Jaguar Skills
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Apr 13, 2020
Hi all,
This is my first post on this forum so please go easy. We went to Disney this year for the first time as a family. Myself, fiancee (who I proposed to at Cinderella's fountain) and our son, who was (and still is 2). We are from the UK so realistically I think we would be doing disney every other year, or trying to do it twice in one year to take advantage of an annual pass then leave it for 2/3 years. Are there any other UK DVC members that can help as we'd love to hear opinions!
We also went and did the DVC intro meeting as we were interested in finding more about it. We have a few questions, and given it is such a minefield thought we would open them up to the forum.
- Which currently is the best value resort? Looking at some articles it seems like Saratoga Springs is. We had originally thought that AKL would have been the sort of resort we'd like but want to try and make this as cost effective as possible?
-Potentially and probably, we will have another child in the near future, so should we look to get more points to take that into consideration? I don't want to overprice given we will be cash buyers.
-we have seen that some of the contracts are shorter than others, what would be the minimum you would go for?
-should we also buy some direct to get the discounts etc? What exactly is the discount on annual passes? Do the UK packages outweigh the benefit of getting anything with disney direct?
- There is obviously a slight concern about travel cost i.e. flights per year albeit we do collect airmiles through our credit card.
-if we look to buy resale and there are points available, how do we find out if these can carry to next year?
-with dining options, this is also an added cost as when we went this year we took advantage of the free disney dining.
This is my first post on this forum so please go easy. We went to Disney this year for the first time as a family. Myself, fiancee (who I proposed to at Cinderella's fountain) and our son, who was (and still is 2). We are from the UK so realistically I think we would be doing disney every other year, or trying to do it twice in one year to take advantage of an annual pass then leave it for 2/3 years. Are there any other UK DVC members that can help as we'd love to hear opinions!
We also went and did the DVC intro meeting as we were interested in finding more about it. We have a few questions, and given it is such a minefield thought we would open them up to the forum.
- Which currently is the best value resort? Looking at some articles it seems like Saratoga Springs is. We had originally thought that AKL would have been the sort of resort we'd like but want to try and make this as cost effective as possible?
-Potentially and probably, we will have another child in the near future, so should we look to get more points to take that into consideration? I don't want to overprice given we will be cash buyers.
-we have seen that some of the contracts are shorter than others, what would be the minimum you would go for?
-should we also buy some direct to get the discounts etc? What exactly is the discount on annual passes? Do the UK packages outweigh the benefit of getting anything with disney direct?
- There is obviously a slight concern about travel cost i.e. flights per year albeit we do collect airmiles through our credit card.
-if we look to buy resale and there are points available, how do we find out if these can carry to next year?
-with dining options, this is also an added cost as when we went this year we took advantage of the free disney dining.