What perk would you want to see added?

[BeachClub2014]

I want a free lightning lane premier pass. I want 20% dining discounts. I want 40% merchandise discounts. I want 1/2 price tickets for all parks and events. I want a DVC member only restaurant at Epcot where they rotate a menu of items from 3 restaurants at a time from the World Showcase. I want to be able to purchase any Florida Resident annual pass I choose. I also want free transportation from and to MCO. And I also want to have free park Hopper tickets for any DVC one bedroom and larger room for 1/2 of the capacity of the room and for 1/2 of the trip rounding up in favor of the guest (i.e. if a room sleeps 5 then give 3 peoples worth of passes. If you are staying for 5 nights, give 3-days worth of park hoppers.). I also want one premium perk of my choice to use per day when visiting a theme park while staying at Disney on points. For instance, I want to be able to get a lightning lane pass for a premium ride. Or, I want one counter service meal. Or I want a 1/2 price tour.

I love it! Go big or go home!

 

[jo-jo]

Same like me, I plan all my park days during the week for better pricing and crowds, especially because im on vacation and already have the days off, no way you'll see me there on the weekend, A Pixie Dust Pass would work fabulously

I would love the pixie pass. The reason that has been mentioned is the locals have to deal with issues with being a tourist area. But I don't understand why someone in Miami would get discounts. Why not have the discount to areas within 50-75 miles.

I could easily work with the rules for a pixie pass.

 

[Chuck S]

Their "commitment" will likely be a side hustle or income stream. Although there may be a few, I doubt that many, many locals go to Magic Kingdom every day to grab a churro and ride It's a Small World.

Remember, while the vloggers are getting paid for the number of views, they are also mostly increasing interest and "free advertising" for Disney. So the commitment is mutually beneficial on a continuing basis. For DVC, once the sale is completed and owner have all the points and add-ons they need, the big advantage to the Disney company as a whole is done, other than the ongoing management fee. DVC has to keep ongoing sales to new direct members, and since most potential new members don't have any way of knowing the discounts and ticket perks of direct members, until they take the step of talking to a guide, DVC uses visual marketing inside the parks and making the lounges more visible to draw attention to DVC. The other way they advertise the perks is having servers ask, "Do you have any discounts...AP or DVC?" It isn't likely that potential members pay much attention at cash registers when DVC Members show their phones to the CM or server. Members and non-members are already complaining about the new sales center being built in the Canada pavilion. They really don't want big banners or pushy advertising and sales people. They don't want to see signs everywhere reminding members of their discounts and ticket options, so adding more perks, while certainly building goodwill for existing blue card members, really isn't getting a huge return on their advertising dollars, it is simply a sales tool once non-members meet with a guide, much like the old purchase incentive of free passes.

 

[The Jackal]

Remember, while the vloggers are getting paid for the number of views, they are also mostly increasing interest and "free advertising" for Disney. So the commitment is mutually beneficial on a continuing basis. For DVC, once the sale is completed and owner have all the points and add-ons they need, the big advantage to the Disney company as a whole is done, other than the ongoing management fee. DVC has to keep ongoing sales to new direct members, and since most potential new members don't have any way of knowing the discounts and ticket perks of direct members, until they take the step of talking to a guide, DVC uses visual marketing inside the parks and making the lounges more visible to draw attention to DVC. The other way they advertise the perks is having servers ask, "Do you have any discounts...AP or DVC?" It isn't likely that potential members pay much attention at cash registers when DVC Members show their phones to the CM or server. Members and non-members are already complaining about the new sales center being built in the Canada pavilion. They really don't want big banners or pushy advertising and sales people. They don't want to see signs everywhere reminding members of their discounts and ticket options, so adding more perks, while certainly building goodwill for existing blue card members, really isn't getting a huge return on their advertising dollars, it is simply a sales tool once non-members meet with a guide, much like the old purchase incentive of free passes.

While I’m not 100% positive in this, but most vloggers have annual passes. Is there not a clause that you cannot make profit from the use of your annual pass. They revoked people’s AP if they were a reseller. A vlogger makes a video and gets clicks and hits, making them money. While in a different way than a reseller, but it violates the terms of the AP for what I can remember. For Disney to allow one and penalize another seems like a lawsuit, waiting to happen.

