Club run disney

[BradleyCB]

I feel pretty fortunate in that I only had to have silver for one year before I was able to upgrade to gold last summer when my renewal window opened. I definitely treated it like race registration and was on and refreshing my profile page every few seconds.

When we were in line waiting for early access to runDisney merch at this year's marathon weekend, I mentioned I would like to upgrade to platinum. Other gold members in line around me scoffed. All three said they have been trying to upgrade to platinum for a few years without success and that platinum spots tend to not open up. Still, I will hope for the best.

The benefits for gold are great, but runDisney is serious about enforcing the rules. Only the card holder gets early access to runDisney merch at the expo, not a spouse/partner or anyone else. And you can only sign yourself up for the guaranteed event. We were online yesterday morning desperately trying to get my wife a spot in any of the 2027 marathon weekend events.

All that being said, I will keep my gold status as long as I am physically able to continue participating in these events. Avoiding registration frustration for at least one weekend is very much worth the price.

 

[The Expert]

I was an inaugural member of Club rD, and at the time still had DVC/AP early registration, so I joined at Silver level just to see where they went with it. To me it was basically paying for the virtual race and jacket, with ground floor status in case it took off. Boy am I glad I did that! Shortly after launch they took away the DVC/AP registration and I upgraded to Platinum with my first renewal. I nearly went for Gold, but decided they were probably going to keep tweaking things, so just went for it.

 

[TarynM]

I jumped right into Gold two years ago and upgraded to Platinum last year. I was on right as the windows opened up since I already knew how crazy it would be.

But yeah, I didn't read anything about people going right to Gold last year unlike the prior one.

 

[fatmanatee]

Checked Reddit and not seeing any indication that anyone made the jump directly to Gold when signup was available to everyone last year. Doesn't mean it didn't happen, but if it did nobody posted about it. One person here posted about getting Silver at full open, that's it (and that was to make the jump to Gold this year). We'll have to make a note of what happens this time, I'm curious to see how it goes.

 

[Dopey 2020]

I almost went for it with the inaugural but didn’t need to (AP/DVC). Then they did the freebie Covid extension so nothing in year 2, then took away DVC and I figured do it if it became available and save the hassle on registration day. Went gold right out of the gate and plan to stay there for the foreseeable future now.