DeeCee735 said:
Please don't flame me for this, but whoa! Everything I am reading seems to be sooooo negative on this board and the regular dvc board! Anyone have a good time or enjoy their DVC vacation recently? If so, please post - this is depressing. I was there in February, and while nothing in life is actually truly perfect, my DVC vacation was a close to it as one can get - again! CM's - awesome, Room - amazing - Food at every restaurant we chose - delicious! MK tour - everything I hoped it would be, weather - perfect, crowds - so what.... We had a wonderful DVC vacation, and can't wait to do it again
I'm guilty of not posting positive trip experiences. If I posted everytime I had a good experience I'd be here so much that I wouldn't have time to plan my next trip. So for me it's a necessity that I don't post positive reports.
But, since I'm here I will say that we've been members since January 1995, stayed on points more than 30 times and we've tried all of the DVC resorts at WDW. We couldn't be happier with our DVC buying decisions.
Our most recent trip was at OKW 1 bdrm for 1 week in March 2005. I would rate that trip as EXTRA perfect. The front desk at OKW not only were able to give us the building we perfer but, they gave us the EXACT villa we prefer. You can't beat that. We noticed none of the phones in the villa were working so using my cell phone I advised maintenance and they sent someone within 30 minutes. Although the phone issue did result in my needing to wait to access my email via dialup it didn't ruin my vacation. Weather was just ok but that certainly isn't a DVC issue.
The trip prior to that was at SSR 1 bdrm for 1 week in January 2005. I would rate that trip just perfect. The front deck was able to give us a villa overlooking DTD and we watched the fireworks from bed. Can't beat that. I found SSR to be very nice. We like to relax at the quiet pools and found the SSR quiet pool to be the most elegant we've seen at WDW. Weather was great on this stay.
I could go on and on. No, things aren't always perfect. No, we don't always get the building, view or the villa we want. Once housekeeping hadn't noticed clothes left in the armoire from another guest, once the vaccuum cleaner didn't work, on several occassions we noticed clothing left in the washer or dryer. These things didn't ruin our vacation. When we see things that aren't right we advise maintenance or housekeeping and they make it right.
Overall I would rate 20% of our trips as good, 30 % very good, 40% perfect and 10% better than perfect (meaning better than we have a right to expect, eg., when a CM performs beyond what we expect of them).
Sometimes I wonder if our attitude is influenced by being old timers. We've owned at OKW for a decade and approximately 90% of our trips are at OKW.
