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Yes, they will, but it may be late before you get your bags. Our last split stay, we left our bags checking out at Boardwalk in the morning. We didn't recieve our bags at Saratoga until 8 or 9 p.m. As someone else mentioned, make sure you hang on to any essentials that may be time sensitive.
If you like the idea of prepaid, buy the amount of gift cards that you want at a discount and then use your DVC discount too.
@YamKriegs Amy, can we get Direct, Resale and Hybrid badges?
Overall, buying small direct contracts overtime to accumulate blue card status will cost so much more in the end. You will pay closing costs multiple times and your cost per point will be higher as the discounts usually apply beginning at 100 points or more. However on the flip side, if you needed to sell later, small
We use out Mastercard thank you card that gives 10% statement credit at grocery stores when you spend $1000. We use that card to buy disney gift cards at Kroger during 4x fuel point gift card events. So we earn 10% back plus $1.00 off our fuel. It is a great savings hack!
We most likely will add more RIV points, but we'll buy resale. We just love the resort. Plus the price point for resale is worth it. We can use our direct points to stay anywhere and our resale OKW can be used for the original 14. So we would have no reservations buying resale RIV.
We actually did this for both our resale (OKW) 2023 and our direct (Riviera) 2025 😄 We have no regrets!
We purchased 150 direct Riv points in 2025. We also own resale OKW (our 1st contract). We hope to add on resale Riv eventually as our kids start their lives amd families several years from now.
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