Disturbia
Happily Ever After
- Joined
- Nov 5, 2020
They should have never implemented a product that’s successful at Disneyland (Maxpass) to WDW. Disneyland is only 2 parks and has so many rides and because you can walk between the parks you have access to even more rides. I think they just saw $$$$. It has multiplied stress levels exponentially.We could always find headliners day of. The only ones that were sometimes impossible are the same that are now $ILL. FOP, 7DMT, etc.. but everything else was doable with a little persistence. Bummer that it was tough for some folks.
I get the drawback of staying offsite or being local, but it makes sense that onsite guests had perks since they were ponying up big $$$ directly to Disney for staying onsite.
The old system may have been too skewed towards onsite guests. I would have been fine with allowing EVERYONE access to FP's on the same day, like 2 weeks prior to their first arrival day. There was no need for 60 days out for onsite, and 30 days offsite or local. Just make it 2 weeks, or 30 days or whatever, but make it the same for all guests. Doing that would level the playing field and still keep all the awesome things that FP+ allowed.
etc...
- Prebooking rides
- Booking at the times you choose
- Ability to sleep in
- Ability to modify you FP without cancelling
- Having peace of mind and a lower stress level going into your vacation
Dan
Someone made the observation that there are fewer children. I think decision making CMs with small children should go through the parks without perks and see what it’s like. Plus stop trying to market to the Universal crowd with all the tech changes. Disney has more rides for smaller kids and they need to refocus on their target market.
So don’t even try building a Pandora extension without a banshee/direhorse carousel!