Shirt, Eric. Thank you that's it's leading to
what might be one of my answers. I can't see.
Oh, that's a Disneyland shirt. Put the glasses on, Derek, Zoom
in. I did.
I had to. See what he's wearing.
Like Disneyland? What's that?
I've never been there. Y'all are making us look bad
changing shirt shirts all the time.
I know right? And I'm like it's such a pain.
I would have to get up. I would have if I get up now,
I'm gonna have to go bathroom and then I get a messes this
whole thing up and and not doing it.
That is that is because Eric and I are wrestling fans and we care
about the audience. That's that's what we're trying
to we. Got to move that merch though.
Every time you wear a different shirt, that's a different shirt
they buy from the stands. That's just how it works.
Good show. We'll let the.
Audience have a guessing game right now.
Two people in this room are wrestling fans.
One person in this room has a wrestling rink in their house.
You be the judge. Figure it out.
You got 3. 21 Hey. Everybody and welcome to this
week's episode of the BBC Show. I am Your host Paul Krieger,
joined as always by my lovely wife Amy Krieger, Sales
Executive for the BBC Resale Market, Derek de Moore.
Happy can you smell? Wait, so say the other word.
What is the other word? Slobber knocker.
Slobberknocker supposed to go
back go. It's going to be a
Slobberknocker tonight. Hi, Jeff, pretty good.
Hi, Jeff. Hey dudes.
Eric Kersey is going to resign from this this this after after
this episode. Listen, you are my people.
We're talking wrestling. We got we got all types of good
stuff going on here. You're going to Disney and
wrestling is that's when it all collides for me.
That's my that's my peanut butter and chocolate.
Has there ever been like a crossover between Disney and
wrestling? Has that existed?
Do we have time? I I can tell you all about how
WCW was actually filmed at MGM Studios in front.
I mean, you can find this online.
Hulk Hogan signed with WCW at Disney.
MGM in the streets of America. There is so much teasing that
I'm probably gonna do a short series at some point in time on
the history of wrestling and Disney together.
So there's all types there. Yeah.
The. More, you know.
The Dizz and Hers podcast Get Ready Wrestling Edition coming
to you very soon is is your wife going to be sleeping during that
one or is she also a wrestling junkie?
No she's not. She she couldn't name 3
wrestlers but. She.
She she tolerates me, but. I'm not sure, could you name 3
wrestlers? Hulk Hogan did the Rock wrestle.
OK, did. The Rock wrestle before you made
Jumanji, I can't remember. I feel like there's wait wait,
Stone Cold Steve Austin. Wow.
I think I told you this not too long ago.
Good night everybody, but. In middle school I had I had a
friend that didn't have a full wrestling ring in his house, but
had a bunch of mattresses on floor in one room and we would
we would go and and wrestle so. Wow.
Amy's going to divorce me now after that comment, but hey, you
are, you all aren't here to hear about wrestling.
You're here to hear about Disney Vacation Club.
And Amy came up with this week's topic, which is best bucket list
stays for DBC members. So she's got a great list of
things she put together that we'll go through, talk about how
all of these are very special accommodation choices or what we
would consider bucket list stays.
But we're going to go around the room and talk about what are our
bucket list DBC vacation that we would love to.
Take and by bucket list, it's like this is like the ultimate,
you know what I mean? Like if you can dream big even
if you don't have the points for it.
Yeah, points, Points are. Not don't matter like what are
you, where are you going? What are you staying?
What is that accommodation? This is that ultimate getaway.
Derek is now going to ask 25 questions just to make sure that
we do have this. I'm going, Jeff knows I'm going
before we get into it and everyone starts, you know,
talking about their bucket list. I need to know when we do this.
I'm not paying for it, correct? You are not paying for it.
Paying for. It.
Thank you very. Much unlike unlike the table
service that you do have to pay for it a couple episodes ago.
Derek, you know, I'm tired of saying it all the time.
You know, you know who does pay for it key holder vacations and
what are what are those brands? The BBC Resale market, BBC
Rental store. Monera Financial Be our Guest
vacations and unlock magic. That was pretty good.
It was pretty good. We need like some music behind
it though and fireworks so I'm going to get it.
And they get lot of torches to go off on each side.
I'm sure AI can can help me with.
Let me tell you something, if you're out there looking for DBC
points and you think you're going to pay direct $250 a point
where you've gone crazy. We can do the Macho Man Randy
Savage right now. Oh yeah, you.
Guys, did not know you were getting this today.
Do. This for an hour.
Not on my bingo card. Yeah, I remember I have a video
of I was sent a video one time of I think Derek watching
WrestleMania and it was a it was a side of Derek I'd never
experienced in my life. Like I didn't know that I.
Remember that video? Yeah, that is true.
Let me just preface it really, really quickly.
And the reason is when I was growing up, my dad never watched
like football. He never watched baseball.
So the sport that we watched that he used to watch with his
parents was professional wrestling.
So I grew up there in the golden age of the WWF back then with
Hulk Hogan and King Kong Bundy and Andre the Giant, and then it
kind of carried all the way through.
So it's just always been a part of my life because it brings
back memories of that. Was the sport the only sport
that me and my father would talk about and bond with?
Because if I asked, hey, do you want to watch the Super Bowl?
And he'd be like, how many home runs are they going to quit?
Like, you know, he had no idea about anything else other than
wrestling. So that's.
Why? That's super.
Fun.
