Flights Only

[dmrevis]

Yeah august will always be very expensive to fly to such a family friendly destination. The other problem being that you are right on the limit of time for booking ahead, many of the airlines wont have released Aug 08 prices yet so may be best to wait even a few weeks before booking.

[mikeymouse]

While on holiday recently in Orlando we met a family who flew out with Globespan from Glasgow , we got chatting and they said they have been to Orlando 4 times and normally stay in a villa , but this year they had opted for a hotel because the flights were dearer than the flight plus hotel , i found this hard to believe so i have been checking this out for weeks , and guess what?
For a family of 4 flying from Glasgow on the 2nd of August 2008 for 14 nights

FLIGHTS=4171.96

FLIGHTS PLUS HOTEL (WYNFIELD INN FOR EXAMPLE)=2523.60

Why would you want to stay in a villa?

[billiecat]

Wow thats a huge difference.

We're members of the Disney Vacation Club so we will be staying at one of the Disney hotels so all we need to get are flights, car hire and attraction tickets.

[mikeymouse]

Originally Posted by billiecat

Wow thats a huge difference.

We're members of the Disney Vacation Club so we will be staying at one of the Disney hotels so all we need to get are flights, car hire and attraction tickets.

It is a huge difference Billiecat i just wonder why this is so
How does the Disney Vacation club work? is it a one of payment or a yearly subscription ,what benefits are to be had on becoming a member? e.t.c

[loobylou]

2100 does sound high. We paid £2181 for 5 of us this Aug, we booked 5 weeks before we went and the flights went up on a daily basis after we'd booked. We were told demand was high because of the weather! We flew charter with monach.
As DM say scheduled flights are not yet released for all of aug, i'm looking for last two weeks and they are not yet out apart from charter.

We stayed at Old Key West a DVC resort, it was very nice. Took plenty of photos!

[billiecat]

Mikeymouse, the DVC is like a timeshare. You purchase points to be exchanged at any of the disney resorts and they also do an exchange program where you can visit many countries worldwide. You pay for your points at the beginning and then you just pay your annual maintenance (works out to approx £300). You can bank 1 year's points and bring 1 year's points forward so you can use 3 years worth of points to get bigger accomodation if you want it - or stay longer. You can add more points if you choose to. Our 'home' resort is Saratoga Springs but they are now bringing out a new DVC resort at Animal Lodge which should be great. We've only been members for a couple of years and have only used

Loobylou, do you have any pics of the Old Key West resort? Thats the one we're thinking of staying in this time. I've read loads of great reviews about it.

[mikeymouse]

[quote=billiecat;77237]Mikeymouse, the DVC is like a timeshare. You purchase points to be exchanged at any of the disney resorts and they also do an exchange program where you can visit many countries worldwide. You pay for your points at the beginning and then you just pay your annual maintenance (works out to approx £300). You can bank 1 year's points and bring 1 year's points forward so you can use 3 years worth of points to get bigger accomodation if you want it - or stay longer. You can add more points if you choose to. Our 'home' resort is Saratoga Springs but they are now bringing out a new DVC resort at Animal Lodge which should be great. We've only been members for a couple of years and have only used

Thanks for the info Billiecat will have to look into it sometime , you said it was like a time share -do you have the same weeks every year or are they flexible?

[loobylou]

Heres some photo's of OKW. It was a nice and quiet resort. We stayed in 2bed apart and it was plenty big enough for 5 of us. We would stay there again. I loved it every time we came back to the resort the security guards said 'welcome home'

[dmrevis]

my ex and i looked into the DVC, but never signed up in the end. Perhaps a good thing as we've split up and it would have been more things to sort out!

[Simon Veness]

Old Key West was the first DVC resort at WDW, hence parts of it now look their age (more than 10 years old), but the general condition and maintenance are very good. Saratoga Springs is a beautiful new resort and in an ideal location just across from Downtown Disney.

I think anyone that bought into DVC two or more years ago got a pretty good deal but I'm not so sure the value is quite so good now, with prices going up so much recently. You'd need to look at the figures very carefully compared to what you would spend on accommodation-only if you visited regularly to see if it's really worthwhile.

The new Animal Kingdom Lodge DVC resort IS likely to be pretty spectacular, though!