EU is going to eat more into the other Universal Parks then it will the Disney parks. And don't think Universal won't leverage the demand to attend a new park with new rides into increased costs.
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News Disney Park Pass System announced for Walt Disney World theme park reservations
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UNCgolf
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How dare you. Only Disney is a business.
Patcheslee
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How does hopping work with days like today when all reservations are showing gone? Do they still open hopping, or does it automatically mean no hopping?
gerarar
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Hopping is still allowed after 2pm unless specified otherwise in MDE.
The 2 PM time frame comes from the data. Around that time, attendance starts dropping at all parks until it hits a 4 PM low. So, WDW allows hopping at that time because more people will be leaving than arriving.
That wasn’t my point. Of course they will raise the price. But I keep hearing from everyone Universal overall now is a better experience than Disney. If that doesn’t change and with a new park coming? It will absolutely eat in to Disneys business. People will say why would I pay $500 a night to stay there and deal with park reservations, Genie+, lightning lanes, things still not back after the pandemic, when I go stay at Universal hotels for less and not deal with this crap!
Again, if they get their act together this may not happen (and it might not happen anyway), but it very well could.
pdude81
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I think it'll eat into Universal's number for 6-12 months ahead of the park opening, but then a big increase and eat more into Disney's base once it opens. Pure speculation on my part, and I guess that depends on what or whether WDW is getting around the same time. So far it seems like nothing.
I doubt you've heard from everyone.
CJR
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Why would you want it to? If you're at a busy park and see another one is slower - what are the odds it's MK or DHS? It's possible, I suppose, but I'd think it'd be more common for people with a DHS reservation and wanted to go over to Epcot or DAK instead.
Sirwalterraleigh
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Sirwalterraleigh
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ToTBellHop
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CJR
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That's the point. If one park is busier, wouldn't it bring balance if they went to a park that wasn't? It's a very easy solution, IMO. All it takes is the wave of a wand and you could go from being overwhelmed at DHS to strolling the World Showcase at EPCOT.
mightynine
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Sirwalterraleigh
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CntrlFlPete
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I cannot speak to numbers -- it has been my experience that the parks are crowded -- walkways tend to be rather crowded -- truly seems like there is not enough to do -- restaurants always seem to have room but no availability so they do not appear to be running optimally at the moment -- we had plans to be in the studios today, was hearing it has been very busy -- I expected it to be worse than what it felt like to me (but we did stuff like eat, shop, walk around) -- one thing I did hear in passing was someone mention that the ILL for RotR was gone by 7:03 -- I know Polk county was out of school today (so those kids have a four day weekend) and northern areas have started having breaks at their schools -- but here is a pic from this afternoon:
CJR
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I'm not suggesting anything, you can already change your park if there's availability at the park you want to visit. I've done it myself.
I booked Magic Kingdom once. On the day I was supposed to visit, I looked at the wait times before entering and saw that it had longer lines than normal, so before I got to the park, I changed my reservation to EPCOT, which had significantly shorter wait times. No issues getting into EPCOT and we had a great day.
EDIT: To do this, you just go to "Modify Reservation" and you should be able to change it to any other available park. This option may need you to use a browser, not the app. I don't see the option on the app. You can also cancel your reservation and make a new one entirely, although, the modify reservation feature exists so that way you don't have to do that.
However, I believe if I didn't initially change my reservation and walked into Magic Kingdom, didn't have a good time due to the crowds, all I would probably have to do is talk to guest services and if EPCOT was still available to reserve for other guests, they would probably be kind enough to let me go to EPCOT. That's at the discretion of the CM - always be nice if that answer is "no", but in my experience, it never hurts to ask if that's what you want.
This only would work if you could reserve the park "today" (the day of). I very frequently reserve parks on the day of with no issues. You just have to do it before you tap the turnstile. I usually reserve right before I leave home. Of course, this week coming up wouldn't work out too well for that - but - it's the exception rather than the rule.
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correcaminos
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It also coincidentally kept people from hopping to DHS or Epcot for VQs if they didn't get the park that morning.
mickeyfan202
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Wow! I learn so much here. I usually don't post because I have no information or knowledge. But I appreciate you and everyone here for helping me to understand so many things.
Sirwalterraleigh
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I don’t know their angles for certain…but I can take guesses from past experiences. I’m just saying that could be an angle.