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We are interested in sitting through a DVC presentation next trip, to see how Disney spins it, but we will NOT be in a position to buy in at that time. If all goes well, it may be two more years before we could actually take the jump. I have heard that many people are offerred limited time incentives for signing on to DVC.
How long is the presentation, and is it worth sitting through 2+ years out?
So I know that whatever incentives may be offerred in August 2010 would not be available in 2012, but would we be offered another incentive to sign on at that time? (I just do not want to hurt the cahnces of a promotion down the road for attending a DVC meeting out of curiousity).
Also--What do your kids do during the presentations?
They have a play area staffed by Disney Cast Members to watch the kids while you tour.
Touring in 2010 should not disqualify you for incentives 2 years down the road. There was a time when Disney would only give you a few days to decide after touring if you wanted to take advantage of the discounts. But even then, as soon as they introduced a new incentive program you could take advantage of the new terms.
Should you tour? Tough question. If you are firm in your convictions and confident that you can walk away no matter what they say, then I don't see any harm in it. But if there's a chance you might be tempted by the quality of the rooms and incentives offered--even if DVC doesn't fit in your budget--then you may just want to wait.
I will agree with Tim. We didn't intend on buying this year, but it was just too good of a deal not to after we toured. So while I don't know that it would blow any future incentive offers you may find it harder to walk away after the tour.
They do have a child care center available for the kids, but I have to say we weren't overly impressed with this service when we toured. I don't know if we were just there on a busy day or what but our 4 year old was in tears and they had to call us to come get her. I did like that they were able to get us immediately and our guide was great with the kids - even took them to get ice cream while we did the paperwork, but I was a little disappointed that the actual center seemed to be a little stressful for my kids who normally have fun in these environments.
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They do have a child care center available for the kids, but I have to say we weren't overly impressed with this service when we toured. I don't know if we were just there on a busy day or what but our 4 year old was in tears and they had to call us to come get her. I did like that they were able to get us immediately and our guide was great with the kids - even took them to get ice cream while we did the paperwork, but I was a little disappointed that the actual center seemed to be a little stressful for my kids who normally have fun in these environments.[/QUOTE]
I am sad to hear that. I also kinda thought of that presentation as a "date for DH and I...Would be interested to hear other's experiences with the childcare...
My husband and I went to one when we were just there a few weeks ago. I told my husband to be my shark and tell them we weren't buying anything today (normally hes VERY frugal). So, halfway through the presentation he says, "Yeah that's definitley something we're interested in, tell me about the financing?". I looked at him like what the???? So....here we are purchasing 160 points at BLT with the incentive that we get 2009's points as well. Take what you want from that but I wouldn't go yet unless you want to buy lol
NOTE: We went because they were offering $100 gift cards to sit through presenations
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First Disneyworld trip with our kids (ages 4 & 20 months) in 2/2010 at SSR
We went to the presentation in Jan and also went thinking we weren't going to buy-in. And we wouldn't have if the min point buyin was 160, but they had just opened up SSR because of the treehouses and dropped the buyin to 100 points for that resort (and on one other resort but can't remember which) they also added $1000 to our downpayment (along with the $100 gift card offer that was in our room). It suddenly became affordable and we bought in.
They did not hard sell us at all and would have been able to easily walk away but they gave us an offer we could afford. Now we are heading to BLT in Sept for our first DVC vacation.
I really have to agree a 100% with Tim when he said this -
Should you tour? Tough question. If you are firm in your convictions and confident that you can walk away no matter what they say, then I don't see any harm in it. But if there's a chance you might be tempted by the quality of the rooms and incentives offered--even if DVC doesn't fit in your budget--then you may just want to wait.
Because when we bought 10 years ago on our honemoon . It is a really hard thing to say NO like the above poster said . This is why we bought incentives were too good to pass up , and the CM that showed us was good to point out the amazings things that they had then and the things that were to come . With this being said i will say if either you or husband has doubts that you cannot do or efford it now I will say pass on it . Or we might be saying Welcome Home when you get back !
good luck either way .
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