Announced by the Orlando Sentinel, as of January 1st, 2009 Disney timeshare owners will be exchanging their DVC points with RCI. They will be able to use their DVC points for exchanges within RCI and RCI's 3.6 million members will now be able to trade into a Disney timeshare.

This is huge news, especially for those who are members of RCI. Sure reservations may be tough to get, but the possibilities are great. And, as you can imagine, owning a Disney Vacation Club timeshare will carry significant exchanging abilities with other RCI resorts.

Disney Vacation Club presently offers the following resorts:

Bay Lake Tower at Disney's Contemporary Resort

Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas

Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa

The Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge

Disney's Beach Club Villas

Disney's BoardWalk Villas

Disney's Old Key West Resort

Disney's Vero Beach Resort

Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort

But, whatever you do, don't run out and pay a retail price for a DVC timeshare. Buy your lifetime of dream Disney vacations at a significant discount through the timeshare pro's at www.rpmls.com .  They have the experience, size, and systems to get the job done - and with a personal touch.

Disney's Beach Club Villas timeshare

Despite economic trembling, Disney Resorts is pressing ahead with their $800 million resort project. During the ground breaking ceremony recently, Hawaii's Lt Gov Duke Aiona pointed out the huge economic impact of construction jobs. Others who spoke at the ground breaking ceremony described the significant impact of the enlarged tax base and staff jobs. The Disney resort, including 480 Disney Vacation Club timeshare villas, will be located on the west coast of the island of Oahu.

As the scale model below shows, the area will be transformed into a tropical oasis of winding rivers, lush garden lagoons, palms, and even a volcano. Not only will Oahu be the featured destination, but the Disney resort will become a feature all on its own.

This is still all great news for anyone who owns a Disney (DVC) timeshare. It is also great news if you are thinking of selling your DVC timeshare ownership. Now it will be even more flexible, offer significant options to their owners, and look that much more attractive. This will also help its resales value.

If you are thinking of buying a Disney Vacation Club timeshare ownership, the timeshare pros at www.rpmls.com is the place to start. With nearly 30 years of timeshare resales brokering, co brokering, advertising, closing, and more - they have the experience to get any deal closed.

Scale Model of Disney's Ko Olina Resort

From the Orlando Sentinel comes this Disney (DVC) update: Sales have now begun for the newest Disney Vacation Club project: Bay Lake Tower. Entry level prices for the timeshares will begin at $18,000 making it the most expensive of any DVC timeshare resort. Disney's Bay Lake Tower will feature 300 timeshare units and be linked to the Contemporary Resort by a pedestrian bridge. Another appealing feature will be that it will be the first timeshare within walking distance to Disney Magic Kingdom.

Disney has begun their sales by targeting their 350,000 DVC members. They sent an email to their existing members announcing the sales with a link to a video on www.youtube.com. This video, Deevy See's Revealing Report, has had 59,000 views!  DVC got a lot of views - I wonder how many sales so far?

On the same day they launched their email campaign, our Disney Vacation Club video spiked with 380 views in one day.

So here comes yet another great addition to the DVC inventory - we will have to wait and see how this pans out with the current credit crunch going on.

Other stories related to Disney - Note to Self - Buy Disney Vacation Club Timeshares for Less! and Disney and Hawaii - Selling a Timeshare Dream

Here's how the Bay Lake Tower will look:

Yesterday's announcement from Disney that they will give free admission to one theme park on your birthday, brings up one important thing on my "to do list" - buy a Disney Vacation Club timeshare on the secondary market. After all, why should I pay the going rate at the resort when there are owners who would be willing to sell me their DVC for much much less?  I'd get the same product but for thousands less!

But how would I find the right resort, make sure the owner knows exactly what they own, and get the deal closed? What about escrow, closing companies, and transfer of ownership at Disney?

If you are really serious about buying or selling Disney Vacation Club timeshares, then you should utilize the services of timeshare resales specialists like those at www.rpmls.com. They have the size, experience, and systems to get the right deal and do it right the first time! With thousands of timeshare properties sold and closed, their experience would be the "steak" you need - with none of the "sizzle" so many seem to offer.

Disney Vacation Club's proximity to Walt Disney World, their amenities, and attention to detail would make any timeshare owner confident that they made the right decision - especially when you buy your DVC timeshare from another owner.

Today from www.MousePlanet.com comes this charming story: "The Disney Company recently purchased 21 acres of oceanfront property on Hawaii's island of Oahu to be home to Disney's first mixed-use family resort outside of its theme park developments. The expansive resort, scheduled to open in 2011, will have more than 800 units including hotel rooms and villas for Disney Vacation Club (DVC), which is Disney's rapidly growing timeshare business."

So, how is this a charming story? The rest of the story is the history of Hawaii and Disney.

Beyond the story of a 1937 cartoon with Minnie Mouse in a hula skirt (Hawaiian Holiday) is a magnificent accession of Oahu property destined to be one of the finest resorts within the Disney Vacation Club timeshare enterprise, or any other for that matter. Hawaii has long been a source of inspiration and imagination of the most desirable vacation destination of all time. And, the combination of travel and tourism will forever be the driving force of the economy of Hawaii.

Disney Vacation Club timeshares include:

Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas

Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort and Spa

Disney Villas at Wilderness Lodge

Disney's Beach Club Villas

Disney's BoardWalk Villas

Disney's Old Key West Resort

Disney's Vero Beach Resort

Disney's Hilton Head Resort

If you are thinking of buying a Disney Vacation Club timeshare, buy resale - don't pay retail. You can save thousands that way. If you want to sell your Disney Vacation Club timeshare, we have buyers waiting with standing requests! Give the timeshare pros at www.rpmls.com a call - 1.800.200.9857.

From Hawaiian Holiday, 1937

"Wyndham Hotels and Resorts has announced that construction of its 400-room luxury resort in the Bonnet Creek Resort complex adjacent to Walt Disney World® at Lake Buena Vista, Fla., which began this month, is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2010.

It is anticipated the complex ultimately will total 1,594 vacation ownership units, the most at any Wyndham Vacation Ownership location." (source)

In the press release, they describe something a little different: Be Together Suites. They describe them as oversized rooms designed to sleep a family of six comfortably with a king-size bed, bunk-bed alcove with game station and sofa bed. About 20% of the timeshare units will be this type of suite.  That is different.

The obvious prediction of success will come because of its location: as close to Disney as you can get without being inside the park in a Disney Resort.  In addition, these accommodations will have all the amenities that timeshare owners have now come to expect: high speed internet access, LCD TV's, and gaming stations - that's inside the rooms!

Many older timeshare resorts in the region need to get up to speed to compete with the new resorts being built today.