If someone bought Old Key West during its initial offering, they would be at under $50 per point. For $5,000 plus some fees and taxes, they'd have 50 years of vacations.
You're bitter lol. We deserve to be treated as the cream of the crop and should have the red carpet rolled out for us every time we set foot on property. If that means some "poor" family doesn't get an exclusive lounge, so be it. This "attraction" has always been a huge waste of space, so good riddance. Keep seething.
What if I told you there are rumors that regular resort guests are being contacted by DVC representatives prior to their check-in date, attempting to sell them on DVC? Not something I've confirmed personally, so grain of salt and all.
The discounts today have cut that by 20% for a new buyer of 150 points at OKW. That is a pretty big discount - and an interesting move given it has over 30 years left.
How much would that lump sum investment have earned in a decently performing investment account over that time?
So it didn't make sense for a family of 6 to buy into DVC in the mid-2000's? Because paying cash for 2 standard rooms every time they'd go was a better deal?
There's too many variables on either side to calculate. What I can say is that if you had a young family who enjoys going to Disney each year or more, DVC was an excellent investment.
You see why “guaranteeing payment now for a resort visit in the future” provides an awful incentive for a company, right?So it didn't make sense for a family of 6 to buy into DVC in the mid-2000's? Because paying cash for 2 standard rooms every time they'd go was a better deal?
Seriously. Stop throwing your personal grievances against DVC onto everyone who bought it. No one bought it as an investment (and if they did, that was their own stupidity). It was positioned, quite correctly, as 'paying now for deluxe rooms into the future'. The value has dropped as they have jacked prices up through the roof, but those who bought in in the first 15 years of its existence more than got their money's worth out of it.
No, it isn't and you can literally make that same ridiculous claim with just about anything.
I'd hardly consider the themed, detailed interactive shooting gallery the same as a bass pro shooting gallery. Fox Noltes recent book had a fantastic chapter on the shoot gallery history.
Details do matter. The overall experience is greater than the sum of its parts. Remove the details and the overall experience suffers. But that doesn't matter, I guess I'll just go to Bass Pro Shops to get that experience now, right?
Yeah our guide (this was more than 10 years ago) told us the person who came up with the free APs for DVC when it first started got fired lol, clearly too good of a deal
It's not a rumor it's true.
Tell you what, folks who want to invest in DVC can invest in DVC and folks who want to grumble about it online can grumble about it online.
Yeah and they get free LL or something if they go check out a model unit, but they aren't forced to do that and they aren't heavily pressured to buy anything. Unless that's changed, it was the most casual thing more than 10 years ago. I'll admit I haven't done any of the sales stuff recently, we just get the rare phone call from the same guide we had when we bought.
Did you go specifically for the shooting range? There's still guns on Tom Sawyer's Island