Well I was really curious what this event would be like, so I thought I'd do a little recap of the session we were in this morning for nonmembers of
DVC.
They had classy set-up in one of the ballrooms at Paradise Pier. You got a wristband and a faux leather portfolio containing BLT, VGC, and RCI
points charts and a notepad with pen. The lobby area had ride vehicles and vintage photos set up around food stations.
The snack choices were fruit cups or sugary pastries like Danish, chocolate croissants, blueberry coffee cake and Mickey-shaped things that were sorta like Mexican pan dulce.
Inside the ballroom, there were two video screens above a stage anchored by ride vehicles at either end.
At 9am the (newer, younger) Dapper Dans came out and sang four or five songs and did their schtick to warm up the crowd.
Then Deevy See came out and did her schtick before introducing the two hosts, Dave and Joan.
We heard a little history of DVC, watched a video that showed footage of all the DVC resorts, learned about the points system (and won pins for answering questions designed to keep us paying attention to the points charts), and then found out how much all this was going to cost. The last part was a discussion of the incentives for buying in at point levels from 160 to 500 (see posts above).
In between, there were some giveaways for those who filled out info cards. The prizes were:
- Framed Mickey print like the ones on the walls of the BLT rooms
- Framed vintage image of Mickey and Minnie doing the hula
- DVC pins for answering questions about point values
- Framed trio of Disney images of "grand firsts" (it looked like a shot of Disneyland on opening day, a shot of Walt looking at construction of the Burbank studios, and maybe a photo of the old Disneyland entrance sign (I'm guessing on the last two because all three of these images are in the new VGC brochure).
After 1 hour and 45 minutes, they wrapped it up and opened the room divider to reveal Mickey and Minnie and a cocktail party setup (without the cocktails): There was a photo op with Snow white and Dopey, one with Mickey and Minnie, a beverage station, a popcorn cart, and a DJ giving pins for answering Disney trivia questions, and all the leftover pastries had been reassembled on a silver tray.
They told us we could ask questions of the blue-shirted "guides" but these turned out to be runners who took people upstairs to wait in another conference room full of pastries to talk with actual guides. They also had signs directing us out the back of Paradise Pier to the VGC model near the DVC/Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings office.
You've prolly seen the VGC models before, so I'll just include a few pix.
Studio
One-bedroom
to the DIS, you will make yourself immediately very popular! Are you a current owner? The incentives may be slightly different for current vs. new (in terms of point levels to qualify), so if you can find out both, we'll be eternally grateful! Have fun!
A friend that works with Disney promotions says that this event from Thursday to Sunday is suppose to be good. Cross your fingers everyone and put that pixie dust on my DH for an nice add - on.
so our incentive is the 4 night Wonder cruise. We'd like to use it 12/13 and tack on a trip to the "World" and MVMCP.
