Congratulations on becoming DVC members Welcome Home 🎉 we own at Riviera too as well as Animal Kingdom Lodge. Riviera is a stunning resort 😍 love your vlogs!
Aww that’s amazing!! My aunt is an owner at animal kingdom too, it was because of her why we decided to sign up lol! Riviera is gorgeous! Cannot wait for our first stay there 🥹😍. Thank you so much for watching! We both appreciate it xx
Congratulations on your DVC purchase. I love the Riviera rooms. The music on the welcome tv screen just makes you want to dance😂. Get ready for addonitis with dvc especially resale now you have bought direct and have your blue card ( Y ) membership
Thank you! We are so happy with our purchase!! Cannot wait for our first Riviera stay, love the resort and the rooms are lovely! Also cannot wait for banana bread which I hear is amazing 😂. Always been looking at ad ons lol, as I plan to take my parents with us in the future, so we’re going to need more points obviously 😏
Yeah of course, I do go over it in a little more detail in next weeks vlog, where we were meeting our friends and the meeting took so long we didn’t have as much time to go over it in this vlog. We financed our DVC contract, you have to pay a deposit which for us was around £3000 and then the finance agreement is for 10 years (you can pay it off anytime within the 10 years and not be penalised) our finance payments are around £400ish a month, so £200 each. Our DVC contract is for 36 years. And cost us $55,000. Renting points through Dave’s for 5 nights at poly cost us £2300, so if you add that up over 36 years, DVC works out a hell of a lot cheaper (for us) and we get 12-14 nights instead of 5
No we weren’t able to get an upgrade on the Disney tickets, they said it’s to do with the special pricing deal we already get and the system doesn’t allow them to upgrade the UK tickets. As DVC members you do have access to the sorcerer annual pass, which is something we might get before our next trip! Xx
@kimberlys_journey thank you. I asked a cast member on the app if I could upgrade a 14 day UK ticket (specifically mentioned it would be a UK ticket) and he said yes. I asked because I'd seen mixed experiences so if he is wrong that's pretty poor of Disney to be giving out wrong information on the app). I'm so excited to see your first DVC stay next year. We've been looking at renting points too for next year so would love to see a vlog on that and DVC buying too xx
@@jenzb145yeah I’ve heard a lot of stories like that tbh, I genuinely think some of the cast members don’t know. Like for instance when we softened up to DVC, once it had all gone through, in the Disney app it showed that me and Daniel could upgrade our tickets, when we clicked through to try and complete it, it wouldn’t let the transaction go through. So I think that’s why Disney cast members get it wrong, it looks like it’s possible but when you try to finalise the transaction it doesn’t let you 😢. Renting points through Dave’s DVC rentals was so easy, it was just like completing a transaction for regular hotel booking, it was so easy. They deal with speaking to the owners on your behalf, so there isn’t anything for you to do! It was so straight forward! When we do our stay next year I’ll show more of the DVC side of things ❤ xx
Thank you for watching! So I don’t actually know the name of that song lol, as I saved the file off of epidemic sound and I renamed the sound. Do you have the Shazam app? If so, you can use that whilst the song is playing and it will tell you the name of the song x
@ ya I tried Shazam and couple other apps trying to find the song title. Keeps bringing me to gross rap stuff lol. Guess I will just keep watching and enjoying the sound clip! :) 101 days and counting for my return! Cheers and keep up the great entertainment that feeds all our Disney withdrawals! 🇨🇦
How come you guys decided on buying direct over resale? Interested on your opinions. Plus did the riveria resale restrictions not put you off as the way I believe it is the resale cost on the Rivieria is over $100 a point cheaper due to these restrictions? Thanks
Personally we chose to buy direct so that we could make use of the benefits, discounts and DVC events as we are considering getting the Disney annual pass too. We also want to use our points on a Disney cruise down the line, which I’m pretty certain you can’t do with resale points. If I were to buy more points in the future to top up our balance then I would probably look at resale at that time as we wouldn’t need as many points and I know you don’t get the Disney benefits unless you buy a minimum of 150. And the restrictions didn’t put us off no, as we (touch wood) don’t plan on selling, we’re very much hoping to be old and grey still visiting Disney. Is DVC something you’re considering?
