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1. Congratulations (on both DVC and the new baby to be)! Am I reading your post that you have DS/DD twins? So if staying at CCV you are locked into 2-br or larger once the baby is out of a crib (3 years), right?
- thank you. Yes twins and we will need the 2Br or larger once baby is out of crib.
2. If so - 3 years from now, do you plan on using your CCV points for 2br at
2a. If so, do you have enough points, with banking and borrowing, to do that now? (this may relate to #3)
- yes we would still like to use CCV. Might not be for every trip. But I believed w banking and borrowing it should be durable.
3. why do you think you'd use different UY? Because of the different times you'd likely go? Depending on when you plan to use your CCV points, if you'd want to use a different UY for other times of travel, Feb UY has you covered, but any of the other UY would do fine as well. BUT - if you plan on pooling your points to use at the 7mo mark (whether that's advisable given your current home resort), it would be much easier to stay with the same UY.
- different UY to cover mid spring-Maybe summer trips. As we jumped on the initial contract didn’t do enough research on the UY part and given that the twins are now in school they are against taking kids out of school for vacations.
4. Home resort - why SSR? if it has to do with pooling points at 7mo, I'd suggest you also look at BLT or AKV given your family demographics. Those are the next most affordable home resorts, and the difference may be small if you can get a good contract. The plus would be that you have a more desirable home resort to book at 11 months as a backup/split stay, and both have 1br that sleep 5 with existing bedding (making your points go farther) AND both have a lower points cost category (value at AKV and standard at BLT that almost always require home resort booking at 11 mo) - all of those put together may in fact make your points go farther, and walking distance to MK is GREAT when you are in the stroller age. (note, I may be biased as we own at BLT).
- We were thinking SSR because it doesn’t seem to feel too city and busy like and is a ferry ride to Disney Springs. But you are right about BLT as it is super closed to MK and am sure we will spend many more years there vs other parks. AKV just feel too far out from everything to me. But given the values we shall put it on our list too.
Thank you for your help.