I don't understand the math. Surely if you are staying deluxe every year DVC beats rack rates?
I hope you reconsider, so you can continue the rebellion against the reservation walking and commercial renting Empire
Factors that ruin any potential math for me:
1) AP's went up. A LOT. To be fair, so did ticket prices, but the break even on the Sorceror Pass is something like 9 days now, and it blacks out some days we'd want to go.
2) Booking in demand week rooms (week 48 for me) at certain resorts is too difficult, with 4 week+ walking becoming necessary.
3) There are some really good rental deals if you are flexible, as low as 10/pp.
4) I don't trust Disney with their future vision of DVC (trusts, CFW?, etc).
5) With the cost of everything in the world going up, and Disney tripling that and then some, my plan to leave these contracts to my children seemed more like a burden than a gift.
The person who equated it in some ways to the
DDP was spot on. It's supposed to make things easier, but it isn't flexible and you could do it more cheaply on your own. If I don't want to go to Disney, and I don't own DVC, I don't have to do a thing except not go. If I want to go, I put a listing on a rental site for the dates I want at any resort I want (home resort at every resort when you rent), and let the owner do the work.