Beginning in May of this year and continuing on for the rest of 2017, DVC members will get exclusive benefits at a featured store each Wednesday. The store will open an hour early (9am instead of the usual 10am) for DVC members only, and each store will have a special offer that will be available only on that day.
Here is a list below of the stores that will be currently open and what discounts they will offer:
- Wednesday, May 3rd, Kate Spade New York: save 15% on purchases
- Wednesday, May 10th, Origins: save 15% on purchases
- Wednesday, May 17th, Pandora Jewelry: Save 10% and receive a cosmetic bag with purchase of $100 or more
- Wednesday, May 24th, Basin: Spend $30 and get one Bath Bomb; Spend $50 and get 2 Bath Bombs; spend $150 and get a Bath Bomb Barrel
- Wednesday, May 31st, Vera Bradley: Complimentary monogramming and gift with a purchase of $100 or more
- Wednesday, May June 7th, UGG: Complimentary Disney customization (up to $35) with any purchase
- Wednesday, June 14th, Sephora: Complimentary makeover (by appointment) and gift with a $50 purchase in product; complimentary gift with a $25 purchase in product
- Wednesday, June 28th, L’Occitane en Provence*: Save 15% on purchases of $65 or more
- Wednesday, June 28th, American Threads: Save 10% on purchases
- Wednesday, July 5th, Sugarboo & Co.: save 15% on purchases
This is the current list as of right now. Updates and additions, as well as more details, are posted on the DVC Member Benefits website.
*L’Occitane en Provence will not be open early for Members; however, the store will feature a private shopping area for Members from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM.
When the shopping area first opened as Lake Buena Vista Village, it was a nice little distraction, but shoppers all wondered where the Disney/Mickey items were. Folks didn’t come all the way to Disney World on their vacation to buy a “generic” souvenir or item for their house or wardrobe. So the folks at Disney changed their ways and made the shopping area a Disney haven for shopping. While many of the new stores at Disney Springs are nice, they need to learn this old lesson of years ago. It would be wonderful to go to these high end shops and get unique Disney items, but that is not the case. Most of the stores have the same merchandise as if they were at any upscale mall, not the unique Disney items I was hoping for.
Unique Disney theming died with Iger. We went from a guy who thought of himself as Walt’s legacy curator & defender to a guy who could sell his mom for a buck and buy whatever he thinks is cool as long as it has no connection to Walt.
And if this guy has his way, the future looks even worse by selling the company to a sweatshop seller of overpriced Chinese trinkets