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jencor

Active Member
Interested as to where you went for bad QS meals? Almost every one I have is pretty solid.

The one that we threw out was from Sunshine Seasons. It was a sweet and sour. It looked nothing like the picture they showed on the board and it was extremely runny and had more peppers then sweet and sour. I am ok with some peppers, but this was all peppers and the fried rice was very clumpy and cold. And tasted bad. My wife loves Chinese food, and she could not stomach it either. The other was from Flame Tree in AK. The pork sandwich was not very good, and I am not sure why the call it signature beans, i wouldn't put my signature on it. We had more of a problem with service there though, they did not handle wheel chairs real well. For what I paid, I do expect a bit better. I know so often people give the excuse it's park fast food, but I can do fast food outside the park so much better at half the price. I will say we had eaten at these places before and liked it, just not these particular entrees at this time.
 

disneygeek90

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The one that we threw out was from Sunshine Seasons. It was a sweet and sour. It looked nothing like the picture they showed on the board and it was extremely runny and had more peppers then sweet and sour. I am ok with some peppers, but this was all peppers and the fried rice was very clumpy and cold. And tasted bad. My wife loves Chinese food, and she could not stomach it either. The other was from Flame Tree in AK. The pork sandwich was not very good, and I am not sure why the call it signature beans, i wouldn't put my signature on it. We had more of a problem with service there though, they did not handle wheel chairs real well. For what I paid, I do expect a bit better. I know so often people give the excuse it's park fast food, but I can do fast food outside the park so much better at half the price. I will say we had eaten at these places before and liked it, just not these particular entrees at this time.
Ahhh. I'll have to admit Sunshine is one I almost never get to. With so many options around the Showcase I would rather go anywhere over there. Next time, check out either the QS or TS options in China.

Flame Tree is one I've always heard good things about, though I am vegetarian so not really my speed. My dad loves it though it's a tad expensive for QS imo.
 

wannabeBelle

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I agree on the China thing for QS and I had one bad experience years ago at Flame Tree so I haven't gone back. I do like the new Harambe marketplace, the ribs are outstanding and the Satuli Canteen is also very good and not terribly exotic for my limited taste buds. Marie
 

jencor

Active Member
Ahhh. I'll have to admit Sunshine is one I almost never get to. With so many options around the Showcase I would rather go anywhere over there. Next time, check out either the QS or TS options in China.

Flame Tree is one I've always heard good things about, though I am vegetarian so not really my speed. My dad loves it though it's a tad expensive for QS imo.

We sometimes have to eat for convenience. We were leaving the park as my wife gets fatigue (different than being tired) and needs to lay down for a while and since I am already pushing a wheel chair for 6-10 miles a day, I just do not want to add a lot more walking to my week and she just wants to get back to where she can lay down as quick as possible. Sometimes it is hard to guess where we are going to be when the fatigue happens, which makes setting meals up months in advance nearly impossible. For us, it gets harder and harder to plan and with DW and all the pre planning, it is getting less magical and more stressful to try and get your money's worth.
 

John park hopper

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Apparently there's a huge difference in the CM profile that they use to select who talks to us.
Your lady appears to be a "Take it or leave it" person and not a problem solver.
The guy that I spoke to was apologetic, and instead of pointing out how I should be grateful for the opportunity to spend all of my money at WDW, he stated that all of my concerns were valid issues and that George and the other WDW staff were engaged in long discussion on ways to provide the WDW guests with the best experience possible.
He was diplomatic, courteous, and agreed with almost all of my talking points.
And after we hung up he may well have laughed and said "Well I pulled the wool over the eyes of another chump." but during the call he was nothing but professional polite and non argumentative.
I'm afraid I would have come off as a really wizzed off customer to that lady the first time she entered the "My Disney. Take it or leave it" mode.
Received the same response to my email and he thankd me for contacting Disney and my concerns were being forward up the ladder. Will it who knows.
 

21stamps

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Because 'Disney is for little kids' according to my friend, Also they hate wating in line that suite in Portofino bay gets them a 'Fast Pass' to EVERY ride on property.

My friend is a long time Disney freak just like me until last year it was 2 Disney trips per year

The 6 year old probably has all rides open to him this year at Disney, but at Universal- he won’t. I think Universal is the natural progression as kids grow. 6 is a great time for Disney though.. a 5 year old cant do Rockin’ Roller Coaster, most likely. My kid is relatively tall, but definitely wasn’t 48” at age 5. Also, Star Wars is typically more of that age demographic over Harry Potter.

I don’t think Disney needs to be worried about most kids, in the 6 and under crowd, jumping ship.
 

