Hello all: This is my first post on this board after reading and studying the board for over a month.
Our story: I am married with three daughters; 7, 4, and a newborn. We have vacationed at WDW the last three years and our family loves it; kids and adults. First year was in a 2-bedroom villa at Copper Creek, second was a 1-bedroom villa at BLT, third was a deluxe studio at Polynesian. We have decided that this will be our yearly or every other year vacation over Spring Break week, middle March, while the kids are school age. Our trips will range from 5-7 night stays and consist of staying at BLT (1 or 2 BR villa) and Polynesian; close to Magic Kingdom, on the monorail, and kids loved Polynesian.
I recently received notification that I have an accepted offer on 160 points at BLT with a February Use Year. My question, how would you structure your points and contracts based on the information I provided? I would like to have enough points to cover a yearly trip at either resort, borrowing a few if needed, while renting out any remaining points. While I do not look at this as an income producing investment, I do like the idea of being able to rent points to cover my maintenance fees and putting some money away to cover some of our other expenses associated with the trips.
I have gone back and forth on if I should purchase enough points to cover the length of stay at either resort, using the 11 month window. Which would mean anywhere from 240 - 300+ pts at BLT, and roughly 150 at Poly. Whichever resort we did not stay at that year would be rented. This choice requires a much larger initial buy-in cost, but gives us the almost guarantee of getting what we want at 11 months. The other option would be to purchase half the points required at each resort, banking every other year, and using those points when booking our stay.
Anyone and everyone please advise on what you would do and why. For simplicity, please assume this would be a yearly trip for us. Thank you!
Our story: I am married with three daughters; 7, 4, and a newborn. We have vacationed at WDW the last three years and our family loves it; kids and adults. First year was in a 2-bedroom villa at Copper Creek, second was a 1-bedroom villa at BLT, third was a deluxe studio at Polynesian. We have decided that this will be our yearly or every other year vacation over Spring Break week, middle March, while the kids are school age. Our trips will range from 5-7 night stays and consist of staying at BLT (1 or 2 BR villa) and Polynesian; close to Magic Kingdom, on the monorail, and kids loved Polynesian.
I recently received notification that I have an accepted offer on 160 points at BLT with a February Use Year. My question, how would you structure your points and contracts based on the information I provided? I would like to have enough points to cover a yearly trip at either resort, borrowing a few if needed, while renting out any remaining points. While I do not look at this as an income producing investment, I do like the idea of being able to rent points to cover my maintenance fees and putting some money away to cover some of our other expenses associated with the trips.
I have gone back and forth on if I should purchase enough points to cover the length of stay at either resort, using the 11 month window. Which would mean anywhere from 240 - 300+ pts at BLT, and roughly 150 at Poly. Whichever resort we did not stay at that year would be rented. This choice requires a much larger initial buy-in cost, but gives us the almost guarantee of getting what we want at 11 months. The other option would be to purchase half the points required at each resort, banking every other year, and using those points when booking our stay.
Anyone and everyone please advise on what you would do and why. For simplicity, please assume this would be a yearly trip for us. Thank you!