Hi All,
I finally was able to talk my husband into booking a trip in May, staying at GF with a TPV room for us and the kids! (5 of us total) Well, my mom has asked if she could come along, which sounds great..extra set of hands to help out, maybe a babysitter one night, etc...However, we are now a party of 6, which means that we are no longer in a single room. The options I have been given so far by Disney are: 2 BDR villa at Sarasota Springs for about the same price, a 2 BDR villa at the Wilderness Lodge for $3,000 more, or a 1 BDR Club Level in the Main Building at GF for about $6,000 more. The GF Club level is out (That would almost double our total cost, and my mom isn't about to pay $6,000 just to go to Disney for the week), and I am not sold on either Sarasota Springs or the Wilderness Lodge, though I can be convinced, I guess. From what I can tell online, there is availability at AK - Kildani at the special package rate, and BLT, GF Villas without the discount.
Okay, for those of you that have stuck with my ramblings this far (Thank you!), what are the chances of being able to rent DVC points for these properties (BLT, GF Villas, or AK Kildani) so close to the date we would want to leave? Does availability to book online without a DVC membership correspond to being available through renting DVC Points? I have a request to a rental site for these, but I don't want to get my mom's hopes up about coming down, only to have to tell her tomorrow that there isn't availability. The dates are from May 10-16th, if that makes a difference...
I finally was able to talk my husband into booking a trip in May, staying at GF with a TPV room for us and the kids! (5 of us total) Well, my mom has asked if she could come along, which sounds great..extra set of hands to help out, maybe a babysitter one night, etc...However, we are now a party of 6, which means that we are no longer in a single room. The options I have been given so far by Disney are: 2 BDR villa at Sarasota Springs for about the same price, a 2 BDR villa at the Wilderness Lodge for $3,000 more, or a 1 BDR Club Level in the Main Building at GF for about $6,000 more. The GF Club level is out (That would almost double our total cost, and my mom isn't about to pay $6,000 just to go to Disney for the week), and I am not sold on either Sarasota Springs or the Wilderness Lodge, though I can be convinced, I guess. From what I can tell online, there is availability at AK - Kildani at the special package rate, and BLT, GF Villas without the discount.
Okay, for those of you that have stuck with my ramblings this far (Thank you!), what are the chances of being able to rent DVC points for these properties (BLT, GF Villas, or AK Kildani) so close to the date we would want to leave? Does availability to book online without a DVC membership correspond to being available through renting DVC Points? I have a request to a rental site for these, but I don't want to get my mom's hopes up about coming down, only to have to tell her tomorrow that there isn't availability. The dates are from May 10-16th, if that makes a difference...