Need Contact Info For DVC & Poly Leadership (Major Issue On Welcome Home Stay July 1-4)

[muppets3d]

You are fine pretty much everywhere but POLY and to an extent VGF.

BCV and that area wasn't bad at all staying there. Even the skyliner that we took in the evening wasn't bad except for when the boats went down and the skyliner was then overrun and it was a 30 min wait per the CM. (We had went to AOA for dinner just to randomly try it that night and was pleasantly surprised in quality)

We have been on the 4th multiple times post COVID and stay in both the Boardwalk and Monorail areas.

My suggestion is simply not to have a rental car with DVC unless you are at one of the resorts that essentially require it like AKV, SSR, OKW. Just catch a couple ubers and even get a towncar for airport pickup.

The issue with VGF over the 4th was mostly that the monorail was always full, especially the closer you got to fireworks time. I have never seen the line for the resort monorail be as long as it was around 7PM on July 5th this year, but I'm sure that's nothing compared to how it can get.

 

[sndral]

You are fine pretty much everywhere but POLY and to an extent VGF.

BCV and that area wasn't bad at all staying there. Even the skyliner that we took in the evening wasn't bad except for when the boats went down and the skyliner was then overrun and it was a 30 min wait per the CM. (We had went to AOA for dinner just to randomly try it that night and was pleasantly surprised in quality)

We have been on the 4th multiple times post COVID and stay in both the Boardwalk and Monorail areas.

My suggestion is simply not to have a rental car with DVC unless you are at one of the resorts that essentially require it like AKV, SSR, OKW. Just catch a couple ubers and even get a towncar for airport pickup.

I’ve read that the Contemporary/BLT lot is impacted as well - basically any resort w/ easy access to MK has parking issues because folks don’t want to deal w/ the TTC.
Interesting that boats going down (I assume you mean the friendship boats that run between Epcot/DHS) impacts the Skyliner - but I guess folks take the Skyliner & transfer at CBR to go between DHS & Epcot.

 

[coreynyc]

I finally got a call from a member services cast member today who was a low level worker. They listened to me repeat my story and were minimally apologetic. My frustration and anger have increased.

I have already escalated to Poly & DVC leadership contacts that people in this thread and in another subforum of DIS were kind enough to share with me.

 

[ShaneDJ]

I finally got a call from a member services cast member today who was a low level worker. They listened to me repeat my story and were minimally apologetic. My frustration and anger have increased.

What do you want Disney/DVC to do?

 

[Mle8308]

Everyone coming into the lot for parking gets a ticket. Overnight guests get it comped by front desk. Dining guests get it validated at restaurant for 2-3 hours. Everyone else pays $100 including anyone who stays for dining over the allotted period. Send dining guests to TTC on high impact days (basically NYE & 7/4) Problem solved.

I believe this is somewhat similar to what they do at Grand Helios over at Universal. I remember back when you got a parking pass for your dashboard when you stayed at a Disney resort. Maybe time to go back to that, and a a different bright color pass for guests with dining reservations only, which changes daily, the guard could quickly write in an arrival time. And then, of course, enforce the 3 hour rule.

 

[coreynyc]

What do you want Disney/DVC to do?

More than just have a low level CSR call me and offer an empty apology.

 

[Mle8308]

I didn't know that, and yet I'm disabled and have a placard. Thanks!

It is! Just remember to tip!

 

[tjkraz]

I remember back when you got a parking pass for your dashboard when you stayed at a Disney resort. Maybe time to go back to that, and a a different bright color pass for guests with dining reservations only, which changes daily, the guard could quickly write in an arrival time. And then, of course, enforce the 3 hour rule.

Paper waste on the dashboard is meaningless. They're supposed to stop every guest to scan band / check photo ID. That's happened every time I've entered a Disney resort over the past 20 years. It apparently didn't happen here. We'll never find out why but it's easy enough to fix. Probably has already been fixed. This isn't a newly lax policy. It was an ill-timed breakdown.

