You mean that UK visitors will no longer be able to purchase hotel packages and tickets in advance either? I'm due to pay my balance for my forthcoming trip, how on earth can I do that if they can't accept international payments any more?
I'm just guessing here, but to do that, the app would need to add all of the complexity of currency exchange, tax and consumer law from every single country they made it available to be purchased from. If you make the transaction in the US, they just use the local tax law and your credit card does the currency exchange on the back end. It doesn't mean they could not do it in the future, but adding that functionality introduces a lot more complexity to the transaction that would likely have delayed the rollout (just a guess).
Doesn't Disney ALREADY do it for Cruise?
You can book through the UK website because the Walt Disney Travel Company is registered in the UK.
Yeah, harassing the call center agents who have no control over this and are only implementing policy is a great way to treat them.
It will be interesting to see if this is self regulating, most people will stop entering a standby line when it reaches a certain point (60 mins for example) so my guess is most people will stop buying LL when they see the rides they want aren’t available also.
DCL must have registered, I guess. I don’t know if I can book directly with DCL, or whether there’s a UK section.
Nah, it’s definitely possible for someone to be happy with this change when compared to genie+ service while still finding issue with many other things.
What about this is better than Genie+?
Did I say harass?
I wonder how this will be priced. Will have have to commit to the multi-park option in advance or will they do away with that? Right now, Epcot, for example, is cheaper, so I wonder if we will have to decide to purchase it for Epcot or Multi-park in advance or if you will just purchase it for Epcot, and the fact that you also have park hopping privileges will allow for the 4th (and later) LL to be in another park.
I think it’s an indication of how horribly many viewed Genie, this is still a major downgrade from FP and FP+ but is being viewed as a major upgrade from Genie.
The price goes up and the availability of individual rides continues to disappear until eventually nobody is willing to buy. That’s how it will work most times of year. The exception may be extreme crowd weeks.
They still need to let us prebook though. From what they’re saying they are deliberately geo-fencing the app.
Harrassing and 'badgering' are essentially the same thing to the call center agent.
This is extremely important and everyone ignores it when they compare lines under one system versus lines on another system.
No, they're not going to surge price within a day.
We liked those kind of options back in the FP+ days. Like Epcot with limited number of FP attractions, we’d often choose Illuminations viewing area as our 4th FP early in the day. That satisfied us and also cut us out our access to FP inventory the rest of that day. Win Win.
