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Post by TexasChick on Jan 18, 2024 17:43:05 GMT -5
What is the appeal of these? If I was going to go camping and/or stay in a cabin, I don’t think I’d do it in Orlando. I don’t get it.
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Post by helenabear on Jan 18, 2024 17:59:19 GMT -5
What is the appeal of these? If I was going to go camping and/or stay in a cabin, I don’t think I’d do it in Orlando. I don’t get it. The campground is fun if you like being a bit more quiet. The transportation sucks. My family's first trip was camping at Ft. Wilderness way back when Epcot wasn't even done.Some people like rustic, some people like VGF or RR. Mostly these will hold 6 with point cost less than 1 bedrooms and about a studio at VGF. They will hold people who have 5 or 6 who want options. They have a full kitchen too. Different strokes. |
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Post by TexasChick on Jan 18, 2024 18:09:15 GMT -5
If the $12.15pp MF’s end up being true, that’s steep!
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Post by ncstatetigger on Jan 18, 2024 18:41:13 GMT -5
When will people begin staying in the new cabins?
We have a trip planned June 23-29.
Most of family will be at Boulder Ridge, but my brother and wife have cash reservations thru Disney for a cabin that week made months ago. They are not DVC members and book the cabins because they have been able to bring their little dog—-they don’t travel without her.
Are the new cabins going to be “pet friendly”?
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Post by helenabear on Jan 18, 2024 19:31:53 GMT -5
When will people begin staying in the new cabins? We have a trip planned June 23-29. Most of family will be at Boulder Ridge, but my brother and wife have cash reservations thru Disney for a cabin that week made months ago. They are not DVC members and book the cabins because they have been able to bring their little dog—-they don’t travel without her. Are the new cabins going to be “pet friendly”? July 1 opening date. Yes to dogs with some rules. I'd have to find them all. |
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Post by nickys on Jan 19, 2024 1:45:59 GMT -5
With the official opening date being July 1st , do you think that means ALL the cabins will be the new ones by then?
I assume this will work like any other resort, in that they’ll declare a batch of cabins into the Trust, sell points in those, then declare more etc. So is it possible that cash bookers through Disney could stay in the old style cabins for a few months after July as they install a new loop of new ones?
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Post by helenabear on Jan 19, 2024 10:11:44 GMT -5
With the official opening date being July 1st , do you think that means ALL the cabins will be the new ones by then? I assume this will work like any other resort, in that they’ll declare a batch of cabins into the Trust, sell points in those, then declare more etc. So is it possible that cash bookers through Disney could stay in the old style cabins for a few months after July as they install a new loop of new ones? They already declared 30 in the 2300 loop. So yes, batches of decorations as usual. Since these are prefab style cabins, I have no idea how long it takes to take one off and replace it. I'm sure someone could go down and snoop around the area to see what's going on with number of cabins done. I would not be surprised if they aren't entirely done swapping them out yet. Maybe trying to make sure those who had cash reservations aren't going to be moved? I'm not sure. |
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Post by bassetbeauty on Jan 19, 2024 16:54:07 GMT -5
I guess if they can pop up modular homes in a day, it makes sense that much smaller cabins could theoretically happen at warp speed.
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Post by bakerworld on Jan 20, 2024 10:46:39 GMT -5
By the time our youngest was 3y old I really was wanting a vacation. I mean a vacation - not slogging back and forth to a beach, lugging a load of paraphernalia and constant cleaning (sand! Ugh!!). We tried a vacation staying in a hotel. Between the hallway noise and the elevators after 2 nights I told DH I was done. Then a couple of co-workers told me about the Ft Wilderness cabins. So we tried again and LOVED it. We didn't have to worry about noise - ours or fellow vacationers. The cabin was large enough for the kids to 'wild indian' around. The kids slept in the back and we took the living room, which gave us adult space. The third day DH took the 8 and 10y to the water park and the 4y had a nice 2 hour nap because it was quiet. We returned 18 months later, we enjoyed it so much.
I think these cabins will be in high demand for the family with young kids, especially if the point values are so low.
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Post by MinnieMom on Jan 20, 2024 17:23:28 GMT -5
Those point charts are jaw droppingly good per night versus studios if Fort Wilderness itself is appealing. But there's still purchase price and annual fees to consider.
