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    News Disney Vacation Club Announces Expansion at The Villas at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa

    There are 202 ‘new’ resort studios in BPK v. 47 deluxe studios in the original VGF building, so I’ll take deluxe studios book faster for a $1,000 Alex.
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    Disney Genie and Genie+ at Walt Disney World

    Thanks for the correction, I think I confused IA$ w/ Genie+. There have been so many changes I need to start keeping notes, trying to plan our next trip is like trying to hit a moving target. in 2019 w/ FP+ we got up early once 60 days before arrival & scheduled 3 rides for each day at one park...
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    Disney Genie and Genie+ at Walt Disney World

    Ouch, so in that sense worse than any previous version of FP. W/ the one at a time machines at least if you started early enough you had a shot at skipping the line to reride a favorite later in the day & w/ the 3 FP system you could sometimes snag a favorite for a reride after you’d run through...
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    Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

    How do the J&J one and done folks get counted? My niece & her hubby live in PA and J&J was the first shot available to them, so that’s what they got. Rest of the family got Pfizer except me - I ended up w/ Moderna, I wasn’t thrilled @ the time w/ the extra week of waiting between doses (my...
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    Disney Genie and Genie+ at Walt Disney World

    You do realize that 7DMT is only available via IAS, thus your daily $15 Genie+ will never give you LL for 7DMT, you’ll either wait standby or pay IA$ to skip the line for 7DMT so no worries about the 7DMT Maxpass style (not-IAS) being gone at 7:00:08.
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    Disney Genie and Genie+ at Walt Disney World

    I survived and enjoyed the parks, but I enjoyed the parks more w/ my 3 FP+ already booked because the paper FP certainly did run out & for popular rides they ran out early & often. The other thing to remember is that back in the paper FP days attendance when I went - 10-11 days in early/mid Dec...
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    Disney Genie and Genie+ at Walt Disney World

    Perhaps long term, but in this transition phase a lot of people have already purchased their tickets to secure park reservations for the fall/holidays - I know my group did & I’m not happy that they dropped this bomb into the equation, particularly since there’s no option to add the G+ now. I’m...
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    Space 220

    Not sure I’d be happy to pay a hefty prix fixe tab and then get stuck at one of those inner/away from the faux windows tables. At least it’ll weed out the just ordering desert to check out the venue hordes.
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    Parent swap changes...

    Used to be rider swap returns had no time limits. So groups would hit the park early, collect several rider swaps to use much later in the day which when they did so swamped the FP lines. When Disney changed to time limited rider swap returns the wailing that ensued from the parents of toddlers...
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    News Early Theme Park Entry and Extended Evening Hours coming for resort guests

    I think the PP was referencing DVC’s tendency to ‘convert’ deluxe cash rooms to DVC villas, thereby reducing deluxe cash room inventory. They started w/ the 5th & 6th floors at AKL Jambo being converted to DVC, then several Poly long houses were removed from cash inventory to become DVC villas...
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    News Early Theme Park Entry and Extended Evening Hours coming for resort guests

    Finally they’ve found a way to fill up all those rooms/villas at SSR! Be aware that actually getting a DVC reservation is challenging right now because there are a lot of unused points from the 2020 canceled vacations that have to work through the system. The good neighbor hotels did not get...
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    Trouble in paradise officially?

    Limiting the time frame to ‘this year’ is odd, does that mean at some point before 12/31/2021, or does that mean at some time in the next 12 months? The raw numbers the article cites are useless as well. Just because twice as many making under $75000 are going v. those making over $75000 means...
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    Why Disney's Animal Kingdom doesn't have chimpanzees yet?

    Agreed, I know WDW participates in AZA’s species survival plan for Mt. Zebras, and one was born on Kilimanjaro safari just over a week ago. https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2021/05/disneys-animal-kingdom-theme-park-welcomes-baby-zebra-its-a-boy/ As for why no Chimpanzees, it’s hard to say...
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    Do we still need park reservations when back to full capacity??

    Yep, actually we’d start 6 months before w/ making our dinner ADRs trying to guess which parks would be open later or have evening EMHs based on historical trends & trying to predict which nights MK would close early for upcharge Christmas ‘parties.‘ Our preferred visit had us securing a.m. FPs...
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    Do we still need park reservations when back to full capacity??

    I wonder if the park pass system is pulling ticket revenue forward. In my case, although we have APs, family joining us do not & I suggested that they get their tickets now for our Dec. trip just to be sure they’d have access to the parks we wanted especially since they are staying offsite (we...
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