I feel safer making fun of him. Oh please, you better make fun
of me because that's a stupid. Sport Eric, you now have a
special guest for your for your wrestling episode.
There you go. Perfect.
We got it perfect. All right, so again, the rules
are you're not paying for it. You don't have to worry about
the points. You know, some sort of wrestler
with a lot of money is going to buy you this bucket list trip.
Jeff, where are you headed on your bucket list trip?
The Poly bungalows for sure, just because it's one that I
haven't even seen the inside of. I haven't even like I've, the
closest I've gotten is the beach, like the dock with the
sign that says you can't go any further than this.
That's as close as I've ever gotten, and you're going to see
a theme with this whole show with me.
But I just love them. I think they're so cool.
They're just such a unique idea for Disney that I want to stay
in one really, really badly. OK, well, I, we, we can chime in
because we've stayed in one before.
We have. So we've been very fortunate.
Unfortunately, we didn't really get to enjoy it because we were
really busy that day. We're doing all the D-23 stuff,
but I will say like there are some really cool amenities
you've got, you know, your, your outdoor deck, you're, you're
right there on 7 seas goons. So fireworks, you know, Magic
Kingdom, you can pipe the music and during the day it's playing,
you know, like the Polynesian music from from the resort.
You have a plunge pole right there on your deck, which I'm
not in love with it because I I find them to be cold, but that's
a really neat little like feature and stuff.
But other than that, they're just, they're just fun.
Like you're just, you're over the water and so.
They're not my favorite but like of.
Not my favorite but still very cool but.
Still just so such a cool concept to be right there on,
you know, nowhere else. Are you going to be out in Seven
Seas Lagoon and, you know, have some, have some beautiful views
and just. Yeah, I wish I could yeah.
I would do a full week there like because I don't think, you
know, we, we can't afford more than one night there every three
years. I feel like at this point, so.
Yeah, yeah. So one thing I do want to go
over when everyone comes up with their bucket list if if I have
it is the numbers because it is very interesting to look at.
Like what what is the point cost?
You know what, how many are there?
You know, are they hard to book? So just for the Polynesian
bungalows, I do the lowest to the highest, so there's a
hundred. It starts at 112 points a night
all the way up to 226 points a night.
Very, very, very expensive on points.
There's only 20 in inventory. They're not hard to book though,
because they're so expensive on points.
So you know they are possible to get and then they are one story
1093 square feet. Oh, we're even going square.
Feet. Yeah, I'm.
Giving you all of that deep dive into the facts, What is the
square feet of a wrestling ring? 16 by 16 but I'm not well 16 by
16 is the one I have 20 by 20 is the the pro style.
So you guys do the math there that so you could fix what?
Yeah, you could do quite a few wrestling rings in this
bungalow. And my question is because I've
always I bought, I'm a Poly owner, but I've only stayed in
the studios and the studios always had the most square foot
for the the value at the time. It might be it changed now how
many people can sleep in a bungalow because Jeff.
I should have. Would you take other?
People, would you buy yourself? I mean, it seems to me like with
these everybody. 7. I I would, I would sell it to
this bed to the highest bidder. Bring your points.
Come stay with me. I don't care.
There's the main. Bedroom 7, yeah.
Three beds in the living room. There's two beds, maybe another
pool down. I think it's 77 or 8.
It's a lot, I mean. 882 bedrooms, Bungalows, Sleep 8.
There's another pool down, there's another single sleeper I
think in that second. Bed 8, it's eight.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. One king bed, 1, queen bed 1,
queen size pull down. Oh, the Murphy.
We forgot about the Murphy bed. Yeah, yeah.
So King Bed, Queen bed Murphy, plus that little single pull
down 'cause it has the Electric Water Pageant artwork under it.
And they have that little hammock outside, so maybe you
could sleep. You'd get attacked by bugs.
We'll throw things over to our guest next.
Eric, what is your bucket list Disney vacation for you and the
fan? I think if I'm going to do DVC,
and I've eyeballed this a couple times, I think going to
Disneyland Hotel and and possibly getting one of their
grand villas sounds to me like a really good experience
ultimately, because number one, it's hard to get, especially
unless you own. I don't own over in Disneyland
because maybe I go once every couple years, but it's hard to
stay on property there. It's just difficult to get and
let alone if I'm in my case, I'm bringing, bringing people, I'm
taking to the parks. We're doing all the excursions.
We're we're going to go check out Walt's apartment.
We're going to do anything that you can do to learn more about
the historic park of Disneyland. So like to me, I did get to tour
when we went out there. We stayed at the Disneyland
hotel in like the frontier cap, the one but right next door.
They were selling the Disneyland and that is such a unique,
interesting space. Like I love how they tie into
some of the old classic animations.
I don't know if you guys seen like on the side of the building
they have this like slot like all these different colors kind
of going down and the person explained that is that is from
each individual frame, the main color of each individual frame
for all their classic animated movies.
So it all and it's just like little touches like that
throughout that hotel make it feel really Disney and it's on
the historic like lot of Disneyland and there's not a big
bubble in Disneyland, but that is about as close to a bubble
experience as you can. You don't have to walk by the
guy that, you know, has the macaws and somebody trying to
sell you hot dogs right as you leave the like the archway.
So I think it's it's a it's a it would be an experience that I
would like. Obviously I'm a Walt Disney
World guy, but like, to me, you go to Disneyland every couple
years being an East Coaster, and I think that would be a
wonderful experience that you just can't get, you know, every
day. Yeah, yeah, totally.