 

[WilsonFlyer]

While I’m not 100% positive in this, but most vloggers have annual passes. Is there not a clause that you cannot make profit from the use of your annual pass. They revoked people’s AP if they were a reseller. A vlogger makes a video and gets clicks and hits, making them money. While in a different way than a reseller, but it violates the terms of the AP for what I can remember. For Disney to allow one and penalize another seems like a lawsuit, waiting to happen.

You can't go down that rabbit hole. Most of them are even getting invited to media events now if they have a few thousand followers and have been around a while. It's ridiculous but it is what it is.

 

[Chuck S]

You can't go down that rabbit hole. Most of them are even getting invited to media events now if they have a few thousand followers and have been around a while. It's ridiculous but it is what it is.

Plus it is basically free advertising for Disney.

 

[WilsonFlyer]

Plus it is basically free advertising for Disney.

Exactly. To captive audiences.

 

[samsp99]

Swap-a-palooza - the fun way to book non-home resorts.

The beauty of DVC is that there are a number of different resorts that you could potentially book at, but with the 11 & 7 month home priority thing, it can often be difficult booking a different resort. But what if somebody else would like to stay at your resort, and you at theirs. There is no way to make that happen today, (unless you do an off-the-books swap a bit like a rental).

This is where swap-a-palooza comes in - it would act as the magic broker to enable exchanges to happen between complete strangers, and have the points re-adjusted if there is an imbalance. Swap-a-palooza would be a feature of the booking site where you can put in "wishes" for exchanges.

For example, you book at your home resort, GF but would like to stay somewhere else say Poly. What if family #2 who have a reservation for your dates at the Poly, but wanted to stay a WL and family #3 who have a booking at WL but want to stay at GF. Currently if those were setup as waitlists they would never clear as there is a deadlock situation.

Swap-a-palooza would change that. It would be an automatic match making system - You select an existing reservation of yours, and possibly a subset of days - and what resorts/room types you would like to trade it for. Swap-a-palooza would run the algorithms to see if there is a match, even if it involves a cycle of a number of reservations to make the exchanges happen. You would pay the points value for the resort you end up in, and need to allocate the points for any additional ones needed when you enter your requests into the system. You would be refunded the difference if you select a cheaper resort/room.

Swap requests are not final until a match is found - you could cancel your request, but once a match is found the swap would be automatic (there is no confirmation or backing out if its not exactly what you want). Unlike wait lists where there are only 2 per membership, you can have an unlimited set of requests for your dates with swap-a-palooza, but you have to have a reservation for the dates that you are trying to exchange.

Swap-a-palooza requests could be made at any time between booking and 1 week from checkin. Swaps would only occur at 7Mo to 1 week before checkin. Cancellations within 30 days have the normal withholding restrictions. This is to prevent some hacks in making 11 mo bookings purely to enable an exchange, that is then cancelled.

If you cancel a reservation that was swapped, then the bad-swapper penalty will apply - you are not able to make additional swap requests for 12mo from the date of the reservation that was cancelled. Unfulfilled swap requests would be cancelled. Any matched swaps would be honored as they are already confirmed.

In an interesting twist, it might be permitted for resale customers to swap into/out of resorts they cannot currently book. So a Riviera resale owner could swap with a BWV resale owner, into resorts which they normally wouldn't be able to book, but as its a swap, it technically doesn't affect the overall system.

There may need to be protections against gaming the system - that's why there is a bad swapper penalty that can apply to cancellations.

 

[Chuck S]

Swap-a-palooza - the fun way to book non-home resorts.

The beauty of DVC is that there are a number of different resorts that you could potentially book at, but with the 11 & 7 month home priority thing, it can often be difficult booking a different resort. But what if somebody else would like to stay at your resort, and you at theirs. There is no way to make that happen today, (unless you do an off-the-books swap a bit like a rental).

This is where swap-a-palooza comes in - it would act as the magic broker to enable exchanges to happen between complete strangers, and have the points re-adjusted if there is an imbalance. Swap-a-palooza would be a feature of the booking site where you can put in "wishes" for exchanges.

