It's a very long story. But the long and short is we have had to push our trip because of a serious illness back in 2018. Then Covid hit and we had to cancel the next two years. Then we got hit again with a major illness and had to cancel our 2022 trip that we had already booked. So this was literally a trip that was planned over 6yrs ago.
For me the issue is diminished quality. Even for folks like me who can afford higher prices, would be pleased by lower crowds, and is fine visiting infrequently…I’m really turned off by downgrades in experience caused by lack of investment in maintenance, employees, cleaning, streetsmophere, etc. Like I just don’t want to buy the product even if it were discounted to meet some value equilibrium with its state of investment
So you are the pent up demand
Personally it doesn't help to have them announce Genie+ changes coming next year, with no clue if they will be positive or negative. We're holding off booking until more information is available.
Exactly why we didn't go this year, and not going next year. Steak house price for burger joint quality.
And speaking of food, the quality of food certainly feels that way at the vast majority of restaurants.
We had Captain Cooks very early on in the Covid era. After a few months the burgers now taste comparable to school lunchroom quality, whereas they were relatively decent before
No, they are THE MAGIC!
Speaking for myself, I learned to just eat QS and expect it to taste like theme park food. It's less disappointing that way. My TS days are over.
That's because 99% of the people on here, are here for walt Disney world. Personally, Disney gets zero credit from me, not that anyone at Disney cares, for building anything in any overseas park. WDW is severely lacking in capacity and a frozen land overseas won't help better the experience here. I don't think people will change their tune until Disney makes a real effort in the Florida Parks.
We find TS hit or miss, I’d say we still get pretty good quality TS at most Epcot restaurants, at Liberty tree at MK, at PrimeTime at HS, etc but we have noticed a pretty big decline at a lot of the others. We don’t even bother with dinner at AK anymore, we always go to DS for dinner on AK night.
For me the issue is diminished quality. Even for folks like me who can afford higher prices, would be pleased by lower crowds, and is fine visiting infrequently…I’m really turned off by downgrades in experience caused by lack of investment in maintenance, employees, cleaning, streetsmophere, etc. Like I just don’t want to buy the product even if it were discounted to meet some value equilibrium with its state of investment
You nailed it. The QS meals are not edible any more. I am DVC and have been for 12 years. We go 2 or three times a year. Early on, we would get the Meal plan and eat most of our meals at the parks/resorts. The last 3 years, we order from one of the services and get groceries to last our trip. Eat breakfast in the room, take lunches with us to the parks, and dinners are either back at the room or off property. We may in a 8 day trip, have one or 2 table service and are very careful where we go as so few actually give you a quality meal. I have no problem paying top dollar if the food is good. By the way, if at AK try Tiffens, one of the few top quality restaurants in any of the parks.
