MadderAdder
Well-Known Member
Agreed. Much prefer a half hour at all four parks over one hour at one. Ideally an hour ahead at all four parks would be best.. but
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News Early Theme Park Entry and Extended Evening Hours coming for resort guests
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Ayla
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I'm curious how you think it increases flexibility. The park reservation system and no park hopping until 2pm lock you into one park, at least until after lunch.
DisneyDreamer08
Well-Known Member
I am really happy that early entry is sticking around. Even though the 30 minutes is really only good to get a jump on one, maybe two rides, I think the biggest benefit is that if you don’t want to pay for an ILL, early entry is the perfect way to knock it out with minimal waiting.
doctornick
Well-Known Member
If you wanted to use morning EMH, you had to do a specific park on a specific day. Current Early Entry allows a person to go to any park any day of the week to use it. When deciding what park you want to do, you can do any and utilize it.
Also, for resort guests (who are the ones who can use Early Entry), park reservations are pretty much open and able to be changed on the fly most days, aren’t they?
Then its a race to be the first in the parks.
Disney tried that with Galaxy's Edge and it was not a happy time for a significant group of people: Those who lost the fast-fingers race and Disney's Customer's Reps dealing with problems.
DHS had a crush of people at the gates waiting to get in. That's why the fast-fingers race was moved to way before the parks open in people's homes/hotels.
pdude81
Well-Known Member
Selection after ticket scans worked pretty well Maxpass before VQ, but the thing was that maxpass wasn't heavily used by the AP crowd out west, and there are many more attractions. I do like the ability to pick one in the morning before I head out, and perhaps they can split the difference and select one ILL and one G+ up to a week in advance, but the rest would revert to 120 minute windows after park opening.
GoofGoof
Premium Member
Basically go back to FP+ where you got 3 advance reservations a day and then could use more on the day of if available.
Isn’t that how it works today? Would the change just be allowing more than 1 reservation at a time?
It starts at 7 AM for onsite folks. People are having to set their alarms for 6:55 AM every day of their vacation. Nobody should be surprised that's not popular.
GoofGoof
Premium Member
Yeah that isn’t ideal. The problem with waiting to scan in is you get lines of people waiting to get in and book. I think the only way to avoid it is to open the reservations in advance. 30-60 days or something.
It seems to work fine that way at DLR.
CaptainAmerica
Premium Member
You only need to book your first reservation at 7am if you want an early return time.
You only need an early return time if you're getting to the park early.
If you're getting to the park early, you need to be up by 7am anyways.
If you're not getting to the park until noon, sleep as late as you want and book your first reservation then. There's no rush to get an early LL if you're not going to be in the park early enough to use it.
buckeyegator
Well-Known Member
why not resort based hours? 30 minutes early for value, 30 both early and late for moderate, 30 early and 60 late for deluxe/dvc?
GoofGoof
Premium Member
Yeah max pass always worked ok out there and I enjoyed it when I visited but it’s a different crowd. You don’t get people camped out at the doors as much and locals with APs didn’t pay for it as much either. They also had a lot more rides available. Outside of MK capacity is a huge problem at WDW. If you don’t get there at or near rope drop the top rides will book up fast. With advance reservations you didn’t have to get up for rope drop for a park like AK or even DHS.
StarshipDisney
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Man, I hope so. That would be absolutely wonderful! The hang with this "must buy and use on the same day" crap. That is what greatly contributed to the disaster we had in December. Genie+ was nothing but a constant everyday irritation.
If you want to maximize the amount of attractions you get on for the day it's best to make a LL at 7 am even if your not getting to the parks until later. This way, the 120 minute clock begins and you can make another LL sooner.
You may not need to get up right at 7 am depending on what time you plan on getting to the parks, but you'd still need to get up early.
I'd bet most families with children who are paying $80 or more for Genie+ for the day are gonna want to get the most bang for their buck which would basically require getting up early. And to be clear, I'm not against it. I'm an early riser, especially at WDW.
CaptainAmerica
Premium Member
That is not correct.
The 120 minute clock doesn't start until the park opens, no matter how far in advance of park open you make your first rez.
You're correct. And now that you mention it, I recall how many times I've forgotten that on our trips lol.
Thanks for the clarification!
G00fyDad
Well-Known Member
I thought they were already doing that.
Jrb1979
Well-Known Member
They didn't say that. All they said was they were having some kind of pre-booking available.