Lightning Lane at Walt Disney World

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James Alucobond

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Sirwalterraleigh said:
…should have went “sexy” and used mistral
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matt9112

matt9112

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thag
MansionButler84 said:
It’s a silly complaint. Every themed entertainment company clones. It would be foolish not to. I didn’t go to DL and say, “ugh, not another Big Thunder!”
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I think its the placement....it looks so wierd over there. Plus the capacity issue. The world has changed rides that work in other parks might not work in the worlds buisiest theme park.
 
matt9112

matt9112

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CaptainAmerica said:
Hotel availability is basically zero, but it's a complicated tale.

The rooms that are available are fully booked, but not all rooms are available. There are still entire hotels offline, and some of the hotels that are online don't have all of their rooms in inventory. Some people say this is a grand conspiracy because demand isn't there and Disney wants to convey the impression that they're full. Others say it's a COVID-driven labor shortage and that Disney can't get the staff to support opening everything now even if they wanted to.
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Its probably a little bit of both. They dont need to discount rooms as well as labor being so tight. They could just you know pay more. Thats what most people do when they cant find employees. Wait are they even disney employees? Or do they pull a marriot so they can say they pay x but all the house keepers dont make x because "third party"
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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Bob said:

Disney World's Expedition Everest closing for lengthy refurbishment in 2022​


"The rollercoaster will be closed from January 4 2022 until mid-April 2022. Unfortunately the closure will not see any improvements to the show, or a repair of the Yeti animatronic figure. Work will take place on the ride control system."

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It’s never gonna happen.

MansionButler84 said:
Absolutely. Capacity will make this very challenging to ride without paying $24 a person. Ugh. $96 for my family to ride a 60-second ride?
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So you need to NOT do it.
Economics isn’t that difficult 😉
 
monothingie

monothingie

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
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matt9112 said:
Its probably a little bit of both. They dont need to discount rooms as well as labor being so tight. They could just you know pay more. Thats what most people do when they cant find employees. Wait are they even disney employees? Or do they pull a marriot so they can say they pay x but all the house keepers dont make x because "third party"
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Disney has always played games with the inventory numbers to keep an artificially high occupancy rate. Starting the second week of August and continuing through present day (with the exception of Labor Day Weekend) occupancy rates have tumbled. But they're still covered under existing promotions that go through 9/25. Just like with the SWGE premiere debacle where they bet the barn that people would show, but didn't, they're doing the same or making the same mistakes again for 10/1. The question is, will 10/1 be a weeklong blip or a more sustained movement?

You can probably get a good idea of what's happening based on a hotel search for the week after, where there is wide open availability at all levels of resorts. The next blip is Jersey Week, followed by Thanksgiving and then Christmas.

The problem is, the decision makers at TDO and TWDC operate in their echo chamber where they can't hear anything besides them telling themselves how great they are. So just like with SWGE where there were some hasty discounts announced at the last minute, I would expect the same. The question is, do they do it before 10/1 or after.
 

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