So to kick us off this week, I want to go around the room real
quick. Has anyone really had like a
terrible waste of points experience ever, like with their
DVC membership? Like just something where it's
like I would never do that ever again, Like never wanted to do a
redo on that stay or something. You mean other other than
staying at Bay Lake Tower? No.
Yeah, Bay Lake Tarot was the most disappointing studio I've
ever seen. Span it is, and it continues to
take the cake until it gets its refurbishment here and.
I love Bay Lake. I do too, I.
Love the location, I just think it could be so much.
We love the location. You don't love Bay Lake.
There's no way that you walk into that studio and say, oh, I
love it, You love the location. It's OK, but it's the location.
Exactly. Some of us don't stay in
studios, Derek. We are bougie and only stay in
one bedrooms or higher, so and the one bedroom and two bedrooms
at Bay Lake are awesome. This explains why your point
broke all the time. 100%. I don't think we've ever stayed
somewhere that I was like, Nope, never again.
But Speaking of wasting points, I'm still very sad that we lost
like. 2. Two, I think it's.
Full Ours too. We lost two points, yeah.
Two points lost. When are you here?
Yeah, yeah, that, that's six points.
We could have stayed at Hilton Head for one night in January.
It's. A whole night of points.
If only we could pull our points that way.
You know if. Only could have got Grant, Willa
and Hilton had in January for six points it.
Would have been perfect. Hey, everybody, and welcome to
this week's episode of the DVC Show.
I'm your host, Paul Krieger, and I'm joined this week by my wife,
Amy Krieger. We've got John Sacari, AKA Big
Fat Panda with us. Welcome home.
Senior sales associate for the DVC resale market Derek Devore.
Hey now. And the one the only Jeff has.
Changed his shirt too he. Did everyone else is?
Getting in on the change the shirt.
Games I couldn't do this show on my Hilton Head show shirt.
Hilton. Head shirt.
Never mind. Hilton Head show shirt.
Yeah. Yeah, well.
Say that three times fast. Before I just before I get too
far off the rails, Panda, are you wearing a Park Candy shirt?
I think this is a Roosevelt's. No, no, no.
It could be a Park candy. No.
You know what? Let's find out.
It is. It is Park Candy.
That's what my, my, Hawaii, they.
Make really good shirts. I like have to.
Check them out. I've never.
Derek will check them out too. He buys, he buys three shirts
specialty for each one of these shows.
So. I just said I literally told Amy
right before we started filming. I go, I think this is like my
first redo in a really long time.
It's my old Jimmy Buffett Margaritaville shirt, so I
wasn't sure how it fit in with the theming of everything, but I
think I'm official Tapped Out. Who tapped out of shirts?
Put in the comments below what show Derek wore that shirt on
previously and he'll send you the shirt off of his back.
I'll. Send you.
I'll send you a bucket hat, yeah.
We're at Moonlight Magic recently and people keep coming
up to us and every time I don't think Derek said hello.
At first it just looks really strange.
He's like back in the back shadows and he's like digging in
his backpack and then he finally comes, oh, you got fucking
hands. And it's like, that was the
introduction, but like the five seconds before, it's very
questionable as to what Derek's trying to do with his backpack.
Amy told PEOPLE, Amy said if you happen to see us and see Derek,
he may have a special prize for you.
So their prize is not meeting me.
Their prize is Hey, where's that special prize that Amy said you?
Have for me. Well, is it special?
Is. It a special prize if you're
handing out 62 of them. You're still special.
He. You.
Got rid of every single one of
them, I mean. He stopped a lot in his
backpack. I threatened.
I threatened to put to bring a sign and hold it up behind Derek
the whole night. That said moonlight magic merch.
Because, you know, DVC doesn't put out any moonlight magic
merch. So I mean, someone someone's
ought to do it. But.
Hey, that that was the most fun I've had in a long time and
being able to be with you guys and being able to meet so many
awesome families that came up to us and it was just it was
incredible. So it just it it was awesome
each. Experience to meet someone is is
amazing and we do have so many people that come up to us and
they say that, you know they're they're scared to interrupt what
we're doing or they're scared to say hello, please we would love
to to meet you, chat with you and you know it.
It just means the world to us. Amy and I and Derek, you get
this too you know more so than you know Panda and Jeff get to
experience it because of our jobs.
We get people on the phone all the time or via e-mail and it's
amazing all of the messages and and the kind words that come
through and and the conversations we get to have And
some of some of those we've gotten to actually put you know
voices to faces over the years and gotten to meet some of them
after talking to them on the phone or or something.
And Derek, you've you've done this much longer than we have.
So you've you, you've got plenty of those stories as well.
But love, love meeting people and thank you guys for making
Moonlight magic special. Thank you you guys that are on
this show for for having us along with you and and and for
us all being able to go together.
That was a awesome experience and we look forward to doing it
again real soon. But yeah.
Thankfully, they don't have my phone number yet, but I have to
say, that was the most expensive moonlight magic I've ever been
to cause. Panda made you and I buy new
cameras. That is very true, yeah.
Yeah, you're going to see a lot of a lot of similar camera
content coming out of Panda, Jeff and I's videos in the in
the very near future. We all now have the same exact
camera and I think we need to go to Panda's house for like a
tutorial class on how to use it. But.
I've been watching YouTube videos so I can I can impart
that on to you as well. Perfect.
Yep. It'll be good.
Because I had the care on most of melee magic and my camera
skills are so bad, so shaky. How you did a?
Great job. And this thing has what
stabilization, So. Well, and I said this too before
I think we started filming today.
At one point I said it was so much more fun for me editing
that Moonlight Magic video because normally like, I'm
filming and doing it. So I kind of know.
I know the flow, I know what's going to happen.
And in this video, like I had absolutely no clue.
So when I got to the part when Jeff Haslam and and Amy are
drumming and then Panda comes through dancing, I'm, I'm dead.
I'm dying like it was. It was just so cool to.
Oh, you weren't there for the live version of that?
No, I was not. I I don't know where.
I think I was like over with Jeff and Dan talking about God
knows what, but it yeah, I was not there for like the live
dance. And like it was just for me.
It was fun to be able to step back for a second and like watch
these videos through the through the eyes of a viewer.
Just just to be clear, right before the dance, Jeff gives me
some. I don't even know what it was,
but I had a rum floater on the top and I think I just drank all
the rum and it went to my head. So I was, I was feeling no pain.
I was very confident that whatever dance I did was going
to be like Cirque du Soleil and. It was.
