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It sounds to me like everyone simply assumed the process was followed, the ROFR in Disney's hand, and they were now waiting. It wasn't until someone looked to check and make sure it had been sent off that "oops." And anyone can make that sort of processing mistake, but anecdotally, we do seem...

It depends on what you mean. There are a number of members who book right at eleven months and are looking for the high demand rooms (often the low point options like VAKL value or BWV standard and usually studios). Some of those members own a lot of points and then rent out the rooms that...

And, as always, there can be big difference between 7am 7 months out and 7 am at six months and 29 days. Once the seven month window opens, in demand rooms (e.g. studios) at in demand resorts (e.g. smaller near park resorts) get snapped up. And are often walked into.

So here is the thing to consider. A resort that has a low point cost to stay but higher dues, often turns out to be less dollars per night. The best possible "dues deal" is to buy a low dues resort and switch at seven months to a low points resort - but the low points resorts are often...

Ideally (as a former IT Security professional) don't use the USB ports in the room for anything with data on it. Its a simple process to remove the wall plate/lamp base/etc. and put a device in there to jack your data. Disney housekeeping, which often cannot find Cheerios under the bed, will...

We had that happen. Its why I generally recommend that you start looking for contracts two years out from when you want to take your trip when buying resale. Particularly if you want to get a deal or are looking for something harder to find. Sellers decide not to sell all the time...

Awesome!

And I understand why - the real estate is simply too valuable to put fewer bigger units in place. They decided they'd be much more successful building more smaller units than fewer larger units - and I'm willing to bet they get very few complaints about the table space - since a lot of people...

Where would you stick it? Its really a square footage issue - a dining table to seat nine would take up the entire living room. And almost all DVC rooms are really too small to seat everyone who could sleep there for a meal. And yes, I think Disney would rather have you eat in their...

Social bakery if you like breakfast baked goods - especially of the French variety. They also have a selection of sandwiches and quiches. And of course dessert pastries. We like Jane right in the Shelter Cove shopping center - my husband isn't a huge seafood guy - we do Fishcamp once every...

Yeah, but the math doesn't make sense there because the doors and square footage are the same if you have five in the studio and five in the one bedroom or if you have ten in the two bedroom. That isn't the reason on this one.

I think even before the advent of the pull out chair, you could bring an air mattress to sleep five legally in a one bedroom. I tend to be a little of the "hey if you want to stuff a hotel room, go for it" school of thought, but DVC sets the capacity limits and for whatever reason...

SSR has the additional issue that if you don't get rooms close to each other, they can be REALLY FAR away from each other - one of the advantages of something in "a little smaller" in terms of resort size is that if the rooms aren't close, they at least won't be half a mile apart. I think Poly...

We are BWV owners and I do like that slide - it is fast, twisty and open - there was an age where my kids like slides, but found the dark slides (Poly, SAB) scary. I also really like the Kidani slide. Jambo and CCR both have slides that are somewhat of a compromise between a slide for "little...

And don't make promises - you may not be able to make them happen at seven months. Book home, make a list of what you would like to switch to, and see if its available at seven months. But don't get your heart set on VGF for this next trip.... unless that's home. When bringing guests, have...

Epcot has the advantage of being an evening park - so if you can get to the resort early, BW is a great place to start with because you can stroll into Epcot for the afternoon/evening. We honestly don't stay for long enough to make split stays worthwhile.

I think you need to decide if you are going to prioritize bathrooms (BLT or Kidani) or square footage (OKW). And that depends on party makeup. If you are trying to get nine adults through showers ever single morning, you want to prioritize the bathrooms. If the nine of you includes a lot of...

If you cancel now, the points go into holding.

And that's always been the case, you can't waitlist until you could book.

We have continent bingo (although we've never been to Asia at the same time). Our favorite is I think an African safari. AWESOME. We've been to Peru and Australia. London - we used to go every year for a conference pre-Covid but my husband's conference attendance hasn't picked up again. We...