I'm laughing out loud at this OKW review....

[DebIreland]

Are you sure this wasn't written by Debbie Downer (SNL skit)? LOL

DebIreland,
your editing job! and

Thanks!! lol

Thanks for sharing!

It was my joy!

She must be a riot to have as guest.

I must admit I offered up a little prayer for the DVC members who were kind (or stupid??) enough to put her up. My mother would be proud!

NOT ONCE have I ever been called after checkin, by the sales staff, trying to sell me more points.
DVC just doesn't do that.

Thank you. That's what I thought but glad you confirmed it.

 

[mikron]

Compassion people, I thought making fun and negative remarks about posted threads were a no no. Everyone is entitled to there thoughts, this person had a bad time. I think you all were wrong making fun of this person and her thread. This thread sounds like a cat fight.

 

[Anthony1971]

At least they should have been kind enough to take the host to an offsite restaurant and show them the fabulios food they were missing out on at Ming court.

 

[allshookup]

We've been members for 14 years now, with over 50 different check-in's to a DVC resort.

NOT ONCE have I ever been called after checkin, by the sales staff, trying to sell me more points.

DVC just doesn't do that. And since she said that, which is a blatant lie, I tend to believe everything else she said if a fabrication too.

Actually we just got back from HH & we DID get a message from our sales rep. welcoming us to HH & wishing us a great vacation, but also to let us know he was sending out a packet regarding the new AKVs & he offered a little info. regarding the new villas. Not that it bothered me & it wasn't by any means pushy, but it does happen. This was our third visit to any Disney property as DVC members & the first call.

 

[Boston5602]

GOSH , I just bought last year. After reading this person's review , I'm going to have to sell my points. I do NOT want to vacation in a Disney that treats everyone like she was treated . I hope her friends use their points on her outside of DVC next time , she needs a real vacation. Maybe they could send her somewhere in the concierge collection next.



<g>

 

[DVC-Don]

I think she was in my office paying a bill today.

 

[coloradodad]

I know a few people that have that bad of a time with everything they do. I just don't travel with them.

mg

 

[TenThousandVolts]

Are you sure this wasn't written by Debbie Downer (SNL skit)? LOL

There is a poster here on the disboards (not in the DVC forums) and I won't mention names but their responses are almost 100% negative. Someone can post a simple comment- no matter how innocent or benign- this person shoots off a contrary comment. I always think of Debbie Downer when I read his/her posts. It is almost comical.

 

[DebIreland]

GOSH , I just bought last year. After reading this person's review , I'm going to have to sell my points. I do NOT want to vacation in a Disney that treats everyone like she was treated.

Very wise! I will buy them from you at 50 dollars per point. [My fiendish plan worked!!! ]

 

[DebIreland]

Compassion people, I thought making fun and negative remarks about posted threads were a no no. Everyone is entitled to there thoughts, this person had a bad time. I think you all were wrong making fun of this person and her thread. This thread sounds like a cat fight.

As the OP, I've thought about what you said. I certainly would never consciously mock someone or put them down. I don't like when people do that. But this particular review (from Trip Advisor) is so fantastical, so unlikely in parts that I almost treated it as fiction. Also, remember, the reviewer, although she obviously has a 'name' (a nick) on the TA board is completely unknown to us here. Even if she posts here, which perhaps she does, well her DIS anonymity is protected. I hope that make sense.

 

[summergolf]

I personally dont think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out that most parts of her post is fiction.

 

[Nadine&Scott]

Trip advisor is littered with reviews like that but that one is certainly a classic.

Scott

 

[jakenjess]

Actually we just got back from HH & we DID get a message from our sales rep. welcoming us to HH & wishing us a great vacation, but also to let us know he was sending out a packet regarding the new AKVs & he offered a little info. regarding the new villas. Not that it bothered me & it wasn't by any means pushy, but it does happen. This was our third visit to any Disney property as DVC members & the first call.

We also got a message from our guide when we were there in February, welcoming us home and saying he had some great deals going, if we were interested to give him a call. It wasn't pushy, and it didn't bother me in the least. He's also called us on other trips just to say welcome home and to make sure all was well. I call it good customer service!

 

[jenelope]

I've gotten a message from my sales rep on both of my DVC trips. The first was just to say "Welcome Home" and if I had any questions, to call him. The second was to remind me about the current deals and to call if I was interested. I didn't find them pushy at all. Since they were on voicemail, I had the options of not listening to them. In fact, I think I was in the room when the message arrived on the second trip, which would mean he sent it straight to voicemail.

 

[dianeschlicht]

I think you were right to treat this as fiction, because it obviously is!! Sounds to me like it was written by an off-site timeshare company or maybe a worker at Universal!

 

[Sammie]

I would take all reviews even those posted here with a grain of salt. My motto is, if I did not see it happen, not sure it did and even then I might be confused.

I had the pleasure once of checking in behind a guest who had a "Vacation from Hell". She posted her check in experience here on the DIS in a trip report.

I stood right behind this person for the entire hour as she experienced her nightmare and what I easily overheard, as she was shouting, and what she posted here, were not even near the same.

Reviews do make for interesting reading though.

 

[SleepyatDVC]

Thanks for the laughs! Unfortunately, it's not that funny when you are the DVC owner footing the bill and your "guests" whine like that.

While I laugh at how whining she was, I cringed and felt sorry for the DVC member who wasted their precious DVC points to house her ungrateful butt! As someone who did a big family trip like that in the past, and swore never to do it again, I can empathize.

Guess what, DH just told me last night that his parents called and wanted to do another family WDW trip in 2009!!!

 

[tjkraz]

I stood right behind this person for the entire hour as she experienced her nightmare and what I easily overheard, as she was shouting, and what she posted here, were not even near the same.

I think that's the key. I don't think that the report was total fiction, but it WAS intentionally written to highlight the negative.

For whatever reason, she had a miserable time. Perhaps she was just predisposed to hate Disney going in, yet tagged-along due to the free room. Who knows? But once you figure out that she hated the trip, the rest of the report was pretty predictable. She mentioned...what....maybe 4 meals out of the entire trip? I suspect there were a few good ones conveniently forgotten.

About the only thing missing from the report was a some comment about the "horrible children" she saw at every turn.

 

[aclov]

Hopefully she voiced her "unhappiness" to the DVC owner's that invited her. This way they never take her again!

I just can't believe that all that happened to her in one trip. Maybe she should stay at home next time.

 

[hrsmom]

Thanks for the laughs!!