Originally Posted by
WDWacky
I used to think that, too, but when I really sat down and did a financial analysis, I'm hard pressed to find a way in which it isn't a good financial decision.
Think of it this way ... assuming you always plan to take vacations (and if you don't even that doesn't matter since you can always re-sell your points, often for more than you paid) then you're just pre-paying at today's prices for tomorrow's vacations.
If you could do the same thing with gas or food or clothing, wouldn't you? Of course. It's a financial no-brainer because of inflation.
In another thread I was reading, someone gave an estimate that in 40 or 50 years, given reasonable rates of inflation, a night at the Beach Club will cost $1,000. It won't cost me that ... it'll cost me about $71 a night and that's assuming that my annual dues have risen to $1,000 a year at that point.