Soleil So if you've not checked out that video, make sure you
check it out. And we also have what I what
I've dubbed Pandas cut of the Moonlight Magic experience over
on patreon.com/DVC fan. So definitely head over there as
well and we've got a fun video coming up.
Well, at the point of this show going up, it came up two weeks
ago, So go back in time 2 weeks and watch, watch Jeff Haslam's
experience at Moonlight Magic 2 days later at Epcot, where he
went there with a bunch of our DVC fan moderators and some
other friends and got to snack around the World Showcase for
Flower and Garden because the snack coupons for Moonlight
Magic were able for that. And that was a that was a great
time, right, Jeff? Yeah, it was a good time.
Yeah, Animal Kingdom, everybody had leftover snack coupons.
Epcot everybody used it at the first booth.
So that tells you the difference and how that track.
Yep, Yep. But enough chit chat.
We're here to talk business, and this week's business is talking
about, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna botch it, just like I did when
we when we first started talking about.
But we're talking about the easiest and the most difficult
rooms to book at each Disney Vacation Club resort, and this
was a topic that you came up with, right?
Yeah, I just a lot of times we'll see people in the DVC fan,
Facebook group or wherever just asking, you know, if I were to
try to book this resort at seven months out or I need to set a
wait list for it, what is my best chance of getting a room?
So, so basically like what are the easiest rooms to get?
What is, what has the most inventory or even like some
people we'll try to get a room and be like, well where did it
go, why didn't I get it? And so just understanding what
are the really difficult rooms to book.
Also, at each resort, what are the easiest to book and then
maybe some general tips for for booking, You know, trying to get
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So, but we are talking easiest, hardest rooms to book and you
kind of came up with a list of kind of just some general tips
for us to kind of start the conversation off before we kind
of look at each specific Disney Vacation Club resort.
Yeah, actually. Can you bring them over closer
where I can see what I'll bring them?
I'll bring them. Over here, actually over there
is fine. There we go.
OK, so the first one, you said one bedrooms are the easiest
category to book. Yeah.
So basically obviously studios usually go 1st and that's
because you know they're the cheapest and compared to a one
bedroom, some studios can even sleep more capacity wise.
So a lot of families who are looking to kind of maximize
their points are going to go to studios 1st and that leaves the
the one bedrooms just just a little bit easier to book
because they cost more points. Sometimes you can only stay like
four or five people, the same amount as most studios.
So my first tip is if you can make the points work for you.
If you have enough points to splurge, go for a one bedroom at
harder to book places. So this is going to be helpful
to you at somewhere like Beach Club or Grand Cow where if you
don't own there, a studio is going to be really hard to get.
So that's that's my. I feel like all of us to start
off with Disney Vacation Club. Everyone goes into it saying I'm
going to book studios because it's the cheapest and the
easiest. You know, we are all, we are all
point misers at heart. But then you get the first one
bedroom experience and you're like, panda Panda's like, Yep,
been there, done that. Have enough points?
Yes. Yeah, been there, done that, got
the T-shirt like it's like you, you, you, you walked into that
Riviera one bedroom probably, and you're like, Yep, I'm in
love. That's it.
That's exactly it. Yeah, and that's that's what
most people do. But you know to, to Amy's point,
the the one bedrooms don't get eaten up as fast in terms of the
availability, especially within the seven to 11 month window or
even in the zero to seven month window.
Which is how we were able to stay at Hilton Head, is that we
we did a one bedroom, so studios were gone.
Yep, so definitely studios are the hardest and one bedrooms
tend to be the easiest. You you mentioned Grand Villas
here a little bit. You know, Grand Villas are kind
of hit or miss, I feel like, depending on season and.
Yeah, I Grand Villas to me. Well, I I I mentioned Grand
Villas is one of the hardest to book and that's because
inventory on Grand Villas is pretty low.
Especially if you look at like Grand Cow has like what, 2 Grand
Villas? The The Disneyland.
The new Disneyland Villas has two Grand Villas.
You know, at Grand Floridian, there's only one on each floor,
and they they might even still be using one as an open house.
Yeah, I think the first floor. So that, yeah.
So that leaves out, you know, there's there's not very many
Grand Villas at the resorts. There's just a handful.
You know, some have more, like Saratoga has a little bit more
and Old Key West, But those in studios are actually going to be
some of the hardest, hardest to book.
The lower the point cost of the room, the harder it is usually
to get. Yeah, this is Derek's.
Derek preaches This. I feel like constantly.
I I preach it and I know we're going to go through like resort
by resort. But when people ask me and say
and Amy, that's why your list was was so perfect.
People always ask me like what's the hardest rooms to get.
I go the smallest rooms with the worst views.
Those are always going to be the hardest rooms to get.
So you're going to see when we're looking at rooms that have
a regular option versus say, a preferred view or a standard
option. The standard ones are the ones
that are going to go, a place like Animal Kingdom, right?
A value room. Those are going to go.
So yeah, the smaller the rooms with the worst views because
people want to stretch their points out and people say it,
which I'm the complete opposite. I love a good balcony.
So get me I won't like to stay at the boardwalk unless I have a
boardwalk view because to me that's part of the reason for
staying there. But other people are like, dude,
I was, I booked that thing, that parking lot view at, you know 11
months on the dot and I was able to get that standard view
parking lot view. So to each his own.
But yeah, definitely. The more you can stretch your
points out, the happier most people seem to be.
Jeff Panda, which camp do you guys find yourselves falling
into when it comes to this? Oh, Jeff's bougie One bedroom
book. Well, well, Amy just threw you
under the bus, so we'll come. Back to that, she does that at
least once a week and. Just like.
For the cheapest, I go for the lowest points if I can.
In the worst view, I just don't seem to care too much.
It matters who I'm going with and what I'm what my trip is
about. And that.
Like a party or a a park basically, and just stay
overnight. I don't.
And that that has definitely changed since we moved here.
When when we were traveling here, it was always we were
bringing kids, grandkids, friends.
So we bought points with the mindset that it was gonna be
probably a two-bedroom when we came and and fewer trips.
Now that we're here, I'm like, I'm not using these points.
I booked a Granville at Old Key West this Sunday just for the
hell of it. So.
And you're inviting all of us, right?
And we're we're. Yeah, we get an invite.
It's it's Sunday. When were you going to tell us?
Right now. It was somewhere Where around
where you mentioned chicken. Next on on your list here, Amy.
It says high point seasons at Disney World are easier to book
than low point season. Right.
And that's that's actually the same with any, any resort.
So, but but high points at Disney World season means
something different. And we talked about this during
the Hilton Head show, right? High points at Hilton Head is
July and August, whereas the low points is December in January.
