Renting Points

[jojo777]

You can reduce the points significantly by cutting off the Saturday night and doing 6 nights. I own Disney and I never do a full 7 nights unless I swap in. The points increase on the weekends (Fri and Sat nights are too much) PM me if you have any questions. It would take that 2 bedroom down to 225 points.

 

[nomoretslt]

You can reduce the points significantly by cutting off the Saturday night and doing 6 nights. I own Disney and I never do a full 7 nights unless I swap in. The points increase on the weekends (Fri and Sat nights are too much) PM me if you have any questions. It would take that 2 bedroom down to 225 points.

We usually stay in a one bedroom for the two of us, but we will bookend our stays with a studio to save Friday and Saturday points and to take advantage of the dining plan for one night (when it was available). Sometimes we will stay in Marriott Village on our travel down day, get free breakfast then check in early at our resort and hit the parks.

 

[Cyberc]

The current rental price direct from an owner is $18/19 usually.

If you can get points that cheap you should go for it. More often the points rent for $20+ depending of when and where you wanna go.

Yea DVC is a complete waste of money IMO compared to just staying off site and renting a car. I only own because I'm an hour away and it's worth $130-$200 to me for 1 night because other systems don't let me rent for 1 night. For weeklong stays, just get a Marriott 2 bedroom lock off and trade the 1 bedroom portion for SSR in Interval International for $1300-$1500 a week.

Each to his own.
If I'm going to WDW no way am I staying off site. Just take the new Genie+ service and ILL if you don't stay onsite you are already 2 hours behind for booking Genie+ and buying ILL. You most likely won't get to try ANY of the more desirable attractions unless you stand in line for 2.5-3 hours Plus you get earlier access to the parks when staying onsite.

But frankly I also like the resorts and being in the Disney bubble. A few years back I stayed at HGV while visiting WDW, and even though HGV is nice its just not the same when going to WDW.

I know that Bonnet Creek is part of the Disney friendship hotels and it should provide the same benefits as staying onsite, but still its not Disney.

Yea but most people who are out of state don't know enough about the costs of everything outside of the bubble. A 2 bedroom at Bonnet Creek is usually cheaper to rent than a studio at any of the DVC resorts and it's the same distance from the parks/Disney Springs and has better amenities because of the 2 lazy rivers.

There is a reason why most if not all Disney resorts are fully booked 99.8% of the year, its not because you can book something cheaper elsewhere because no doubt about it - you definitely can - but its still not Disney. People want Disney and they happily pay for it.

 

[cbyrne1174]

If you can get points that cheap you should go for it. More often the points rent for $20+ depending of when and where you wanna go.


Each to his own.
If I'm going to WDW no way am I staying off site. Just take the new Genie+ service and ILL if you don't stay onsite you are already 2 hours behind for booking Genie+ and buying ILL. You most likely won't get to try ANY of the more desirable attractions unless you stand in line for 2.5-3 hours Plus you get earlier access to the parks when staying onsite.

But frankly I also like the resorts and being in the Disney bubble. A few years back I stayed at HGV while visiting WDW, and even though HGV is nice its just not the same when going to WDW.

I know that Bonnet Creek is part of the Disney friendship hotels and it should provide the same benefits as staying onsite, but still its not Disney.


There is a reason why most if not all Disney resorts are fully booked 99.8% of the year, its not because you can book something cheaper elsewhere because no doubt about it - you definitely can - but its still not Disney. People want Disney and they happily pay for it.

What ride forces you to stay in line for 2.5-3 hours? I've never waited over 30 minutes for Rise of the Resistance. Those lines are for people who don't know the park close rule for getting in line. I've ridden all 3 Toy Story rides + Rise within a 2 hour window with no LL or Genie plus. I just go after work on a weekday. People staying offsite can do the exact same thing. You just ride Rise, Slinky, Flight and Minetrain at park close.

