If you are new to hearing about Disney Vacation Club memberships, you are probably wondering what it means when people refer to points/contracts as being Direct or Resale. So as a follow up to my post linked below regarding the up front cost of purchasing a Disney Vacation Club Membership in general, it is important [...]
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Covid Character Dining Options and Reviews
February 22nd Update: Just announced! Disney Jr. Breakfast at Hollywood and Vine will be opening on March 22nd! This is the 3rd character breakfast option. Hopefully a sign of more good things to come. Fingers crossed (because I don't honestly give a hoot about Disney Jr. characters, sorry not sorry) https://jilteddisneybride.com/2021/02/23/breaking-news-new-character-dining/ We are BIG fans [...]
How to be a DVC Member and get your annual dues paid for you…
Catchy title, eh? I originally planned to call this “My genius ploy to subsidize my DVC maintenance fees (insert evil villain laugh)” but I didn’t think people would be too amused by my nerdy accountant talk paired with Disney humor. So my original intent with this blog was to have a place to post about [...]
Genie+ Down This Morning?
Update: seems to have resolved around 7:50 this morning. Here we are in Disney World, waking up at 7am, as is the delightful new norm, to book our rides for the morning, and what do you know, it’s not working. So now I have the joy of sitting and waiting to see when it does [...]
Announcements from D23 Expo 2023
Lots of big announcements coming out of the D23 Expo at the Contemporary in Walt Disney World today. I love these announcement days. Fun fact: during my c-section back in 2017 I asked my boyfriend-turned baby daddy-turned fiance-turned ex-turned boyfriend again (BFBDFEB, if you will) to quiz me on all the D23 announcements that came [...]
Murphy beds vs Sofa Beds in DVC Studios
When booking a DVC room, specifically studios, there are several different sleeping configurations, depending on the resort. Back in the day, every DVC studio had a queen bed and a pull out sofa that was either a double, full, or queen (with the exception of Old Key West which has two queen beds in their [...]
New “Cart” Timer for DVC bookings?
Am I crazy or is this a new feature on the DVC website. Maybe a product of the recent downtime when they were performing maintenance. I clicked on a room that I was considering booking, then changed my mind, closed the safari app on my phone, and went about my business. A little later I [...]
Current Ease of Dining Reservations
Apparently gone are the days of frantically stressing about being online at 5:45am 60 days prior to the start of your trip, strategizing about booking the dining for the last days of your trip first. This morning I casually slept in until 6:30 (real casual), figuring I might be screwed for our September trip since [...]
Wild Availability Changes for DVC Rooms in July
This is not at all what DVC Members renting points out want to see, present company included, but it is an AWESOME development for people hoping to rent DVC rooms at the last minute this July. There has been a sudden influx of available DVC studios for the remainder of the month of July, unlike [...]
Limitations to use of Transferred in Resale Points
This is an FYI to a very specific niche of DVC members who like to receive transfers of points every year (you can receive one transfer per membership per use year). Currently, and for at least the past year, if you receive a transfer of resale points, you can’t use them on the website to [...]
How to Avoid Scams when Renting DVC (Disney Vacation Club) Points
There has been a massive surge in DVC rental interest in recent years, which is absolutely wonderful, since it is without a doubt the most financially-savvy way for non-DVC members to visit Disney World and stay on property (at the same time it helps DVC members like me rent out our points, cha-ching!), but as [...]
Our totally Unexpected Switch to a Direct DVC Contract
If you've seen any of my prior posts, you know I am a very vocal proponent of purchasing DVC Contracts via the Resale Market. I have an old post comparing prices, and I plan to do another similar analysis in the near future given how good of a buyer's market it is right now and [...]
Back with a Vengeance
Alright, sorry for the radio silence for… what… a year and a half ?! Is that possible? Yikes. Well it finally wasn’t for depressing reasons (usually I don’t post much when embroiled in a custody battle/wedding cancellation shenanigan), but in a crazy plot twist, I had baby #2 with on-again baby-daddy-wedding-canceller this past year and [...]