Well after a night of re-crunching numbers and planning out next 3 years of WDW trips, we decided to only get 100 pts at BWV. Let me be clear, this add-on will NOT save us any money and is NOT an investment. This will however allow us to book BWV at 11 months, get the Standard Rooms, and free up our 160 BLT Points for other trips. We have Pre-Paid of BWV Lodging for the next 21 years period! The buy-in cost per point Lifetime is $9.78 (plus yearly MF's) with little hope of any resale return (hence we plan to keep it until it expires). Compare that to our BLT buy-in-cost per point Lifetime of $2.49 (plus MF's), and we can still get a fair resale price should be decide to sell. Sure wish I had done this resale back when you could get BWV for a song.
And so now that we have these extra points, of course we will be going more often. So for 2022, we will be getting the Sorcerer's AP's and they ain't cheap compared to the DVC AP Vouchers I still have saved away from 2011. Again, we are NOT saving any money, and that's alright. We're in our mid-60's, still waiting for grand kids, and we have the funds to enjoy ourselves. And we really enjoy WDW, and BWV now that the Scary Clown is gone!
Even with these 'new' higher costs, our trips to WDW are still a bargain compared to the other vacations we take (River Cruises, etc.). It's just part of the Retirement Life of Leisure mix. Oh and I'm a planner, so my spreadsheets are really going to some serious upgrades and loving attention.
So excited to be BWV owners. Points are already in my account, I've banked into 2022 and booked a Sept 2022 trip (love the low point chart). Interestingly though was that the BWV Standard View Studios went from fully available last night to mostly gone today. I think a lot of people jumped on the incentive bandwagon and are booking.