I've received 2 postcards and 1 email (today's).
Chronology as follows:
(1) I got postcard #1 (which was for AKL, as I recall) last fall, before I'd booked a trip to Disney. At that time I hadn't been to WDW since 1999. I'd registered on their website, though, probably a few weeks before the card arrived. It didn't cover the dates we were going, so we didn't use it.
(2) I got postcard #2 in the spring, a few weeks after we'd returned from WDW in January (we booked our rooms--at ASMu and AKL--as AP discounts...btw, there was no FTP at that point). I forget what dates it covered, but they were also dates we weren't traveling. The postcard was for discounts on value resorts, if I recall correctly.
(3) The email I just received today was for discounts on moderates. We are planning a trip in December, but haven't booked a room yet. I haven't even called CRO yet, so unless they're psychic (a possibility!
), they have no way of knowing we plan to return. I'm wondering if they're offering us a stay at one of the moderates based on our split stay last time, or possibly on the total amount of money we spent? Hard to know.
If they really wanted to appeal to us, they'd send us a code for the beginning of December for a deluxe resort! Mickey, are you listening?
The only connection I can see is registering on the WDW website, but there may be some other pixie dust at work.
--miffy--