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News Disney Park Pass System announced for Walt Disney World theme park reservations
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ToTBellHop
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Should be. There’s currently a separate bucket. They should continue separating them from locals or off-site.
Disney Glimpses
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Unfortunately, this is not a given, though it should be. At the very minimum, there should be a DVC specific AP that can only be used when there is a linked stay paid with points (which would be reservation exempt). I don't understand why they haven't done this already.
NotCalledBob
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This is roughly the Paris system.
If you have a resort + ticket package you are good to go. No reservations required.
That is what I would bring in at WDW. Guests staying on property would no longer have to make reservations.
They must have rough data on how many people from each resort are likely to visit each park on any given day. Depending on occupancy levels. If they don't it's easy enough for them to get.
It would also be a cheap and easy resort perk for them to give, as they are short on those at the moment.
If you have a resort + ticket package you are good to go. No reservations required.
That is what I would bring in at WDW. Guests staying on property would no longer have to make reservations.
They must have rough data on how many people from each resort are likely to visit each park on any given day. Depending on occupancy levels. If they don't it's easy enough for them to get.
It would also be a cheap and easy resort perk for them to give, as they are short on those at the moment.
JoeCamel
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What if all resort guests go to the same park? Like if something big opens
NotCalledBob
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I guess they could bring in a 'special event' reservation system. Say first week of Tron opening for MK. Christmas. NYE.
As long as it was well advertised. An email system reminding guests they need to make reservations that week for MK would be enough? Plus prompts on MDE?
It would certainly be better for resort guests to have to make occasional bookings for these few things. Than all the time like they do now.
As long as it was well advertised. An email system reminding guests they need to make reservations that week for MK would be enough? Plus prompts on MDE?
It would certainly be better for resort guests to have to make occasional bookings for these few things. Than all the time like they do now.
"Rough data"? They should have ridiculously specific data.
Wasn't that a major part of what MM+ was all about? Combine that with park reservation data and they should know how long it takes the average guest to tie their shoe let alone which park they frequent and when, why, etc.
Patcheslee
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They also have Genie data to pull from now as well since you pick a park before planning. Wonder what percentage of guests use the feature prior to visiting and lead time.
mattpeto
Well-Known Member
I do think the ability to pre-purchase Genie+ for a specific park (at a variable price) and day will likely be a prerequisite to eliminate park pass reservations for resort guests.
RememberWhen
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That’s an interesting thought. Currently can you buy Genie+ and have LL scheduled in two parks? Say, have a park reservation for Epcot, but make your LL in both Epcot and DHS so you can hop later?
mattpeto
Well-Known Member
Good point.
At the very least, they can continue enforcing the no LL selection at the 2nd park until the return time is past 2 pm.
The same thing that happened for 40+ years: nothing of note
Patcheslee
Well-Known Member
There's still the free genie that Disney has been pushing. I wouldn't care much for Genie+ to be variable depending on park, there are enough variables as is. First park ticket day, then which park, then hopper which is also variable by day, then thrown in Genie+ and ILL daily variable already. Push it to park specific, and just more clutter to deal with.
ToTBellHop
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They use probability just like they did before COVID.
Disney Glimpses
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They will just throttle AP access. That's basically what will likely end up happening: APs being given whatever inventory is leftover from vacationers.
IMO while excluding “resort guests with APs” from Park Pass reservations during their stay might be a challenge for the ever-infamous “Disney IT”, here’s an idea for a potential compromise:
Allow APs staying on-site to book a special “any park” reservation for their visit, and have that reservation also bypass park hopping restrictions.
They already allow AP resort guests to book from a dedicated inventory bucket, so they’d theoretically be able to re-use some of that functionality to support this.
Best-case scenario would be for those park reservations to be made automatically, but that would likely be trickier to implement.
Allow APs staying on-site to book a special “any park” reservation for their visit, and have that reservation also bypass park hopping restrictions.
They already allow AP resort guests to book from a dedicated inventory bucket, so they’d theoretically be able to re-use some of that functionality to support this.
Best-case scenario would be for those park reservations to be made automatically, but that would likely be trickier to implement.
CntrlFlPete
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20% would get to experience the new shinny thing, 60% won't find anything worth waiting for so they will ride nothing.
kgoose23
Active Member
Can't agree with this more. I actually got a passholder survey yesterday and the difference between an out of state/DVC AP holder vs what the traditional local AP holder does was a constant theme in my feedback.
One surprising thing about today’s updates is the fact that WDW’s park hopping time is staying at 2pm while DLR’s is moving to 11am (from 1pm which already was earlier).
What gives? They can’t at least move it to 1pm at WDW also? It seems odd that they keep hanging on to such a late park hopping time.
What gives? They can’t at least move it to 1pm at WDW also? It seems odd that they keep hanging on to such a late park hopping time.
EricsBiscuit
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Two words: crowd manipulation