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  1. CastAStone

    Riviera direct - poor experience so far

    It sounds like your guide got confused. If you don’t trust them you can call the main line and ask for a new one. If you got it in writing that they’d honor either pricing for 7 days, you should get it. But it sounds like you don’t need to? Typically there’s 4 pricing sheets per resort at any...
  2. CastAStone

    One time use points price reduction!

    The flipside, is that it’s also a price decrease for when Disney buys back a years points if you buy a new direct contract, making it an effective price increase in that scenario 😎
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    News Disney Lakeshore Lodge (Project 89 - Development near Fort Wilderness)

    I don’t see an update to that but I looked at the Aulani dues for 2023 and it’s based on 330 rooms, so another 3% of the resort has sold. I do think that as Aulani ages it will be less attractive as a purchase proposition just due to years remaining, but 🤷‍♂️. I would bet heavily on the over...
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    News Disney Lakeshore Lodge (Project 89 - Development near Fort Wilderness)

    Why wouldn’t you count Aulani, which is in its 14th year of sales, likely to have 38 more, and if anything is a screaming red flag of what happens when they spread themselves too thin?
  5. CastAStone

    DCL Buys Unfinished Mega Cruise Ship - Genting Golden Dream ???

    Carnival Dream Carnival Fantasy Carnival Magic Wonder of the Seas Adventure of the Seas Fits the pattern better than the other new ships.
  6. CastAStone

    Generic Glass Standalone DVC Tower at WDW

    I don’t remember anything like that. Was it recently? Like in the last 5 years? Reflections, a Disney Lakeside Lodge, a Disney Vacation Club Resort (its real name) was at one point planned for the space between Fort Wilderness and Wilderness Lodge but that was scrapped. It was mostly covered in...
  7. CastAStone

    How Would Disney Close a DVC Property?

    There is language allowing DVC to sell it, for example, if Hyatt wanted to buy it for their timeshare program. Vero also has an out for DVC to abandon it in its POS, I believe it’s on a 3 year cycle. I don’t recall ever seeing that in another resorts POS. What would happen in that scenario is...
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    News Destination D23 2023

    You just have to sit in the front row between a couple of squishy people.
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    News Destination D23 2023

    It’s not the best but I do think it’s better than people make it out to be. The Boneyard is an A+ playground. Restaurantosaurus is underrated and has free refills which is ⭐️ Dinosaur is indeed fun but needs piles of maintenance. TriceraTopSpin is the best of the 4 basically identical...
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    News Disneyland Magic Key Program

    Those have been on clearance on ShopDisney for a while, guess they still weren’t moving them.
  11. CastAStone

    News Disneyland Magic Key Program

    Disney’s lawyers to Bob Chapek on their privileged phone call after they got sued:
  12. CastAStone

    News Walt Disney World to eliminate self-service paper straws and plastic lids

    This is exactly my issue. When the plastic saves money vs the alternative Disney is all to happy to jump on it. When the plastic costs money vs the alternative then it’s bad for the environment. Let people have their dumb straws, make them out of paper or that weird green corn stuff, and go...
  13. CastAStone

    News Walt Disney World to eliminate self-service paper straws and plastic lids

    indeed. Here’s a good fact based summary on that topic. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/world/reusable-grocery-bags-cotton-plastic-scn/index.html As an environmentalist, I wish instead of focusing their efforts on very unpopular things that even if successful wouldn’t make a dent, people/...
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    News Walt Disney World to eliminate self-service paper straws and plastic lids

    If Disney wants to be pro-environment and reduce plastic waste they can start by improving the quality of their plastic merch so it doesn’t all break within 6 months. I’ve already thrown out both plastic tumblers I bought on my trip in January.
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    News Walt Disney World to eliminate self-service paper straws and plastic lids

    Planters for one tried to spin a glass to plastic conversion as pro-environment because the plastic was lighter and used less fuel to transport. But the glass was both recycled and recyclable while the plastic was virgin and effectively non-recycleable, like nearly all plastics people are told...
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    News Walt Disney World to eliminate self-service paper straws and plastic lids

    I will take this one. As an ardent environmentalist, I hate crap like this because its ratio of infuriating people to benefit is way off and turns people against the environmental movement, and makes it harder to rally support for things that actually matter a lot of the “environmental...
  17. CastAStone

    Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

    YES I thought I was losing my mind
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