Do you all want to know the great secret? It's about time I just out and tell you.
You don't approach DVC, you let DVC approach you, when they're ready.
I don't know how many know the whole story of this part of the last Member Cruise, but feel it might just need telling at this point. After us going on the 03 one, we were absolute on going on the 05 one. And booked it and all. And began the meet plans. After the MH one, I really wanted to setup a better meet location. I had formed the idea of getting some public, but quieter location then we had at MH(The Land food court), My ideal idea was maybe a conference room at one of the DVC resorts, and maybe getting it at some discount(yes, I was willing to rent one myself, if need be) if someone from DVC came and made a presentation or something. I outlined this to Doc and he point blank told me I need to contact someone at DVC directly.
Skip forward to December, when we had a trip to WDW already happening, and attended the Merry Member Mixer. We wore our buttons and just walking in we're already meeting DVC reps who know about us, in some part. Okay, this looks good, might get a shot at putting forth the idea. So we go in and hang out for a bit, and one of the reps is tracking us down. This is where we met David for the first time. Now I had been outlining some of my idea in the 05 cruise thread on here, and that has been read, and I outline the rest. He reassures me with an enigmatic promise that there is already something in the works. Anyone who attended in 05 already knows the result, A big precruise night bash at PI with buffet snacks and drinks(kind of like the Merry Member Mixers).
Now as for that result, to be fair the weather put a real damper on the event. It was planned as an outside event with the clubs being a fallback position. If it had remained an outside event it probably would have been stellar. It wasn't bad, but the noise level in the clubs was impossible to do any mixing in.
And don't take this the wrong way Julie, but that event is about the maximum we should expect for a free precruise event, if there is one. Show up early in a private area, then wristbands to remain and enjoy the regular event. They had under a thousand attendees to the last event, and for us to have exclusive access to the second most popular 10,000+ hard ticket event its certainly more than DVC is going to foot. And it is foot, they don't get the access for free, DVC is a separate entity from WDW and has to reimburse WDW for any services. The only way that'd happen would be in the way the event at MH did, as a paying event, and I don't know if they'll ever do something like that again.
I'm changing your vote to D. Cheaters!!
. No this is a simple display of the left hand forgetting what the right hand is doing. (Keep me a D though - just to keep Karen guessing. 
) I can hear it now, "I asked you which one you liked .... (this is where I tune out & start humming It's a Small World) 
- liked the design with all the resorts listed. Geeeez...)
Whoops!! Maybe not.