Just for giggles, I looked at some small resale contracts for sale right now. Just looking at SSR and OKW, I saw a dozen small contracts (50 points or less) listed for $6,000 or less. While I suspect the 11 month window for booking CFW may matter at some point, if the initial sales prices is north of $200/point, then resales may get a bump from owners who already have blue card benefits. Maybe. I could see us doing something like that anyway.
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Post by helenabear on Jan 21, 2024 12:50:52 GMT -5
Those point charts are jaw droppingly good per night versus studios if Fort Wilderness itself is appealing. But there's still purchase price and annual fees to consider. Just for giggles, I looked at some small resale contracts for sale right now. Just looking at SSR and OKW, I saw a dozen small contracts (50 points or less) listed for $6,000 or less. While I suspect the 11 month window for booking CFW may matter at some point, if the initial sales prices is north of $200/point, then resales may get a bump from owners who already have blue card benefits. Maybe. I could see us doing something like that anyway. But resale contracts will not allow you to stay at the new cabins. So resale will not help you if you want to stay there and this case. You will have to have a grandfathered or direct contract to be able to stay. I am pondering what I will be doing with my grandfathered OKW and adding more on at the Polynesian. I will take into consideration and ability to stay at new resort when deciding if I'm doing resale or not. In our case the inability to stay at Riviera or the campsite would not really impact our choice. However other resorts might sway me to do direct versus resale again. Though in the end, I could see us mostly just at the Polynesian or copper Creek from here on out making my need for OKW points not as important. I'm still quite salty over this whole park reservation for on-site AP holders though. |
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Post by MinnieMom on Jan 22, 2024 9:52:16 GMT -5
So, resale points can only be used at the DVC resorts before Rivera? Bummer. May not matter that much to me though. Like you, we bought Poly pre-sale but have wound up rarely staying Poly on those points. IIRC, the Poly price per point for pre-sale for existing owners at the time was $160. Assuming availability at 7 months for CFW (may be a bad assumption - I could see needing 11 month window at the campground), using $160 Poly points at CFW instead of spending another $200+ per point makes complete sense to me. Then a small resale add on for some flexibility at the resorts without the restrictions would work just fine.
Once life stabilizes again, I can get back to planning out vacations a year in advance. Until time, it's going to be taking whatever is available a couple of months out and enjoying it to the max.
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Post by helenabear on Jan 22, 2024 11:28:03 GMT -5
So, resale points can only be used at the DVC resorts before Rivera? Bummer. May not matter that much to me though. Like you, we bought Poly pre-sale but have wound up rarely staying Poly on those points. IIRC, the Poly price per point for pre-sale for existing owners at the time was $160. Assuming availability at 7 months for CFW (may be a bad assumption - I could see needing 11 month window at the campground), using $160 Poly points at CFW instead of spending another $200+ per point makes complete sense to me. Then a small resale add on for some flexibility at the resorts without the restrictions would work just fine. Once life stabilizes again, I can get back to planning out vacations a year in advance. Until time, it's going to be taking whatever is available a couple of months out and enjoying it to the max. Correct! Any resale of a property that is from before Riviera can only be used at the resorts that exist prior to Riviera. Riviera and the new tower at Disneyland both can only be used at the purchased Resort home if by resale. I actually use my Polynesian points for the Polynesian quite a lot now since we've been doing mom and son trips. We will predominantly only stay at Wilderness Lodge or Polynesian once we add on at polynesian. So the point for us will be to mostly stay at our two favorite resorts. Polynesian did go for $160 per point in 2015. We have an okw contract from 2004 that we used to stay almost anywhere but OKW now. I used it a lot in the beginning. A part of me doesn't want to let go of it simply because you can book the Grand Villas there and get hospitality House for the few times you do want to stay there. But I'm getting more and more annoyed with Disney and if we decide to let our APs drop, I'm not sure I can justify keeping OKW points. We have a March trip in a one-bedroom at Riviera and we're going to use that to decide if space wise we can handle 4 or more nights in a room of that size. Once we do that and see the point chart for Polynesian we'll decide what to do next. I could always keep my original points from OKW and rent them as needed. I got them for like $60 a point 20 years ago so I just have to have maintenance fees covered really. Lots of pondering going on here! |
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Post by nickys on Feb 28, 2024 11:44:58 GMT -5
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Post by nickys on Mar 21, 2024 12:46:05 GMT -5
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