But at Disney World, the higher points are going to be like in
the summer. October to December, yeah.
Yeah, well, those are the low points.
Yeah, October and December are lower at Disney World, so.
So the higher points are always a little easier to get.
So for example, when we got Grand Cow at the seven month
window before we owned there, it was much easier for us to get a
stay in August than it would be to try to get and stay in like
September, October. The Halloween season is very
popular there. So just keep that in mind that
if you're willing to be a little flexible with the season and
being a little flexible with your dates, then you're going to
have a greater opportunity of getting what you're looking for.
And we get questions about this very frequently, but Disney
does. One of the reasons why we
monitor point charts year after year is they do have the ability
to kind of reallocate these a little bit.
And So what we have seen a little bit of a shift towards is
you know that that summer season at Disney World is kind of
calming down a little bit in terms of popularity.
And the popularity is increasing in that in that winter season.
So July or basically September through the end of the year has
been getting very busy. And so we've seen subtle shifts
recently on the point charts in which the point charts in that
season are kind of starting to creep up a little bit because
Disney is also monitoring that and that's how they control some
of this, that's how they really monitor and control availability
is by those subtle movements. So it's always something to that
pay close attention to like they they've done some crazy stuff
over the years, some of it not legal and some of it they've had
to redo when it comes to point charts.
But you know that's that's one of the reasons that they do
monitor that and change that point chart year after year.
Speaking of point charts offseason at beach hotels are
easier to book than busy season. You kind of covered that a
little bit. You know we we talked about Vero
Beach, Hilton Head. You know that that time of the
year when everyone's on vacation is always a little bit popular.
Cheaper point rooms generally book first of course.
Yep. You know the as Derek said, the
worst views normally go first because they're the cheapest and
and that's. I have two, like for example, my
points are already gone, which they always are almost
immediately as soon as I get the meaning.
I've already borrowed all them for next year for this year's
trips because I wound up not having with a son in college.
Now at Florida State, we had to kind of change based on when
he's on vacation. So our annual trip to Vero that
we used to get and milk, you know, 3-4 nights before
Christmas, we didn't. We couldn't do that this year,
so we had to go between Christmas and New Year's, which
almost doubled the points. And.
Then on spring break, we're going to the Grand, I think in a
week and a half, the Grand Floridian, just for two nights.
But it happened to be over spring break on a Friday and a
Saturday night. So all my points are like, poof,
they're all gone, gone. Yeah.
So general rule of thumb that you've kind of outlined is book
at the 11 month window and then see what happens at seven
months, right? Yeah.
So you should always book your home resort at the 11 month
window unless unless you're it's like completely not even where
you're planning on going. But if you're going to Disney
World and your home resort is a Disney World resort, you know,
you definitely book it at 11 months and then at the seven
month window, that's when you can look to modify your stay
without actually, you know, losing the stay you have.
You can just simply modify it and and you know, possibly find
something that's going to give you the best shot at, you know,
obviously getting what you want is booking online 8:00 AM at the
11 month window. If you are trying to get
something at the seven month window, it's the same thing.
You want to be there. You want to be online at 8:00 AM
at the seven month window, ready to modify that stay or ready to
book. You know, whatever you're trying
to get, that's not your home resort.
Well, and you're you're planning that big Disney vacation and and
you know Jeff, I know you've been there because you know you
recently moved here but you planned that big Disney vacation
and you have to you, you kind of lock in when you're going to go
far in advance. And so you've got to make sure
that you've got that room, especially if you're travelling
with, you know multiple family members or multiple families
like. And so it's like lock it in and
then you can be more flexible, you know, down the road like
that's that's my general experience.
Yeah, I tend to agree. You know, it's you always want
something. You can change it if you find
something better, but it's best to have something in the bag.
You know, Panda? You're security blanket.
So your home resort is your security blanket.
So I tell people all the time like book it.
Maybe you don't want to stay at Saratoga or you don't want to
stay at old Key West this trip. It doesn't matter.
Just book your dates. And then like you guys said too
at that seven month window is when the fun starts, right?
Because then you can go online saying, I don't know, I already
got this, so I already have my room that I needed for my dates
of when my flight is. But let me see what's available
and then you start talking to the friends and the family.
Hey, it looks like we could move over to the Raleigh, or we could
move over to this resort or that resort.
So yeah, just always book your home resort.
Now Panda, I know we've talked about this before, you know you
you typically are a little bit more flexible, last minute
stays, that kind of stuff. Have you utilized the the seven
to 11 month window though for anything specific with your
family or anything? Never.
I just don't plan that far in advance for that kind of stuff.
But I've, I've been lucky because I I basically let the
resort to dictate where I'm going.
Because I'll say you know I want to go at this time and I'll look
around and I'll always find something when we get to Riviera
at the end of this month I'm going to go to one of those
tower rooms and I'll it's really interesting to me because I
found the the cheapest, I think it was like maybe 14 points for
a night. So we'll we'll talk about that
and what I plan to do with that and how I got it.
It was pretty easy. And then it looks like the last
that you kind of had on here less nights are easier to get.
Consider a split stay to lessen what you need at each resort.
And that kind of goes hand in hand with what what Panda just
kind of said. Yeah, obviously the the least
amount of nights that you need, the easier it is, right?
It's always easy to pick up like one or two nights.
Picking up a whole week somewhere, especially somewhere
that isn't your home resort, is going to be a little more
difficult. So if you are looking to
possibly stay at a different resort and you have a long stay,
it might be smart when you book your home resort to book it in
two chunks, right? So let's say it's seven nights,
book a four night and then a three night and then you can try
to modify just one of those at a time and you you could end up
with different resorts. But split days can be really
fun. You know, you get a different
scenery, you get a fresh room, you can move your resort around
and you could, you know focus on those parks.
So if you're staying at Bay Lake or around the Monorail, maybe
you focus on Magic Kingdom. Then if you're staying Epcot
area next and you focus on Epcot and Hollywood Studios or or you
know, whatever. And then one last thing that
that you skipped over. You should always if if you look
for something and it's not there and you're within the booking
range, you should always set wait list and you should also do
what we called stalking the system which we talked about
that on our vocabulary show. But basically you just check
regularly throughout the day. Depending on how dedicated you
are, it could be once a day, it could be a few times a day and
check to see you know if that opens up for you.
So let's go, Amy, go ahead. Just to just to go to Amy's
point, in May I had BLT Bay Lake tower, I think I had not lagoon
view. I had the other side the Bay
view and I wanted 4th of July to see the fireworks.
So I wait listed, you know tower room Parkview.