Yeah, the Disneyland Hotel is just special in its own right.
The outside, you know, in the main building by the elevators,
they have all those black and white pictures of Walt and the
creation of Disneyland. And there is so much history
there at Trader Sam's is just amazing.
I the monorail water slide, they just do such a great job of, of
keeping the Disneyland theme. I think that's a solid choice.
Yeah. Do you think that that just
makes me wonder, like, do you think it's a myth that I guess
we don't really have a a hotel like that here at Walt Disney
World that like celebrates the history of Walt Disney World?
I guess maybe the contemporary Smidge.
They did better with the Steakhouse 71, like the
Steakhouse 71, if you go into the updated version of it, the
the you feel like you see the opening day stuff.
So but you know, Walt wasn't really, I mean, besides some of
the promotional footage and stuff like he wasn't really here
that much. So like I, I and I and no one, I
love Roy more than anyone, but like no one celebrating Roy like
they did Walt. So I don't know if Roy would get
his own wing of a hotel Eisner. That's the one you you, you work
on. The Eisner, The Eisner Hotel,
that's. Grand Floridian, right?
Yeah, I think so. I guess the argument could be
made that because I've I've heard this and I don't know if
it's actually true or if that's this is just Disney people
making wishes out there in the world.
But right that the Grand Floridian is supposed to be like
Main Street. The Polynesian is supposed to be
Adventureland. Contemporary is supposed to be
Tomorrowland, Fort Wilderness supposed to be Frontierland.
I don't know if that's actually true.
Oh, but it fits. It fits.
That's kind of. Neat.
So the Disneyland, the the grand villa at Disneyland Hotel is one
of the few like on this list that we've not even gotten to
see. And we were supposed to, we were
there on opening day and they had a, you signed up for this
like a tour to see the different rooms.
And what happened was there's only two of them and one was
booked and the other one they didn't have ready yet.
And so it, and so we, they, they had to like pivot and yeah, so
nobody got to see it, but yeah. So, so just some facts about
that. So starting at 96 points a night
all the way up to 204 there. Yeah, there's only two.
So super, super difficult unless you own there, even for owners.
I mean, it's, it's hard to book. They are two stories, 2756
square feet. That is huge.
Yeah, as. Big as my house.
Right, I don't know if you guys have ever seen it, but it's got
like multi tiered balcony. So there's a balcony on the
first level and then there's balconies off of the second
level and then it has a double sided fireplace as well, like
inside, outside. So really, really cool
accommodation. Anyone in the comments, if
you've ever stayed there, let us know what you thought someday.
Like I would love the I would love to try that one.
I'd like to be their friend. If you comment, just befriend
Eric Percy on all social platforms.
I'll be your best friend. Hopefully you like wrestling.
I can provide you wrestling ring support.
You just surprised? Just let me stay in one of those
rooms. Even on the balcony, Probably he
would, yeah. Yes.
Yeah, pitch, pitch A10 on the balcony.
Be fine. Derek, what is your bucket list?
DVC Vacation. Yeah, this was a good one.
So I was going to go originally with the bungalow, like Jeff
said, at the Poly. But then the more I thought
about it and the more I talked with my smarter, better half,
Annie, we decided that if someone else is going to foot
the bill and as we've never even been to this resort, but if
we're going to go with our family of four, that we will
pick the Grand Villa at Aulani. That is what we're picking for a
bucket trip just because A, we've never been.
We've been to Maui, but we've never been to Hawaii.
So we've never seen the resort Aulani.
And if we can get a Grand Villa, we'd also go out there
obviously, and spend time at Aulani, but we'd also go visit
the other islands because we know it's kind of a hike to get
all the way out there. So we're going to go with the
Grand Villa at Aulani. We've seen videos of it.
It looks incredible. Of course, anyone that's ever
been to Aulani and I've heard stories since Aulani opened and
has been on sale, which I believe is for the last 60-4
years, that they love the resort.
I mean, nobody has ever been to Aulani and come back and told me
a story and said, yeah, we went, it was OK.
Nobody has ever said that they come back and go, Oh my God, we
even need to buy more points because we want to be able to go
every other year or once every three years.
So that's what I'm going with. Aulani Grand Villa.
That's a good pick. That was that was near the top.
Of that list, Derek stole mine. But I have, I have two that was
debating so, but that was one of them.
So Derek didn't specify a view. I feel like if you're going out
there, if you're spending the points on the grand villa, you
need to do the ocean view grand villa because believe it or not,
they're actually standard view grand villas as well.
Those are the ones that are just, you could probably still
see the ocean, they're just really low, right?
They're down by like, AMA AMA. Yeah, there's a couple that are
that are. There's ocean facing, but
they're down. So low.
That's just like, not real ocean.
Right. So maybe they're not back.
I can. Still save my points and.
Yeah, but so we've actually walked through in Alani Gran
Villa in Ocean View, one of the ones, it was like near the top.
It was a they do like an open house once in a while when
you're there. So when we were there and it
might even because we went like right after the pandemic.
So it was. There was no one at.
The yeah, there wasn't a whole lot of people there, so we got
to walk through it and let me tell you, so they are on the
ends of the towers. So you've got the two towers and
they're like all the ends and it just when you were in that grand
villa, the ocean view ones you all you see when you look out
the window is blue. All you see is the ocean.
