That's exactly how the people who hated FP+ made it sound when you had to get up early - once, and not in the midst of your vacation - to make your choices. People always make the things they don't want to do sound like a death march.
So address the people making that claim? I didn't
Rolling availability may help even the playing field for late-risers, but it's ultimately not helping the average guest. What matters is not what time of day the passes sell out, but rather how many you're able to secure before they do. Ultimately, the average G+ user will end up with the same number of LLs regardless of what time of day they are made available.
Right, that's the part a lot of people preferred to the current system. It wasn't that hard - certainly not a death march.
Right, increasing park hours is basically the easiest way to actually increase daily ride capacity, which of course translates to more LL capacity too. It's bad enough that they won't go the hard route of building more and higher-capacity attractions to compensate for higher crowds, but it's even more egregious that park hours have also actually trended downward.
Well, better for the guests.
Construction work at the Disney hotels that will disturb guests is generally allowed to start at 9:00 AM because a large portion of guests are no longer at the hotel.
The parks will rarely be open late for regular guests anymore. At MK you have party nights and the other parks stay open for Deluxe guests.
That's also part of the thing a lot of people hated about the previous system. As @flynnibus said, you had to basically be prepared with your entire itinerary, wake up at a potentially awkward time based on your timezone, make all of your plans at once with no ability to take weather or other conditions that would require powers of prognostication into account, and still potentially be out of luck due to others being able to book things before you based on different lengths of stay.
We do that every trip but have never wasted our money.
Exactly why FP+ worked so well for us. Instead of wearing ourselves out trying to do everything in a single day at the MK, we “fast pass plussed” the headliners over three days with all return times in the evening. Leaving us free earlier in the day to do other parks, or the pool, or (gasp) even sleep in a bit. We wouldn’t even arrive at the MK until at least 5 or 6pm and we enjoyed several shorter but far more pleasant evenings. Plus Disney got more of our money because we would stay more days than if we tried to pack everything in to a shorter trip.
That's was really never a difficult thing to do (for me); FP+ worked great for my family and the way we vacation. But I was never so arrogant as to think what was right for me was right for everyone. People here had me convinced that FP+ was not a good system for a lot of people so I figured it was only fair for Disney to accommodate them.
To be fair, you wouldn't know people liked anything if you just went by social media.
I think it's bigger crowds and increased % of guests being aware of Genie+ and buying itWe look at it the way we did back in the paper fastpass days.
Either you make the choice to get up and rope-drop (run for fast passes) or you sleep in and just be happy with what's left. We would do both on those trips and be happy with both choices.
I have to say in October it didn't seem to be the issue it is now? We didn't even buy ILLs for everyday and had a lot of choices for Genie no matter what time we woke up. I guess it's gotten worse.
I would be happy with allowing resort guests to have the option to purchase (because that's how it is now) their ILLs in advance - maybe 30 days. Less pressure while on the actual vacation. Yes, I'm favoring resort guests.
That is Disney's doing, they push it like it is a must have and people are buying. Wait until they really use it.....
. They seem to do this...just for you!