If you're put off that I love to go and view it as a money pit that gives my family and I a great deal of fun and memories and call it a timeshare...oh well. It's a timeshare that gives value and it will always be a timeshare to me.
I’m not at all put off that your family loves going to the parks and recognizes Disney’s timeshare to be a timeshare. You just described my family.
I’m not a flipper. I’m a guy who wanted to find a cheaper way for my family to go to Disney annually, staying in a 1BR+ close to the parks. My plan is to keep my contracts as long as I can so that when I have grandkids, I can introduce them to my sickness. I imagine going to food and wine, flower and garden with my wife when I can take my “get-off-my-timeshare-lawn” show on the road in retirement. If he wants it, maybe I’ll pass it along to my son to share with his family.
If any of this sounds familiar, it’s because you’ve described wanting some of those same things for your family as well. Believe it or not, we probably have more in common than not.
What I don’t understand is your fixation on people deciding to make money off of this timeshare. Ignoring that historically people have done this, you seem obsessed with convincing people that Riviera is the bomb-biggety best thing since sliced bread. You first come at it as more than saving money it was making magic. Then it was something to enjoy and pass on to the kids. Then it was future proofing when Epcot expands and bulldozes the surrounding resorts making Riviera’s arms length Epcot status the smart long play. And now it’s that Disney never designed the product to make people money and therefore everyone shouldn’t care that Disney is devaluing their timeshare product for their sole benefit.
Really, who cares?
If people started posting that Disney’s timeshare was a horrible waste of money because they’re able to stay at the Holiday Inn down the street for a fraction of the cost and catch a city bus that drops off at Disney Springs where they could catch any shuttle to any park, I’d shrug and move on. Not how I wanna spend my vacation but to each his own.
Unlike people who poo-poo your beloved Riviera; whose protest of your chosen resort effects nothing of your ownership; your espousal of the new Disney sales guidelines: speaking of years of magic, how Disney designed this to be bought and enjoyed by families, how this is something you’ll hand down to your kids, how Disney never designed this for people to make money; all of this is the same exact verbiage the Developers are packaging for guides to use when countering concern around the new restrictions.
They serve the corporate message beautifully, but they do nothing to help owners.
I know you love the Riviera. I know you don’t care about the restrictions. I get that. But in all your defense of the new Disney timeshare model you have failed to address the one thing most owners take umbrage to:
How do these new restrictions better serve the ownership?
I’m not looking for anything about magic, or Disney’s intent with the timeshare product, people looking to profit off of this. I just want to understand how you see these restrictions benefiting owners.
Because that’s a point we can discuss. I see this clearly as hurting owners, present and future, that it didn’t before the change; especially direct owners. And especially direct owners at Riviera and every other timeshare to follow. But you seem to be such a proponent of the change and have embraced it so much that you’re incensed when people suggest that these restrictions are diametrically opposed to the heart of what makes a Disney timeshare different than industry standard.
How do these new restrictions better serve the ownership?