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It's not fair, and it's going to lose them on-property hotel bookings and LL sales which is why I'm leaning toward it being some regulatory issue because Disney really wants to take your money if they can.

We obviously don't know how it will work yet, but from a development standpoint, dropping tier restrictions system-wide at a specific time (whether that's 7am or at park open) is the simplest solution and therefore the most likely IMO. Checking to see if someone's used a pre-booked LL every...

Yes you can book for the length of your ticket starting 3 days before your ticket start date. The rest gets a little complicated because we don't know how on-property split stays will be treated yet, but your 4 days off-site would cancel out the difference between the 3 and 7 day booking...

These are some of the unanswered questions we're all interested to find out. The 7-day window is tied to your on-property hotel stay, not your ticket. The window starts 7 days before your check-in date. For off-site guests with date-based tickets the 3-day window starts 3 days before the date...

I could see that happening, since you purchase by day, so some people might only purchase LL-MP for days that they can pre-book 3 attractions that they wanted. Some might even balk altogether if what they want isn't available for their first day. This might be especially true for those who...

IIRC, in the days of FP+ pre-booking fewer than 3 was definitely a valid strategy, since you had to use everything you pre-booked. With LL-MP only requiring you to use 1 and potentially allowing you to modify day-of, I will be interested to see if there is any difference strategy-wise between...

All 3 of your pre-booked LL must be at one park. However, once you use your first pre-booked LL, as long as you have park hopper tickets, you can book another at any park with no tier restrictions. It's possible, since there are no tier restrictions when getting LL day-of, but there are still...

They pay for it, and they can reserve 3 Coke products 7 days before their scheduled delivery. On the day of delivery, once they've used up one of those reserved Coke products, they can then choose one more Coke product from whatever the delivery truck still has available. 😏

IIRC, FP+ treated completely on-property split stays as a single combined reservation, and treated on/off-property combos as separate on-property and off-property bookings. However, the way I understand it, the dining reservation system currently treats any split stays as separate reservations...

I understand the frustration. I know I'd be fuming at first, even though I understand the reasons why they chose to do a clean switchover. Then, when I'd cooled off, I'd spend the next month obsessively putting together a LL plan for the whole trip so I'd be ready to go, and pray to the Flying...

From a development standpoint, the daily expanding window is actually the simpler (and cheaper) implementation since they've already implemented it before with FP+, it allows both on and off-property booking window calculations to share code, and keeping track of all the valid date ranges for...

It's going to be a mad dash for LL on the 24th. :eek: At least for the people aware of the switch. There's probably going to be even more people who are just confused as to why they can't buy Genie+. 😏

No. The end of the booking window could just be extended by one day to {current date + 3 + length of ticket} each day at 7 am (with a max date of 14 days from the ticket start). So each day you'd be able to book one more day past the initial length of ticket days. This is similar to how FP+...

That's a big assumption.

That wouldn't happen because off-property guests only have a 14 day window if they have 14-day tickets. Off-property guests with date based tickets can only book the number of days they have tickets for, starting from the start date of their tickets, so on Aug. 1, someone with a 4-day ticket...

I'm with you on that. Our last trip we did rope drop to close most days, and between G+ and mobile order I was on my phone less than 15 minutes total for each day. A couple of minutes at 7 AM, and then for a minute or two once every two hours (if that). For a 9 AM - 9 PM park day, that's 98% of...

Yep. You don't even have to wait until you've used all 3 of your pre-booked LL. After you tap in to your first pre-booked LL, you're free to make your next selection from the available LL at any park (as long as you have a park hopper ticket for that day).

My post was more about the unintended psychological effect of categorizing attractions (i.e. the Country Bears Effect) causing uninformed guests to assume higher-category attractions are "better," and not about any intentional psychology in Disney's implementation of tiers.

That was the FP+ dilemma as well. Book too early, and you waste selections on walk-ons; book too late, and you lose out on availability.

You may be right; I'm still dusting the cobwebs off of my old FP+ planning knowledge. The psychology of attraction tiers just seemed like it might give a reason their could be lower T1 availability day-of. I'm really curious to see what happens when the actual usage data starts rolling in...