Like it feels like it's hanging over the ocean because it just
feels that close and it's just so pretty.
So, yeah, that's that's one of the reasons that it was
definitely top of my list. So the the ocean view Aulani
Gran villas start at 122 points, go all the way up to 184 points
a night. There are 18 ocean view Gran
villas at Aulani in inventory and there are two standard view.
So so there's definitely, you know, it's a little easier to
get still still very hard to get.
They do book up by owners. They are very well loved.
They are single story, 2174 square feet.
And yeah, they're just that's, that's definitely one of my
list, but I have another one too, so.
But we're too cheap and so we're going to be in a studio and one
bedroom for a. Lot of upcoming.
Aulani trip that happens. Definitely too cheap for the
Grand Ola. Derek, you do have to go and
experience that resort though. It is, it is probably in the top
three of all DVC resorts hands down.
I We were talking to some friends last night and.
If they could take the Aulani concept and drop it on Castaway
Key, I'll be booking Disney Cruise was more than I would do
Royal Caribbean just for that reason alone.
Like, it's just such a cool place.
And make sure you do the tour or the iPad tour with headphones
that they offer because you learn about the history of the
resort and you also learn about a lot of the conservation
efforts. And I mean, Joe Rody did it.
So nothing. Nothing's bad that he's ever
touched with his hands. Ever.
So. Oh, I forgot.
I'm hosting. Sorry.
Oh. Feels like it's your show.
I'll ask Paul. What?
What is your bucket list stay? Well, I'm glad you asked because
if I had to pick a bucket list stay, I would do an entire week
in a cabin at Copper Creek. Oh, I didn't expect you to pick
that. I and the reason I say that is
we've had two great experiences in a single night stay in a
Copper Creek cabin. And it is I would not do this
day like most people. Like, yes, you're going to go
into the parks and you do, you're going to do all of that
kind of stuff. But I think what's so cool about
the cabin is that you can have people over and you can cook and
it's just such a like there's like for me, there's no cooler
spot maybe on property to really entertain on that level.
You could argue probably the Polynesian bungalows are very
similar, but like to have people over to celebrate.
I don't know my birthday, which is coming up.
Yeah. You know, it'd be cool to go and
celebrate and cook some food. There's a wonderful grilling
station. We did that the first time that
we did a Copper Creek cabin. We grilled some food outside, We
made some food in the kitchen, all that kind of stuff.
We've done another cabin one time where we did like an
Italian night. And so it's it's just such AII
don't know. It just feels so cool to
entertain guests there and then go out and watch the electrical
water pageant hang out by the hot tub.
We could see fireworks last time.
I just, I have such great memories of that resort,
including sitting on the picnic table outside the after the
first time and messaging Derek for trying to figure out if I
should sell one of my other contracts to buy what I would
call cabin points, which would be like a Saratoga Springs
contract with more points so that I would have points to be
able to afford these cabins because average everyday Paul
cannot. Yeah.
And for me, what seals it like why this for us is better than
the bungalow is you have that outdoor space that is screened
in. So you know.
Amy don't like a bug? I don't like bugs.
And you have the the hot tub there.
You know what I mean? Which I would much rather be in
a hot tub than a a plunge, cold plunge pole.
But but yeah, they're they're super beautiful.
And then the fire, one thing I think would be amazing would be
to spend like a week over the holidays and to bring a
Christmas tree and to put it up, you know, near the fireplace and
decorate. Santa Derek could come over.
Yeah. Or you could get one in just
like a week or two and you could have Eric and I over and have
like a WrestleMania weekend. We could do that too as well.
As long as your credit card is on file for the incidental, then
I'm game for. That too, yeah.
Everything's broken. We need to know how many chairs,
ladders, tables and all that we need to know, we need to know.
Security as you're pulling it. Sir, why are you carrying 12
ladders to your room? What are the ladders for?
Well, get on where you you hang the belts on the ceiling, you
know, over the chandelier. That's where we have to go.
And whoever gets the belt down is the winner, obviously, Yeah.
And obviously, Amy. Oh, I thought that you put the
ladder up and you went off it and then you jumped on top of
people. That does.
Well, you can. That's what happens before they
win the match, so you know. It's you think you're almost
there, but then. When you have this I.
Will say this about the cabins, Jeff.
Trying to pull us back on topic I'm.
Trying to get us back on the. Rails.
A little bit. I think the cabins at Copper
Creek are the out of any other room feels like a house.
Feels like a home. Yeah.
With the fireplace, with the, the, the, you know, the hot tub
and the screen. It just, I could live there.
I'm not sure I could live in too many of the other ones.
No, I yeah, I agree with that. It's funny, we're filming this
and more information just came out today as of us filming this
of the next storybook living concept in North Carolina and
that. That's a great.
You know, yeah, if if the opportunity existed to buy a
house that is a Copper Creek cabin, the only reason we
probably wouldn't do it is because of the dogs, but it
would be a really cool home. So they should do that on the
far side if they. Like just.
Wrap around and keep building cabins.
So, yeah, so just a little info about the cabins starting at 84
points a night, which that's that's not terrible.
That's that's better than the bungalows is start at 1:12.
So that's like September, you know, September all the way up
to 196. And there are 26 of them in
inventory. So there are more cabins than
bungalows. They are single story 2000.
I'm sorry, not a few thousand 1213 square feet.
So they are a little bit on the smaller side, but so are the
bungalows. The bungalows are only 1093 so.
