Spring Direct Incentives 2/9-4/27

[intamin]

That is a very, very good reason not to buy SSR direct. I don't think anyone should buy SSR direct unless they will be happy staying there.

Myself, having stayed in a 1 BR at SSR just this past weekend, I am going to give this SSR sale some thought. I liked SSR much more than I thought I would. (And I have my own thread if anyone wants to offer input, which I greatly welcome )

I've always maintained that I don't have a problem with the resort, it really is lovely. It is the fact that if you want your points to have a purpose besides purely value, whether that's sentimental or wanting a specific hard to book room category or wanting to be at a certain resort consistently in a difficult to book season like December for most resorts or summer for Aulani, you're likely better off picking another home resort.

 

[eticketplease]

As I said, I don’t have it. I just wanted to point out that we should not assume the guide left it out purposefully and it’s more likely that sales wasn’t quite made aware of all the new discounts right away.

I’m not questioning you that you don’t have the email as I said mine was in my junk folder and I wouldn’t have seen it if it hadn’t been posted in this thread. I never said that a guide left it out purposely.
My statement was and still is that the guides should have known about this and if they did not, that is bad management. This extra discount was not something that just came up as let’s give them an extra $1,000 off if they have a Disney Visa. DVC had to work with Chase on this as this email was sent by Chase and should have been relayed to the sales team by DVC management. As to whether that was done or not before we started reaching out we will most likely never know for sure.

 

[juliebee]

I think the guides are also scrambling without the incentive sheets too. Those sheets made it so easy to figure out the options. Hopefully DVC learns this was a bad choice to not offer those and we get them back.

 

[maui22]

Anyone know if you can use all of the following incentives together?

• $1000 anniversary incentive.
• $500 for D23 Golf
• $1000 for Disney Chase Visa
• Incentives per point off based on purchase size.

 

[atthebeachclub]

Thank you for letting us know about it, I emailed my guide and told her I knew all of the incentives and which were better this cycle and the old cycle She has 5 emails of mine to come back to work tomorrow, the first pumped about SSR and the last just kidding and pumped about VDH

I’m starting to believe you need a DVC therapist!

 

[juliebee]

Anyone know if you can use all of the following incentives together?

• $1000 anniversary incentive.
• $500 for D23 Golf
• $1000 for Disney Chase Visa
• Incentives per point off based on purchase size.

It depends on the resort, but it seems all are available for CFW, VDH, PVB, AUL, and RIV. My guide said he is rewriting my contract to include D23 Gold, anniversary, and Disney Visa with the base incentive.

They are not all available for SSR.

 

[Girlstar30]

I’m starting to believe you need a DVC therapist!

Me too, I feel a loss of control and euphoric when exciting incentives come out and guilt when calling the guide for more like im doing something bad and calling a drug dealer for more supply.

I overanalyze everything and could change my mind if I feel something is better. I do feel like the board has the best intentions and provides therapy and talks me out of things, but they also share my addiction and can be enablers if they like the current path im taking

 

[juliebee]

Does anyone here have experience with having a contract rewritten for the new incentive period and can say how it affects future reservations? My Poly contract is being rewritten just for pricing, not changing amount of points or anything. But I have two future reservations scheduled with those points. Do you think those reservations will be given up when they redo the contract? I wouldn't be terribly fussed over it, but if there is a way to prevent it I'd like to know. My guide likely would not have any idea, so I'm asking the experts here

 

[atthebeachclub]

Does anyone here have experience with having a contract rewritten for the new incentive period and can say how it affects future reservations? My Poly contract is being rewritten just for pricing, not changing amount of points or anything. But I have two future reservations scheduled with those points. Do you think those reservations will be given up when they redo the contract? I wouldn't be terribly fussed over it, but if there is a way to prevent it I'd like to know. My guide likely would not have any idea, so I'm asking the experts here

I rewrote like…5 times or something outrageous. So yes, I have an idea.

New contracts will be added. They will move your reservation points to the new contracts (don’t touch your existing reservations yourself). Then the old contracts will be removed. Your guide should definitely know this; mine did!