I don't know...but typically this time of year (this is our favorite time to go) they're WAY busier, and you'd think that with the 50th celebration having just started that they would be even more so...even with less entertainment options.
Yes HHN is packed like normal, Saturday last week IOA looked like it was summer, Sunday was more subdued but still higher attendance then the week (which was dead.)
This is the slowest time of year. Always.
September, maybe, because that's when NE goes back to school. October has been busy for a while now because of food and wine.
October is not slow, usually.
Are people talking pre-pandemic? There are still a lot of people wary about traveling, especially to Florida which until recently had very high COVID numbers. Also, international visitors are not able to visit now. I don’t think this October can be compared to previous ones as far as attendance is concerned.
You can currently cancel mobile food orders up until you actually press “I’m here, place my order” and they start actually preparing the food. Maybe it should at least be able to be cancelled up until your arrival window.
I don't think they'll do that. Your mobile order doesn't take the place of/prevent someone else from using the ordering system. When you cancel, it simply makes it such that the next order prepared will come out a little bit sooner. With ILL, your "order" takes a spot for a finite amount of time and does not reduce the wait time for the next paid rider (they are already scheduled for a set time); TWDC can't easily resell your spot last minute and hence will miss out on that revenue.
It actually does, though. On busy days certain order windows (woodys lunchbox) have the soonest availability 1+ hours in advance. If I order something for two hours from now and then cancel during my window it absolutely could have taken up the spot that someone else would have booked.
October hasn't been slow since 2005 or 2006.
Except that was truly an option - if you didn’t want to pay, you could still use the paper Fastpass system.
No one goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.
I agree it's not as good a deal, but it's still much closer to that system than it is to anything else, which is why the backlash has taken me by surprise. There was a time not so long ago in this forum when we FP+ fans were being told by a significant number of posters that a paid MaxPass-style system would be a much better alternative. Well, that's what we now have, and people are up in arms.
I'd be curious to know from those who follow these things whether Disney's attendance really has taken a bigger dip than Universal's. Is this being discussed in another thread?
It resembles MaxPass and is obviously adapted from it. Surely you wouldn't disagree with that.
Not sure...I've seen a few comments about how it's so much less busy than expected, but I can't even remember which thread(s) those were in.
You’re argument is that you don’t understand why people are complaining, I’m telling you why I’m complaining, even though I wanted Maxpass at WDW.
Do you prefer the new system to FP+ at least?
I don’t know, if it doesn’t affect standbys too much and I can do everything I want to do without it, yes. I prefer no FP to FP+.