Can I add an honorable mention here?
I am rather excited for the Lakeshore Lodge cabins.
I think the same thing the A frames and the other ones that
they're building there, I think that they will probably have a
very similar vibe to these, so probably still will not be able
to afford them but it. Will be cool.
Yeah, mine since Derek stole mine.
But this is also equally on my bucket list and I I think we can
point wise, we can afford to make it happen.
We just have to find availability, which is the tough
part Vero Beach 3 bedroom beach cottage.
I've always. Been applauded.
That is my I was. That was my second.
I was. Going for a crowd goes wild.
Always wanted every time we're there, I, we walk by those and
I'm like, oh gosh, I just want to stay in one.
They are just literally a beach cottage right on the beach.
Like you're there, you're on, you know, you're on the ocean.
You've got those beautiful views out that side.
You've also, you know, got a porch, I think on the, on the
other side, very close to all the amenities, close to the
pool, close to, you know, the, the inn.
But you know, there are only 6 of them.
And people that own Vera Beach are the ones that book those
very quickly because they start at 60 points a night.
And that's, and I looked and that was like, there weren't
some like it wasn't just like winter.
There was 60 points. It was like I think it was like
September or but all the way up to 126 points a night.
But starting at 60. They are two-story 2125 square
feet. I just, I really want to try one
someday so. But that's your.
So let me ask, because everyone knows, like, I'm a Vero
aficionado, and that's the first thing that came to mind.
And when I mentioned it to Annie, too, she was like, yeah,
but if this is truly a bucket list, like, it ain't your
points, you know, you're not paying a dime for it.
She's like, you know, we love staying in the inn.
Plus, those cottages, as awesome as they look, they're not beach
access. So they're not.
You can't walk out the cottage and be right on the beach.
That. Is the that's the part that
bothered me just because I think they're awesome and I love the
point usage. And yes, when you're there and
you're mini golfing or you're in the pool and you see people
walking into them, you're like. I want to.
You want to be able to do it, but for me it was like, yeah,
but you can't walk right onto the beach.
And that's kind of what made me want to go, especially with
that, with someone else's money. I'm going to Hawaii.
I thought of exactly what Derek had said, and then I also
thought of our last trip to Vero Beach when there was a giant
spider web on our balcony. And for the point that you made
about the cabin at Copper Creek, I, I also wondered if like you
would have a bad experience because there's like a giant
spider web and spiders out on your.
Buggies. Yeah, buggies.
Maybe. Maybe Amy don't like a buggy.
Yeah, but you got the ocean breeze.
Is it? Blow those suckers right away.
Like didn't. Blow that spider away.
He was too. Well, that's because it wasn't.
We weren't. He paid for that.
Room we weren't like, right, we didn't have an ocean view like
we we were far like he he had he could hang out, but like
mosquitoes can't fly around when it's breezy.
It's always breezy on the beach, right?
We've all been bitten up pretty good at Barrow Beach.
Sam's are awful. Can I mention one thing too,
which I think is maybe important to the people that are
listening? When Amy starts talking about
the points and when she's talking about Vero Beach, you
know, she's like, and it's great because they start, you know, as
low as like 60 points and maybe at the highest, highest.
They're this amount versus some of the newer resorts.
Again, that's why if you're not a member, that's why you join
Disney Vacation Club because it's important to know that when
Vero Beach open, right? They built that point chart.
That point chart has a total number of points assigned to it.
They can't just add 10 points here, 20 points here, 30 points
and make it more points every single year.
Believe me, if Disney could go back and change the points for
those, you know, beach cottages, they would 100% change them.
So when they build a new resort, when they built the Poly and the
bungalows, they looked and said, all right, let's make these
bungalows X amount. When they built the cabins at
Copper Creek, they go, OK, these are going to be this because
once that point chart is sealed, it's sealed.
And that's why a lot of the older resorts have a lot less
points for stuff that you look to say.
My God, why is the Boardwalk point like so cheap?
Why is the Beach Club point so cheap?
Because it's inflation proof. And that's why you join.
Thank you. Yeah, we've taken some Flack
over the years for, you know, hitting on Riviera and stuff for
those reasons. But it's again, it's like at the
end of the day, you do very quickly become a point miser
when you become ADVC member. It's like, you know, how, you
know, we all I think have a spreadsheet to some degree that,
you know, figures out how can I stretch my points to, you know,
make it make it make the most sense for me.
So yeah, great, great point. Any honorable mentions going
around the room before we move on to kind of a Part 2 of our
discussion tonight? Any anyone have some honorable
mentions? Derek's got one.
Well, I just talked, so let someone else.
No, go ahead. Derek's voice is a little hoarse
at the moment, so Jeff's going to tell one.
I'll be quick the the the the penthouse at Polynesian.
That was what Derek is going to say.
See, you should just let Derek talk.
Guys, you're twinsies. That's so cute.
It's like the first time you guys have agreed about
something. As a matter of fact, I don't
even have the stats on that, but Derek has them because he sends
them in the e-mail. Hold on, I'll find them for you
real quick. Tell us why you pick it.
Jeff, you tell us what Derek looks for the points.
Yeah, it's just there's a lot of room.
There's a lot of room in those buildings with some really cool
views. And again, it goes back to the
the entertaining thing that you were talking about, Paul, where
you could throw a party in the penthouse at the Polynesian and
really not bother anybody. It was it was very cool.
