How Many Points To Buy on Your First Disney Vacation Club Contract? | DVC Points Considerations

Описание: Buying Disney Vacation Club comes with loads of massive decisions; a particularly stress-inducing one can be how many points should you purchase? Vacation Points are used to book DVC accommodations, so the annual allotment of points you receive is very important and can dictate your stay. Some resorts generally cost more points than others, and larger room sizes cost more points than smaller room sizes. More "desirable" views also cost more points! And of course, points are per night so the longer you want to vacation the more points you'll need.

The amount of points you'll need (or want!) is going to be highly variable between people, largely dependent on your vacation style/habits as well as your financial situation. In general though you will be trying to balance buying enough points to be able to take your desired trips with not overpaying for your DVC contract (don't forget how quickly those annual dues can add up).

In this video we'll go over some key considerations when trying to decide how many points you should buy for your first Disney Vacation Club contract.

0:24 Brief overview of initial decisions for DVC you'll need to make + minimum point requirement for becoming an official DVC member
1:10 Consideration 1: Points charts at your home resort and DVC seasons
2:37 Consideration 2: Vacation timing (your travel party size, time of year, length of stay, frequency of trips, etc.)
4:38 Consideration 3: Fine-tuning the amount of points to purchase (buy the exact amount of points you calculated, or less, or more? How banking, borrowing, use year, and annual dues fit into these considerations)
7:37 Consideration 4: DVC villa availability - some rooms are "high demand" and if you're counting on booking those you may end up disappointing; this may factor in to how many points you purchase depending on your personal philosophies and financial striation
Check out this forum thread for some excellent information about booking patterns, from which you can infer general availability, of various villas categorized by the different DVC resorts: https://www.disboards.com/threads/pre...
9:04 Consideration 5: Overall flexibility and potential for resale (splitting up large contracts for increased flexibility
9:46 Warning: owning DVC may change your vacation habits and some people can never have enough points!

Find all of the official points chart information here: https://disneyvacationclub.disney.go....



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