7am for work? Sure. It’s work, I get paid to do it.
dont get up at 7am on vacation ever. Skiing, beach, Disney, etc. never, especially when I have to pay vs getting paid
think of it this way. You saved an hour, even 2 in lines. But you woke up 2 hours earlier to book your first ride. You were on your phone all day. You paid $175 for your family of 5.
what was different than the last time you visited MK? Did you ride different rides? Did you spend less time in the park from start to finish?
no. You woke up earlier Paid more money. Spent the same amount of time in the park.
look at it for Disney’s perspective. They had the same or less amount of guests. Fewer employees because the parks weren’t open as long. More money because those same people just paid more for the exact same experience.
this is a marketing ploy and it is frustrating that people fall for it.
OK. You have made countless posts railing about how much you dislike this system, so I think we all get it. I’m going to respond to this one in detailed points because you’re starting to get into the territory of telling me how I should go about my days and how I should respond to the latest changes Disney has made.
As for getting up at 7 AM, I am up at that time every day. We have always gotten up early at Disney World so we could be at a park at opening and in many cases for Extra Magic Hours, which in some cases started at 7AM. We even were at DHS at 6 AM during that period right after GE opened. So, for me, being up at 7AM to spend 2 minutes making a LL reservation or two is no hardship at all. And I get up and out early for other vacation and recreation events too, like playing golf or getting to a National Park before it gets too crowded. If you’re someone who likes sleeping in fine. But be open minded enough to understand that not everyone shares your lifestyle.
As far as being on my phone all day, I don’t see that happening because of
Genie+. After I make our first LL reservation for the day, and maybe one IALL selection, I will only need to look at my phone for things WDW related to (1) check standby wait times to decide where to go next, (2) use mobile order for meals, and (3) make our next LL reservation. The first two of those have nothing to do with Genie+ and the 3rd will only come up a few times a day. I think you are someone who encourages refreshing to try to get preferred LL times. That by itself would take more phone time than the amount of time I will be spending. I spend more time checking my phone if one of my favorite sports teams is playing while I’m in a park than I do for things related to WDW.
As for the cost, there is no question that WDW costs more than it did years ago. That’s true for many things that I enjoy doing that aren’t free. It doesn’t really matter to me if those increased costs come in the form of increased
ticket prices or a la carte charges. I can evaluate costs and make my decisions whether or not I’m willing to pay them. Your suggestion that anyone who continues to go to WDW has been duped by a marketing ploy is, frankly, pretty insulting.
We definitely won’t be spending $35 a day per person on Genie+. There are only 3 of the 8 IALL attractions that I would consider paying for, and those would be no more than once per trip and not every trip. On a longer trip I wouldn’t be getting Genie+ every day either. We can do the attractions we enjoy doing the old fashioned way by getting to the park early and using standby.
Finally, and this one may surprise you, I am not a fan of this new system. That’s less because of the cost, which they could have obtained by increasing admission tickets even more than they already do, than because I liked the FP+ system that let me pick some of our favorite attractions at times that were convenient. A lot of posters on this board hated that too.
I come to this board to get information on how the system works and ideas on how I can best utilize it to make our days in the parks most enjoyable. After we use it a few times I can evaluate whether and how much I like or don’t like it.
Again, I’m not naive enough to think I’m going to change your personal feelings about anything. But, I would encourage you to be open minded enough to understand that not everyone shares your lifestyle and opinions.
Rant over.
