The Villas at Disney's Grand Californian Owners & Lovers Group - 2.0

[montreid]

Yeah May Memorial Day is our target with a few weekends earlier in May as a hope.

 

[DebbieB]

Just changed our canceled January trip to mid-May.

Also added week of December 6. Is something special happening that week? Studios are already completely gone , so we had to get a 1 BR.

I moved my July reservation to Dec 4 to 10, studio. Glad I got it. Lower points gave me an extra night. Love the Christmas decorations. That should be Candlelight Processional weekend if they have it.

 

[LilyJC]

Yeah, I'm going to cancel March now before they do. With the Governor's plan of tiers, even if everyone behaved like Garcetti wants us to, there isn't enough time to spend in each of the various levels to get us to yellow before March. I did that math in the middle of December fully knowing that we are going to spike all the way through January. We won't get to yellow until more than half the population is vaccinated and even then it will be a stretch.

We would have been happy to go even with just DtD open and no parks. It would have been nice to have our annual valentines getaway as my hubby could really use a mental break (in healthcare and got Covid from a patient in November ). I was relieved when they announced the opening of VGC for December 6th, but then the guidelines on the 3rd were released.

It'll be interesting to see when they decide to try opening VGC again and of course the parks. I’ve kinda lost hope that it will be anytime soon for the parks with all these fools here doing whatever they want. Hopefully all you VGC owners will be able to use your contracts with minimal point loss. I think our bumped February reservation will work perfectly for our Aulani trip ( as long as that still happens...).

And yes, I saw the Candlelight Processional dates gone and was thankful to see some optimism that it’ll actually happen this year!

 

[Zurezo]

I have 3 rooms booked for April 11-15 and don't think its going to happen. 219 points will expire May 31 and I need to figure out what what to do since I am only in my mid 30's and don't think I will get vaccine anytime soon. haha

Selling the points seems to be the best idea right now, which stinks. I have a few other trips for later in 2021, so still something to look forward to.

 

[ffontana]

Question - How diffcult is it to book a 2 bedroom unit at the 7 month mark? (during normal times)

 

[AZMermaid]

Question - How diffcult is it to book a 2 bedroom unit at the 7 month mark? (during normal times)

Possible at 7 months, especially a dedicated 2BR. Not easy at 6 months and 29 days.

 

[ffontana]

Thank You, Is that the same for 1-bedrooms?

 

[AZMermaid]

Thank You, Is that the same for 1-bedrooms?

Yes, 1 bedrooms are probably the easiest, but still are hard to come by any later than 7 months most of the year.

 

[upritbass]

Not easy at 6 months and 29 days.

Such an optimist! My personal experience was more along the lines of 6 months 29 days 23 hours 59 minutes. Maybe 57 minutes for the 2BR...

 

[Jperiod]

anyone thinking of selling their VGC points? It seems like CA has no end in sight for their restrictions. What is it going to take? It just doesn't seem sustainable but they've already gone on this long, I'm losing hope. And even once it opens, I just can't fathom wanting to be there in a mask all day with a significantly reduced experience. We're so very sad. I never ever thought we'd break up with Disney, but I'm feeling kinda hopeless lately.

 

[limace]

I am sooo glad we did a fabulous trip in January 2020 so we are good-I’m sure it’ll be open in 22 (probably before) and DL is still my favorite.

 

[montreid]

Orange county was on its way there just before Thanksgiving and the surge.

With the vaccine and spring and getting the kids back to college away from older parents/households; it'll be better again and fighting chance for spring/summer reopening.

 

[vacay77]

anyone thinking of selling their VGC points? It seems like CA has no end in sight for their restrictions. What is it going to take? It just doesn't seem sustainable but they've already gone on this long, I'm losing hope. And even once it opens, I just can't fathom wanting to be there in a mask all day with a significantly reduced experience. We're so very sad. I never ever thought we'd break up with Disney, but I'm feeling kinda hopeless lately.

I completely understand the frustration. But, for the first time in a long time, I'm starting to feel hope. On Friday, my parents and my husband received the vaccine and I hope I will get the vaccine soon. So, we are just trying to hang on for now.

