Sometimes the real plus to doing the math is just showing you what you really want, LOL. DVC is a luxury purchase and in the end, if you're "stuck" somewhere wishing you were staying elsewhere, any "savings" are soon forgotten. If you can afford the purchase, it's just better to buy where you want to be.It's a great chart. I looked at it and others like it. I did tons of my own math. I researched for weeks, months.
And I still made an offer on a small BCV contract this week. It was dead last in every computation I did, not counting the non-WDW resorts. The heart wants what the heart wants I guess. Or I'm a grade-A sucker. Or both.
the old adage "buy where you want to stay" is still the best advice!Sometimes the real plus to doing the math is just showing you what you really want, LOL. DVC is a luxury purchase and in the end, if you're "stuck" somewhere wishing you were staying elsewhere, any "savings" are soon forgotten. If you can afford the purchase, it's just better to buy where you want to be.
Congratulations and welcome home.
I disagree for two reasons. The first is that in "sleeping around" you might be severely limited in what low points studios are available depending on when you travel - so you may end up in high point resorts or in one bedrooms - both which require more points which means more costs The second reason is that you pay for due on the points you own, not the resort you stay at.Point charts are completely irrelevant when determining the most economical resort with the intent to "sleep around."
Because the points that you buy on whichever "most economical" contract you choose are worth the exact same and can be used the exact same as any other points at the 7-month mark. So they all have the exact same access to the low point charts (and high point charts).
The point charts only matter if the intention is to buy a contract at a specific resort, intend to book at that specific resort within the 11-month (before 7-month) window, and actually do it.
Meh, I get into a 1BR somewhere, which is what I wanted. I'm happy with that. Sure, if you want the cheapest studio, you're going to need home points.If every vacation you are using the "cheap" VAKL points you bought wherever you could get into a studio at seven months, but wishing you'd just bought BCV, and were convinced not to due to the short contract length or the price, you've made a mistake.
Meh, I get into a 1BR somewhere, which is what I wanted. I'm happy with that. Sure, if you want the cheapest studio, you're going to need home points.
Yes, that's the question that people who want studios are asking, which isn't everyone in DVC.But people asking the "good deal" question usually are thinking studios - because DVC for one bedrooms are a "good value" - but not cost saving.