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I have to admit, I don't really know what's an appropriate level of disability/difficulty for DAS. I have a family member who *hates* waiting in line, physically and mentally. It's at the point where we just skip a lot of his favorite rides completely because he just can't take it. He does...

Just another anecdote. Talked to an acquaintance who recently returned from DW. She said she had bought Genie+ thinking that there were two lines--the longer standby one and the short LL one. If you paid for Genie+, you got to use the shorter line. She was unhappily surprised to learn that...

Wow, there's even a queue for the website now. I mean, it works fine, and it's not a big deal, but wow, there's really a line for absolutely everything about WDW.

Thanks for the hotel recommendations but that wasn't really the point. It's less than two months out from a possible trip, but I'm locked out of a large number of properties because it's only a 5 day stay. I find that odd. Does Disney really feel that they're going to get a bunch of 7 day...

If there absolutely has to be a line skip, give everyone three and be done with it. No more adding new ones during the day, jockeying for drops, hovering over the phone, etc. Just three and out. Or two, if that's all the system can handle. Yes, some people would have an advantage at getting...

I think the point is that Genie+ engenders feelings of frustration and resentment. My son specifically told me he can't stand waiting in line when it's just standing. He says he can walk but not just stand there. I tried to get him to sit down on the ground or whatever, but a lot of times...

Ok, I figured y'all would know about this. But...it heavily discourages me from going to WDW for our little trip, since the available hotels are not great. (For instance, we can have Coronado Springs for over $1000/night or the value resorts, which my husband will not consider.) To be fair...

Just a minor anecdote, and maybe everyone else was already aware of this. I was just messing around with some dates in February for a possible short trip. At my first search I noticed that a ton of hotels were seemingly booked up. I was like, wow, maybe this is a really busy time and a lot of...

This is from the NYTimes... An 11 percent increase in profitability at Disney’s theme park division — despite weakness at Walt Disney World in Florida — allowed the company to salvage the quarter, to a degree. ... Growth at Disney’s theme park division came largely from overseas. A year ago...

It is a little funny because it often looks like Pooh doesn't really know what to do out there by himself. He doesn't really interact but sort of wanders around slowly, or....looks up a pole? We enjoyed seeing him but couldn't figure out what he was supposed to be doing.

I actually wrote a week ago that our trip wasn't that expensive compared to other trips, but that was a longer (10 day) stay. We had a cheap hotel room and ordered groceries, no alcohol, no Genie+, etc. so it wasn't bad. When I compared it to other 10-day trips, it was actually pretty...

That article isn't very informative, but I'd like to note that somehow a lot of contradictory things do seem to be true, just for different times/places/people and in different senses: 1. You need Genie+ to have a good experience, but the lines aren't bad 2. It feels like a madhouse of...

Personally, I think you're being a little deliberately blind if you don't think Genie+ is on a different level than just having different hotels, etc. And here we are on a board talking about fewer people at Disney. I don't think I'm wrong that a lot of people feel pretty unspecial watching...

I mean...no one's arguing that you couldn't buy your way to a better experience at Disney previously, but now it's very much in your face. Previously, once I was in the park no one knew that I was a poor (relatively speaking of course) schlub, but now it's kind of advertised. Can people really...

There is something particularly egregious about Genie+. When we went a few weeks ago, I didn't mention anything to my kids about how I felt about recent changes, because I wanted them to have a good experience. My son got pretty aggravated about watching all the Lightning Lane people stream in...

Hmm, it seems to me that if they really thought people would just use it casually, they don't know their parks or their audience very well (which is probably true). But if it really was designed to be used by 20% of the guests, why not raise the price until about 20% are using it? They seemed...

Is Genie+ that much better for spontaneity, though? A lot of people seem to have a pretty strict plan in place for what they'll try to get first, then second, and how/when to access it through the day. But because they can't always get what they want, they just end up sort of following the...

Yeah, their PR sense for the parks seems pretty miserable, but I think even they know that it would be a terrible idea to implement this change and then jack up the prices immediately. The internet headlines would write themselves. I'd give it at least a couple of weeks, and even then, it will...

Increasing hours would be a low-risk, relatively simple way to improve capacity. And yes, I know why they don't do it.

This sort of feels like that old restaurant joke. I asked for a steak and they brought me a slab of concrete....but at least the portion was large.