And sure enough it came through so you would think never.
You're never gonna get 4th of July.
You know Tower theme Parkview. I got it for two nights.
That's a very hard 1 to get on, a very hard date to get it.
So yeah, that, yeah. For sure.
Congratulations. Yeah, that's, yeah.
That's awesome. I'm I'm thinking a lot of people
thought not to wait list it because of the chances of
getting it are none. So the people that did you know
some of them got lucky like me. Yeah, I.
Hear you can consider that the 4th of July is my birthday.
Oh, you know what room number you're in?
I'll be knocking. OK.
Is that this year? I was last?
I had it. I had it.
I.
Know I should try? I should try it, yeah.
The expectation is set. Do it again I.
Didn't know your birthday was the 4th of July?
You get the best fireworks on your birthdays.
Too. We celebrate you, Jeff.
Thanks for that. Let's let's look a little bit
into each resort now. Now that we've we've talked
about this, why did Derek just show us a bucket hat again?
I. Was giving him a hat for for his
birthday. Because I I appreciate.
It I have. 2 already. Derek has a million of these at
home and just I. Want to wear it for one of our
shows? You should.
Paul mows the grass in his. I do, yeah.
It's a it's a great grass hat. It's one of those like you can
wet it and then wring it out and it's like a cooling hat.
Derek, Did everyone at your house get one for Christmas this
year? Like, yes, yes, Soggy in the
lobby. That is what he.
Said when when Paul puts his on and gets ready to mow the grass,
he officially transforms into Florida man.
So just so you know, like cut off T-shirt bucket that.
Pull the black socks up to the knees.
He slips into some sandals. Oh yeah, I could.
Can I give somebody just a really quick tip before you jump
into each resort? Anything you can get us off this
topic please? Yeah, for sure.
Because I know we've got some friends that are kind of newer
DVC members and they didn't realize that this was a thing.
So we were talking about it the other night.
When you go and like let's say you've you've looked at a week
in the I want to stay this week at Boardwalk and it says sorry,
no rooms are available. But if you click on the month
like you the drop down that shows the month and it shows
which days are available, make sure you do that because
sometimes it's only one night that's not available.
So book your like Amy was saying, book your first four or
five nights and the ones after wait list that one in the
middle. Because one nights.
A much easier one to wait list than three weekend nights, for
example. So make sure you're looking at
the calendar and seeing that it's actually not available for
the whole time, because if it's one or two nights, that's a much
easier grab, right? And it's looking Jeff, you're
right. I'm sorry.
No, no, you're fine. It took me a long time to
realize that you can also just modify the dates right there by
clicking on that calendar. I didn't know that for probably
three years. I'm pretty amazed at the power
they've given us in the DVC, you know, website when it works.
So the the thing I did with the if we just go to Riviera, those
those tower rooms, they're like not even real rooms.
There's no real bed. It's just pulled down.
It's tiny, but they're very little points and I wanted to
get one. So I put in staying from March
1st to March 31st, just like Jeff said, knowing I'm not going
to get, I didn't want a month worth of rooms, but that opened
up the calendar for me to look at March, to say there's a night
that's available and just grab the night that I wanted.
Again, I live here. It's flexible.
I get it. Not everyone can do that, but if
you can, it's a great, it's a great tool.
Yeah. If you're trying to build a
vacation around an event, let's say food and wine or power and
garden and you do have even if you're not local and you have
flexibility, you're like I don't care when I go, I want to go and
I want to stay here Boardwalk because it's close to Epcot.
Then you know by by searching that broader date range and
pulling up that calendar, that's really going to show you any
availability that that that could exist out there.
And that's a that's a great tip Jeff, for sure.
First up on our resorts list, Animal Kingdom and in terms of
the hardest rooms to book at Animal Kingdom we've got down
the club and value level rooms, which I will.
I will put a caveat on that and say those are the hardest rooms
of all of DVC, probably to book. Yeah, I don't.
Does anybody know how many club level rooms there are?
It's such a small amount. A handful.
I I thought it was like either 10 or something.
Like 6 they're. Only a jumbo, right?
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, I. Could ask.
Concierge is fantastic. Yeah, and then the same thing,
the same thing with and the other thing about Animal Kingdom
club level is it's the only club level DVC that there is.
So you know it's very popular. It's a very good value for the
points compared to if you were buying club level hotel, you
know cash. So and it's there's so few rooms
so those go very, very quickly and the value rooms are the
same. There's like 10 of them.
I think someone correct me if, you know, I think there's like
ten sets of like 10 studios and then ten one bedrooms that can
also be a two-bedroom lock off. I might that number might be off
by a little bit. Really it's it's a small amount.
You hear value too, and people think that they're going to be
incredibly different than the other properties we're talking
about. Maybe a couple square feet less
like they're they're very like. It's an unnoticeable amount and
sometimes you can even get a Savannah view.
You know some of them are Savannah View, some of them are
Pole view and then actually the least amount of them our our
parking lot view which we we got when we played value roll at.
And the real reason they're they're they're kind of labeled
value is I think just based off of the location and based off of
not wanting to convert some of the standard hotel rooms that
they had, it just made more sense for this area of the
building to basically fall into that value category.
But they are some of the hardest.
Anybody know what the easiest category or the most like
plentiful category at Animal Kingdom would be?
Derek for a bucket hat go. I'm going to go with Savannah
View GET. Get closer, I.
Forgot that we gave you guys the, you are right though there
are way more Savannah views than any any inventory at Animal
Kingdom. So those are going to be your
easiest. If you're trying to get, you
know. If you're just trying to get in
there or wait list or. Yeah, this is the this is the
next resort's the one that blows me away.
Hardest to get at Disney's Boardwalk Villas Standard View
or Boardwalk View, but easiest to get is the Pool Garden View.
I love the Pool Garden View. Like, I know I always take a
gamble with it, but I absolutely love it.
He says that as someone who has only ever had a pool garden view
over village green, that is true on the basically where he can
see the boardwalk I. Request it every time.
And we've done it every time. Yeah, we we failed it.
Roulette on that one. Yeah, you've never survived if
you've never survived having a pool garden view of the creepy
clown slide. Boy, I tell you there's like.
Spaghetti O'Hare used. To have those.
At night the eyes would glow up at night and sitting outside, it
was crazy. We've tried.
We've tried twice to play a pool garden, view roulette, and the
first time we were on the 1st floor at the pool, so like,
everybody's walking past our room on the way to the pool,
soggy and on their way to the lobby.
The second time we were on the third floor and there was this
giant tree. There was no view.