For example, you book at your home resort, GF but would like to stay somewhere else say Poly. What if family #2 who have a reservation for your dates at the Poly, but wanted to stay a WL and family #3 who have a booking at WL but want to stay at GF. Currently if those were setup as waitlists they would never clear as there is a deadlock situation.

Swap-a-palooza would change that. It would be an automatic match making system - You select an existing reservation of yours, and possibly a subset of days - and what resorts/room types you would like to trade it for. Swap-a-palooza would run the algorithms to see if there is a match, even if it involves a cycle of a number of reservations to make the exchanges happen. You would pay the points value for the resort you end up in, and need to allocate the points for any additional ones needed when you enter your requests into the system. You would be refunded the difference if you select a cheaper resort/room.

Swap requests are not final until a match is found - you could cancel your request, but once a match is found the swap would be automatic (there is no confirmation or backing out if its not exactly what you want). Unlike wait lists where there are only 2 per membership, you can have an unlimited set of requests for your dates with swap-a-palooza, but you have to have a reservation for the dates that you are trying to exchange.

Swap-a-palooza requests could be made at any time between booking and 1 week from checkin. Swaps would only occur at 7Mo to 1 week before checkin. Cancellations within 30 days have the normal withholding restrictions. This is to prevent some hacks in making 11 mo bookings purely to enable an exchange, that is then cancelled.

If you cancel a reservation that was swapped, then the bad-swapper penalty will apply - you are not able to make additional swap requests for 12mo from the date of the reservation that was cancelled. Unfulfilled swap requests would be cancelled. Any matched swaps would be honored as they are already confirmed.

In an interesting twist, it might be permitted for resale customers to swap into/out of resorts they cannot currently book. So a Riviera resale owner could swap with a BWV resale owner, into resorts which they normally wouldn't be able to book, but as its a swap, it technically doesn't affect the overall system.

There may need to be protections against gaming the system - that's why there is a bad swapper penalty that can apply to cancellations.

Interesting, but with all the possible problems, I just don't see DVC dipping their toes into those waters. We used to allow "Trade: type posts on our Rental board using the mutual rental type booking request. I don't know of a single one that worked out. And we discontinued it.

 

[Girlstar30]

I wish the dvc rental sites allowed swapping for other resorts like they do with cruise swaps and charge a small fee instead of having to sell your points then try to book with that money and only get 75% of it upfront to do that

 

[Sandisw]

I wish the dvc rental sites allowed swapping for other resorts like they do with cruise swaps and charge a small fee instead of having to sell your points then try to book with that money and only get 75% of it upfront to do that

The system does not allow reservations to transfer between memberships, only points.

You can’t even do it between your own so there really is no way to truly swap.

 

[Girlstar30]

The system does not allow reservations to transfer between memberships, only points.

You can’t even do it between your own so there really is no way to truly swap.

Ohh yeah didn't even think about that one!

 

[Mirabell Rose]

I would love the pixie pass. The reason that has been mentioned is the locals have to deal with issues with being a tourist area. But I don't understand why someone in Miami would get discounts. Why not have the discount to areas within 50-75 miles.

I could easily work with the rules for a pixie pass.

I think all DVCers should be able to buy all passes. I would also love the pixie pass. I just want to watch the shows and maybe do a few gentle rides. I can’t do anything that jerks, jolts, drops to any significant degree. Most of us get to that age. At the very least let us DVCers who are 55+ and owned for like five or more years get one.

While I’m on a roll - how about a free perk for every 5 year ownership anniversary. For example:
5 year anniversary - lightning lane free for up to 5 park days a year and 5 day free park pass
10 year anniversary - 10 day free park pass with park hopper and lightning lane
15 year anniversary - 7 day free park pass with park hopper and lightning lane annually, or free pixie pass annually
20 year anniversary - free pirate pass or 7 day w hopper and lightning annually
25 year anniversary- free sorcerer pass or 7 day w hopper and lightning annually

I want anniversaries to mean something.

 

[Brian Noble]

I want a free lightning lane premier pass. I want 20% dining discounts. I want 40% merchandise discounts. [...]