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If a certain room type is completely booked out, then the room search results will still show that type of room but instead of a price quote it will have the message "This room type is unavailable for the dates, party size or offer selected." If you're not seeing a standard view in the list with...

If you go back in time to just before the apocalypse, all evidence of your time meddling gets wiped out by the apocalypse. History doesn't notice, which means there's no problem. Otherwise, you risk causing some kind of temporal disturbance, which leads to you being arrested by Owen Wilson and...

I'm sort of the opposite - I'm neutral on the Avatar film but actively dislike Harry Potter (and no I'm not going to explain why), so for me, it's Pandora by default. But really, if there was a third choice on this poll, my vote would go to "Other: Pandora, except it was Beastly Kingdom All...

Given unlimited time and money with which to work, I'd design a hybrid thrill ride and video game attraction for Tomorrowland. The experience begins in a brand new modern arcade building (which would be an actual functioning arcade), where in the back of the building, a themed elevator takes...

I agree that DHS has a far more cohesive theme now than it did before as the "you in the movies" land, and I'd like to see that trend continue. There's a lot of potential in an Indyland, expanding TSL to Pixarland, Muppetsland, and Yesterdayland (e.g. the Nostalgia Zone.) I could do without...

There is, generally speaking, only one place in all of Walt Disney World that I believe would be strictly improved by being bulldozed and paved over into an empty lot. This is because the Tomorrowland Speedway is literally a blight on the Magic Kingdom whose existence makes everything around it...

The issue there, then, isn't that half the trains are going to the airport but that the same number of trains overall exist in the system. Sunrail's current schedule is weekday only, running every half hour during its peak periods (southbound departures from the terminal between 5~8 AM and...

Is this actually true? In order for this to be true, with a pessimistic assumption that Rise can only handle 700 riders an hour (this is taking the lowest hourly capacity number of 1100 that I've found in brief searching and then taking 400 more off to represent a similarly pessimistic estimate...

My takeaway from this is that Sunrail wouldn't procure or operate additional trainsets to cover the airport extension if it was done as a through service to the existing line. Is that correct?

Oh, and on the subject of government funding: Brightline is and has been agitating to get funding from the most recent infrastructure package as part of the $80 billion pool for national rail investments. (It's this or a future package of its nature that I would expect to fund Sunrail phase 3.)...

To be clear, I'm not questioning that bilevels are necessary or desirable. What I am questioning is why that model of bilevel in particular. MARC in Maryland and the MBTA in Massachusetts (and I believe SEPTA also? And maybe others...) have bilevel coaches with level boarding at high platforms...

Sunrail and Tri-Rail are both currently using bilevel cars with their doors on the lower level, which is unfortunately incompatible with Brightline's raised platforms. Arguably the real answer here is to plan for converting Sunrail and Tri-Rail to use single-level coaches and then raise all the...

At the risk of straying too far off-topic, I think the development forecasting around Deseret Ranch as described in that link is a little too blue-sky and unlikely to materialize in 60 years when there's still far more development opportunity to be had in more centrally located segments of the...

Thank you very much! I'm always excited for the opportunity to have polite discussions on these kinds of topics. There's been a few major points brought up since my last post, and I apologize if I miss anybody here. On MCO being/staying the region's transportation hub: This is indeed more or...

"ESPN Zone" is definitely a big positive step compared to what's there now, although I'd honestly rather see them build up attractions in/at Wide World of Sports. WWoS feels very underutilized and also very isolated from the rest of the property - going all in on the 'you experience the pro...

Here's the thing about intercity railroads: the attractiveness of riding one goes way down when it dumps you out at the end with no way to actually get to your final destination. Amtrak's allegedly high-speed rail offering between New York City and Washington, DC (which cannot actually be called...

Yeah, this is the crux of why I actually like Park Pass even as someone who prefers to pick a park day of based on whatever mood strikes me - if there's something going on that I wasn't aware of and one of the parks is crush loaded, I'd much rather find that out in my hotel room or living room...

On the subject of Park Passes, the latest capacity bump has gone a long way towards trivializing them. I could reserve any park I want to go to today, right now at 9:35 AM, with no issue if I have an Annual Pass and only the Magic Kingdom is closed to me if I have a day-of ticket. (I have...

The Park Pass system has nothing to do with it since it is possible to add in a requirement to reserve the park you wish to hop to - something the language on WDW's website warns may be implemented at any time at their discretion (and which I would expect to see implemented alongside an...

Yeah, I think it's ultimately too large a liability risk - the safety risk is unfounded and the only thing actually threatened by walkers is Disney's legal team (and possibly its security team.) Very unfortunate in any case.