Living in WDW

In a studio, figure 14 per night Sun-Thurs and 28 Fri-Sat. That's 126 per week and 6552 per year! At the Timeshare Store once I actually saw a person who had 1000 points to sell...SHOCKING!

Assuming a cost of approx 100$ a point we're looking at around $600-700k. That's a lot, but it's basically the cost of a really nice condo. Too bad you'd be in a studio. Probably makes more sense to pony up a little more and get the 1 bedroom. Like maybe those fancy Bay Lake Villas! It would be great to be able to say you lived in WDW! Of course in 50 years when your points expire you might regret it!

I think I'd go into Disney Sugar Shock!!

Seriously, though, I wonder if it'd be like living in any other vacation destination--you don't "take advantage of it." Like living in New York for 10 years and never going to the top of the Empire State Building.

Great analogy. Sadly there's almost nothing else to do in Orlando than go see "attractions". On the plus side you'd generally get great service.

I say we conduct an experiment, let's donate enough points to...oh...say...me, to live there and I'll let you guys know if it's worth it or not!

Can we come visit?

Actually that got me thinking. I wonder if you could do a group of people who DID this and basically just sort of rotated in and out and crashed there. I guess you'd either get no cost advantage or exceed the occupancy limits and get in trouble. I'm just trying to figure out how to have a "beach house" in WDW.

I may be hallucinating, but I seem to remember once there was a maximum number of points an individual could own. Anybody remember this?

Also, don't forget ya gotta "pay your dues" on all those points.

How about six months at DVC, then get on a nice cruise ship for the other six? I'd love to say DCL, but you'd need a million points for THAT kind of lifestyle!

SpaceAce, are you a member at Wilderness Lodge?

Yes, I think there is a limit. Since this is a timeshare and you do get to vote or have a say each year when they have the timeshare meeting, someone with that many points will carry a lot of weight.

I don't quite remember how big the limit is, though.

Zz.

The figure that comes to mind is 2,000 points. I think that may be the maximum that an individual can own.

We only have OKW. If the conditions are right down the road, I'd like to have some at the Bay Lake Tower.

One of the things I love about the villas section is the little section to the right now called the Carolwood Pacific room. It is a tribute to Walt's Railroad at his home and they have a lot of pictures, memorabilia and even a couple of the cars in there that were part of his system. I have a trip planned this summer which features Michael Broggie (whose father was Roger Broggie, a Disney Legend who built Walt's railroad), and the story of the home railroad is fascinating. I'm going to go into detail about it in another post, but if anyone is interested, check out www.legendscruise.net. In addition to Michael, we've got X Atencio, Margaret Kerry, Bob Gurr & Terri Hardin. Going to be some nice 'behind the scenes' activities too.

I am not, though I love the resort and think the villas section there is one of the most striking. You're at OKW, right? Do you have points anywhere else?

[quote poster=dsoup] Is that per person or per family? Can I and my wife each own 2k? Then we're getting close. Give the kids 2k too and we're there!