I dunno, this sort of reeks of a disgruntled ex employee to me, celebrating that Disney has fallen on hard times. Not saying these things couldn't happen, I have absolutely no idea. But it does read that way to me.
Many of these Disney "purists" are thrilled with this sort of stuff. They hope the company will be reborn to the way they want to whatever.
Even with the reservation system I think they are walking a fine line between making sure they have enough staff to keep things orderly (they especially don't need any more DFB click bait photos of globs of people in front of rides), making sure their CMs can put food on the table and have a place to sleep, and not staffing too heavily where they are losing extra money daily. But I think after the financials call next week the amount of CMs in the parks will be decreasing
Didn't Chapek comment about how demand was solid during the last call? (or shortly after?)
He talked a lot of crap IMO
Basically said there were swarms of people just itching to get into the Gates, but Florida didn't do what he was expecting it do.
Demand isn't normally an issue. I think even now demand is there but there are restrictions that people can't get around in some instances. International travel is basically non-existent. And domestic travel has 14-day quarantine restrictions hindering people. So people may want to go but they are being stopped due to these things.
As much as I was anti-mask a couple months ago- I ain’t anymore. I wear my masks out and I’d wear them to Disney! Except I can’t get to WDW for a couple months to make up for my late March AP trip cancelled by COVID but Disney won’t extend my AP long enough to get me there. So I’ll take my $40 cash refund instead of dropping $2-3k on a WDW trip a couple months from now (hey, I splurge at the Mouse!).
This train wreck is spectacularly fascinating.
... I’d have opened up a lot more AP slots. Ran deals on meals for APs. Gotten them to clear out the old merch (Disney is doing this- minus they actually letting them into the park part). AND offered something crazy to stay with the company during these trying times- like a half price renewal to lock 2020 expirations into Disney for their first post-COVID trip once they were ready to travel again with the full knowledge holidays would book, most would get cancelled and folks would finally start using those APs renewed this year second half of 2021.
Has reality ever bothered that dude?
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As much as I was anti-mask a couple months ago- I ain’t anymore. I wear my masks out and I’d wear them to Disney! Except I can’t get to WDW for a couple months to make up for my late March AP trip cancelled by COVID but Disney won’t extend my AP long enough to get me there. So I’ll take my $40 cash refund instead of dropping $2-3k on a WDW trip a couple months from now (hey, I splurge at the Mouse!).
Only in the world of Disney does that math make sense. And I think we’re starting to learn COVID 2020s even Disney Math... Alienating your most ardent fans because you just know normal folks cannot wait to pay tip dollar for your limited offerings- OMG
SO- here’s my q! What would YOU have done? I know folks have things they would have done differently and I’m interested in what they are. Personally I can only see from my own pissed off perspective so I want to know some others
Pissing off APs to the point they opt for cash refunds no matter how small the amount would absolutely have been at the bottom of my list.
. No that would have been a disaster lol.
There’s a part of me that would love to see Chapek stumble his way through explaining enacting these doom and gloom scenarios to analysts on the call next week
I'm here now and I am shocked, and I mean shocked at the amount of CMs who are seemingly doing nothing of value. For example today, at world of Disney we saw a CM holding a handheld social distancing sign while just about two feet away was the exact same sign on a metal stand. We also saw that at AK today when two CM who were holding this same sign were about 10 feet away from each other and having a conversation. There's CM in line who's only job is to tell you when to walk to the next social distance marker on the floor, something you've done on your own the entire line up to that point. Insanely enough, the amount of lifeguards doesn't seem to have increased and that's where masks and social distancing are pretty relaxed. I've also noticed what I assume to be middle management (dressed real nice) just basically standing around seemingly everywhere and trying to looks busy. I usually take most rumors with a grain of salt, but man the amount of money going to people who at face value are doing nothing meaningful has me worried.Even with the reservation system I think they are walking a fine line between making sure they have enough staff to keep things orderly (they especially don't need any more DFB click bait photos of globs of people in front of rides), making sure their CMs can put food on the table and have a place to sleep, and not staffing too heavily where they are losing extra money daily. But I think after the financials call next week the amount of CMs in the parks will be decreasing
Anything is possible
If you’re headed down there soon I’d be ready to be very flexible just because of these new rumors. Hopefully if enacted it would be a rotational type basis so a park or two is always open.
Anything is possible
But what a mess for the Park Reservation system. Can IT even handle such a drastic change with moving all who have already booked to another park?
Anything is possible
But what a mess for the Park Reservation system. Can IT even handle such a drastic change with moving all who have already booked to another park?
11 days. Man that would be tough to monkey with all the reservations. That’s an excellent point about the IT.
