Hi! Welcome!
I'm not a DVC member. Until I joined this site, I'd never heard of it before; however, I'm hoping to learn more about it.
Is it expensive to join/maintain membership?
How old is your DS? My DS is a year old. I love him to pieces! I'm sooooo glad I have a son! Boys LOVE their moms and my son makes me melt.
Hello again and welcome to the group!!!
Not a member, but have been toying with the idea for about 6 months now. Stayed DVC at BC for the first time this past April & loved it, especially the kitchenette. We would make microwave popcorn when we got back at night, and curl up in bed & watch a movie. I also prefer to stay deluxe for the convenience/location options.
Thanks for the warm welcome! I'm a big fan of the Disboards, so informative. It was through these boards I've navigated the whole DVC system.
The expense of DVC is really dependent on the number of points you buy and from where. I found the best expenditure for my situation and have about a week of vacation every year available to me in a one bedroom. That is my ideal, although, I have found myself going multiple times for one night stays and just hanging at the hotel, or going to DTD for dinner. I just value not having to go to the parks each and every time.
My DS is now 15 but I bought DVC when he was 6. We did cruise, and many years of Park visit trips, and then Aulani at the beginning of this year. He really enjoys the vacation experience with me and you're right he's always been especially taking care of me... and now more so as a 15 year old.
I love my DVC membership. It's meant that I could take it easy with our vacations, not be stressed out about going to parks and getting "value" for the vacations. And with the way Disney takes care of guests, it means that I had a vacation as much as my son. And I also loved having a full kitchen when I wanted it, and a washer/dryer too. Washer/dryer was so important in his younger years! LOL
Hi All-
I'm so glad I stumbled upon this new forum! I'm a newly single father and my DD10 and I absolutely love going to Disney every year. It is great to see a new forum out here just for us.
I purchased DVC back in '09 and have points at both Bay Lake Tower (BLT) and Animal Kingdom Villas (AKV). We usually stay in 1 bedrooms as I love the extra space and the washer/dryer. My daughter is in year round school and every 9 weeks has 3 weeks off. We could go throughout the year but her "Fall" break hits in Mid/Late November to Early December. Given that we LOVE all of the holiday stuff at Disney, we usually go the last week of November or First week of December (highly recommend first week of December). I can't say enough about how much I love my DVC!!!
Hi MommyMeNDisney- I love year round schools. It absolutely allows us to go to a variety of places always in an "off-season" if we wanted too. In the county we live in, we can pick from Magnet schools, charter schools, traditional calendar schools, year round schools, and others.
For year round schools, each school has 4 different tracks with each track having 2.5 to 3.5 weeks off during every season. Two of the tracks are more popular as they mirror more closely some of the times that traditional calendar schools get off. For the track that we are on, we got off the month of May, Late August to Early September, Late November into Early December, and then Late February/Early March. The only drawback is that my daughter has lots of friends in traditional calendar schools and it does bother her sometimes in the Summer that she can't go to the pool as much with her friends, have random play-dates during the weekdays, or stay up late when she does meet up with friends on a school night. Small price to pay though for the flexibility that this provides to us.
Not a dumb question at all. All schools close down for certain periods of time around the major holidays. For Christmas/New Years, she gets off a week and a half or so each year.