JoeCamel

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The 6 year old probably has all rides open to him this year at Disney, but at Universal- he won’t. I think Universal is the natural progression as kids grow. 6 is a great time for Disney though.. a 5 year old cant do Rockin’ Roller Coaster, most likely. My kid is relatively tall, but definitely wasn’t 48” at age 5. Also, Star Wars is typically more of that age demographic over Harry Potter.

I don’t think Disney needs to be worried about most kids, in the 6 and under crowd, jumping ship.
Those 6 and under don't have much disposable income tho...
 

21stamps

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Those 6 and under don't have much disposable income tho...
No, for sure.. but he said the kids chose Uni over Disney.
I would have spent one day at Uni on our 2016 trip.. kiddo was 6, but I couldn’t justify the one day price..especially when I knew he would complain about height requirements. Disney was the one park where he could ride any and every attraction. It’s one of the reasons why we love it so much. He’s 53.5” right now.. so only half an inch more til I never have to worry about that again.
 

ParentsOf4

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All Stars is not $84 at any time during the year. Cheapest room (Mon-Wed value season) is $97 for standard and $116 for preffered
Lets not exaggerate or make up facts
I have graphs (don't I have graphs for everything? ;)) but, roughly speaking, WDW price increases have outpaced income by about a 2-to-1 margin since 2000.

In the 1990s, the two tracked reasonably close.

Percentage wise, WDW's biggest price increases occurred in the late 1980s when Eisner and Wells first took over.

Some recent price increases are approaching these numbers.

Disney is taking advantage of strong consumer confidence.

We'll see big discounts when the economy takes a tumble, but these discounts will be after years of big price increases. Adjusted for income/inflation, we probably will never see prices comparable to the early 2000s. :(
 

ford91exploder

Resident Curmudgeon
Its interesting, people talk about number of rides, To me and to my friends family its rides they ENJOY and with FOTL if the 6 y/o wants to ride 'Cat in the Hat' 6 times they CAN.

That's the difference, With Uni one can still experience the parks as you choose you are not locked into a 60 day old schedule.
 

ford91exploder

Resident Curmudgeon
The 6 year old probably has all rides open to him this year at Disney, but at Universal- he won’t. I think Universal is the natural progression as kids grow. 6 is a great time for Disney though.. a 5 year old cant do Rockin’ Roller Coaster, most likely. My kid is relatively tall, but definitely wasn’t 48” at age 5. Also, Star Wars is typically more of that age demographic over Harry Potter.

I don’t think Disney needs to be worried about most kids, in the 6 and under crowd, jumping ship.

Yeah they do if the 6 y/o's want to do universal, guess which park they Are going to when they have kids of their own. Hint not Disney
 

ford91exploder

Resident Curmudgeon
So are you okay with an upcharge or an increase in rates for a better and less crowded experience? Unfortunately I don't think the extra $150 a week for these select customers will result in attendance attrition.

Some may be willing to pay $250 (or more) a day to keep out the masses. That would be outside of my threshold for sure but you would have people espousing the virtues of the more expensive ticket.

Heres the deal though, the truly wealthy are frequently very thrifty as well and the extra charge is likely to drive them away
 

JoeCamel

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Their parents do though
Generally people that have multiple young children have not been working long enough to establish a stellar income and they have all the costs associated with building a family. (Home, medical, schooling, retirement/college saving etc). In addition it is often a single income family due to the high cost of child care. Many will go into debt to get that Disney trip and some are lucky enough to earn very nice incomes but the majority won't do either and they will not be the multiple trippers to the "world".
 

21stamps

Well-Known Member
Yeah they do if the 6 y/o's want to do universal, guess which park they Are going to when they have kids of their own. Hint not Disney

I love Uni, I love Disney.
I realize that kids can do more at Disney than Uni, and I hope it stays that way. I don’t want Uni to become as “whole family focused” as Disney is. If they stay the way they are, there will never be a serious competition in the 1st grade and below crowd.

Its interesting, people talk about number of rides, To me and to my friends family its rides they ENJOY and with FOTL if the 6 y/o wants to ride 'Cat in the Hat' 6 times they CAN.

That's the difference, With Uni one can still experience the parks as you choose you are not locked into a 60 day old schedule.

I Haven’t had a “60 day old schedule” for either of my last 2 Disney trips.. we still did just about everything.. we even got dining reservations.
 

21stamps

Well-Known Member
Generally people that have multiple young children have not been working long enough to establish a stellar income and they have all the costs associated with building a family. (Home, medical, schooling, retirement/college saving etc). In addition it is often a single income family due to the high cost of child care. Many will go into debt to get that Disney trip and some are lucky enough to earn very nice incomes but the majority won't do either and they will not be the multiple trippers to the "world".

This isn’t 1950.. there’s a large amount of people who aren’t having kids straight out of high school or college.

Off topic a bit, but I had to point that out.
 

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