Miscellaneous Tokyo Thoughts

[J4546]

Oh no, people wearing Disney shirts at a Disney park, can you imagine?!?!?

im not complaining, i just think its funny

 

[Kevin_W]

That said, it's not as if Disney's building hotels to their old standard.

The Fantasy Springs Hotel is no MiraCosta.

I was at TDS last week and really enjoyed wandering the Fantasy Springs area. I'd read the complaints about the hotel, but thought to myself that it looked pretty nice and I really liked the fountains and stonework.

Then I walked back to the front of the park and saw Mira Costa over the harbor and remembered what the standard for an in-park hotel had been. Mira Costa is amazing and doesn't eve look like a hotel, just part of the Mediteranean waterfront.

 

[Kevin_W]

I was there late June 2025 and tried to exit via Fantasy Springs to get to the Sheraton. Was told no, only Fantasy Springs Hotel guests and Toy Story Hotel guests could enter and exit this way. Ridiculous as it turned a 5 minute walk back to my hotel unto a 45 minute the across the entire park plus monorail loop.

I was curious about this. I googled that the 6 partner hotels near Bayside station have a total of 4100 rooms. At 80% double occupancy that would be 6560 people riding the monorail at $2USD each to return to their hotel room. Let's say half of those went to TDR and half to TDS, so opening the gate would cost >2MM per year in lost revenue from the monorail.

(That said, I would happily swipe my IC card and pay the $2 anyway just to walk out that gate.)

 

[CosmicDuck]

I was curious about this. I googled that the 6 partner hotels near Bayside station have a total of 4100 rooms. At 80% double occupancy that would be 6560 people riding the monorail at $2USD each to return to their hotel room. Let's say half of those went to TDR and half to TDS, so opening the gate would cost >2MM per year in lost revenue from the monorail.

(That said, I would happily swipe my IC card and pay the $2 anyway just to walk out that gate.)

I don't think the monorail revenue is why they're not allowing it. If I had to guess it was initially an OPs issue that has now turned into a small hotel incentive.

But I'm guessing it's still just an OPs issue they are being lazy about addressing to account for the increased traffic through those gates so they're keeping the system as is. But I'm not a TDR native so the others here may have actual insight.

 

[PiratesMansion]

I don't think the monorail revenue is why they're not allowing it. If I had to guess it was initially an OPs issue that has now turned into a small hotel incentive.

But I'm guessing it's still just an OPs issue they are being lazy about addressing to account for the increased traffic through those gates so they're keeping the system as is. But I'm not a TDR native so the others here may have actual insight.

I don't think it's anything more complicated than OLC set a rule and will not bend it.

 

[AxolotlTales]

New Ursula face and body debuted at TDL for "Into the Frenzy".