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Disney's Princess Half Marathon Weekend
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Surferboy567
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Uh…every Princess race both virtual and in person has turned to “registration opening soon”.
pdude81
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Surferboy567
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Everything just reverted back
the.dreamfinder
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Are they letting people cancel their registrations?
Rteetz
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For MW they allowed people to cancel and receive a gift card refund.
DznyGrlSD
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I would assume on an ICB right now since we're still 6 weeks out from race weekend. Don't expect a refund, expect a gift card sans the registration fees if they offer it.
Hopefully the UF model predicting Florida will have peaked by mid-February is accurate.
Question for you. Are the new security measures going to be in place for every race weekend? I don't mind the walk to the staging area - warmup, duh - but want to make sure I'm on the 1st bus from my resort so I don't have to hoof it to my start group.
surfsupdon
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The walk through Epcot security scanners simplified the entire bag check process and did feel better knowing that everyone was getting scanned/checked.
I hope the new security check route stays in place.
It’s also fun walking by the finish line you’ll be crossing in just a few hours!!!
I hope the new security check route stays in place.
It’s also fun walking by the finish line you’ll be crossing in just a few hours!!!
DznyGrlSD
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most likely they will use the scanners going forward. It's clunky (for now) but way more efficient (except for the extra walking)Hopefully the UF model predicting Florida will have peaked by mid-February is accurate.
Question for you. Are the new security measures going to be in place for every race weekend? I don't mind the walk to the staging area - warmup, duh - but want to make sure I'm on the 1st bus from my resort so I don't have to hoof it to my start group.
pdude81
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Did the buses drop off on Sat and Sun out by Epcot and only pick up near the bag check area? It looked to me like there were some buses there when I did bag drop and I just assumed they were dropping off. Maybe just for spectator travel
DznyGrlSD
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I was nowhere near that area on Saturday or Sunday - all busses should have dropped off at the EPCOT bus loop.
pdude81
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Ok, thanks. That makes sense. When I saw buses that early I just assumed they were drop-off buses. More than likely they were just bringing back family members who were headed to their hotels.
Texas84
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IMO, it was worth the extra walking.
The additional walking wasn't that big of a deal to me, but it sure would be great if they could figure out a way to temporarily place 1-2 of those scanners at the normal race entrance.
I'm not suggesting that they move them back and forth from the Epcot entrance, but with as many events that Disney hosts, (some with high profile guests, some without), you'd think there would be enough uses to justify the cost of buying a scanner or two that could be moved to temporary locations when needed.
Given that scanners have been moved from various locations at park entrances, I'm sure they can.
I gather there was quite a long line at Epcot's entrance when 15,000 runners showed up within minutes of each other? There are only 2 of the Evolv contactless scanners at Epcot entrance, if I remember - one for guests with strollers and one for guests without.
Rteetz
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It was a headache 5K day because I think they didn’t work out the kinks yet and there were massive lines. I think they figured things out tho because it got much better the rest of the weekend.
DznyGrlSD
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glad to hear this. I was working near the monorail station 5k morning and from what i hear they only had ONE scanner open at 1st then they opened up 2.
Rteetz
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Yeah I was not pleased 5K morning with the new set up but I am glad they seemed to figure out that they needed more after that day because it was a non-issue after.