It was just a tree with kind of a little bit of hazy Tower of
Terror in the distance. I've heard of that view.
That that tree was full of birds and it's they am Oh man.
The one of the best that I've seen recently over on the DFC
fan Facebook group was a boardwalk view and it was a
first floor I think it was and it was right next to the preview
center. I'm here, but wait, it gets
better because they took a picture and the food truck that
are that are that are now coming the food truck parked right in
front of their room. I would ask for a new room or
give me give me my points to to a standard give.
Me. I'm not quite sure that that
equates to a boardwalk. Hey.
Oh, what a shame. I didn't even think about the
food truck blocking the view of some of those first floor rooms.
Although I any any first floor situation I'm not a fan of.
Yeah, same. We used to always request when
we used to stay at the boardwalk and book you know far out
because we flew down from Chicago, is we.
It used to be a hiking app and I know it still is.
But those rooms all the way near the Crest of the waves next to
Jelly rolls have walk and a half.
Like you know you might have to get a room just to sleep halfway
before you get to your actual. But it's so worth it because
those views, you see everything, you see the entire span of the
whole entire boardwalk. You see fireworks every single
night. So they all ended in 001 that I
do. And you can see spaceship Earth
from from those rooms as well, yeah.
Next up, Beach Club. Hardest to get at Beach Club are
studios, historically. Pretty much everything.
Yeah, I feel like everything here.
Easiest to get one bedrooms, although you wrote still
difficult but Beach Club is just such a small resort that it's
like if you don't book at 11 months you you are playing
roulette at that. At that time it is very hard.
Although our good friend Mandy, she she pieced together a good
stay. But she pieced it together,
literally one night at a time. One night at a time, stalking
the system, checking day in, day out, you know, But it happened.
It, it can happen. So there is hope.
And we have stayed at Beach Club several times, but they've all
been like single to two night, four night Max stays, you know
what I mean? And.
I've heard people have complained too that have stayed
at the beach club. Obviously not about the location
because they're perfect or not about the pool, but it's always
like, yeah, we got a bad room, you know, we had a horrible
view. I don't think there's good views
at the beach club. I.
Don't think so either. Where the resort is built,
you're literally going to sit on your patio and watch people walk
by, like on their way to the park.
So don't feel bad if you don't get a good view at the beach
club, because there are none. I remember one of our first
beach club stays. We got the coveted view.
We we got a coveted view, but it was also through a forest.
Oh no, you're thinking the the first day we ever had, we got
the view where you can see like the I think is it the land
pavilion? Yeah, but it was.
Like, no, There was a crane right in.
Front it was a crane. I forgot it was a construction
crane. But it's also like, even though
it's like the perfect view at that resort, it's also you, you
you go into it and you're like, this is great, I could see
Epcot, I'll see fireworks and it's like you see like 1 spark
come up over something every 5 minutes.
Yeah, we've watched fireworks. But it's so it's it's so
thrilling to sit there for 5 minutes.
Oh, there's one like. Another thing about Beach Club
too. At least the times that I've
stayed there, I don't know what it is.
But you know, last episode we talked about Hilton Head and how
spacious the balconies are. Balconies, the Beach club are
like this big. There's no rocking chair
there's. I don't know I I.
Oh, beach club is like balcony roulette where you might get
like this weird, you know, isosceles shaped balcony.
There's a. Word you didn't expect to hear
today, ladies and gentlemen. You might get a little square
like. You're right, it's just so
random. Do you remember on our one of
our our. I think it was my birthday trip
or your birthday trip to beach club?
We stayed in a room and we looked down.
This is also what's weird about it is we were in like a very
tiny balcony. But we were if we looked
straight down, there were giant balconies below us.
So like, we were literally standing above people if they
were on their balcony, yeah, but there were two.
We were on a corner and there were two balconies, but then
there was this weird area where it was like a triangle of
nothingness, but neither balcony could get to it.
Yeah, it was and. So it was like a time out zone.
I felt like in between the two balconies I don't like.
I don't know why they didn't. Open that up.
Why didn't they open that up to one of the sides?
Like, it makes no sense. Unless they were like, oh,
that's going to be the place where the person above you spits
or something. I have no idea.
Like, but yeah, Beach Club's weird, That's.
A new member. Lump yeah, I'm going to lump the
next two together because you know they kind of fall into the
same categories. Copper Creek, Boulder Ridge,
both at Wilderness Lodge, hardest to get at.
Those properties are going to be studios, easiest to get are
going to be 1 bedrooms and I think I'll I'll take that a step
further with Copper Creek. And say Cabin.
Well, copper, no, Copper Creek in general, just extremely hard
for both studios. I would even say one bedroom, 2
bedroom because of what the cabins have done.
To that resort, right? Yeah.
I don't think that the cabins are too, too hard to get except
during like popular times, just because they cost so much and
points. So a lot of people kind of stay
away from those. And that's what's put the stress
I think on the, on the other properties there's as you know
the the studios, the one bedrooms, 2 bedrooms.
That's why everyone bought Copper Creek except for the rare
few that did buy for the cabins. But you know the the cabins are
what have kind of caused the biggest issue there.
And then Boulder Ridge, beautiful property recently
refurbished. The studios look great.
The one we the one bedrooms look great.
You know, all of all of those are are amazing, but they fall
into what would be kind of the standard when it comes to, you
know, what we're seeing across the board with availability in
in in in kind of what the what the rooms are doing next on the
list Grand Floridian. And it's interesting you didn't
go by room type here, you kind of went by the original
buildings. So hardest to get are the
original villas at the Grand Floridian.
So the original building and the easiest to get are the new
resort studios as our dogs decide it's playtime.
Hermie's favorite toy is this pink pony.
This pink pony that came in a bark box that I thought we were
going to give to our friends dog Abby, but he likes it so much so
Paul's gonna have to take it off him 'cause he's squeak again.
Oh, big pony, there's. Pink Pony.
Does he want a bucket hat if I
can get him a bucket? Hat Yeah, so Grand Floridian,
basically. Grand Floridian used to be so
hard to book. Do you guys remember before they
opened Big Pine Key, how difficult it was?
And I remember that's why we bought points there and it was
it was so hard. And then they opened up Big Pine
Key and I don't it's not as hard anymore to get into Grand
Floridian, but it is hard to get into those original villas and
that's the Deluxe studios, the one bedrooms, the two bedrooms
and the the three bedroom Grand villas.
But the resort studios are definitely a lot easier, easier
to get now. Yeah, because, I mean, you have
10s of thousands of, if not more points that are now floating
around for people that are competing with just that
original building. For the one bedrooms, for the
two bedrooms, for the three bedrooms.
