JAB
Well-Known Member
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 the varying length of date-based tickets that would be necessary to do it the other way would be messy and a maintenance headache.I’m not an expert, I honestly have no idea how this will work and I hope there isn’t an obvious loophole to exploit. I was just thinking the easiest way to apply this for date based tickets would be to open the window 3 days before your ticket date and leave it open for the length of the ticket use window (which would be 14 days for a 10 day ticket). So if I buy a 10 day ticket with a date of August 4th then my booking window would open August 1st and be open for any of the 14 days from August 4th to August 18th (which are the days my park ticket is valid to use) but I would be limited to making reservations on 10 of those days. I don’t think it would be a fixed 14 day window for any length ticket, that was just my example based on a 10 day ticket. If the ticket is valid for less days the window would be less.
It also works to just open a 10 day window with a 10 day ticket and then each day extend it another day until you reach 14 days. That’s just slightly more of a hassle, not that they are likely to care much about that.
I agree that it's more of a hassle for those guests affected, but it's likely it's just not worth it to Disney to accommodate, and even if the expanding window weren't the simpler solution, I think Disney would still rather slightly inconvenience a subset of off-site guests than upset on-property guests.