WDW Radio Show Disney Podcast #61 - April 6, 2008 - Page 4

DaveH · 04-14-2008, 05:42 PM

kretzcr DVC has seasons like the regular resorts. The timing of DVC's is different. By law they have so many points per resort per year and can not change that. Other than changing dates for Easter and Christmas and such the points value for each type room for that season usually doesn't change. I was told by folks who first started with DVC, the weekend and weekdays points were the same. To even out the usage DVC increased Friday and Saturday night stays and lowered the others. I do not know if the Boardwalk Villas started with Boardwalk view and preferred categories. Both of those are higher than standard view rooms. When we joined in 2001 we bought 150 points at The Villas at Wilderness Lodge, in the lowest point season we could get about 10 days in a studio. In high season we could get about 5 to 7. OKW uses the least amount of points followed by SSR. If you price the room at rack rate for when we stayed we got our room value at around 7 years on initial cost. After that we look at it as we get our lodging for the cost of maintenance fees. Our 2001 points we bought came out to about $5 to $7 per point for each point we got every year of our contract. We still have to pay maintenance fees on them. I am long winded sorry. I hope this helps.

goin2okw · 04-15-2008, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by kretzcr

Well, if the points for stays are fixed and can not be changed by Disney, it doesn't sound like a rip-off. Wether its a good deal or not...i dunno.

For you guys who are members, does Disney give you free or cheap stuff for listening to their sales pitches like other timeshare companies. Like a cheap stay at resort or tickets or something. I love to take advantage of those things, of course, I can never sign anything because I go in there with two broken arms .

Don't know what they are doing now, we got a family picture and make your own ice cream sundaes at the initial visit. we did get the free passes mentioned earlier once we joined "back in the day".

Biggest difference - there is No Pressure in the Disney Pitch... you are free to leave at any time, no strong arm tactics like what we experienced at other timeshares

KINGCRAB · 08-12-2008, 06:35 PM

Actually, Darkwing still makes appearances for meet-and-greets at random in WDW, specifically at the Toontown Teardrop (the dead end-like area next to the Mickey's Toontown Fair train station) in the Magic Kingdom, but his appearances are EXTREMELY rare.

08-12-2008, 06:35 PM	#48
KINGCRAB Annual Passholder Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,343	Regarding Darkwing Duck Actually, Darkwing still makes appearances for meet-and-greets at random in WDW, specifically at the Toontown Teardrop (the dead end-like area next to the Mickey's Toontown Fair train station) in the Magic Kingdom, but his appearances are EXTREMELY rare.

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04-14-2008, 05:42 PM	#46
DaveH A-Ticket holder Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Sterling, VA Posts: 21	kretzcr DVC has seasons like the regular resorts. The timing of DVC's is different. By law they have so many points per resort per year and can not change that. Other than changing dates for Easter and Christmas and such the points value for each type room for that season usually doesn't change. I was told by folks who first started with DVC, the weekend and weekdays points were the same. To even out the usage DVC increased Friday and Saturday night stays and lowered the others. I do not know if the Boardwalk Villas started with Boardwalk view and preferred categories. Both of those are higher than standard view rooms. When we joined in 2001 we bought 150 points at The Villas at Wilderness Lodge, in the lowest point season we could get about 10 days in a studio. In high season we could get about 5 to 7. OKW uses the least amount of points followed by SSR. If you price the room at rack rate for when we stayed we got our room value at around 7 years on initial cost. After that we look at it as we get our lodging for the cost of maintenance fees. Our 2001 points we bought came out to about $5 to $7 per point for each point we got every year of our contract. We still have to pay maintenance fees on them. I am long winded sorry. I hope this helps.