the_grinch
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i am looking into buying dvc not sure if i should wait for Carribbean Beach Resort to go on sale or not
i am looking into buying dvc not sure if i should wait for Carribbean Beach Resort to go on sale or not
I doubt it would be that many years before the Caribbean Beach project is operational.I expect it will be four or five years before we see CBR on the market. Maybe longer since I think there will be another DVC offering in between.
Just spend several months getting educated including the limitations, resale and home resort options. Clearly you're not there yet but you'll get there, it usually takes about 6 months of active investigation. Basically what you're asking is wether to wait and pay around $185 per point for an unknown option that isn't automatically a good choice vs the current options of Copper Creek or Poly retail or the resale options down to SSR at $80 per point. Even if you're a big Moderate/CBR fan, I doubt buying there at retail prices for a full contract will be a reasonable choice though my sense is it'll be comparable to SSR overall in many ways with less demand than most at WDW. IF DVC makes sense for you now, you're likely better off buying now once you have enough info to make reasonable choices. But if CBR intrigues you, you might consider underbuying now with the possibility of adding on there. How reasonable that is partly depends on your volume needs. Buying 100 points now and ? 75 there later likely isn't a good plan but buying 150 now and 50 at CBR when you estimate your need at 170 might be. Just realize any such variation is going to add cost to the total beyond buying all your points needs now, you just have to decide how much benefit you're getting for that extra cost. Let's quantify cost for a single examples. Say you estimate your needs to be 200 points for the next number of years. Using round numbers SSR or AKV 200 resale + 25 retail (roughly 10% cushion) will cost roughly $20K, BLT around $26K and if available today, CBR around $40K (225 pts). Since I'd generally recommend new buyers consider a retail add on for perk options, one could just wait a couple of years before doing so to see how this possibility turns out.i am looking into buying dvc not sure if i should wait for Carribbean Beach Resort to go on sale or not
I expect it will be four or five years before we see CBR on the market. Maybe longer since I think there will be another DVC offering in between.
What do you think will / might come up in between?
I'm curious how CBR will turn out and despite generally leaning toward Deluxes, I may make a small buy here direct.
I agree, but I was still curious about what others thought was coming sooner. Even if it's just an opinion.It won't be 4 years and there wont be anything in between. Construction has already started. Or at least teardown has. 2 to 2.5 years, guaranteed.