DVC Resale Average Sales Prices for January 2025

This article features the average sales price of contracts categorized by resort and month sold from January 2024 through January 2025 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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DVC Right of First Refusal Report (ROFR): January 2025

DVC Exercises Right of First Refusal (ROFR) Year-to-date (YTD), Disney has exercised their right of first refusal (ROFR) on 9 Disney Vacation Club (DVC) contract, and DVC Resale Market (DVCRM) has sold 462, resulting in a 1.9% buyback rate (Contracts Bought Back in 2025/Contracts Sold in 2025). The 2025 waiver rate is 98.1%. Key ROFR […]

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Which DVC Resorts Should You Visit at Night?

The beauty of the Disney Vacation Club program is that every resort is impeccable. They’re all in the Deluxe Tier of Disney hotels, making them the best of the best.  As you’d expect, every resort has its pros and cons, with the pros vastly outnumbering the cons. Since I’m a night owl by nature, there’s […]

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All About One-Time-Use Vacation Points

With a Disney Vacation Club contract, you get the same number of points to use each year.  However, DVC offers lots of flexibility with features such as banking, borrowing, and transfers, which help if you need more points for some years than others.  If you find that you are just shy of the points required […]

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How Long Does It Take to Break Even on a Grand Floridian Resale Contract?

DVC resale contracts can save you thousands of dollars compared to buying a contract directly through Disney, but how long does it take for you to break even on your purchase compared to cash stays through Disney?  Let’s walk through an example with a Grand Floridian resale contract.   What Does a Resale Contract Cost? At […]

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Unexpected Benefits of DVC

DVC is essentially Disney’s version of a timeshare, but in many ways it offers so much more than just decades of resort stays.  Here are some of the unexpected benefits of being a DVC Member. A Guaranteed Break From the Daily Grind Daily life is stressful.  Every now and then you need that breath of […]

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Big Changes Are Coming at Disneyland DVC Resorts

The Walt Disney Company had a full day yesterday. Disney announced a promotion for Ken Potrock, the most recent President at Disneyland Resort. His replacement, Thomas Mazloum, is the person most recently in charge of Disney Vacation Club. Mazloum had headed Disney Signature Experiences, which includes DVC. On the same day Disneyland announced its new […]

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Why DVC Members Stay at Beach Club Villas

Whenever I book a Disney Vacation Club resort, I feel a strange combination of joy, satisfaction, and frustration. I know that I’ll have a magical time during my visit, but the frustration comes from that vague feeling of opportunity cost. Once I choose my resort(s) for that trip, I feel a pang of sadness that […]

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How to Approach Holding Points

A strange thing happened to me in late October. I was mere days away from a stay at Disney’s Old Key West Resort, yet I hadn’t been medically cleared. My doctor didn’t provide me with the final authorization until the week of my visit.  Had she advised me not to go, my DVC Points would […]

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Here Are the New Disney Experiences Coming in 2025

The Walt Disney Company never stops innovating. Disney Vacation Club members benefit from these constant improvements, as they enrich all our future vacations. Simultaneously, the updates enhance the value of our DVC contracts. So, we always have good reasons to anticipate what comes next at the theme parks. Here are the new Disney experiences coming […]

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