And I like that the one bedroom was on one side and the other
one was on the other. So you had a little space and
beautiful, beautiful. And that's the one that the one
I'm talking about is the 2 bedroom penthouse theme Parkview
at the Polynesian Tower starts as low as 108 points, goes up to
197 per night. It's one story, 14148 square
feet. To me, I just think that that
would be such a cool room because I think the the views
from the Polynesian tower are some of the best on property,
even better than the Grand Floridian.
I've been. It was a close second because I
was going to go with the Grand and Floridian Grand Villa, which
is mind blowingly awesome. I think it's the best grand
Villa on property is the one at the Grand Floridian.
But I think in terms of, again, if I'm using someone else's
money and someone else's points, the Polynesian Penthouse theme
Parkview would be amazing. And it's got a really big
balcony too. Like I've seen videos of it.
It looks so awesome, so cool. Eric, did you have a honorable
mention in in store? I I think the Bay Lake tower, so
it is. So we are going in July and I
get to stay at the Bay Lake for the first time.
We haven't because it's such a small.
The studios are just the regular rooms are tiny compared to the
others. You know, I got a family of 6.
So we we kicked grandma and my oldest son over to the All
Stars. So we're staying for a couple
days. We're like, we made it happen
guys. And they're not available.
We're they're not a lot, a lot available.
So we got in and we're like, yes, we got to do this, but I
just think to myself, location and of the Bay lake.
We talked on an earlier show, Magic Kingdom is not easy to get
to sometimes, right? And to be able to stay so close
to the Magic Kingdom, which is the park that we all know and
love don't to to walk over there.
But you, if you would have this and it looks to me like what 6IN
inventory? There's like only 6.
So and, and, and from a square footage perspective, like that
is huge compared to what you're getting 400 square foot for the
the other. So as ADBC member, you're not
going to get these opportunities often.
So once again, if I'm going to say like everybody said, we're
spending somebody else's money, I'm staying as close as you can
in walking distance, the Magic Kingdom and I am taking
everybody there with me and we're walking over and we're
really utilizing that. So I don't know much about the
amenities yet. We're going to find that out
here in July, but I think that would be one that I would go
after. And I would do that trip over
New Year's or the 4th of July. It'd be amazing.
And if you get that grand villa, it's two stories so the windows
are literally floor to ceiling. 2 store overlooking the Magic
Kingdom. It makes me almost want to stay
at Bay Lake. Almost.
And with the new refurb, they are so pretty.
So yeah. So Bay Lake theme Parkview,
Grand Villas, you are right. There are only 6 of them
starting at 101 all the way up to 207 points a night.
They are two stories, like Derek said, 2044 square feet.
So yeah, that's one I would love to do someday.
Do you have an honorable mention?
From ATVC perspective, I'm not sure.
I mean, I absolutely love all of them.
Yeah, yeah. You know, we've, we've had the
opportunity. Amy just pointed to the grand
Grand Floridian Grand Villa. Derek also mentioned that
earlier. I love that space.
I don't think that for me, I'd appreciate it.
But I also go back to like what I said about Copper Creek, where
it's like if I was just fully doing like that resort stay, I
could see where you could have some fun there especially.
Because people. Movie night.
Like you could have a giant movie night.
There's a media room, yeah. You know, again, you could do
some great cooking and entertaining and then you've got
those giant windows where you can, you know, see the fireworks
and and look at at 7 Seas Lagoon.
So. I the the grand floor in Grand
Villa. Yeah, we got, we got a chance to
see it. Derek has been has been inside
one as well. It is, it's stunning.
It's huge. It's so big that there's just,
there's a like a armoire inside the toilet closet in one of the
bathrooms. Like that's just that's how big
it is. But yeah, 111 to 227 points a
night. There's only 6IN inventory
because there's one on each floor.
So when you're looking at the original villas building of the
Grand Floridian and you see that block that comes out that is
facing the lake with the all the windows, that's the block that
houses the the Grand Villa. So, so just one on every floor.
They're single story, but this is what gets me the most. 2800
square feet. That is bigger than our four
bedroom house. Like it's huge.
That's massive. Yeah.
That is such a big, yeah, just such a big accommodation.
And I will just looking at Amy's list that she sent over, I will
also say that the Saratoga Springs Treehouse Villas, what
what I love about that one is it it's like an attainable bucket
list. Yeah.
So you know, it's it's 3 bedrooms and they're about to
refurb it. Hopefully they continue to keep
some of the rustic charm to it, but it's an affordable 3 bedroom
accommodation like the point charts.
Starting at 38 points a night and the highest is 76.
That's super cheap for three bedrooms, so if you're looking
for something. Grandma and and your son could
stay in that one. With you maybe, and there's
sixty of them, so they're pretty easy to get.
Yeah, Yeah, that's a good one. 1074 square feet.
I do want to just touch on the last two that are on my list
because we only have two left. Besides, I think this is going
to be on a lot of people's list. The Riviera Grand Villa, there
are they're only on the one side, I'm pretty sure right on
the preferred side because there wasn't a standard view or there
wasn't any view designation. So 103 to 204 points a night.
There's only 12 in inventory. There's two each on floors 4
through 8 and then there's only one each on floor 3:00 and 9:00.
So limited. They all face out.
I'm pretty sure Caribbean Beach I.
Believe I still think that's a mess.
They should have put some of the some of them on the other side.
I want to see fireworks at night.
