I would love to have received one and always get a postcard surveying our stays at DVC and WDW resorts....but nothing yet.
I'm sure the surveys about "destination" spending are valid and that most folks won't spend more once they get to WDW - but just look for more discounts. I have friends who go to WDW on annual passes and are great bargain hunters and their goal is to spend the least amount of $$$ while there.
We on the other hand are perfect WDW marketing targets because we don't care once we get there (in other words we spend way too much) because we enjoy WDW so much and don't spend much on other family vacations if at all in years when we go to WDW.
In the last 2 years we've been 3 times - 5 days (plus 5 at Vero), 5 days at BCV, and then this year 10 days (Pop Century and BWV). On last year's trip we bought the passes, ate fewer meals on site, but spent more on gifts and things. This last trip was our 2nd on our annual passes which expire in 13 days. All we spent $$$ on was 3 days at Pop (2 rooms), airfare (non Disney) and tons of money on meals. We ate every meal at a Disney restaurant. So what? Without the annual passes we wouldn't have made the 2nd trip in a calendar year. We wouldn't have extended our trip and paid for rooms at Pop and we certainly wouldn't have spent the obscene amount on meals that we did....
We loved the annual pass strategy so much we are planning on buying passes again next summer for a possible June/July trip and then we'll go in April of the following year. I hope Dean's right and they offer the passes to DVC members to boost sales at Saratoga. And it sounds like they intend to offer them universally (if they do at all) instead of just tied to the purchase of more points.
I'm sure the surveys about "destination" spending are valid and that most folks won't spend more once they get to WDW - but just look for more discounts. I have friends who go to WDW on annual passes and are great bargain hunters and their goal is to spend the least amount of $$$ while there.
We on the other hand are perfect WDW marketing targets because we don't care once we get there (in other words we spend way too much) because we enjoy WDW so much and don't spend much on other family vacations if at all in years when we go to WDW.
In the last 2 years we've been 3 times - 5 days (plus 5 at Vero), 5 days at BCV, and then this year 10 days (Pop Century and BWV). On last year's trip we bought the passes, ate fewer meals on site, but spent more on gifts and things. This last trip was our 2nd on our annual passes which expire in 13 days. All we spent $$$ on was 3 days at Pop (2 rooms), airfare (non Disney) and tons of money on meals. We ate every meal at a Disney restaurant. So what? Without the annual passes we wouldn't have made the 2nd trip in a calendar year. We wouldn't have extended our trip and paid for rooms at Pop and we certainly wouldn't have spent the obscene amount on meals that we did....
We loved the annual pass strategy so much we are planning on buying passes again next summer for a possible June/July trip and then we'll go in April of the following year. I hope Dean's right and they offer the passes to DVC members to boost sales at Saratoga. And it sounds like they intend to offer them universally (if they do at all) instead of just tied to the purchase of more points.
