The New Grand Floridian Rooms Are Available to Book Online

on May 18, 2022

You wanted more inventory at Walt Disney World’s most revered hotel, and now you’ve got it! Yes, I’ve finally got the booking news you’ve wanted for a decade now! Next Stop: DisneyVacationClub.com In December of 2011, the Disney Vacation Club finally gave fans what they wanted. DVC announced an expansion at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort […]

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Disney Reports Massive Park Gains

on May 16, 2022

The Walt Disney Company announced its revenue for the fiscal second quarter of 2022. In this financial statement and the accompanying earnings call, we discovered a great deal about the status of the parks. Here’s what we learned. The Parks Are Making More Money Than Ever I don’t need to tell you about Disney’s financial […]

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Best Economical DVC Resorts to Purchase: Spring 2022

on May 12, 2022

At DVC Resale Market, we like to keep an economic Disney Vacation Club (DVC) Resort ranking maintained for our clients.  We started this ranking in the Fall of 2014, and this blog represents our 16th in the series: Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021 […]

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Disney Provides a New Roadmap for EPCOT’s Reimagining

on May 12, 2022

After years of silence, Disney finally provided some insights on the future of EPCOT. Here’s what we just learned about the EPCOT reimagining. A Plan Gone Awry A few years ago, The Walt Disney Company revealed its grand ambitions for a modernized EPCOT. Park officials made this announcement at the D23 Expo 2019, and then […]

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Disney Unveils MagicBand+

on May 9, 2022

Disney theme parks don’t often experience merchandising snafus, but we witnessed a huge, hilarious one last week. Yes, Disney has unveiled MagicBand+…a few days after some of them went on sale at various theme park stores. About MagicBand+ During a media day event this week, park officials revealed the next generation of MagicBands, the wearables […]

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The Disneyland Hotel Expansion Gets a Name & More Disney News

on May 8, 2022

Today’s update represents more of a hodgepodge of significant stories that I haven’t covered yet. However, there’s one headliner here. Read on to learn the name of the 16th Disney Vacation Club resort! What’s in a Name? Okay, there’s not much to this conversation, but it’s still important. The Disneyland tower expansion has a confirmed […]

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DVC Resale Average Sales Prices for April 2022

on May 5, 2022

This article features the average sales price of contracts categorized by resort and month sold from April 2021 through April 2022 by DVC Resale Market (DVCRM). Our goal for this article is to provide great directional information for anyone considering a Disney Vacation Club (DVC) resale purchase or just wanting to satisfy a general curiosity of […]

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Downtown Disney and Paradise Pier Changing

on May 4, 2022

Disneyland Resort President Ken Potrock just revealed several impending changes at Downtown Disney and Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel. It’s…a lot. Let’s talk about the impending hotel re-theming and the new amenities coming to Downtown Disney. The Paradise Pier Re-Theme In 2018, Paradise Pier at Disney California Adventure switched to a Pixar theme. Disney introduced four […]

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DVC Right of First Refusal Report (ROFR): April ’22

on May 3, 2022

DVC Exercises Right of First Refusal (ROFR) Year-to-date (YTD), Disney has exercised their right of first refusal (ROFR) on 307 Disney Vacation Club (DVC) contracts, and DVC Resale Market (DVCRM) has sold 1,822, resulting in a 16.8% buyback rate (Contracts Bought Back in 2022/Contracts Sold in 2022). The 2022 waiver rate is 83.2%. Key ROFR […]

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Connections Café Opens and Disney Pushes Back on Reedy Creek

on May 1, 2022

A new restaurant has opened, an airport terminal is opening soon, and Tokyo Disneyland and Disneyland Paris just showed us the future. Some of it’s good, and some isn’t. Here’s what you need to know. Now Serving Starbucks Again! Back when Disney announced the changes coming to EPCOT, we knew that Starbucks would reside in […]

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