DVC Questions

[dylan0511]

Hello-We are seriously considering a DVC membership within the next year or so, but have a few questions.

1) Do we always have to stay at the "home resort"? For example, if I buy 200 points at the WL villas, am I stuck going there every trip? Or can I apply those 200 points to any hotel?
2) Where are the points charts for non-DVC hotels? I can't locate them anywhere on the web.

Thanks in advance!

 

[RickEff]

1) Nope. However, you can book your home resort up to 11 months out. Any other DVC property it's only 7 months.

2) I've liberated the following from the DVC Member website.

 

[dylan0511]

This is perfect.

Thanks!

 

[dylan0511]

One more question if anyone can help...
What is the discount that DVC members receive on Annual passes?

Thanks

 

[slappy magoo]

Do we always have to stay at the "home resort"? For example, if I buy 200 points at the WL villas, am I stuck going there every trip? Or can I apply those 200 points to any hotel?

Thanks in advance!

Something to ponder-I don't think you'll have any way of buying points for the Villas at Wilderness Lodge direct from Disney. Right now, DVC is directly only selling points for the Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa (points for the Animal Kingdom Lodge might be comng soon) You'll be buying points someone else originally bought, and is now putting up for resale, probably through a company like The Timeshare Store, which sponsors this prt of the forum. It's not a big deal at all, except that there will be extra fees that you might not have to pay for if you were buying points directly from DVC. I'm only bringing it up in case, say, you have your heart set on buying Wilderness Lodge points, and you call up DVC asking for them. You'd have to buy those from a reseller, OR buy Saratoga Springs points from DVC. The advantage from buying Saratoga Springs points is that they expire a decade later than points from any other home resort.

 

[wherewhy]

One more question if anyone can help...
What is the discount that DVC members receive on Annual passes?

Thanks

100 dollars off any AP for anyone living in your household.

 

[DisneyPhD]

Something to ponder-I don't think you'll have any way of buying points for the Villas at Wilderness Lodge direct from Disney. Right now, DVC is directly only selling points for the Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa (points for the Animal Kingdom Lodge might be comng soon) You'll be buying points someone else originally bought, and is now putting up for resale, probably through a company like The Timeshare Store, which sponsors this prt of the forum. It's not a big deal at all, except that there will be extra fees that you might not have to pay for if you were buying points directly from DVC. I'm only bringing it up in case, say, you have your heart set on buying Wilderness Lodge points, and you call up DVC asking for them. You'd have to buy those from a reseller, OR buy Saratoga Springs points from DVC. The advantage from buying Saratoga Springs points is that they expire a decade later than points from any other home resort.

You can buy any resort through Disney. Disney gets first choice of any resale and then can resell it to anyone they want at their price. The more popular (and smaller) resorts like BCV and VWL typically have waitlists which can have you waiting as long as 6 to 9 months to get your contract. The only one you can get a deal on right now is SSR. The closing costs are much less going through Disney and some contracts Disney pays all closing costs.

 

[slappy magoo]

You can buy any resort through Disney. Disney gets first choice of any resale and then can resell it to anyone they want at their price. The more popular (and smaller) resorts like BCV and VWL typically have waitlists which can have you waiting as long as 6 to 9 months to get your contract. The only one you can get a deal on right now is SSR. The closing costs are much less going through Disney and some contracts Disney pays all closing costs.

OK, so I wasn't 100% right, but I think you might be wrong about one thing...when it comes to resales, DVC doesn't get first choice of resale as you put it, so much as a right of first refusal. In other words, The Timeshare Store is filled with people reselling their points without DVC intervening. But if someone who wanted to unload their points fast (or wanted to give a friend or family a big discount on points they intended to sell), DVC reserves the right to say "nuh-uh, too cheap" and buy them themselves. It helps prevent DVC from looking like a bad investment by keeping the costs higher. But if they find your sell price to be not too insulting to the DVC brand, they won't get in the way of an outside source selling them.

 

[DisneyPhD]

OK, so I wasn't 100% right, but I think you might be wrong about one thing...when it comes to resales, DVC doesn't get first choice of resale as you put it, so much as a right of first refusal. In other words, The Timeshare Store is filled with people reselling their points without DVC intervening. But if someone who wanted to unload their points fast (or wanted to give a friend or family a big discount on points they intended to sell), DVC reserves the right to say "nuh-uh, too cheap" and buy them themselves. It helps prevent DVC from looking like a bad investment by keeping the costs higher. But if they find your sell price to be not too insulting to the DVC brand, they won't get in the way of an outside source selling them.

Sorry, I thought that was what I said. All resale contracts have to go to DVC. If they want it, they will take it and the buyer has to find another contract. If the price is too high or there isn't a demand for it then DVC will let the sale go through without intervening, but as you said, they get first crack.:wave: