While I don’t agree with your assessment of the Grand Cal rooms or the quality of the theming, I do understand that it could be tiring having people who are not owners or who have not stayed at the property come onto a thread and drone on about things that have already been discussed at length like the TOT.
However, one of the benefits of owning direct points is that you can stay at all of the resorts and someone can be a fan without being an owner.
As someone who has stayed at the resort twice, defended it when others have said they’d rather stay offsite, and promoted it as a very valid reason to consider owning some direct points I think I fall into the “fan group”.
Now as a “fan”, I can still point out that the Dishwasher exploded when we stayed there, that the mattress felt extra firm, that it was creepy to have a full sized face character staring at me in our living room, and that it’s a very studio heavy resort and is likely to get more difficult (not impossible right at 11m) to book villas as more points are sold (similar to VGF now).
Other owners have also pointed out water issues on the lower floors and how they didn’t have hot water on there trips and that the hot tub was offer not working.
I’ll drop it now, I just didn’t like being put into the “VDH Hater” camp when I like the resort…. especially the Palm Breeze Bar! And having an extra DVC resort that has a chance for some studio inventory within 7m at DLand is awesome! A game changer really.
Ok… I’m done now…. rant over….