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10 Mar 17, 10:04 AM |
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Join Date: Jul 12
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We are in a slightly different position in that we bought in 2 years ago, having never stayed onsite in 23 visits between us. (im 37, wife 32)
We have always stayed offsite so to us, we are new to the on-site experience and we are looking forward to staying at all the resorts and what comes with them. We have stayed at the Poly, SSR and AK in the past 12 months and have enjoyed exploring the resorts, pools, activities, transportation etc and we are booked in at BC for August, which again will give us a completely different onsite experience to the above 3. It's the parks that we have become bored with. I'm sure even to our 5 year old, who has just returned from her 6th visit herself, seeing the same rides, character meets etc etc might become 'boring' and 'samey'. I can totally understand people feeling the way they do though.
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10 Mar 17, 10:07 AM |
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Join Date: Jul 14
Location: The Tiki Room.
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I can't see us selling but I have just had a quick 2 mins on the calculator and worked out what our contracts are worth
That would fund many many years of vacations should we so wish. The dining onsite is the killer and we do it for 70 nights a year. All being well we intend to slip a 4th trip in next year and try LBV or even a Villa, That will be different. I did suggest Boston but my Wife wants sun and relaxation.
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10 Mar 17, 10:15 AM |
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Join Date: May 08
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Not fallen out of love with Florida, dont particially want to visit Theme Parks. We are planning in going back and dd 14 wants a few Disney Park Days because we only did TL,US, IOA last year. We would love to just eat out and Chill at Anna Maria Island, enjoy the pool at the Villa and do a bit of shopping and sightseeing. If it wasnt for dd wanting Disney we probably wouldnt bother. I actually want to visit New York, Germany, Italian Lakes, The Caribbean again, think we might leave Florida alone after our next visit. I never thought I would say that, but theres a big World out there and It needs exploring by me!
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10 Mar 17, 10:15 AM |
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Exactly! Doing that is what has taken me down the considering selling route, I never bought in with any intention of selling or thinking of it as an investment, but it certainly would be if I sold now, I bought in in 2002 & 2003 at around $69/74 a point!
I'm thinking that it'd be a great deposit on a villa in the canaries where we could hop over for the weekend, shortish flight, no jet lag, year round sunshine and great diving. Florida is never going to be somewhere we go for less than a week.
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10 Mar 17, 10:16 AM |
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Join Date: Jan 03
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One of the reasons we've sold our OKW contract is because of it losing value in the future. It's not an extended one either. It's cheaper to stay as a cash booking with free DDP, if we want to stay there in the future. Although now we've sold, it will probably all change lol
I can't see us selling our BLT contracts though, they are enough points for us and we'll rent them out if we don't use them. The cost of dining onsite is astronomical, especially for families. Over the years we've eaten onsite less and less.
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10 Mar 17, 10:18 AM |
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The resorts are gorgeous, enjoy, we've certainly loved staying at a few of them over the years, never had a bad experience and I love the diversity of them all.
We've really loved staying at AKL, making the most of the savannah and going off site each day, it's a great base for that imo as you're not surrounded by WDW / can't see the parks from the resort. A very different experience you can still have with points.
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10 Mar 17, 10:18 AM |
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Join Date: Jan 03
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Keep in mind though that any profit in selling is liable for 15% tax.
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10 Mar 17, 10:20 AM |
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At the risk of sounding like an old person moaning about the good old days, I do REALLY miss the pre DDP years when you could just wander into a restaurant and eat when you were hungry without the need to book it 6 months in advance. The restaurants weren't rammed, they weren't astronomical and I guess they were a whole lot less profitable to WDW than they are now.
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10 Mar 17, 10:21 AM |
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10 Mar 17, 10:25 AM |
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Exactly, you enjoy exploring it. We've made some incredible memories over the last few years. Whilst we've also had amazing times in WDW they're not what stand out when we reminisce.
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