Dawn Lease had this to say in reply...
 >Welcome to the board.  We are also owners in the DVC (Key West resort)
 >and we stayed for the first time at DVC last year (11 nights).
 >
 >We do love the room.  We are coming down again from December 1 to
 >December 14th.  My sister-in-law and her husband and two children will
 >be with us (we're getting a studio for them), and my mother-in-law has
 >just told us she is coming too :-(.
 >
 >Boy, I hope you are right about the Boardwalk resort points going down.
 >I couldn't believe the expense!  I didn't (and don't) think it's very
 >fair.  I couldn't even consider staying there for that point cost this
 >year, and the rooms don't look bigger or anything.
 >
 >A couple of people who are DVC on this board:  Sue Kobel and Joe Ranney.
 >
 >I think you probably are Disney fanatics if you've stayed at most of the
 >other resorts too, means you go a lot!
 >
 >I've been laying low somewhat, but am back now.  Assuming we can get
 >some interesting discussions going about WDW, DL or the resorts, etc.
 >I'll keep on answering.  I'm really tired of the Lion King/Pocahontas
 >discussions, stories, picture discussion that are going on, and I know
 >of one other person that mostly lurks now because of it.  Even the
 >Kosters seem not to be as involved (although that may be because of
 >their baby).
Hi ho Dawn!
Thanks for the welcome mat, but I've posted here previously, although I wish, 
too, that there was less Pocahantas and more DVC or WDW.  Couldn't believe 
the McDonald onslaught which was overwhelming for awhile!  Anyways, let me 
correct any misconceptions of my having had a long and glorious past in 
visiting WDW.  The truth be told, after 12 years of trying, my wife finally 
convinced me we should take a vacation at WDW.  I once went to Disneyland as 
a child, but going to Florida just wasn't high on my list of things to do.  
Well, to make the story short, once we got there (staying at Dixie Landings), 
after seeing so much advertisement about this DVC, we decided to take a look. 
 Before we knew it, we were driven over in a DVC Welcome Van and received a 
tour and presentation.  It wasn't until a couple of months later that we 
decided to become members, and did all the paperwork by mail.  The first time 
we got to stay at DVC was in '94 and we rented a Grand Villa (wow!).  Last 
year we stayed at a One-Bedroom Villa (another wow!).  This year we could not 
get a Grand Villa because they were all booked up, and we called maybe 5 days 
into our 11 months advance reservation period!  I can only imagine that it 
was because of the Thanksgiving crowd (or that one family of 54 people 
recently interviewed in Disney magazine that goes for Thanksgiving...).
So, I haven't gone to WDW all that often, but my wife has been to Florida 
many times over the years with her family.  Now she wonders what kind of 
"monster" she created when she got me hooked! :-)  Looks like we'll be going 
most every year now...
Interestingly enough, we just got a letter from DVC saying that they just 
finished another building which will probably be the last building with our 
"Use Year".  So, if we wanted to "Add On" to our DVC points we could, but 
this will be out LAST opportunity to do so.  Apparently DVC likes to keep 
your points and ownership in sync with your original use year.  Didn't know 
that.  I got out my trusty spreadsheet and worked out the numbers, but it 
doesn't appear advantageous for us to "add on".  We have enough since we 
dinks and our families are scattered.  It was hard to get our families 
together for the two times!  You'll have to let us know what it's like going 
the first two weeks of December as we'd like to do that in 1998!
I think we qualify as Disney fanatics...
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