We took the tour on the last day of our 10th anniversary trip. We didn't decide to take the tour until the last evening of the trip. We stopped at one of the kiosks at Epcot (on the path into World Showcase) and the CM there was able to make a call to squeeze us in the next morning.
We were picked up by a van at the WL and took a pleasant drive to SSR. The van driver was from PA, so we had lots to talk about.
Once there, we had to wait about five minutes to meet our guide. We did the tour in about 1.5 hours, as we had to get back to catch ME for the trip home.
We felt absolutely no pressure. The tour usually starts in a small sitting room off of the reception lobby. The guide will talk about your current vacation, how you like to vacation, and what the rest of the tour will be like.
After the opening chit-chat, you will go to the sales center. At this time, you will be assigned a small, private room. There is a large Apple flat screen display (connected to a PC... what a waste of a beautiful display) that will show you all of the resorts as well as information on the point system. Next, your guide will likely show you a points chart. Ours even asked us to figure out how many points our trip would have cost us. Once we understood how the points work, he took us to the "Dream Room."
The Dream Room is a multimedia display that shows other destinations that could be reached using the points. There were also individual rooms to check out the details of these destinations. From there, we went to the AKV models and then the SSR models.
We came back to the private room where our guide then went over current promotions and pricing. He printed out the information, put it all in a nice
DVC paper bag, and gave us a copy of the Dreams book. We were offered a sundae, but we didn't have enough time to partake. The van took us back to WL (another PA native) just in time to catch the ME.
Did we feel pressured? Not at all. Our guide did call a few days later to check in, but we weren't home. He left a nice message, but didn't call back. After a couple of weeks of calculations, we decided to buy.
I called our guide back on Saturday (he was off), he called back Sunday afternoon and answered a few final questions. The final phone call was about 12 minutes. Our welcome kit is on the way!
All-in-all it was a great experience. We never felt pressured to buy, and it didn't look like anyone else there was being pressured either. It was a very low-key event.
he tour was great. They picked us up at the Swan and returned us there, which is what we wanted. Our guide, Rob, was great. No pressure at all. I thought that the whole presentation was very informative. The dream room is very cool. I did not mind the little room with the big flat screen. That is where most of our questions were answered. The best part of the tour was seeing the model rooms of SSR and AKV. (The AKV rooms sold DW on the whole idea) We left with most questions answered and a bag full of good info. 5 days later...we were AKV owners!
