Really enjoy hearing how everyone uses their points. My dream would be to have enough points for my wife and I to spend a month at DW every winter at retirement. Sounds like I need to start shopping for more points!
2025 we are taking a little break from
DVC - in 2024 we went to WDW:
March (weekend trip with my BFF, AK MM),
June (long weekend anniversary + Tiana DVC preview (surprise: ride was down!)),
August trip with another family,
Thanksgiving week (DD2 birthday/
MVMCP/Moana2 preview; Josh Gad CP), and we just got back from 6 nights over
Christmas week in a 2br at VGC. THAT used up a lot of points.
WDW: 23 nights
VGC: 6 nights
This is probably the most nights we've spent at Disney resorts in a calendar year. Still rebounding from Covid when I booked and modified a lot of trips.
For 2025 - we are gifting 5-7 nights in studios each for 1) a friend to take their family, who otherwise couldn't afford it, and they need a vacation; 2) niece's honeymoon (she and her DH love Disney, this is our wedding gift to them); 3) another niece's honeymoon (where we are going too, in a separate unit - nontraditional wedding they will have 2 young kids by then). (<-- this will be equivalent to about 25 DVC nights) Haven't decided if we are going for Thanksgiving or Christmas yet - I'm not sweating the 11 mo window anymore.
It's not the points, it's the MF's that'll kill ya.
Reminds me ... I need to go pay dues...
Lucky we did because there was still availability for my guide to arrange 7 nights in FW39 2025 (and pixie dusting us the 10 extra points needed).
I have really wanted to try PIT (Moana 2 preview was a very soft PIT sell) but it looks like I'll have to wait a few years!
Literally the antidote for addonitis.
Ha. For sure. We just came back from VGC; everyone loved it (even though the rooms needed a refurb), and I think dues is keeping me from buying more points (VGC or PIT, or maybe I should just look for low dues for SAPs)
Who am I kidding? My husband would kill me, and it's mostly his money I am spending.
We are on the cusp of changing travel patterns - oldest kid starting HS next year means it'll be harder to take non-break days off, and we're probably getting into 2br more, or larger units to bring friends. I'm looking forward to retirement (10ish years from now, still) and may take more trips in studios (longish? or with/without DH?? he wants to wait until our youngest is out of college...)
.... this same thing happened to me. I was annoyed by my point total so I figured I would just buy 174 more points to have an even, round total number. Then I realized the 174 incremental points didn't make enough sense, so I bought 200 more instead and now I still don't have the even, round total number. The dumbest reason to buy more points must be my OCD, and because of it I'm on the lookout for another 74 points.
