I will first apologioze for everything I am going to say in this posting. First I have to say for the first time I was humiliated, mortified, upset, embarressed, etc. to be a
DVC member. Reason being: OKW!!! We brought another family with us this past week (returned last night) and I could not tell you how embarressed I was all week and our friends kept asking "why would you buy a timeshare here, this is awful!"
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WE WILL NEVER STAY AT THIS RESORT AGAIN!!!! I have already called into member services, our guide, DVC management, transportation, etc. to find out if we can get out of DVC just because of this experience.
Those that have reservations booked there, good luck! Go to SSR, you'll be treated as you expect not like a low life as you will be treated at OKW.
Good things:
WE HAD A GREAT TIME EVERY MINUTE WE WERE AWAY FROM OKW
The more I think about this, the more my blood boils and here is why. I have NO PROBLEM with the OP hating OKW...again, part of DVC is the whole different strokes for different folks philosophy. Ok, OP, you learned that OKW is not for you, so you won't stay there again, problem solved.
I am not keen on the fact that you stated in all caps that this is a horrible resort. YOU didn't like it and YOU felt that YOU didn't get the level of service that YOU wanted. This does not mean that it is horrible. There are FAR more positive posts about this resort than negative ones like yours.
But again, this is not what really gets to me about your post. It is more along the lines of what Diane said...
Don't blame OKW for your failure to research the fact that only 3 buildings have elevators there. If you wife is pregnant, she must also be young enough to walk all day at the parks. How on earth did she manage to do that and not be able to climb the stairs at the end of the day?
There is something in your posts that is not being said. I'm not sure what it is, but I didn't read anything specific about OKW other than your impression of the attitude of the Conch Flats person you spoke with. You have said nothing about the room, the look of the resort etc. etc. You DO mention bus service, but not bus service that originated from the resort. Your complaints were about bus service TO the resort from other places. We KNOW not to take the bus to or from DTD....Always a big wait no matter WHICH resort you are going to. If we can't drive, we always take the boat. You don't say how long you waited to go from OKW TO DTD, but I'm guessing it wasn't long, since OKW has an internal bus that goes the loop at OKW and DTD.
If you have stayed this same time of year at any other DVC resort and had different experiences, then you can judge, but your report sounds like a vendetta with no real meat to it about the resort specifically.
You see, I remember when you, douglas, first came to these boards becasue you were thinking about buying into DVC. In fact, your posts were quite frantic...in one of the threads you started you said that you were buying THAT DAY and you needed to know how many points to buy!!
HUH?
I responded to you stating that you were right to ask questions here on the DIS before making such a purchase, but if you didn't even know the basics like the number of points you needed, then you were nowhere near ready to purchase. There were other basic questions that you had no clue about and yet you rushed to purchase.
(and btw, yes I have a life and do not live on these boards. I just remember your early posts in particular because I could not believe that someone was getting ready to drop $15 K without knowing the basic information.)
In fact, it was one of the few times dumbo71 and I actually agreed on something!
My point is that you bought into DVC very rushed and without doing a lot of research. Sure, you may have learned some things along the way. However, had you really done due diligence in your research, then you would have known that you were traveling at a very busy time of year...and that buses are ALWAYS slow and ALL resorts during the busiest seasons.
But by all means, blame DVC. After all, since you spent that much money, I suppose that they should have sent you a private tutor to help you with all of this information. Oh yeah, I forgot, they did....your guide! (and the entire DVC MS team.)
"stirring the pot". People are free to voice their opinions (to an extent) as you can tell. Please look at other threads and stick with 'the boards'. You'll learn soooo much more and I'm sure that you have a ton of information to offer since you have been a DVCer since 93. WELCOME again!
