I never questioned whether it was representative or not. That was several other posters on many pages back. My only point was you can't say "well that's not indicative" just because it doesn't suit your narrative. The same people that are on the DIS here on the boards are people who can be people on FB.
BillAgain, it is like asking college football fans what there favorite team is while standing at a particular stadium. You are going to get a skewed perspective. Veteran Disney fans who seek out a resort thread for information is a small fraction of people who go to Disney and thus already have a bias. Then when you read this thread a strong bias is being shown, thus it is much more likely a person who disfavors the policy will "vote" in the poll. Again stand outside Bryant-Denny stadium and ask Tide fans what they feel about Tigers (LSU or Auburn) then try to base a decision on those results. It's the same reason political polls are done across the US trying to get a large cross section of people and not just rural Nebraska.
How is it an about face? They are still providing a safe vacation experience for families, they are just opening up a small percentage of rooms to a new demographic. It's not like they stopped serving the food at Disney because of your child's allergies-they just made sure there would not be cross contamination so your child was safe-why then do we assume that Disney is incapable of doing the same with this dog policy?
This reminds me of something O/T. I lived in Belgium as an exchangee for a year in 1995/6. There were many other exchangees in the town I was in - all but one of them American.
I'm sure that Disney has polled different groups, at the parks, at resorts, at home. They even do focus groups and have groups who's job it is to know what the current and future industry standards are. They know how many repeat guests versus first timers, the family make up, the ages and if they have a dog that they would like to bring to their dog friendly vacation and who don't mind staying in the dog designated room in the dog wing of the hotel.
This alone proves they are a bit out of touch with guests.
That is probably due to the demographics (seniors) In Fl. Florida has become a major retirement state, new construction is going up like crazy! Sadly, we are losing a lot of green space. I live in a gated community and the HOA is constantly sending out letters about people not cleaning up after their dogs. There are many older dog owners here. People even "walk" their dog while driving a golf cart.
Families of 5 do NOT have 20 more resorts to choose from.
I have gotten surveys from Disney as well. One was a couple of weeks ago. Get one after every stay too. Never got one mentioning dogs.AND many of us have dogs, love our dogs, travel with our dogs SO I don't think I am bias against them ............... but appreciate the fact that DISNEY WORLD is not a good destination for a dog, that keeping our dogs locked up all day is not a good idea for them, us or Disney and that the industry standard in pet hotels is real rules that Disney has decided to throw out the window. And while I have dogs and no allergies or fears ........ I greatly appreciate Disney World has been an ideal vacation for young families, health compromised families, individuals with disabilities, older guests ... and the fear comes that this will expand to all of the moderate/value locations.
I get so many survey's from Disney, some really strange ones .............. never saw one on dogs. Never saw one discussed on any social media, usually someone leaks.
I got THREE surveys last week. One was very interesting on MNSSHP, and it was even fancy with Halloween decorations ............
- Am I interested in being able to get FP+ during the parties?
- Would I rather they do Happily Ever After during the party instead of HalloWishes?
Yes, you are correct. The difference to me is that service dogs are an uncommon occurrence. The new policy increases the number of dogs that will be there and increases the odds of all types of incidents beyond simply aggravating allergies.
That might be true in your community but where we visited it was very clean. We got out of the car and walked around a lot to explore. Most times we saw young people or kids walking dogs.
I've done tons of surveys too. There has never been any questions about dogs. I'd be curious to hear from anyone on this board who has been asked about dogs in a survey.
That was something I mentioned to another poster on an entirely different threadbecause they found their choices fairly limited as well causing them to usually do off-site due to cost and overall accommodations for their traveling party. I do wish Disney had more options for traveling parties. It's often forgotten but the traveling parties don't always consist of 2 adults and 2 children. Adult-only traveling parties do go to Disney as to larger traveling parties than just 2 adults and 2 children. I should also say it would be ideal if they were economical.
Never thought I would “like” a post that contained the words “Bryant-Denny” stadium.
It was this exact problem that prompted us to buy into DVC. We needed connecting rooms guaranteed due to the ages of our kids.
