Disney’s plans to open 4 new resorts this year constitute the most ambitious expansion yet for Disney Vacation Club, its 17-year-old time-share arm.

There will be three new Central Florida properties along with 50 new units that will open later this year at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif.

Sales prices are starting at about $18,000, plus a monthly maintenance fee. It is the first time Disney has been selling interests in four time shares at once.

According to the Orlando Sentinel,

“Although the resorts are opening within 100 days of one another, each is unique:

•At Kidani Village, which will eventually have 340 units, walls are decorated with African proverbs and artifacts such as a Bamileke king’s belt and Cameroon royal drinking horns. Most rooms overlook a re-created savanna complete with giraffes, zebras, ostriches and other wildlife.

•The 60 Treehouse Villas stand on pedestals and stilts in a forested wetland. The octagonal suites replace earlier lodging originally built in 1975, and designers say the new units use 70 percent less impervious concrete.

•Bay Lake Tower rises 15 stories just outside the gates of the Magic Kingdom and is linked to Disney’s Contemporary Resort by a pedestrian bridge. The sales pitch centers around the views; the largest suites have windows two stories tall.

Disney is also building more time shares beyond Central Florida. In addition to the Villas at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, which are scheduled to open late this year, Disney this year began construction of an 830-room resort in Hawaii, in which more than half of the rooms will be time shares. That resort will open in 2011.

And earlier this month, Disney announced the purchase of 15 acres just outside Washington with plans to build a family resort. Although Disney has not released details, it is likely that project will also include Vacation Club villas.”

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