 

[Mle8308]

Paper waste on the dashboard is meaningless. They're supposed to stop every guest to scan band / check photo ID. That's happened every time I've entered a Disney resort over the past 20 years. It apparently didn't happen here. We'll never find out why but it's easy enough to fix. Probably has already been fixed. This isn't a newly lax policy. It was an ill-timed breakdown.

I'm talking more about people going for breakfast or even dinner and then heading into a park and leaving their car in the parking lot beyond the supposed 3 hour time limit. Thus taking up space that should be for guests staying at that resort. Right now, there is really no way to enforce a limit, as a Security van making rounds in a parking lot has no idea if a car belongs to a guest who is staying at the resort or if it is a car driven by someone who is there to dine. It's not like they can run a license plate and even if they could, rentals won't show the current driver, only the rental company has that information. If all guests were required to have some type of pass and there was a different color paper for guests dining, it might help. Honestly, I don't think Disney cares and that is why nothing is done.

 

[Sandisw]

I'm talking more about people going for breakfast or even dinner and then heading into a park and leaving their car in the parking lot beyond the supposed 3 hour time limit. Thus taking up space that should be for guests staying at that resort. Right now, there is really no way to enforce a limit, as a Security van making rounds in a parking lot has no idea if a car belongs to a guest who is staying at the resort or if it is a car driven by someone who is there to dine. It's not like they can run a license plate and even if they could, rentals won't show the current driver, only the rental company has that information. If all guests were required to have some type of pass and there was a different color paper for guests dining, it might help. Honestly, I don't think Disney cares and that is why nothing is done.

Years ago they did have the different color passes and they didn’t really do anything then either.

I think the only potential change that could help would be a parking charge?

 

[sndral]

Paper waste on the dashboard is meaningless. They're supposed to stop every guest to scan band / check photo ID. That's happened every time I've entered a Disney resort over the past 20 years. It apparently didn't happen here. We'll never find out why but it's easy enough to fix. Probably has already been fixed. This isn't a newly lax policy. It was an ill-timed breakdown.

I disagree, scanning solves the getting into the parking lot issue, but does not stop the overstaying problem & with the MK adjacent resorts that’s a chronic problem, folks have an ADR so they get in, then they leave their cars parked for hours while they go over to the MK.
Placards on the dashboard would accomplish 2 things, first the ADR guest would know exactly how long their car could stay in the lot (& be warned they’d be towed for overstaying) & second it makes it easy to spot which cars don’t belong to resort guests. If guests visiting the resort for an ADR are given say a green placard w/ a time (& resort guests say a red placard) the parking folks just need to sweep the parking lot every hour looking at the green placard cars times & if the car is parked beyond that time it gets towed.
They wouldn’t even need to do it that long, I bet it wouldn’t even take a month of enforcement for the ‘influencers’ to get the message out that the ADR loophole for MK parking was closed.

 

[airjay75]

And it’s not like automated parking gates with tickets and the ability to read validated tickets is exactly a new and novel technology. Maybe it’s time for that at the monorail resorts - resort guests can still be free and, if you overstay your 3 hours for a dining reservation, you’re charged $25/hour (or whatever it takes to discourage it).

 

[coreynyc]

I believe this is somewhat similar to what they do at Grand Helios over at Universal. I remember back when you got a parking pass for your dashboard when you stayed at a Disney resort. Maybe time to go back to that, and a a different bright color pass for guests with dining reservations only, which changes daily, the guard could quickly write in an arrival time. And then, of course, enforce the 3 hour rule.

Yes, Helios charges day guests $125 for the day but validates parking for 3-4 hours if you spend a certain amount at the restaurant.

 

[muppets3d]

And it’s not like automated parking gates with tickets and the ability to read validated tickets is exactly a new and novel technology. Maybe it’s time for that at the monorail resorts - resort guests can still be free and, if you overstay your 3 hours for a dining reservation, you’re charged $25/hour (or whatever it takes to discourage it).

I don't think Disney cares enough to go to the expense of adding these machines to all of their resorts.