DVC Rumors

[iluvdisney]

Now I know where some of the DVC rumors get started - by the CMs themselves! I was told 2 different ones when I stayed at BWV recently - don't know how true they are - only time will tell!

 

[ArnyVee]

Umm....waitin' for what the two rumors you heard were....

 

[Richyams]

????????

 

[childsplay]

Secrets don't make friends....share it'll make you feel better

 

[dianeschlicht]

I have always found that to be true! When they were building AKL, we were told by the bus driver that it was going to be a DVC resort! That's one I wish would have been true!

 

[Crissup]

Often times, the CMs don't know anything more than you or I. Yet, I constantly run up against people who believe some ridiculous rumor and when I try to debunk it for them, they argue that they know it to be "fact" because the boat captain told them.

I remember one year I was down there, the boat captains were telling everyone that the black squares in the facades of the Swan and Dolphin were slide out blocks and that there was a monorail station designed into the buildings. The thinking being that you remove those slide out blocks and run the monorail through there. The fact that there were rooms in those areas and that the architect of the buildings frequently uses black shapes like that in his designs to break up large areas didn't seem to matter any. And everyone *knew* it was factual because they heard it from the boat captains.

 

[wdwstar]

AKL was suppose to be dvc resort, when we first looked into the dvc , we had actually signed papers for the AKL and when we got home we canceled the transaction because we were going to finance through dvc and when we came home and came to our senses about the interest rate, we canceled and decide to wait and pay cash, when we felt that the time was right. the next year when we were there we checked out the dvc and they were selling wlv, even though we love wlv we still decided to wait and finally when dvc offered the bcv, we finally became members, now we are looking forward adding on, hopefully the contemporary, i am sure its a tease though

 

[Cherry]

C'mon, iluvdisney, you can't leave us hanging like this. What were the two rumors you heard?

We heard the one about the black areas on the Swan and Dolphin twice, both from illuminations cruise boat captains, once as recently as last summer. He told us that the rooms in that area were modular and could be removed, and that they had planned to put a monorail through there, but the plan had been scraped.

Last fall when we flew to Disney a fellow passenger who said he was a boat captain on the ferry from the TTC to MK told us that Disney was planning to build a monorail from WDW to the airport!

 

[wilderness01]

I heard the one about the airport too!

 

[MiaSRN62]

I heard what I believe to be a rumor from a DD CM this past August. It's not DVC-related, but he said don't be suprised if this new Kilamanjaro coaster they are constructing in AK doesn't have a portion that rides backwards. I haven't read anything to support this rumor/statement, but I suppose only time will tell.

 

[Granny]

Now I know where some of the DVC rumors get started - by the CMs themselves!

I don't think this is strange at all. Who works at a place where there isn't a rumor mill among the employees about this and that?

The difference here is that the general public has an interest in these rumors, unlike those in other businesses.

I think CM's are like anyone else...they like to gossip, and they like to have you think they have "insider knowledge". But hey, that's part of the fun of it, right?

 

[Loubon]

Originally posted by MiaSRN62
I heard what I believe to be a rumor from a DD CM this past August. It's not DVC-related, but he said don't be suprised if this new Kilamanjaro coaster they are constructing in AK doesn't have a portion that rides backwards. I haven't read anything to support this rumor/statement, but I suppose only time will tell.

That was in the original press release:

http://wdwig.com/ak_ee.htm

 

[Cherry]

I agree, Granny, it's only normal that the CMs would hear a lot of things before it's official, and actually I love it when they share it with us. Even if it's only rumor, some of it turns out to be true, and it's fun to speculate on what is real and what is not.

That being said -- I'm dying to know the rumors about DVC!

 

[mikesmom]

The bit about the monorail from the airport to WDW wasn't exactly a rumor. Orlando was bidding on the Olympics (don't remember which year) and that monorail was a tentative plan to deal with the expected crowds. Orlando/Osceola County had a lot of different projecs planned if they had gotten the bid.

 

[iluvdisney]

Sorry everyone but I got interrupted when i made my first post - I was told -

by a CM working the tours - and I won't give any names - that there will be another Disney Cruise ship and I told that CM that I had just been on the cruise and that was said to be a Rumor - the CM insisted that they just received a letter stating it to be true

another CM said that Disney is seriously considering a DVC night at the parks in addition to another DVC member cruise

so that is what I was told - take it as a rumor and not a fact! Like I said only time will tell.

 

[joepoe]

I did not think the Swan/Dolphin monorail story was made up. I thought that the original idea was to have the monorail go through these hotels, and the original design had to be modified when it was decided at the last minute that building more monorail track and building more trains would have been cost prohibitive.

 

[mitros]

We know a mother/daughter CM team, and they told us that the company encourages that type of story telling and rumor mongering by it's CMs to throw people off,and their reasoning is that since WDW is a place of fantasy and make beleive, why not tell guests stories! Also, regarding the monorail from the airport, that idea has cropped up from time to time, but the latest is that Florida voters {I was not one of them} approved a high speed train connecting different parts of Florida, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, amongst others,and Disney is fighting to make the route from the airport to WDW non stop{so they can force tourists to come right from the airport to the property} thus avoiding other destinations. However, the train was pushed by this millionaire who stands to become even richer by having this train criss cross the state. What wasn't told by this guy was that it would be mostly funded by the taxpayers,and since there is no extra money floating around in the state coffers, Governor Bush is trying to stop the plan. Time will tell.

 

[childsplay]

Originally posted by iluvdisney

another CM said that Disney is seriously considering a DVC night at the parks

A DVC only night, or just a "hey tonight is DVC night" and anyone and everyone is still allowed in?

A DVC only night, now that's a rumor i can sink my teeth into...unless of course they charge extra for it, then it's just E-ride night by a different name.

 

[MiaSRN62]

That was in the original press release:

Thanks Lou---don't know how I missed this ! So I really don't have a valid rumor here and should get off this thread....LOL

 

[tinkgrl]

Originally posted by iluvdisney
Sorry everyone but I got interrupted when i made my first post - I was told -

by a CM working the tours - and I won't give any names - that there will be another Disney Cruise ship and I told that CM that I had just been on the cruise and that was said to be a Rumor - the CM insisted that they just received a letter stating it to be true

another CM said that Disney is seriously considering a DVC night at the parks in addition to another DVC member cruise

so that is what I was told - take it as a rumor and not a fact! Like I said only time will tell.

Hi,

My mom heard Captain Henry talk about anouther cruise ship (november 2002). He said that there is talk about another ship. Maybe to the Mediterrian!! Now that's a cruise I'd take. Just thought I'd tell you what we were told.

Allison an associate