I initially thought this too. I also would have assumed it would only be people from MK but it appears it can be anyone on Disney property.
Great question Gibson12 I've kindof been wondering the same.
Are tehy still doing the "Kiss goodnight" after WIshes would that wake you up if you were in there?
And is there someone 24/7 waiting outside your door just incase you need to go somewhere/do something.
Does anyone know if after YOAMD this will be something you can pay for? Seems like an ideal Wedding night to me.
I wouldn't think the Kiss Goodnight would be particularly loud inside the castle. The speakers are all around the Hub, not really up in the castle. Also, the Suite faces Fantasyland and not Main Street.
There *is* someone along the lines of a concierge nearby the entire time you're in the suite. From a posting online from a family that won, I believe there's a little office off of the vestibule where the elevator lets you out on that level. When they were leaving in the morning, the CM came out the side door within moments of them coming out of the suite. (not quite the right storyline, but I'm envisioning Pierre the sleeping car porter from "Murder on the Orient Express" sitting at the end of the hallway all night waiting to answer a bell)
As for the person wondering about the contest, where have you been? (Kidding) :animwink: But seriously, you can follow this link to get ALL the details about the various price giveaways as part of the Year of a Million Dreams promotion, including how to enter from home without purchase.
http://www.disneyparks.com/rules
The down-side is that you can't exactly win a night in the Castle Suite using mail-in entries, because you have to be able to use it on the actual day it's awarded. (In fact, the first day that the suite was available as a prize, the computer awarded it to a mail-in entry.) If you win the Suite stay as a mail-in entry, you get a gift basket instead, worth the "Retail Value" of the prize ($587 according to the rules).
Lastly, as for what's happening with the suite after the promotion is done at the end of the year is anyone's guess. Disney hasn't released any details. Some speculate that it would be made available to honeymoon couples, others think it would be rented out for big bucks, and still others wonder if Disney will decide that it's not worth the trouble and will discontinue it.
-Rob