Disney Vacation Club (DVC) is a timeshare program with a twist. Instead of purchasing a specific vacation week at a particular resort, you purchase points. Your points are used for the accommodations for your vacation. There are several luxury resorts at the Disney theme parks where you can use your points. You can also use them on a Disney cruise or they can be used at over 500 destinations around the world. Restrictions apply, but DVC has worked to make things easy for its members.
Buy DVC points at the official website at disneyvacationclub.com. Once there, you'll find the opportunity to order a free DVD that explains the program in detail. You'll also be given the chance to chat live with a DVC representative. If you'd prefer, there's also a phone number to talk to someone and a place to email your questions.
Once you've decided to purchase a DVC membership, the next thing that you need to decide is how many points to purchase. Although subject to change, the smallest number of points that can be purchased currently is 160, the maximum is 2,000. Your points don't all have to be used at once. If you don't use all your points one year, they are transferred to the next or you can borrow points from the coming year for the vacation of a lifetime. Consider carefully how you vacation and pick your points based on how you will use them.
If you decide that you didn't purchase enough points when you first signed up, it's easy to add on to your DVC membership. Just contact DVC and they'll help you add extra points to your membership.
If you're looking to add points to your membership without going directly through DVC, you can purchase points from other members. There are several sites online where you can purchase points or even memberships from others. Search carefully; you want to make sure that you're buying through a reputable organization.