Studios are not that hard to come by and I prefer the new
tower ones, you know, way better than the original building just
because of the location and all that.
But you're still dealing with people that bought the Grand
Floridian in that second phase. That said, we only want one
bedroom when you want two bedrooms.
But that building itself didn't get any bigger, so it still
stayed the same prize as when it was sold out.
So. Derek, I will take everything
you just said about the Grand Floridian and actually transfer
it to our next resort, which is the Polynesian, because I think
we're going to run into the same problem there.
Amy, you marked out on here. It's pretty easy in most
situations to get the studio or the bungalows currently.
Because it pretty much is all studios and then the bungalows
are just so high in points that you know, unless you got them,
you don't get it so. But that's going to change.
If you know that this new resort come, you know, the new tower
comes on and there's one bedrooms and there's two
bedrooms, then all of these people that have stayed in
studios all these years are going to say, oh, I want, I want
into the one bedrooms, I want into the two bedrooms.
And so you're going to run into the same exact problem that
we're seeing over it at Grand Floridian, which is everyone's
fighting over those one and two bedrooms, which for me, I'm fine
with, you know, I love studios. There's going to be some of the,
you know, resort studio or tower studio type concepts in this
resort as well, so those will be available probably just as hard
to get. As Panda has said, you know the
the Tower studio at Riviera was as hard to get for him.
But you know, hey, more studios for us and I don't know if
anyone will stay in the bungalows at that point.
Those will. Those will always be up for
grabs. I have a quick question.
Does Copper Creek or Boulder Ridge have Grand Villas?
That's a great question. Copper Creek does have Grand
Villas. Boulder Ridge and Beach Club do
not. OK, I was just wondering if if
Polly, because of the bungalows, we're going to have a grand
villa as well, so. I I it looks like it does look
like that. I mean it it kind of the the
overall design of that tower mimics a lot of what they did
with Disneyland hotel. And so I think we're going to
see maybe 234, you know very, very small number.
But you know those top two floors or so are going to have
those Grand Villas and they're only going to do that to boost
what they can sell points wise of that resort.
That's that's really where that you know the Grand Villas when
you look at a point chart as a whole it makes up the total
number of points per day per year for each each room in the
building. And what is the best opportunity
while we, you know, we know it's the Grand Villas, we've seen it
with Polynesian and and Copper Creek.
What they did was they inflated those charts by the bungalows
and the cabins and so they they need something to eat up some
points, they can sell some more and and and recoup the cost of
building that resort. So that's what we'll probably
see there. Jeff, just to answer your
question to a refurbished Copper Creek Grand Villa I think is
like the flagship Grand Villa 'cause it's different than all
the others. It's really just yeah.
Interesting. OK, cool.
Next on our list, continuing around the monorail loop, we're
back to Bay Lake Tower, Amy's favorite.
I just love it. It's not my favorite, but I do
love it. Hardest to get.
There. Hardest to get there standard or
theme park view unless you're Panda and you luck out on that
July 4th day. And then the easiest to get is
the lake view. Well, and interestingly enough,
out of all of the resorts, I think that we've talked about,
if you're punting and have to settle for a lake view at Bay
Lake Tower, that's not a bad settle like that.
It's a beautiful view. Especially because if you can,
if if you want to, you can just hop in the elevator and go up to
the observation deck or go to top of the World lounge and you
can see the fireworks from there, so you've got the same.
Yeah. And Lakeview, obviously it's
because it has the most inventory at Bay Lake, but some
of the lake view is on the inside of the horseshoe facing
Bay Lake and some of them are actually on the other side.
So some some Lake views do have theme park views.
So. But that but that theme park
view like during the day, which is what I tell people all too
all the time. Like don't be sad if you don't
get it because during the day it's almost like a parking lot
view just because you see it all the way to like the Magic
Kingdom, it's parking lot, parking lot, but at night it's
really really pretty. But I just don't think it's
worth the points. I I would rather get a like view
if that's a beautiful. Scene for me, though, Derek,
it's the sounds I'm telling you, there's something about here in
the and here in the Haunted Mansion.
You can hear the howls from the your balcony, and there's just
something magical about that whole spot.
Good. Point I've.
Never listened that intently that I could hear Haunted
Mansion you. Can hear Haunted Mansion.
You're hearing the next door, neighbors.
No, no, I swear. You could hear the Haunted
Mansion. You could hear the ferry boats
obviously you just there's certain sounds of the of the
lagoon that are just ah yeah, it's alive.
It's alive when it comes to. Crazy point charts and views and
the most irregular thing we've ever seen.
I have to put it on our next resort, which is Riviera.
For Riviera, the hardest to get unless you're paying the Tower
Studios or anything. That is.
You heard how I got it. It wasn't special.
I looked at a month, yeah, and said OK, I'll go this day.
Yeah, you know but so the The Tower Studios, very hard to get
very limited number of those available.
But standard view is very difficult to get and this this
is I think twofold, one, because it's cheaper and two, because it
actually faces a park like it actually faces fireworks in most
scenarios, whereas the preferred view is what I call the splash
pad view or the the kind of lake view and the point charts for
those are outrageous. So most, I mean panda you're
you're our resident Riviera owner.
Would you book a preferred view knowing what those cost per
night with the points versus a standard view when you can see
Epcot and see fireworks? I'd go for standard first, but
I've had the preferred view and I've had, you know, the the like
that they have out there and the gondolas and it looks nice, it's
nice, it's nice. It is nice, peaceful it.
Is nice if you get that view we we were over the splash pad but.
Yeah, we had the kids. Even the parking lot view, I
didn't. I don't mind it at the Revere.
Everything seems nice there to me.
We we rode out Hurricane Ian facing the parking lot and that
was a that was a good time because we just watched this
guy's Jeep fill up with water because he didn't have a top on
it. So that was pretty great.
We just filmed it like in time lapse.
It was awesome. Not for him, but for us.
That's. Pretty cool.
We need this video, Jeff. We need this video.
I feel bad. That's that's Patreon content.
Really want to see the video? And and especially Jeff's
probably commentary and the and reactions in the background of
it. Also time lapse, so I don't
think you get all that it'll. Be It'll be squeaky and fast,
but you'll still get it, so it's.
Gonna pay the price for. Not having a move?
Rounding out the Walt Disney World properties?
Old Key West Hardest Near Hospitality House.
Easiest. The regular booking category You
know, agree. There's what, two buildings that
are The near Hospitality House, I believe, No.
Clue. It's not very many.
