Why DVC Is a Good Buy in 2025

The topic of Disney Vacation Club ownership comes up often around here since we’re in the business of DVC. However, I’m a freelancer who technically doesn’t work for the company, even though you’ve been reading me here for many years. So, mine is a relatively unbiased opinion.

As a rule, I studiously avoid providing advice on how to spend your disposable income. Today, I’m making an exception because I feel strongly about something. Here’s why DVC is a good buy in 2025. 

DVC Is Always Adding More 

The Disney Vacation Club just introduced a “new” resort at a familiar site. Now, guests can explore the Island Tower at Disney’s Polynesian Villas & Bungalows. This expansion follows 13 months after the debut of The Villas at Disneyland Hotel. 

In between those two enhancements, The Cabins at Fort Wilderness Lodge opened. All these DVC additions came after the summer of 2022, which is when the former Big Pine Key building turned into an integral part of The Villas at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa. 

Frankly, DVC has added so much inventory in such a short period of time that you may have lost track or forgotten about a couple of these changes. That’s an essential part of the modern DVC program. 

During the early days of DVC, hotel expansion occurred more gradually. Now, we’re getting so many exciting new room options that it’s gotten hard to keep up with the additional inventory. 

Disney spoils us, and that trend will continue. We just learned that the former Reflections project is back on the menu, with Disney Lakeshore Lodge debuting in 2027. 

The huge beneficiaries of all these DVC improvements are its members. Disney is adding more Room Types than we have time to experience during each vacation. Every vacation feels fresh and new since we’ve never stayed in that particular style of room. It’s terrific. 

Disney Will Get Better Soon

The truth is that your average vacationer isn’t like a DVC member. Most casuals don’t care about new hotels. Instead, they visit Disney for the theme parks. To some extent, that’s true of DVC members as well. 

Well, I consider 2025 to be the calm before the storm for future Disney vacations. As we’ll discuss in another article, Disney will add plenty of attractions in the coming year. However, those new experiences represent a drop in the bucket compared to what will follow. 

In a matter of weeks, DinoLand USA will close some of its attractions, with Disney confirming that the rest, including DINOSAUR, will close by the end of 2025. Immediately after attractions like TriceraTop Spin shut down on January 13th, construction begins in earnest on the Tropical Americas. 

As part of that experience, Disney will add attractions based on Encanto and Indiana Jones. Soon afterward, Magic Kingdom will landlock the current Rivers of America to create an entire area dedicated to the Cars franchise. This section won’t be a Radiator Springs redux, though. Instead, it’ll feature Frontierland-style theming. 

After that project, we all know what comes next at Magic Kingdom. It’s the long-anticipated Villains Land! We’ve awaited this moment since the late 1990s, when budget shortfalls canceled Beastly Kingdom, the infamous themed land Disney never built. We’ll finally get something similar but even better in four or five years. 

These are far from the only projects taking place at Disney parks. In fact, Disney’s Hollywood Studios just confirmed that Monstropolis will replace Muppets Courtyard soon, with the Muppets replacing Aerosmith on the park’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster. And that’s just the improvements coming to Walt Disney World!

At Disneyland Resort, an Avatar area and a Coco menu are coming over the next two or three years. Also, Disney has just begun work to double the size and number of attractions at Avengers Campus. These projects signify the start of DisneylandForward, which promises 16 Disney attractions added over the next decade. 

Why DVC Is a Good Buy in 2025

By now, you should know enough about the DVC program to understand two things. The first is that while occasional hiccups occur due to the economy, the program’s pricing almost always increases over time. 

I’ve tracked this carefully, and my original DVC contract has increased by about ten percent annually for more than a decade now. If you’ve owned a DVC contract for several years now, you can likely say the same. Simply stated, demand has remained high for DVC resales purchases since the program’s inception more than 30 years ago. 

Now, you should consider the second aspect. What makes DVC contracts increase in value is the perceived value of the program. This is a simple example of demand outweighing supply. Imagine how much the demand will increase when Disney adds Encanto, Monstropolis, a Cars e-ticket attraction, and Villains Land! 

At both of Disney’s iconic American theme parks, the company is ready to invest tens of billions of dollars. Park officials aren’t creating a single theme park like Universal Epic Universe to get a one-time popularity bump. 

Instead, Disney will methodically improve its parks every year for the next decade. So, barring something unforeseen, demand for Disney vacations should increase in tandem with these enhancements. It’s simple logic, really. Disney is about to get better, so DVC will become more popular, too. Now is the best possible time to get ahead of the curve, as the big improvements start in 2026.