With very mixed feeling, we are selling our DVC contracts (resorts deleted), for several reasons:
We have had a lot of great vacations with DVC and was hoping for a better outcome than this, but in the end we had to do what is right for us. I mention these items here because I know Disney does see posts on these and other forums, so hopefully they might understand that what they are doing is indeed costing them guests that were once very much most likely to go to Disney over anywhere else.
- I am dealing with cancer making in pretty much impossible for me to travel
- If I can get back to being able to travel again, there are many other places besides Disney we plan to travel to, many that don't have the other issues I am going to mention.
- But even more than that, there are so many issues with the changes Disney has made in recent years:
- Still needing reservations in many cases
- Shortened hours, when we originally bought in, the parks were open longer and at Disney World, virtually every day had extra magic hours for AT LEAST one park that were two hours early or three hours late. Now if we want extended hours more often than the little bit we get through staying at a DVC resort, it is $$$
- If days were too busy, park hours would often get extended by 2 or 3 hours.
- Fastpass was free, now it is $$$
- DH was able to qualify for DAS (or equivalent at the time) and we didn't have to spend half of our time explaining his needs (now I have issues as well that also don't qualify for the DAS that need explaining) at every attraction. And due to these needs, multiple lightning lane doesn't work well either, especially since it only works once per attraction and there are several attractions we can't go on.
- What really ticked DH was how quickly after the change was made Disney introduced the premiere pass, making it abundantly clear that the changes were about making $$$, not fixing issues that were indeed an issue that needed to be addressed, but there were better ways to handle it.
- Less entertainment than there used to be with no indication that it will return.
- And basically all of the little things that used to be included that are now once again $$$
- Annual Pass/Magic Key prices are now insane compared to what they used to be
We have had a lot of great vacations with DVC and was hoping for a better outcome than this, but in the end we had to do what is right for us. I mention these items here because I know Disney does see posts on these and other forums, so hopefully they might understand that what they are doing is indeed costing them guests that were once very much most likely to go to Disney over anywhere else.
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