The Disney Vacation Club (DVC) Resorts at Walt Disney World

OVERVIEW

The Disney Vacation Club Resorts at Walt Disney World are time-share resorts whose rooms can also be reserved like any other Disney World resort hotel rooms.

Moreover, the rooms at these resorts can also be gained (usually at a huge cost saving) by privately renting “points” from Disney Vacation Club members. See this for how.

For most first time family visitors, the Disney Vacation Club Resorts are worth considering only under a few circumstances:

• Large families—especially those aimed at a Deluxe property—who are not willing to bet on actually getting connecting rooms. (You can request connecting rooms at WDW, but getting them is not guaranteed.) See both this and this for more on large families. “Villas” which can sleep 8, 9 and 12 people are available.
• Families aimed at a deluxe hotel, but who can only pull it off through the cost savings of renting DVC points. See this for more on renting DVC points
• Families who for one reason or another have targeted a resort with which a DVC property is paired, can’t get into it, but can get into the DVC resort

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