 

[nomoretslt]

What ride forces you to stay in line for 2.5-3 hours? I've never waited over 30 minutes for Rise of the Resistance. Those lines are for people who don't know the park close rule for getting in line. I've ridden all 3 Toy Story rides + Rise within a 2 hour window with no LL or Genie plus. I just go after work on a weekday. People staying offsite can do the exact same thing. You just ride Rise, Slinky, Flight and Minetrain at park close.

How fabulous for you that you are able to do Disney the way you do. You should write a book!

My way is completely different, but I’m happy that I no longer have to fly to get there, just a mere 8 hour drive. Since they reopened we’ve gone six times, for 8 - 10 days each time. We feel very fortunate we can do this. It’s hard to explain to someone that does not understand. We get a very calm and peaceful feeling when we check into our resorts. We like greeting Cast Members we’ve seen throughout the years. We love meeting other DVC members by the pool and getting to know them. Have formed some friendships this way. Parks are not so important to us any more since we are lucky to go so often. No more park commandos for us.

We are getting a bit disgusted with Disney the corporate parent. We will, of course, continue to renew our annual passes, for as long as we are permitted, but if they do away with that we will probably think hard about selling and/or renting out points and use the $$ to take long cruises. We have over 800 points at 3 of the most desirable resorts so I don’t think it would be an issue (but I would never sell Boardwalk....).

 

[Cyberc]

What ride forces you to stay in line for 2.5-3 hours? I've never waited over 30 minutes for Rise of the Resistance. Those lines are for people who don't know the park close rule for getting in line. I've ridden all 3 Toy Story rides + Rise within a 2 hour window with no LL or Genie plus. I just go after work on a weekday. People staying offsite can do the exact same thing. You just ride Rise, Slinky, Flight and Minetrain at park close.

Glad that you are able to go after work, I don’t have that luxury.

if you live THAT close to Disney why would you stay onsite/off site?

We rope dropped to avoid the lines at FOP and ROTR. We went this February and I followed the wait times for those attractions for quite a few days up until start of our trip so I knew what to expect and at no time around park closure did the wait time dropped to you experience.

if I could have waited and not arrived until 60 minutes before park closure and then have ridden anything I wanted without wait times I definitely would have. On the other hand I paid a chunk of money for my park tix and only visiting 60 minutes wouldn’t work. I could of course visit, go home and come back later but honestly I don’t think that would work for us.

Also during some week days some of the parks stay open longer only for guests staying onsite if you are already in line you can try that attraction.

 

[TheHolleys87]

I know that Bonnet Creek is part of the Disney friendship hotels and it should provide the same benefits as staying onsite, but still its not Disney.

FYI Wyndham Bonnet Creek is not one of the hotels that gets any onsite benefits. The Signia by Hilton and the Waldorf Astoria get Early Morning Theme Park Entry but do not get Deluxe Extended Evening Hours.

 

[bizaro86]

If I'm going to WDW no way am I staying off site. Just take the new Genie+ service and ILL if you don't stay onsite you are already 2 hours behind for booking Genie+ and buying ILL.

That's true for ILL but not Genie+. We did a split stay (Vistana Villages/Animal Kingdom) and could book genie+ at 7AM for both, but ILL at 7 only when staying onsite. We did only 2 ILL (7 dwarfs and flight of passage), doing the other headliners in early entry.

 

[cbyrne1174]

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[nomoretslt]

Good grief, makes me glad I don’t have a kid in that school system.

 

[cbyrne1174]

I decided to rent out my 50 DVC points this year and used the revenue to cover ~90% of my costs of a 1 bedroom OKW exchange since it's the last year I will get SSR or OKW that cheap. It ended up costing about the same as Bonnet Creek.

 

[DeeCee]

I just saw 2 bedrooms at SSR and OKW in the range of 265 to 317 points for that week (depending on view).

 

[blondietink]

If you look on DVC shop under confirmed reservations, there is a lot of availability for studios at various resorts during the time period you want. There is only a one bedroom listed for one night at AKL. No 2 bedrooms are available.