But but yeah, those are also pretty big.
One story, 2530 square feet. We've never seen the inside of
those, but we do have artwork, the wall-e artwork that hangs in
the grand villa and we have that in our bedroom because it is
really pretty. Has any have any of you guys
seen it in person? The Riviera Green villa Derek
has. I have.
We had a Disney Vacation Club guide that was having a
retirement party. So we, me and Marissa and a
bunch of us went over. It's beautiful.
It's beautiful, but if I had my choice between the Riviera one
or the Grand Floridian one, I'm going to go with the Floridian
one. But I mean, just like everything
inside the rivet, so pristine and clean and stunning and
beautiful. Yeah, it's nice. 11 interesting
one. Just to throw out 'cause we keep
talking about Grand Villas. And I remember when I was ADVC
Guide many, many years ago, one of my favorite stories was a
member that told me that they got a Grand villa at Hilton
Head. And I was like, Oh my God, that
sounds amazing. And he's like, Derek, This is
why we did it, because I wanted to have a Super Bowl party and
the Grand Villa you could get back.
Then it was Super Bowl Sunday. He got the Grand Villa for 27
points. And he goes, I had all my
buddies. We had the huge Super Bowl party
all day, all night. The hot tub that was there, we
closed it off. We filled it up with ice.
That's where we stored all the beer.
Oh. My God, we had the.
Best Super Bowl party of all time for like 27 points a night.
That story has always stuck with me and.
I'm like. Life goals.
So Eric. WrestleMania 2028.
Hilton Head. Be there and we got it.
I love it. It is very cheap in February,
Yeah, and it has a fireplace too.
So yeah, the last one on my list that I wanted to mention, we
actually just did it last weekend.
Was it last weekend or two weekends ago?
2 weekends ago. Animal Kingdom Lodge club level,
club level villa. Honestly I don't care if it's
the studio, one bedroom, 2 bedroom.
I just want the club level amenities and it's so so hard to
get in. There are only 10 total rooms,
so 5 studios, 51 bedrooms and they can also be booked as a 2
bedroom lock off. So if someone books it as a 2
bedroom that takes both of those, you know one studio and
one one bedroom out of inventory.
So super super difficult to get. We only picked up reservations
just like cancellations, but the amenity there, you know, you're
you have access to the club, you have concierge, but the food on
the club level. And we will have a video coming
out probably very soon because we did just do it.
But you could seriously like breakfast, lunch, dinner,
snacks. You could just stay and eat
there all day. It is so good.
They have food that they bring up from like Boma.
They do the Curry pasta salad from Boma and they do the
mustard and they have meatballs and just all kinds of different
things. Beer, Wine, Sangria.
Mimosa. Included.
Yeah. So but the corn chowder from you
mean and they they change the food out breakfast, they do
breakfast, they do like lunchtime and then they do
dinner time and then after that they have a whole dessert buffet
in the evening. So we missed, we did everything
but the desserts. We missed that.
But we're we're on, we're on our number 3 of taping.
Please stop talking about food. I know I am so hungry.
The only thing I wanted to say about those is that I'm not
going to give you the sizes. They're just typical studio, one
bedroom, whatever. The studios range from 18 to 36
points a night. 18 is really, really cheap for what you get
for the club level. You know, amenities, 1 bedrooms,
38 to 73, and if you book it as a two-bedroom, 51 to 98.
So we covered DVC, but I, I did want to ask everyone if you had
a bucket list stay on the horizon, just, you know, what is
it? Let us know kind of kind of what
that, what that trip might be. You know, I know Amy and I have
Amy's Bucket List is more like a bucket book.
It is big, but I have two big ones.
But but I'll kick us off and just say one of our bigger
trips, which is a bucket list that I've always had.
We are going to fulfill next year at the end of the year to
celebrate my 40th birthday. And we are going to Germany and
doing a German river cruise along all of the Christmas
markets. So it is something that I've
always wanted to do. My family has a lot of German
heritage, so it's going to be super cool to see all those and
this entire Christmas season. We were already gearing up for
it where I would just play these walkthroughs of like Youtubers
just walking and holding a camera through the Christmas
markets and I was set. That's all I needed.
Like. We're going to need a whole
another suitcase, like just to bring whole other bring home the
mugs. No idea, it's going to be bad
that. Sounds really awesome.
But yeah, so that's, that's a bucket list trip that I'm that
I'm looking forward to. Eric, anything on the horizon
for you or anything that that you're dreaming of?
Listen, I know it's I'd like to diversify, but I am truly just a
Disney guy, like vacationing at Disney and Disneyland Paris is,
is the place that I want to go and I want to stay in front of
the park. Like I that's a theme for me.
I just like to walk right in. I'm like, I'm a 90s kid.
So Michael Eisner was my Walt Disney.
He's the one that introduced all the movies and stuff and take
him or live him. I like, I would just watch that
series that he had on YouTube recently and he's still as
charismatic as ever and flawed as ever.
But I love that love that Michael Eisner.
I want to see the park he built that darn near cost us Disney
America and a lot of other things because of the overruns.
But I think it's a, a beautiful castle and I love some of the,
they have lots of walkthrough exhibits and, and just early 90s
stuff. So I'd love to, to stay in the
in Disneyland Paris. And of course there's other
things in Paris that maybe we should do as well.
