like any resort room, or you may have rented an actual DVC member's points.
And I mean this without trying to sound obnoxious at all. If Carribbean is the only place you want to stay, then DVC is not for you. Resorts that are either all DVC rooms or have a DVC wing, those rooms have assigned point values depending on room size, time of year, weekday or weekend, I'm sure you know all of this. But for resorts that aren't DVC or don't have DVC wings, you may still use your points, but not at any sort of money-saving rate.
Put it this way: Many DVC members will rent their points out if they know they can't use them one year. Nowadays, most people tend to get 11 bucks a point. If you're not a DVC member, renting points is an inexpensive way to get a great room at WDW, in a DVC resort, but if you tried to use those rented points to stay at the Carribbean, it would cost you about as much as paying WDW for the room in cash. Same is true for any moderate resort, or any deluxe that doesn't have a DVC wing like the Poly or the Yacht Club, or even the NON-DVC parts of Deluxe resorts with a DVC wing, like Wilderness Lodge. Plus, the point values at non-DVC resorts aren't fixed. At a DVC resort, if the point value for one type of room goes up for one day or season, it has to be balanced out by going down for another day or season. But all the other resorts, the point values can, and will, go up. It'll cost you 140 points to stay for a week in the Carribbean 1st week in December. THIS year. They haven't released what the point values will be next year, yet, possibly because they haven't determined what the rates for the rooms in cash will be for next year yet. If the room rates go up at a moderate, point values will go up. But not at a DVC resort. That same 140 points would let you stay at a Studio in the Boardwalk from 11/30 through 12/11, a much longer vacation, in a much nicer resort. It would get you the first 10 nights in December in a studio at the Animal Kingdom, WITH a Savannah view.
So, if you have no intention of staying anywhere other than the Carribbean, save your money.
