Storm
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Cant wait to need to have a park hoppers to use the gondolas lol
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Patcheslee
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Not to mention round trip per bus costs I'm guessing $50/round trip from Caribbean or Pop. Average 45 trips each day per resort is $4500 a day. $1.6mil a year.
GoofGoof
Premium Member
Only if they add video screens with Harry Potter and his friends in the cabins...no wait, wrong company
TiggerDad
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Except that pricing for those resorts post gondola is already public and bookable and it's not that much higher if at all.
GoofGoof
Premium Member
It’s simple supply and demand. Once they announce an official opening date and people start booking because of it the price is likely to go up. They could also reduce or eliminate discounts at those resorts. Maybe free dining is eliminated altogether there and/or they pull back on the 30% off rates typically offered seasonally. I wouldn’t assume that because the published rack rate for December is not increased that there won’t be a future increase or reduction of discounts.
OR.... the money the resorts have been paying for bus transportation will now go to gondola transportation. And Riviera will also be kicking in some more money.
Prices for these resorts all the way to Dec 31, 2019 have not risen higher than the usual increase in all resorts. At least, not yet. People, including myself, are already booking these rooms at the current price. If WDW was going to raise these resorts' prices significantly because of the gondola, they're pretty much missing their window of opportunity for this year.
Spirit said SWL wouldn't even get built this year. First saying that was his own personal guess based on how delayed everything WDW does is, then saying he had insider knowledge it wouldn't get done this year. So, that's the credibility of that source you're relying on.
@marni1971 has always said the gondola would be done before SWL. But that doesn't mean just days before. He never said 'shortly before.' If any insider had said that, I would have added it to the rumor tracker, but, no one did. So when WDW announced that SWL would be "Late Fall" perhaps you equated that to mean the gondolas would open shortly before SWL in the late fall.
Now, given how far along the gondolas are. And how several insiders are saying that they could theoretically be ready late May or within a few months of late May, we don't know why WDW is announcing "the Fall."
And that's where we are.
The gondolas, like buses, ferries, and the monorail drop people off outside the gate. There is no need to have a ticket, hopper or otherwise, to ride them.
There are no tapstiles being installed for the gondolas as far as we can see, and we can see pretty much everything.
truecoat
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And Pop has free dining from July through Sept.
GlacierGlacier
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Someone needs to go through and count all the times capacity, cost, and savings has been calculated in this thread.
That'd be more time consuming than calculating capacity, cost, and savings.
Disone
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Oy vey...... The gondola is going to have a much higher hourly capacity than any of the bus routes that are currently serving these resorts And their 7500 rooms. Whatever the lines are now for the buses going to Hollywood Studios and Epcot from these 7500 rooms, the gondola line will be shorter.
You have underestimated the efficiency of a departure of 8 to 10 people every 9 seconds or less vs 60 to 90 people every 10 to 15 minutes.
In just the time it would take 60 people to get on a bus, the gondola will have all 60 people in the air (suffering from stiflingly hot Suffocation and worried about being dropped into alligator-infested Waters.) On their way!
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nickys
Premium Member
Well volunteered!
NormC
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10 person gondolas.
flynnibus
Premium Member
Don't you love it when people don't even gather the basics before going on and on about their conclusions?
Muffinpants
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why is no one talking about my worst fear with these gondolas... being stuck with 9 other people who can possibly start screaming about the heights the swaying... the potential odor from sweaty ppl in a box. I love gondola rides but im used to 2-4 people ones. Lets be honest here.. yes they fit 10 but even with my butt in there no way 10 ppl are fitting so its going to be more like 6-7 imo. Smell+screaming kids+ potential sway sickness of others.. now thats scary lol
Don't you love it when people don't even gather the basics before going on and on about their conclusions?
Since when as having facts to back your conclusions been of any concern?
Lots of people are talking about that. Pretty much every worst cast scenario has been covered in this post.
Movielover
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Movielover
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Have we gone Biblical yet? Every first born son that enters the gondolas will be killed!