Two or three buildings that are categorized as near Hospitality
house, which is near the the central location.
So people there's no difference in points.
So most people try to book those first.
They don't. They don't charge extra points
like surge pricing to be near hospitality.
House. No.
So actually, why Derek might be able to shed more light on this.
I think this was just reactionary to them.
I don't think this is actually how they originally came on.
No, this is all reactionary, right?
So it's whenever you talk about the point charts, it's always
the phrase reallocation. So that's what legally it's
called is reallocation because every resort has a total number
of vacation club points assigned to it.
That total number can never ever increase just like we said.
So they can move stuff around like we've talked about.
So you know that early December, that time frame and now might be
a couple more points tonight then maybe during the summer's
less, but I think that truly and I could probably find out for
short, but I think when they revised it, obviously the total
number of points never changed but they just had so many people
requesting that we want to be near hospitality House that they
just made it it's own booking place.
So yeah. Yeah, that was always my general
impression is so many people whether it be mobility related,
you name it, but they wanna be closer to the amenities of the
resort and so it was just easier for them rather than to have
this onslaught of a million requests.
For that let's make it its own booking category and and make it
easy. But old Key West on the whole
fairly easy to get into because it is one of the one of the
larger properties and by far the largest property at Walt Disney
World When it comes to Disney Vacation Club Saratoga Springs
hardest you wrote most are easy. That is true, but studios in
Grand Villas will go first in the standard.
Category just because it's lost points.
Standard usually goes first, even though it's usually easy,
but you know they're if you're booking last minutes sometimes
Saratoga is gone. So usually if if it pops up,
what we normally will see is like a preferred you know be
more expensive points. But yeah, not much to say there.
And same thing there. Preferred's gonna be a little
bit closer to the amenities and a little bit closer to Disney
Springs and a lot of those elements too.
So more points equals easier to get in most.
I I think that's probably the general theme of the show.
Yeah. Over the years, if we move real
quick just to finish this off to some of the properties that are
outside of Walt Disney World, Aulani is a big one that a lot
of people question. So we have a lot of owners that
are Walt Disney World DVC owners that are like, I want to go to
Aulani, I want to do an Aulani vacation.
You know, what are the odds of me getting in seven months?
I don't know, Derek, You probably get that question just
as much as we do. A lot, yeah.
Yeah. And so.
So the odds are pretty good. It's just during the busier
times of year, especially maybe if you want like in Ocean View
during Christmas week might be a little bit hard at seven months
out, yeah. Yeah, in general though, Ocean
View can be one of the easier categories to get offseason just
again because of the point charts and and because of the
cost it is to have that view. Right.
And the hardest are those hotel rooms.
And I I've heard, and I don't know if this is true or not, but
those came about because there's only like what, six of them,
it's it's some random, really small number value.
They're very cheap on points. They're just, they're hotel
rooms. And I always heard that they had
taken out a grand villa to put in Alma.
Alma. Or is it is that the name of the
AMMA, which is the specialty, you know, resort or the
specialty restaurant? And because they did that for
the hotel, the resort, the hotel resort had to give something
back to DVC. So they gave them a handful of
hotel rooms to make up for that loss of that grand villa.
And that's why we have like 6 random hotel rooms in the DVC
inventory. Interesting.
Yeah, we knew it.
So they are the cheapest on points, they go very quickly by
owners and then then standard view is gonna go next.
But if I'm going clear to Hawaii and flying for 11 hours, I'm
going to Ocean View. Though, unless you get sick and
then you settle for whatever room you can get.
We still can see the ocean, but. Although pro tip, if you get the
garden view you can often see the luau from your from your
room. That is true.
Then you. Don't have to pay $179 or
whatever it is. But nobody will throw you up
food. I love that Jeff's equation of
watching the luau from his balcony is the same as being
there drinking and eating. Like, are you stealing from it?
He's like instead of spending 179, just sit and watch the
people. No.
Yeah. Go get the pizza from
downstairs, Bring up, have a way better meal and still see the
luau you. Got to find out the
entertainment. Especially if you have a
two-bedroom and friends, that's. Right.
Also off property we, I think we touched on a lot of this in our
Hilton Head show and also in our previous Vero Beach talks.
So both of these I kind of think fall into the same realm which
is that Vero Beach and Hilton Head peak season that's going to
be your hardest to get these these different properties, you
know, perfect summer vacation season.
You know it's going to be hard to go to the spring spring
break. Easiest is going to be offseason
when most of us have have historically gone to some of
these properties at at Vero when Amy and I recently went to
Hilton Head and and Derek will speak quickly to Vero Beach.
Those 3 bedroom beach cottages boy and and the in rooms
actually also they are they are the go to and and and ones that
most people want at Vero. But I think unless you own
there, they're pretty hard to get.
People will and our very own Webmaster doc recently bought
some Bureau Peach points for that exact same reason because
he wants to get the beach cottage.
Not every year but maybe every other year because there's not
many of them and the in rooms I think are a way better use of
points than the studios. I think the location in that
main building at Bureau with the 2 queen beds in it, you still
have a mini fridge, you still have you know the microwave, so
you still have that, but it's in a much better location and a
great use of points. I have gotten a standard view,
which we just did in December, but I was able to see the ocean
if you kind of look over this way and stand on your tippy toes
and all that. So even a regular standard view
in the in room is pretty, you know.
So yeah, you you can't go wrong either way.
Heading to the West Coast? Grand Californian Disneyland
Villas for the Grand Californian you wrote down hardest to get
everything. Everything, but especially any.
Studios in Grand Villas because there's only two Grand Villas.
Studios in Grand Villas go first, they go at about, you
know, 8 O 1:00 AM and then eight O 2:00 AM the one bedrooms go
and then there's nothing left and you know it.
Grand California is just you've got to own there to get in.
That is that has historically been the role there's been the
off off scenario where we're we're testament to that where we
we somehow got. A studio.
And so again, if you stock the
system and and you kind of pay attention to what's going on.
But I did try and fail multiple mornings, so we had to be
flexible, You know what I mean? Tried and failed.
Try the next morning and failed. And so our dates moved as the
time moves. So then we finally got it.
Got it. Got to be flexible.
And then Disneyland Villas. So far, from what we've seen,
the easiest to get are those preferred view rooms which make
up a lot of the resort. They've they've labeled a lot of
them that that property the the preferred view studio and then
hardest Grand Villas. There's two when they when they
first opened there was one because the second one wasn't
ready. 1 bedrooms. 2 bedrooms, the duo studios, so like the
tower studio type concepts there.
And then those elusive garden studios that are down in the
pool area, which don't even attract me.
