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I never said it did. My contention with FP+ has always been with its impact on standby wait times. There is no denying that a fully saturated fastpass queue has a significant upward impact on the corresponding standby queue. Lets also not forget that WDW has modularized its attraction capacity...

Well stated! The 2-line system really pushed standby waits higher and higher whenever there were more fastpasses distributed than the attraction could handle - and this happened ALOT more in recent years.

Yes exactly. The problem with fastpass is that everyone has access to it. It's not an advantage or a value-added feature at this point.

Ahh, Thanks for that. Your links clear it up... So taking you're bucket idea, is this what you're thinking? That there would be a base number of FPs for everyone, and then the genie users and paid users get a certain number of additional? Kinda like: Bucket A (Genie guests) - X + Y...

I might be a little behind on the vernacular. What do you mean by Genie guests? I thought this Genie thing was just a new name for the MDE app on your smartphone (I presume Im wrong?)

This is probably going to be a hugely unpopular opinion..... ...but I *strongly* welcome the idea of a premium/paid fastpass (maxpass) system. We've all debated the drawbacks of FP+ ad nauseam...I've been of the opinion that the system has been an abject failure for several years. The end...

I believe the ships need to go out ever so often to collect sea water (which they turn into potable water)...

Wow. I had no idea. Is it because of COVID or future world (de)construction?

How long has it been closed for?

I laughed out loud heartily when I read this. Then I paused and got a little concerned you were telling the truth. Great to find WDW fans on twitter to fill my feed. Just followed you!

So wait....(and forgive me for being so late to the party on this).... ....these barges are going to be permanent fixtures out in the lagoon?

LOL! Great point! I'm about 12-15 years removed from needing car seats, so forgive my ignorance in that respect. I clearly didn't factor that into this. That being said, the families I was referring to in my above post are just as removed from car seats. Their calculus is literally being...

I do. without knowing the details of WDWs contract with Mears, I suspect the pricing structure is a combination of fixed/base and variable costs. Like a flat rate plus an increased factor for each passenger or bus that goes from MCO to WDW and back. Perhaps, due to covid, the reduced number...

Thats certainly part of the calculus as well....and those families are free to make such a decision. However, what I was referring to was the knee-jerk reaction that the loss of DME immediately destroyed the value of staying on property - without any calculations of the cost of rental cars...

You'd be surprised. I personally know of several families that have hard-shifted their planning in light of this. They, flat out, will stop considering on-property lodging after 1/1/22, knee jerking out an assertion that losing DME makes on-property lodging no longer worth the extra cost...

This! Management agendas drive survey steering. Like I said, it's been done for as long as I've been taking these surveys.

Responses in guest surveys have been restricted for as long as I've been taking them. That's a fact....and there have been plenty of scenarios where parks management does not want certain answers, so those answers are not provided as choices. We're talking about a company that has sabotaged a...

With respect, Disney guest satisfaction surveys haven't been actual surveys in over 10 years. The questions are targeted and the response choices are limited. They're designed to do nothing but feed a confirmation bias maintained by Disney management...nothing else. Has anyone taken a guest...

With respect, this isn't a clear description of how depreciation is used in business accounting. Modern accrual accounting requires a matching of expenses and revenues within the period - and depreciation is a necessary component of that. Depreciation allows you to spread out the cost of an...

Forgive me for asking this question - as I don't think I fully understand the requirements of the licensing agreement between OLC and TWDC - but how does WDW and DLR announcing a retheming of Splash impact the splash at TDL? Is the OLC required to retheme as well, under the agreement?