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If you haven't bought already I'm pretty sure the minimum number of points in your first contract if buying direct is 100. If you're trying to do at least 150 direct, personally I would just keep them all at the same resort for simplicity sake. Poly is too point heavy of a resort to have just a 75 pointer IMO. We bough
For us, we own resale at AUL and AKV. We own direct at RIV and Poly. I typically will try and burn the resale points first, especially the AKV points. I find myself using the home resort priority at AKV the least currently. AUL we actually do use the home resort priority somewhat regularly so we if we have a AUL trip c
For what it's worth, I think you made the right choice. Personally I don't like how with Lakeshore Lodge you aren't buying deeded real estate and Disney can raise the number of points in a unit over time. I also do think in the long term Riviera will be more difficult to book than LSL simply because of how large of a r
People unfortunately do trash the rooms. Looking at the 1 and 2BRs at Riviera that have that weird lock. People can't seem to figure them out so they end yanking the door with it still locked to the point where it has stripped out the strike plate. I had maintenance try and drill it back into the door and it still didn
It's not a bad idea particularly if there's somewhere you were already planning on buying that needs home resort priority and is hard to find in your use year. Sometimes it's worth it to just pay for the premium for direct over waiting for a resale in your use year. Plus like you said this would let you scope out poten
We use a sorcerer pass as were locals and go every week. When were blocked out during the holidays we use our Universal pass but since this is our last full year in Florida we wont be renewing our Universal passes as dont go regularly enough. Going forward we will probably be here twice a year so its debatable if the p
Found out the hard way that the mint tea they serve at the passholder lounge is not the same as the one they serve at Spice Road 😭
Didn't they give out free mint tea one of the years for the passholder lounge? That would convince me 1000% to go to that lounge instead of the DVC lounge but without it I'm not really interested. But yeah, agreed on the dining discounts being for the full week. They probably don't want us locals going on the weekends
My unpopular DVC opinion as I've made aware on other forums for anyone who knows me is we hate OKW. The only thing we like about it is the size of the rooms and I'm grateful to it for starting DVC. Otherwise though, the rooms are dated, the studio layout is awkward and it's unclear if they'll ever get or if it's even p
Bought direct at Riviera site unseen for 150 points.. it was between that and Grand Floridian but we knew we wanted to hold out for Poly as it's more our vibe but we stayed at RIV and then added another 185 a year and a half later
I think we're finally done. Recently added Poly to the portfolio. Something that I envision potentially happening though is either adding Poly resale down the line or BLT resale and selling off AKV in exchange. Aside from that, it'd take Yacht Club to be converted to DVC or it's 2042 and Beach Club and Boardwalk have b
You will get a better discount on your future direct purchase if you purchase resale first. The upside too is you get to pick your use year when you go resale and when you go to buy direct they will match the use year you bought resale. Compare this to buying direct first and then being limited in which resale contract
You have good taste, just need to add Aulani to that list :P
As above, the beach properties will be sold off, the dues are just too high and will take forever to sell. The reason why there are VB subsidized dues contracts is because they had a hard time selling it and decided to not make the second phase of VB likely because of how hard it was for them to sell. It's an unfortuna
Putting yourself in financial stress is never worth it for a vacation, if resale is what you can do comfortably, then for sure go resale. It's not like direct won't be waiting for you if finances and life allows.
Was this from earlier this year? When the fountains were frozen at WDW that was crazy! Pretty much all of the vegetation in our community died during that time
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