Like, I I think it's cool that they're like off to the side,
but I don't like that. They sit so low.
They sit so low and. You're probably loud from the.
Pool. Yeah, Like when we were there, I
felt like I could look up at them and scream at the people on
the 2nd. Balcony and just have a.
Conversation with them. So like yeah the privacy is is
is little to none but overall in that resort the bigger problems
with you know no balconies on some of the some of the main
rooms and stuff like that. So, but you know it'll be
interesting to continue to watch the Disneyland Villas as they
sell more and we as we see what the availability does there, if
you guys had to guess with new properties coming down the road.
So we talked about Poly a little bit in its own right.
The Poly Tower though, if you think about the tower
specifically, what is it? What is going to be hard to get
at the tower? Can I go?
Yeah, for a bucket hat go. Yeah, I literally was just going
to bring this up and ask, 'cause I know, obviously we're all
speculating at at this point, but I'm sitting here thinking
about it and thinking how many people love.
And I still cannot get over the fact that there's one DVC resort
with a concierge level that I think the Polynesian has always
been famous for their concierge level.
I think it's what like King Kamehameha Club or something
close enough? It seems to me like it would be
such an absolute no brainer to include a concierge level club
as part of the new Polynesian town.
You don't have to have many rooms, but my God, is it
enticing for people to look to say okay God, There's a point
chart and there's gonna be a lounge and everything else
that's there, so I would personally love to see that.
I think the point chart itself is going to rival the Grand
Floridian 1, so I think the one bedrooms are going to be pretty
similar to the two bedrooms and the three bedrooms and whatnot.
But man, they'll be awesome if they could add a concierge
level. That would be cool.
Now I'm now now I'm just going to be hoping for the next six
months until. We launch something, Yeah, I
agree. I hadn't even thought of that,
yeah. If this paid out.
If if this pans out, this show will go down in history, Is
Derek the future teller? But you're right.
Like Grand Destino, Like top floor, like Grand Destino Lounge
that you can see the park, yeah. People pay an insane amount of
money for the original hotel rooms at the Polynesian Hotel to
be part of that concierge level. And I'm talking, I hear stories
all the time from people that started going there in the 70s.
They've never stayed anywhere else but concierge level at the
Polynesian. And if you've ever seen that
lounge, it's kind of got the two-story huge notes that look
the whole. Yeah, I look up in it from time
to time. It'd.
Be awesome. If they could do, they'd.
Be printing money. I used to.
I used to stay there for 9 nights a year when I lived back
in New York and I would always get the Tonga.
Building with those with the concierge was great.
Wow. Do we think it was 100 and 170
dollars a night, 'cause I was a travel agent?
That was my discount, $170.00 an hour.
Oh my. God, do we think that because of
the way the Poly is designed that the one bedrooms actually
might be harder here because we already have so many studios?
And if they add a bunch more studios, like people that want
to stay at the Poly don't because there isn't a room
that's big enough for their family.
Oh, there are going to be studios also in the tower.
I thought the tower was just I. Would assume so, yeah.
Yeah based off of based off some of the blueprints we've seen
there will definitely be lock offs at least and and you know
maybe some some dedicated and the duo or the tower type
studios as well. Jeff, my thought on that is
Polly's such a weird one because it does.
I feel like Polly does attract some of the same clientele that
one bedrooms do because of how the bathroom layout is.
You know, the the room is a little bit bigger.
It's one of the bigger studios. I think on property you have the
split bathroom concept, so there's a little bit more room.
Now are people going to obviously want a one bedroom
over that? Yes.
Like so I I completely agree that you know, the one bedrooms
that are going to be very difficult to get as are the two,
the two bedrooms. But I do wonder like what does
it do for the the resort as a whole?
Because like it's like the the standard, but the real, the real
comparison I think is gonna be looking at what they do with the
studios in that tower compared to the existing studios, the
existing long houses. Like when we compare the split
bathroom concepts and everything.
So what what kind of space is there between those two and how
do those two categories maybe rival each other?
So I'd be, I'd be totally fine if they made the studios in the
new tower the same as the ones like at the Grand Floridian,
right. So you have your regular studios
that you can get that have already been there, but but then
if you want two dedicated queen beds, you know, then perfect,
then I got to stay in the tower, you know, that's that's how I
would separate it. But they don't pay me for that.
Last but not least on the list, the cabins at Disney's Fort
Wilderness Resort. Now do we think the one bedroom
cabins or the one bedroom cabins are going to be harder to book
at that? Property at Seasons for this
one. Yeah, Christmas.
And. Halloween are going to be hard.
I think they're going to have to give them away the rest of the
year. I that's my prediction.
I don't think these are going to do as well as anybody else
thinks. So that's I'm I'm going to die
on that hill. You heard it here first.
I hope Jeff is right, Easier for us to book.
Right. Yeah.
They'll get so desperate they'll let you have another dog.
That's the hill she's going to die on, so there we go.
You'll have a whole loop yourself.
Just Jeff Haslam in a whole entire loop.
He's going to be the only one staying there.
I love it. Well, hopefully we've taught you
a thing or two about using your points this show and at least
giving you some ideas. We know we've we've gotten a lot
of questions from members over over the time of just you know
can I get in here what are the odds of me getting in here and
that's a big question When people are looking at buying a a
contract too is like OK this is what I'm thinking is it going to
work out. And I think that's a great
question to ask and into those people that think on that level
when they are making that purchase are kind of getting
ahead of the game rather than I think a lot of people buy direct
you know instinctively emotionally when they when
they're at the parks and then they have absolutely no clue
what they just got into. And so they don't realize that
what they were sold on in those in that in that presentation is
actually pretty hard to get 9 times out of 10.
And so you know coming into it with a game plan, coming into
it, knowing some of this information about what the
availability is like at those properties can give you a step
up and hopefully make that vacation that you're planning
for you and your family a little bit easier for you to get.
And as we've said, if you can be flexible, I think that's the
number one thing is maybe when you have those family
conversations, kind of not necessarily put it into, hey, we
want a vacation June 7th through the 12th, How about, hey, we
want a vacation in June. Like if you can, if you can kind
of be a little bit more flexible, it's going to really
open up the opportunities that you have available to you.
And then as always planning you know 12 months in advance so
that you're ready at 8:00 AM on on the 11 month window day so
that you can book what you need and then maybe play the game a
little bit as we get closer to 07 month window.
Wait list in stock, Wait list in stock.
And on that note, that's going to do it for this episode of the
DVC show. We hope you all enjoyed it and
we will see you all next Monday.