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News Cost Cutting Measures Coming Early 2025
- Thread starter ptaylor
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I just got back 3 days ago. I am of course going to Epic. It will be up to my wife if we stop at Disney on that trip.
Tha Realest
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We’re going in less than 60 days. Every restaurant within our various windows (split stays before and after a cruise) had availability with the exception of the only one we wanted (Boathouse for dinner). No park visits, unless you include free water park as a park visit.
Laketravis
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Just checked availability for tomorrow, party of 4 - it's wide open all day long with only a handful not available (Space, etc).
And on an MLK weekend.
Laketravis
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But think of the added LL sales opportunities!
Chi84
Premium Member
Apologies if you already know this but did you try OpenTable for Boathouse?
JoeCamel
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Dang, I forgot to do the math, my bad
Tha Realest
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I did not! Thank you! Booked!
Fido Chuckwagon
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We are at the parks 4-6 time per year for around 7 days each trip and do multiple TS restaurants each trip. I just got back from a 13 day trip over Christmas/New Years, and we leave for a 9 night trip on February 8th. In 2024 we were there for 41 days over 6 trips. We are there a lot.
To be fair, some of that was also at Universal as we have AP’s for both parks, and we had Sea World Fun Cards one year.
In any event, over the 18 trips we’ve been to WDW since July of 2021 (only went twice that year, stupid Covid) the recent trend has been towards the parks, restaurants, etc being noticeably less crowded, especially in the last 6-12 months.
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Ayla
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Wait a sec...is that Gwen from Downton Abbey?!
Chi84
Premium Member
We don’t visit nearly as much so it’s possible we don’t see as much difference.
When we went for a week in early November we didn’t notice much difference in how many people were in the parks or restaurants. The restaurants and resort pools were pretty full.
But we did notice that we were seated more quickly than usual and the buses were not as crowded. So I don’t doubt attendance is down.
mysto
Well-Known Member
Gif shows Rose Leslie playing Ygritte in Game of Thrones. Stunning. But yes I guess she played Gwen.
Ayla
Well-Known Member
That would explain how she married Kit Harrington. LOL I did not watch Game of Thrones.
Fido Chuckwagon
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So, lets set the odds:
1. Quiet/unannounced cancellation of Villains Land: 80 percent;
2. Cancellation of Cars Area, but only after they fill in ROA leaving an empty lot: 50 percent;
3. Cancellation of Monster Inc Land but only after they shut down Muppets: 40 percent;
4. Only half of new Tropical Americas gets done leaving Dinosaur behind unchanged: 70 percent;
5. None of Tropical Americas gets done, Dinosaur remains, rest of the land remains closed off indefinitely: 50 percent.
Thoughts? Other projections?
1. Quiet/unannounced cancellation of Villains Land: 80 percent;
2. Cancellation of Cars Area, but only after they fill in ROA leaving an empty lot: 50 percent;
3. Cancellation of Monster Inc Land but only after they shut down Muppets: 40 percent;
4. Only half of new Tropical Americas gets done leaving Dinosaur behind unchanged: 70 percent;
5. None of Tropical Americas gets done, Dinosaur remains, rest of the land remains closed off indefinitely: 50 percent.
Thoughts? Other projections?
Tha Realest
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I am having trouble with the idea of this massive expansion “Beyond Big Thunder” when they are watching dwindling attendance and can’t / won’t keep the Seas Pavilion open an entire day.
Hmm. Can see cancellation of Cars. Do they do so before they pass point of no return with ROA?
Seems the second most likeliest behind Villains cancelation.
I think they move forward with Encanto. Indy seems like it would be an easy switch out. But if they hit a recession / big losses in parks, who knows?
SSE will never be touched, one day it will no longer be able to operate safely, and it’ll stay unused until one day we’re watching some YT video where they share their astonishment that “Did you know that big ball in EPCOT used to house an entire ride?”
But... but... Bob and Hugh said "$60 BILLION" and "expansion" during a quarterly meeting!!!!11!! They can't lie!!! (looks at 4 new cruise ships alone potentially taking 10% of that. Plus many other projects around the world...)
Personally, I think 1 of those hits, and a second gets a "shave". Which ones? I'll leave that to everyone's imagination.
GhostHost1000
Premium Member
Including all those new DVC resorts for the new mob of fans
Chi84
Premium Member
Just the same old thing about how bad Disney is now.
Jrb1979
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The parks themselves are still great. It's cuts and all the nickel and diming that's hard to get past. Its great a lot of you can look past but our family can't.