Feature Articles

DVC Perk Restrictions--Six Months Later

Six months ago, Disney Vacation Club announced a new policy which was primarily designed to boost their own sales.  But this change also had the potential to disrupt the secondary market, lowering the resale value of millions of DVC points.  

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Disney's Beach Club Villas

Disney's Beach Club Resort

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7 Things We Love About Bay Lake Tower

When The Walt Disney Company dramatically debuted the finished product of their Florida Project, one of their most impressive engineering feats wasn’t a theme park attraction. Instead, it was an accompanying hotel adjoining the Magic Kingdom, the East Coast’s answer to Disneyland. This majestic facility bore the thematic name of The Contemporary Resort Hotel, and it embodied Walt Disney’s vision for his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. From the conception of the project, he’d intended for a resplendent hotel to host guests from around the world as they visited E.P.C.O.T.

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Bay Lake Tower

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Are DVC Member Perks Getting Better or Worse?

"They keep taking away our perks.  Disney doesn't care about DVC members!"

It's a familiar refrain among members whenever adjustments to the Disney Vacation Club owner perks are brought to light.  But are the perks really getting worse or merely evolving over time?

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Portable Perks

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Disney Vacation Club Resort Timeline, Part 3

Now that we’ve covered the earliest days and the growth phase of the Disney Vacation Club, it’s time to bring the story to the present day. That covers the past ten years of changes, improvements, and additions to the DVC catalog. The focus of the final discussion will involve exotic Hawaii and then the prioritization of locality to the world’s most popular theme park. Before we begin that analysis, however, we need to look at Disney’s first attempt to push back the deadline on its artificially constrained time limit for DVC membership. It’s…messy.

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Grand Floridian

Villas at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa

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