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Hello all, After your helpful advice a few months ago, I took the leap and purchased a 100 point resale contract at Beach Club Villas - our favourite DVC property. We want to purchase another contract (of between 100-150 points) and I am torn between getting another resale contract or...

Do you have any idea where to find details of this offer? I contacted DVC who said they are selling for $205 per point and they’re only offering a very small discount on top of that. Not sure if I need to ask for something else!

Thank you so much for this - invaluable to hear your perspective having just purchased yourself. Honestly, I’m now leaning towards doing something similar - I’m not sure I could justify buying only at BCV given the high cost per point. At the same time, I quite like that it expires in 18 years...

Thank you - this is really helpful! Interesting that BCV is near the bottom of the list ;) Thank you - I didn’t realise they expired so soon! That does make things a bit more difficult to decide. Thank you for this - it’s really helpful setting out the costs like that! It looks like the...

Hello all, We are finally in a position to start looking to buy some DVC points and having looked at the price of resale as well as direct with Disney, it looks like resale is about 50% cheaper for us on average. We know that we want to have access to Beach Club Villas, so I know we need at...

I wouldn’t expect any country other than the UK to celebrate it given it centres around the English based gunpowder plot. I do enjoy it as an autumnal festival but given the choice, I think I’d say the 4th July is a much bigger thing! One of our local fireworks displays this weekend set alight...

I’d also recommend Haleiwa as it is well known for its food trucks. The immediate Ko Olina area doesn’t have a huge selection of restaurants so we did tend to drive quite a bit further afield. Island Country Markets is just across the road and serves some good deli meals, though we found the...

We appreciated this shopping area too - it’s quite corporate and didn’t feel much different to us than retail parks here in the UK. I’d highly recommend the restaurant Mahi’ai Table located in Foodland. We liked it so much we went there twice on our trip. The food is fresh and locally sourced...

We managed to use our older (Magicband 2.0) Magicbands a few weeks ago. The CM at check in said that as long as your Aulani reservation is linked to your MDE account you should be good to go. She linked all of our bands to our reservation and we were able to use them in lieu of room keys all...

If it were me, I’d probably go for Yacht first, then Beach, then Boardwalk. The theming of the Boardwalk is quite similar but doesn’t quite have the same feel to me. We are also big pool people and so having access to Stormalong Bay is a huge plus for us. Around Christmas time I think the...

Schools here don’t go back until early September. Universities don’t restart until late September/early October. That said we don’t have dependable or consistent summers so it doesn’t feel like summer is coming to an end anyway. This summer has been a bit of a washout with a week or two of nice...

I also say keep an eye out for dropping rates as you get closer. Last summer when we went to Disney World, the car of our choice halved about a month before our trip. We are heading to the West Coast this year but I have found that the principle is the same - I’ve booked and cancelled and...

For theming rather than food, 50s Prime Time Cafe is a great experience. For great food and a more refined atmosphere, we like the Hollywood Brown Derby.

We all loved it. The restaurant itself isn’t really themed and you could argue a bit more bland than most of Disney’s restaurants, but the food is fantastic southern comfort food. The fried chicken is a specialty but we enjoyed all of the main courses that we ordered.

I think a lot depends on how much time you plan on spending at the resort. We absolutely love Yacht and Beach; ever since staying there we haven’t wanted to stay anywhere else. The theming is whimsical, the location and restaurants are all fantastic, and the location can’t be beaten. We also...

Do we think it’s likely that the AMA Ama breakfast will be brought back at some point? It was something we were really looking forward to on our 2020 trip before that got cancelled. I’d love a table service breakfast on resort that isn’t character dining!

The photos I’ve seen of the Off The Hook breakfasts show the meals being served in take out containers, so I figured it was quick service for breakfast. I’d love for it to be table service though or at the very least have the entrees served up on proper plates.

We had a similar dilemma and ended up booking Toa Luau. We already planned on visiting Waimea Falls which is $25 each, so the fact that it is included with the cost of the luau is a nice added extra. We managed to get tickets for just over $100 per person with the discount code they advertise on...

It would be complicated to implement but that’s like saying it would be hard to implement an NHS in a country with 60 million that has been set up in a country with 10 million. I think that the bigger issue is that the healthcare industry is so vehemently opposed to it. It would undoubtedly be...

The standard of care in NHS hospitals in the UK is some of the best in the world and has better outcomes than US healthcare. Many of our specialists are world leading. Wealthy people may elect to go to private hospitals for less serious health issues like childbirth and elective surgery but...