What are your thoughts on.......

[Cyndibear]

why Disney didn't upgrade/move the people staying in Value resorts during "free dining" to SSR or OKW this year like they did last year?

Cyndi

 

[LilGMom]

Hopefully they fixed their overbooking problem or computer glitch from last year.

 

[vicki_c]

I assume because they didn't need to / isn't a money making proposition for them / etc.

They only do things that add to the bottom line, for the most part, not just to be nice. So I assume they decided that for this year, occupancy rates didn't warrant that or something.

 

[Dean]

why Disney didn't upgrade/move the people staying in Value resorts during "free dining" to SSR or OKW this year like they did last year?

Cyndi

To me it's more of a question of why they did it last year, I was never sure about the computer glitch thing. My guess on why they did would be for 2 reasons. One to entice them to buy and the other for the same reason cruise lines give upgrades, that it's easier to sell the cheaper rooms than the more expensive ones.

 

[Cyndibear]

To me it's more of a question of why they did it last year, I was never sure about the computer glitch thing. My guess on why they did would be for 2 reasons. One to entice them to buy and the other for the same reason cruise lines give upgrades, that it's easier to sell the cheaper rooms than the more expensive ones.

That's what I thought. The "free dining" was selling so well, they moved people to sell more packages at the value resorts.

Cyndi

 

[Chuck S]

They may also not have as many DVC rooms open to use this year, with folks using up developers points at SSR and it looks like they have sold down some of their surplus point inventory at OKW.

Plus travel may be down this year due to the oil prices, maybe they just didn't need to upgrade a lot of free dining people.