@ we have bought resale at Riveria. We also knew the restrictions but love the riviera and are happy to stay there each time. If something changes we will sell the contract, as we only paid $94.50 per point, and purchase at a different resort that doesn’t have restrictions. We would only be able to go once a year so the discounts dont make up for the higher cost per point when buying direct. When you upgraded your universal tickets, did anyone mention epic universe to you? We may upgrade on next years trip but not sure what an annual pass will look like going forward?
@@PeterGreener-Jacklin oh that's amazing, Riviera is such a lovely resort and yeah that makes sense. For us we try to go a couple times of year and we would like to take my parents on a cruise and to Hawaii, so we want to use our points for that also. They didn't mention Epic no, as annual pass holders we did have the option when Epic tickets went live to purchase just a 1 day ticket, but it opens 2 days before we come home in May and the tickets were sold out when I checked and we haven't booked our September trip yet. At the moment I dont think there are any mentions about whether they will be adding Epic to the annual passes.
@ universal 2026 tickets will be 4 park tickets and allow you to go to epic however much you like. Be Interesting when it comes to your renewal next year, with you having half your annual pass in 2025 and half in 2026? Btw, top tip. Using DVC points is unbelievable bad value. Instead, rent some points out and use the funds to book a cruise direct. Far cheaper way of doing it.
@@PeterGreener-JacklinI’ll do a video on it when we come to renew, see what the increases are with Epic! As that’s a good point regarding the 2025/2026 dates! And thank you that’s a great tip, or I might just have to convince Daniel we need to use the points ourselves and book a cruise on top 😂
My annual pass includes free express after 4pm, but we did a universal hotel at the end of the trip, royal pacific for 2 nights, so we made use of express on that part of the trip! Xx
I can’t believe the increase of prices within the last cpl of years. I was in Orlando and was going to Universal until I checked the price for a day pass plus $30 for parking so I said no thank you. Coffees $19?? I was going for an ice cream until I checked the price which was $11 plus tax, for an ice cream cone. It’s the same for clothes, you could buy a Polo shirt for $15-20 now it’s more expensive than the UK. I spoke to an elderly couple last year who always brought an empty suitcase to bring back all the clothes they would buy. This was ( last year) the first time they were going home with an empty case!! It’s proving itself out of the UK market, lots of families would love to have a family holiday there but they just cannot afford it any more!! Even the air fares have got silly, never book a direct flight to Orlando or Miami, go via Chicago or Alana etc and you will save lots. Yes not as convenient but it might get you into the parks for a few days with the money you save
You’re not wrong it has got very expensive, especially for families. My brother who came out there on this trip had a family of 5, so the price of everything for him was extortionate, hence the reason they haven’t been for 8 years. Where we don’t have kids we can be more flexible with dates/ where we stay to try and get some bargains. I will say though, we have still found some good flight prices over the years, but again we go out of school holidays so they always are cheaper!
Thanks for the shout out guys! Lovely meeting you both, can’t wait for the rest of the trip’s vlogs 🥰
Thanks so much for coming over! It was lovely meeting & chatting to you both xx
Congratulations on becoming DVC members Welcome Home 🎉 we own at Riviera too as well as Animal Kingdom Lodge. Riviera is a stunning resort 😍 love your vlogs!
Aww that’s amazing!! My aunt is an owner at animal kingdom too, it was because of her why we decided to sign up lol! Riviera is gorgeous! Cannot wait for our first stay there 🥹😍.
Thank you so much for watching! We both appreciate it xx
Always fun following you two! ❤
Thank you as always for watching :)
Loving your vlogs 🫶🏻❤️
Thank you for watching 🥰
Congratulations on your DVC purchase. I love the Riviera rooms. The music on the welcome tv screen just makes you want to dance😂. Get ready for addonitis with dvc especially resale now you have bought direct and have your blue card ( Y ) membership
Thank you! We are so happy with our purchase!! Cannot wait for our first Riviera stay, love the resort and the rooms are lovely! Also cannot wait for banana bread which I hear is amazing 😂.
