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    News Disney's Magical Express to end after 2021

    Care to explain? My family and I have used it at least 50 times and never had one problem with it. Always on time, always a seat waiting, never a breakdown (for us), luggage always arrived at both ends on time. It was easy for a DVC member to book and DVC members paid for the privilege to use...
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    News Disney's Magical Express to end after 2021

    They still will be. You will just have to pay (a lot) for the service. This is a way for Disney to raise hotel prices without raising hotel prices. Oh, and they are still going to raise hotel prices.
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    News Disney's Magical Express to end after 2021

    Good. The more people that do this, the more incentive Disney will have to bring back the perks and add some new ones in there as well. I know I have an offsite stay coming up. Disney's hotels were too expensive and no good deals for passholders either.
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    News Disney's Magical Express to end after 2021

    Next will be the resort transportation. How many of you are old enough to remember these little pain in the butts. Yep, in the old days you had to pay daily to ride the transportation around Disney and that included the resort guests. For those naysayers who would have thought a year ago...
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    News Disney's Magical Express to end after 2021

    Disney's ME is the least of their problems. Did you miss the fact that it is expected that the highly profitable business passengers will probably never be returning?
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    News Disney's Magical Express to end after 2021

    The busses are not going anywhere. Parents will still be able to get their kids on a bus and will not have to deal with car seats. Same buses, same drivers, same operator just a lot more money.
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    News Disney's Magical Express to end after 2021

    I think your numbers are way way off. According to this article: https://www.liveabout.com/bus-cost-to-purchase-and-operate-2798845 It costs on the low end $100 per hour to run a diesel bus including labor. Those buses run 24 hours, but lets say on average they only run 12. Thats $438,000 per...
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    News Disney's Magical Express to end after 2021

    This is horrible news for guests, but great new for Mears and maybe rideshare and maybe rental car companies. For all those who say that Disney had a great thing by keeping guests captive. Most of the guests will still be captive. Mears provided shuttles to the resort before ME and will...
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    News Disney will be ending complimentary MagicBand distribution to Disney Resort hotel guests and moving to smart devices

    They don't even need to issue expensive bands to guests at the water park or anybody that says that the card is too much trouble. This is something that would be very inexpensive. Just a mini RFID card on a rubber band.
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    News Disney will be ending complimentary MagicBand distribution to Disney Resort hotel guests and moving to smart devices

    See my post above, you can still use a 7 year old magic band. A dead battery does not stop the magic band from working on almost everything.
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    News Disney will be ending complimentary MagicBand distribution to Disney Resort hotel guests and moving to smart devices

    I am sure that it has been stated here already, but Disney will offer you a free RFID card just like they would in the past. These cards work almost exactly like a magic band and are waterproof. You can put them in a lanyard or a wrist holder or pocket at the waterpark. No information is...
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    News Disney will be ending complimentary MagicBand distribution to Disney Resort hotel guests and moving to smart devices

    Facial recognition? This whole cell phone thing, in my opinion, is just a stop gap until the real (controversial) tech hits. I think Disney will eventually use a combination of facial and apparel recognition to ID you. They can do a decent scan facial scan when you walk in and at the same...
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    Shop in Store - Self Check Out via MyDisneyExperience

    This is great news. Those lines for checkout are stupid long. I can never figure out why it takes so long for a cast member to ring up 2 stuffed animals and a tee shirt. Oh I know, it's not the cast member causing the delay, it's the guest. How do I know this? Well because it only takes...
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    Rumor Higher Speed Rail from MCO to Disney World

    RDIC, of course. No need to spend Disney money when you can take out cheap government loans or grants for rail service. I'm pretty sure the parking garages at DS are RCID.
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    Rumor Higher Speed Rail from MCO to Disney World

    I wonder if this will bring an end to Magical Express? The whole point of ME was to keep you in the world with no rental car. This would effectively do the same thing. Disney could offer discount tickets for the ride, not free of course, and you still would be locked in at Disney. They would...
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    News Lucky Brand at Disney Springs to close

    I need context for this statement. How old are you now 30...50? How many years am I out of style walking around in my Lucky Jeans. Should I switch back to my parachute pants? Is it still Hammer time?
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    Rise increases capacity

    I hope this already hasn't been posted. But rise of the resistance has increased their capacity by putting dividers on the cars and in the pre-show. Hopefully this will increase guest's chances of getting a boarding group.
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    Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

    What do you think the odds are that it was a VIP tour guide that took the picture? When we were there last week there were cast members at the castle holding sigsn that said you had to keep your masks on for pictures. Plus there were announcements over the pa that stated masks on for pictures...
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    RV as a Vacation Investment For Disney and General Vacations

    I am going to be brutally honest in responding to this 10 day old thread and say that this sounds like a horrible idea. Anything thing you buy that is reasonable in price is going to break down at the worst possible time. Rvs are money pits just like that gently used boat I want. I do think...
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