Is attendance really down at WDW this or…

Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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Parker in NYC said:
Pretty sure WDW Pro or Valiant Renegade or Jesse Kelly said it was one of the slowest Christmas seasons ever. Failed bigly.
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…ummm…
LSLS said:
Slowest Christmas season can still be busy. There was a time it was almost unmanageable.
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…yeah…I was wondering how this one wasn’t obvious?

There are 11 hotels with availability from 12/27-1/2
 
Tha Realest

Tha Realest

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networkpro said:
Crowding can be deceptive when you try to correlate it with attendance. If the capacity of attractions and dining is constrained by anything (staffing, downtime, construction, capacity, Genie+) guests will be out in the pathways.
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I can’t imagine why posted wait times would intentionally look daunting when the same company that controls those levers is selling a perceived respite for $39/person.
 
build_it

build_it

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Jenny72 said:
Just a minor anecdote, and maybe everyone else was already aware of this.

I was just messing around with some dates in February for a possible short trip. At my first search I noticed that a ton of hotels were seemingly booked up. I was like, wow, maybe this is a really busy time and a lot of people are booking again. But then I started adding dates to either end of the trip to bring it closer to a week, and suddenly a bunch of hotels showed availability. So it can't be that they were booked, since I didn't shift dates but instead extended the trip. It makes it hard to know how busy things really are. But what's the deal with not being able to stay at (for example) Carribean Beach unless we go for 6+ days?

(For what it's worth, now that I've seen the prices, we're almost definitely not going to go anyway. We must have gotten a killer deal last summer because everything is much more than double what we paid. At the time I was wondering why everyone said the hotel prices were too high, but now I see what you mean.)
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I just checked the Dolphin - 2 days (2/12 to 2/14) and it was around $350/night. I would check out the Swan, Dolphin, and Swan Reserve and see if any dates work there. Even with resort fees, would still beat some other options and would still be in the bubble.
 
Jenny72

Jenny72

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Thanks for the hotel recommendations but that wasn't really the point. It's less than two months out from a possible trip, but I'm locked out of a large number of properties because it's only a 5 day stay. I find that odd. Does Disney really feel that they're going to get a bunch of 7 day stays at this late date, or would they rather not have my money because I'm not staying those two days? I don't fully get it. I could understand it if I were booking a year out, but shouldn't they want to fill in some of the gaps at this point? Maybe they figure it's cheaper to just not staff the hotel?
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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Splash4eva said:
Is this some type of punishment for you to be there this time of year? ;) lol
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Honestly…the “crowded” times suck less - due to longer hours and no silly upsells at night - than a lot of the “slower times

“Hey…I’m from New Jersey and we’ll go on a four day weekend…nobody will think of that!”
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“Hey…it will be empty in January”
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“Hey…it would be awesome to go during Halloween and people are in school!”
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It’s all been done…it’s like when spaceball 1 went to Ludacris Speed at this point…it just looks stupid
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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Nice out tonight
 

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