 

[upritbass]

anyone thinking of selling their VGC points? It seems like CA has no end in sight for their restrictions. What is it going to take? It just doesn't seem sustainable but they've already gone on this long, I'm losing hope. And even once it opens, I just can't fathom wanting to be there in a mask all day with a significantly reduced experience. We're so very sad. I never ever thought we'd break up with Disney, but I'm feeling kinda hopeless lately.

And yet VGC resale is currently $225-245/point, far and away the highest in the DVC universe, so there are a lot of optimistic people out there. If you really are going to break up with Disney you will leave with a lot of money.

 

[limace]

And yet VGC resale is currently $225-245/point, far and away the highest in the DVC universe, so there are a lot of optimistic people out there. If you really are going to break up with Disney you will leave with a lot of money.

Isn’t that insane! I paid 140 3 years ago-two 2–bedroom stays and a $100 profit if I sold now is pretty sweet. Can’t make myself sell though

 

[asunutgirl]

I have been banging around the idea of selling our contracts - we own at Aulani and VGC. But I think my family will disown me if I even mention it.

I was able to rent my Aulani points through David's and am now only losing 16 points due to Covid. And the cash was nice. I'm waiting to cancel my VGC March reservation so that possibly I can get some relief from Disney when they cancel it. Wishful thinking but a girl can dream.

 

[Jperiod]

Isn’t that insane! I paid 140 3 years ago-two 2–bedroom stays and a $100 profit if I sold now is pretty sweet. Can’t make myself sell though

Yeah, we bought in 2017 for $135 a point!

Even with the vaccine, I don't see masks or social distancing going away anytime soon since apparently you can still get and transmit covid, it's just a lesser case. So even though WDW is open now, and DLR might be by summer, my family doesn't want to do disney with those restrictions at all.

Though we love feeling like we own a piece of Disneyland, we only book 1 bedrooms. So I was thinking if we did sell and things returned to a level where we'd like to own again, I'd just buy cheaper sleep around points. We don't care to ever stay at Rivera or the new DLR DVC Tower. Plus, if VGC tanks because of ongoing restrictions, I'd be kicking myself. That's the other reason I'm thinking about selling now as opposed to renting out my points for a few years.

 

[limace]

I think it’s much more likely to stay the same or increase-insure wouldn’t sell now with the assumption I could book with SAP later unless I was completely flexible about date (eg local grabbing a night here and there)-unless I needed the money now.

 

[taaren]

anyone thinking of selling their VGC points? It seems like CA has no end in sight for their restrictions. What is it going to take? It just doesn't seem sustainable but they've already gone on this long, I'm losing hope. And even once it opens, I just can't fathom wanting to be there in a mask all day with a significantly reduced experience. We're so very sad. I never ever thought we'd break up with Disney, but I'm feeling kinda hopeless lately.

For a few days I had thoughts of unloading a contract when the announced the end of APs with no new options set out. Now that I've seen the surveys I suspect there will be an option that will work for the way we use our points.
If DLR chooses for multi-day tickets to be used within 14 days as the only park entry available, I likely will sell ... a large part of the value of buying DVC for us was the choice of having a large room for a week long stay vs shorter stays several times a year in smaller rooms. If the only financially feasible way to go to the park was once a year/once every other year, DVC's value to me would be lower than what I could sell my points for.

 

[Evita_W]

For a few days I had thoughts of unloading a contract when the announced the end of APs with no new options set out. Now that I've seen the surveys I suspect there will be an option that will work for the way we use our points.
If DLR chooses for multi-day tickets to be used within 14 days as the only park entry available, I likely will sell ... a large part of the value of buying DVC for us was the choice of having a large room for a week long stay vs shorter stays several times a year in smaller rooms. If the only financially feasible way to go to the park was once a year/once every other year, DVC's value to me would be lower than what I could sell my points for.

I think you will see multi day tickets only for at least 6 months, but there will eventually be someone equivalent to an AP, it will just take time.