But once we're done with the Disney Disneyland stuff, we'll
go and, and check out all these other paintings and, and art
structures. But yeah, that that's been on
mine and we had it booked. But man, that Florida was just
calling for me and I decided to up our annual passes.
And once you get that, you just go to Florida.
So we're going to try maybe the next year to do Paris and I'll
start saving up to see if I can stay in the the hotel and maybe
find a villa there. Until you move down here, we're
just, we're just planning the big Wheeling migration to
Florida slowly. So it's great get you, we'll get
you down here eventually. Yeah, I know, Eric.
I can't tell you what a cool part Paris is.
Well, Paris in general, everybody should experience.
But Disneyland Paris, it's just such a unique gem.
It's so tiny. You can do it in a day, you can
do it in two days and do everything twice.
We'll talk, I'll get you my e-mail, and I'll give you some
tips and tricks for sure. Jeff, what's high on your bucket
list? Fiji, a real overwater bungalow
in Fiji. If if somebody else is paying
for it, specifically the leaky tiki something or another, this
is what it looks like. Oh, we get a photo.
Oh yeah. Leaky Tiki.
That's where I want to go. I would totally do that.
I see those sometimes. If anybody's seen the movie
Couples Retreat, that's the resort I want to stay at.
That's I want to jump off my bungalow into the water and I
never want to leave. Those are all amazing.
OK, I I'm just real quick because I have two really big
ones. One I promise I am booking this
year for 2028. But I've always wanted to do a
yeah, I'm like, just so you know, this is happening.
I want to do a Norwegian Fjords cruise and I have I'm very
specific requirements for what ports that I want.
Like I definitely want to see certain ports.
So that's high on my list. Leaving out of Southampton, you
know, I want to fly into London, spend a couple days there first
and then do the Norwegian Feuds cruise.
I do plan the book that, you know, for a future year, but one
that is ultimate bucket list that I don't know when I'll ever
book it, but I swear to God is someday we are doing it and I'm
dragging Paul and that is I want to go to Antarctica.
He would like to go too. But and I want to do, you know,
I want to do like where you cruise, you cruise through the
Drake Passage. I don't care if it's WAVY, like
that's part of the experience. I want to do actually Antarctica
or like it like an expedition, but they're just so expensive.
So it's just kind of like the ultimate bucket list, like
someday. Hey, our friend Louis Edwards is
actually doing it. I think this year or early next
year, he's doing it soon. But yeah, yeah.
And I, I think I thought about it cuz he had asked us when,
when we had dinner with him that one night, he was like, would
you do the polar plunge? He's like, I feel like we need
to because we're there. And at first I was like, no, I
would never do it. But then it's like, how often do
you get to jump in the, you know, the Arctic Sea?
So like, yeah, I think I could do it actually.
Oh, it's, it's all of those things.
Like if, if we, if we go through the Drake packet passage and
there's not waves, I'm going to be disappointed.
Like and yes, I'm going to jump in like I don't care if I get
hyped. Up so yeah, so that's that's
like ultimate bucket list Antarctica so.
That's so funny because Norway was my runner up in case we had
to do that. So that's we've talked about it
though, that same cruise, yeah. Yeah.
Derek, what's on you and Annie's bucket list?
So we actually got some stuff that coming up that we're super
excited about. May 13th is our 30th wedding
anniversary, so we're going to the Grand Floridian for the
night because we got married at the wedding pavilion 30 years
ago. So we're like, we have to be
here because that's where we got married and to celebrate that.
Then we're also going with the boys because they've never been
out West. So we're going in May, at the
end of May to Telluride Co. Annie was telling me about this,
yes. Never seen mountains or anything
like that. So we're going to do that trip
coming up in May. So those two things I'm super,
super excited about. But it's always been, you know,
for Annie and IA dream is to go Italy and Lake Como.
We always wanted to do that, like Positano, Lake Como, the
whole thing. We've seen Rick Steves travel
through Lake Como like 800 times.
I think over all these. Here's the guy that does the
original vlogger. But we always wanted to go to
Lake Como, so that would be a bucket list for sure.
Very cool. I want to go at all these places
and now we all just have to go together.
So there you go. Yeah, start booking that
bungalow, Jeff. I'm coming.
I just want. One bungalow for a Norwegian
fjord cruise. Let us know in the comments of
this video what are your bucket list DVC stays?
You know what? What's that resort and that room
type that you've always wanted to stay in as well as if you
just have a big vacation on the horizon or a bucket list
vacation that you hope to do in your lifetime?
Let's know and also head to forums.dbcfan.com.
We'll, we'll be chatting about all these things and I'm sure a
lot of you in our community will give my wife a bunch of other
trips that we will plan because we're normally we have about,
you know, we're planned about four years out at any given
point, so. At least in our heads, yeah.
Yeah, so and Eric, one big thank you for joining us for these
three shows. Thank you so much.
We'll have you back. If you'll have us.
Maybe we'll talk wrestling. Maybe we'll talk ramen.
I'm I'm, I'm game for all of that.
We'll have you back for a rematch, as they say.
There we go, there we go. I love it.
Check out the Jim Home Media Network if you want some more
Eric in your life with some universal content and him and
his wife, they've got some great podcasts over there.
But that's going to do it for this week's episode of the DBC
show. We hope you enjoyed it and we
will see you next Monday. Have a good week everybody.
No wrestling term or anything to end us, Swabber.
Knock. Was that the word?
What's the word Derek? Slobber knocker.
Oh, I was close, yeah.