Always been looking at ad ons lol, as I plan to take my parents with us in the future, so we’re going to need more points obviously 😏
Would be great if you could do a separate video on the DVC process and the costs involved etc. Obviously if you're comfortable with talking money!
Yeah of course, I do go over it in a little more detail in next weeks vlog, where we were meeting our friends and the meeting took so long we didn’t have as much time to go over it in this vlog.
We financed our DVC contract, you have to pay a deposit which for us was around £3000 and then the finance agreement is for 10 years (you can pay it off anytime within the 10 years and not be penalised) our finance payments are around £400ish a month, so £200 each.
Our DVC contract is for 36 years. And cost us $55,000.
Renting points through Dave’s for 5 nights at poly cost us £2300, so if you add that up over 36 years, DVC works out a hell of a lot cheaper (for us) and we get 12-14 nights instead of 5
Enjoyed your video. Would love to see more of England. Thank you
going to do a few vlogs in the lead up to Christmas in England! Thank you for watching :)
You’re America fans like me, you need to swap those water bottles for YETI ones! 🙌🏼 they are just top tier!
Oooo I haven’t heard of the Yeti ones, off to investigate 😂. You’ll see in these vlogs that I love a water bottle lol
Dis you upgrade your disney ticket to an annual pass aswell ? Wasnt sure if you can do that or if you were able to now you have dvc x
No we weren’t able to get an upgrade on the Disney tickets, they said it’s to do with the special pricing deal we already get and the system doesn’t allow them to upgrade the UK tickets.
As DVC members you do have access to the sorcerer annual pass, which is something we might get before our next trip! Xx
@kimberlys_journey thank you. I asked a cast member on the app if I could upgrade a 14 day UK ticket (specifically mentioned it would be a UK ticket) and he said yes. I asked because I'd seen mixed experiences so if he is wrong that's pretty poor of Disney to be giving out wrong information on the app). I'm so excited to see your first DVC stay next year. We've been looking at renting points too for next year so would love to see a vlog on that and DVC buying too xx
@@jenzb145yeah I’ve heard a lot of stories like that tbh, I genuinely think some of the cast members don’t know. Like for instance when we softened up to DVC, once it had all gone through, in the Disney app it showed that me and Daniel could upgrade our tickets, when we clicked through to try and complete it, it wouldn’t let the transaction go through. So I think that’s why Disney cast members get it wrong, it looks like it’s possible but when you try to finalise the transaction it doesn’t let you 😢.
Renting points through Dave’s DVC rentals was so easy, it was just like completing a transaction for regular hotel booking, it was so easy. They deal with speaking to the owners on your behalf, so there isn’t anything for you to do! It was so straight forward!
When we do our stay next year I’ll show more of the DVC side of things ❤ xx
Signed* not softened 😂
@@kimberlys_journey ha ha 🤣🤣 I wish I could soften them up for a lifetime super discounted DVC 🤣🤣
Odd question but I’d love to know the music overlayed on your drive to Universal?!
Love your vlogs too!
Thank you for watching!
So I don’t actually know the name of that song lol, as I saved the file off of epidemic sound and I renamed the sound. Do you have the Shazam app? If so, you can use that whilst the song is playing and it will tell you the name of the song x
@ ya I tried Shazam and couple other apps trying to find the song title. Keeps bringing me to gross rap stuff lol.
Guess I will just keep watching and enjoying the sound clip! :)
101 days and counting for my return!
Cheers and keep up the great entertainment that feeds all our Disney withdrawals!
🇨🇦
Would also love to know rough costs pf your DVC and terms.
I went over it in more detail in next weeks vlog, I just responded to another comment with our costs etc, if you want to look at that xx
How come you guys decided on buying direct over resale? Interested on your opinions.
