I just don't understand how anyone thought that anything based on Avatar was a good idea. It's too late now but STOP TRYING TO MAKE FETCH HAPPEN. IT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN!
It's like my friend who looked up the reddit numbers back in February:
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(It's) Because Avatar doesn't have a fan...
Funny thing is... when rooms are put out like that, it doesn't affect the occupancy % at all. Empty room is still an empty room. They are still in the inventory that can be sold if need be, they just fill out the rest of the hotel first before using the rooms that have been temporarily...
Means that you'll be able to use your MagicBand for Touch-to-Enter and the like and still keep your AP card for things like using your discounts until the system fully launches.
. I'm pretty sure the industry would have called them out on it a LONG time ago if they were advertising queens and they were actually fulls. You know, like the constant stream of; travel agents, AAA reps... you know, industry folks.
Juniors were always defaulted to having charging privileges during the check-in process in DPMS and in Lilo. This is not something new. I usually asked who the Guest wanted to have charging privileges whether a party member junior or not. It still does this and has for a very long time...
Key words that you just said... "test upcoming". It seems it was not this one.
Think about it, just using some common sense here (I know radical concept), you think the very first real test (from what everyone has been saying here) would be done with the media? It doesn't make sense.
If...
They no longer are allowed to redeem (through Will Call) or sell APs. A lot of it had to do with demographics not porting over the correct way. I haven't heard anything since then but we are still under the "no APs!" policy.
What people also don't realize is that when you are rolling out a major project like this, you have to pick and choose what you can and should not do in your initial rollouts. You don't just launch everything at once. APs are currently not included, no need to be offended. :D