Yep it's already tough with a part of that being because of the cabins. Then add it's desirability especially around the holidays and cheap point charts. It's not a monorail resort but I'm surprised it goes for as low as it does on the resale market.
I recently sold my AKL contracts ( had to keep a 75 point one to maintain "blue card status) and replaced them with BLT to use a SAP due to the lower MFs. Also the ability to walk to MK and take monorail to Epcot was a plus. Was getting tired of always having to use the buses at AKL.Hmm, cheaper dues too. I wonder why i wasn't looking at BLT. its under $8 dues, 2060 exp.... Dang it, now i need to start over & add in BLT.
*added BLT
Yea BLT has made its way into my top picks for SAP+, its just that the availability is pretty good at 7mo, & its just not as relaxing as CCV, so its probably 2nd on my list, then would be Poly (we'll if anything changes once the tower goes on sale)
This is how I feel about BLT. If BLT and CCV could swap places CCV would probably be my number one MK resort. The last trip I took with my parents where my dad was in a scooter for the first time showed me the importance of location or at the very least having transportation options besides buses. The biggest drawbacks for owning BLT are its 7 month availability is in general pretty good and the lake view rooms are pretty close in point cost compared to standard view so it kind of negates it's value. CCV on the other hand, I love the theming but the location for us personally left something to be desired. You do have the boats there but I think our preferred method of transportation is walking>monorail/skyliner>boat>bus.
I mean if you’re gonna go up to 1BR points you might as well go up to 2BR points.. and if you’re at 2BR points you might as well go up to GV points..
I’ll take the standard AUL for $80-85pp…. oh wait… not these 2 again
This was my struggle with just buying an SAP. We planned to stay in 1BRs, but so far have always traveled with another family. So 2BRs are needed. That wasn’t the plan!
I have come to look at DVC as something that doesn’t save me any money over the long run but it does provide a better life experience along the way.
Same thing with credit cards and Apple Pay.
I mean I think that's the point, it separates you from your money and you spend a lot more on airfare, tickets, food etc. but at the same time we're going to Disney World/Aulani more frequently, we're spending more time with our friends/family in nicer accommodations and doing it for a lot less than if we had paid cash. That's worth it.
CCV is the hardest to book at 7mo, so that pretty much seals it for me, but you're right, BLT is actually cheaper dues, so if that where you'd rather be, id say that is your SAP+ spot. (SSR is probably still the better SAP, but not SAP+
)Aulani Sub is only $0.24 less than BLT now. It's slowly becoming not as valuable as SAP.
I seriously considered at one point just going crazy on SSR points and getting like a 500 pointer for like 40k but I think it's worth remembering that buy in cost is the easy part, it's the annual dues that are painful. When you're paying 100 points per night in a bungalow, even if the points were free that room is costing you 800 dollars a night in dues. You may be saving like 20% less per point on a point per point basis but when you compare it to a 2BR which is usually half to 40% less the price of cabin/bungalow idk. Obviously the product isn't the same and the cabins/bungalows are a lot nicer but I guess it just depends on what you want realistically long term. I decided we'd rather be able to use our points on a 2BR and occasionally if anything I can use my resale points on the cabungalows but predominantly I wanted the home booking priority for studios/2BRs
Aulani Grand Villa is ~157points per night when we go… so definitely still expensive!