Plus did the riveria resale restrictions not put you off as the way I believe it is the resale cost on the Rivieria is over $100 a point cheaper due to these restrictions?
Thanks
Personally we chose to buy direct so that we could make use of the benefits, discounts and DVC events as we are considering getting the Disney annual pass too. We also want to use our points on a Disney cruise down the line, which I’m pretty certain you can’t do with resale points. If I were to buy more points in the future to top up our balance then I would probably look at resale at that time as we wouldn’t need as many points and I know you don’t get the Disney benefits unless you buy a minimum of 150.
And the restrictions didn’t put us off no, as we (touch wood) don’t plan on selling, we’re very much hoping to be old and grey still visiting Disney.
Is DVC something you’re considering?
@ we have bought resale at Riveria. We also knew the restrictions but love the riviera and are happy to stay there each time. If something changes we will sell the contract, as we only paid $94.50 per point, and purchase at a different resort that doesn’t have restrictions. We would only be able to go once a year so the discounts dont make up for the higher cost per point when buying direct.
When you upgraded your universal tickets, did anyone mention epic universe to you? We may upgrade on next years trip but not sure what an annual pass will look like going forward?
@@PeterGreener-Jacklin oh that's amazing, Riviera is such a lovely resort and yeah that makes sense. For us we try to go a couple times of year and we would like to take my parents on a cruise and to Hawaii, so we want to use our points for that also.
They didn't mention Epic no, as annual pass holders we did have the option when Epic tickets went live to purchase just a 1 day ticket, but it opens 2 days before we come home in May and the tickets were sold out when I checked and we haven't booked our September trip yet. At the moment I dont think there are any mentions about whether they will be adding Epic to the annual passes.
@ universal 2026 tickets will be 4 park tickets and allow you to go to epic however much you like.
Be Interesting when it comes to your renewal next year, with you having half your annual pass in 2025 and half in 2026?
Btw, top tip. Using DVC points is unbelievable bad value. Instead, rent some points out and use the funds to book a cruise direct. Far cheaper way of doing it.
@@PeterGreener-JacklinI’ll do a video on it when we come to renew, see what the increases are with Epic! As that’s a good point regarding the 2025/2026 dates!
And thank you that’s a great tip, or I might just have to convince Daniel we need to use the points ourselves and book a cruise on top 😂
Did you bother with Xpress passes for Universal? I usually stay at Hard Rock to get them but it’s v pricey!!!
My annual pass includes free express after 4pm, but we did a universal hotel at the end of the trip, royal pacific for 2 nights, so we made use of express on that part of the trip! Xx
How can they justify charging a motorbike the same as a Yank Tank ? 😳😳, Fortescue’s for Butterbeer ice cream ? 🍦😋👍🏼
I know! But I guess, they still take up a full parking space 🤷🏽♀️. The parking charges are the parks are extortionate!
I can’t believe the increase of prices within the last cpl of years. I was in Orlando and was going to Universal until I checked the price for a day pass plus $30 for parking so I said no thank you. Coffees $19?? I was going for an ice cream until I checked the price which was $11 plus tax, for an ice cream cone. It’s the same for clothes, you could buy a Polo shirt for $15-20 now it’s more expensive than the UK. I spoke to an elderly couple last year who always brought an empty suitcase to bring back all the clothes they would buy. This was ( last year) the first time they were going home with an empty case!! It’s proving itself out of the UK market, lots of families would love to have a family holiday there but they just cannot afford it any more!! Even the air fares have got silly, never book a direct flight to Orlando or Miami, go via Chicago or Alana etc and you will save lots. Yes not as convenient but it might get you into the parks for a few days with the money you save
You’re not wrong it has got very expensive, especially for families. My brother who came out there on this trip had a family of 5, so the price of everything for him was extortionate, hence the reason they haven’t been for 8 years.
Where we don’t have kids we can be more flexible with dates/ where we stay to try and get some bargains. I will say though, we have still found some good flight prices over the years, but again we go out of school holidays so they always are cheaper!