Disney wants you spending money though so that’s why they’ll push people to do so.This. I'm not in Disney to shop, I'm there to enjoy the rides and attractions. I can shop for Disney stuf from the comfort of my home and get better prices to boot.
Disney wants you spending money though so that’s why they’ll push people to do so.This. I'm not in Disney to shop, I'm there to enjoy the rides and attractions. I can shop for Disney stuf from the comfort of my home and get better prices to boot.
Well, that's good and bad. Good because my DD will probably want to ride all the TSL rides. Bad because everyone booking one of these two rides is going to make the Standby waits ridiculous for both, and make getting one on FP day even harder than SDD was before.Smuggler’s Run and Slinky Dog Dash are now tier 1 at DHS. Everything else is tier 2.
When it gets FP...Have to assume Mickey will be a Tier 1 FP+ right?
Ride capacity doesn’t change with FP. If you would eliminate FP at FOP the demand for the ride would still be there for the 3+ hour wait FOP currently has. With that wait there is a real demand for and need for FP. There just isn’t that kind of need for a ride with capacity to work through demand in 1 hour.
@Alynw--I was nodding my head in agreement with you until I got to this part. There are so many other advantages to staying onsite at WDW that I don't think getting rid of FP would seriously impact their room occupancy. What are these advantages? DME. Free parking at the parks. Internal WDW transportation: bus, boat, monorail, Skyliner. Ease of getting back to one's resort to take a break. EMHs. Proximity to the parks, although I realize that there are some off-site resorts that are just as close as some of the WDW resorts but they do not have transportation to the parks that's just as frequent as onsite resorts have. Those are just a few examples off the top of my head.Get rid of FP and standby would drop to a fraction of time it is now, they would lose a tremendous amount of onsite guests.
@Alynw--Free parking at the parks.
True, but since resort parking prices are tiered, it can still be less expensive, especially at the value resorts.Technically still true but that kind of went away when they started charging to park at the resort.
True.Technically still true but that kind of went away when they started charging to park at the resort.
You cant compare wait times of non fastpass wait times and fastpass ride time. Even FOP avg wait time would probably be under a hour for all guest when you add that 80% of riders are using fastpass and waiting 5-15min and only 20% at 2hrs
Edit. For FOP say 1000 guest a hour 20% at 2hrs and 80% at 15min (avg probably lower then that) works out avg wait time of 36min for all guest
The real perk is not needing a car at all. We (and many onsite guests) rely entirely on disney transportation. That means $0 in gas, car rental, parking, tolls, etc...Technically still true but that kind of went away when they started charging to park at the resort
Absolutely! When I first joined Disboards, I was planning a semi-budget trip for myself and older kids. I spent a lot of time on the Orlando Hotels and Attractions page. I learned a lot about many different offsite hotels, and got quite good at identifying them in opaque bookings on Hotwire.The real perk is not needing a car at all. We (and many onsite guests) rely entirely on disney transportation. That means $0 in gas, car rental, parking, tolls, etc...