It’s better then the old morning EMH situation, which is what I was comparing it to. Expanding the new EMH to be the blame for all those other things is a bit much.
It was the tiny carrot
It’s been in place for 6 months. I live in WI and have an AP guess what part of the year I cluster my trips (hint I don’t pine for HHH Florida summer weather.)
Understood.
I go 5 times when I get an AP, Oct, Dec, Jan/Feb, May, Sept/Oct then don’t go for two years (as I go to Universal or DLR instead.) However, I have far more vacation time then most and where I get an AP is not my most frequent destination let alone a majority of my travel during that year (it’s about 20%.). And yes I love my work schedule and am very fortunate to be able to travel as much as I do.
Oh, interesting. Sorry I'm ignorant to this, as I haven't been to the parks since this was introduced. How do they sort on-site from off-site? Do you have to scan a card/band to get onto the ride so they can verify an active on-site reservation?
Not for the rides usually, but to get past certain checkpoints.
Unless I missed something, you’re still a customer yourself, aren’t you?
Hanging on by a thread at this point.
with no magical express for those like you, how do you get to the parks? another grand for a rental car at mco? and, my last 2 trips as a dvc member have strictly been spent at the pool or on a golf course. next one in june we are probably going to universal. no longer will i pay for the high prices to get into the theme parks and then pay more just to get some of the good rides. i am old enough to remember the a through e tickets. spent all the e tickets on space mountain but that was back in the 70's. instead of this genie plus and lightning lane, they could have just gone back to that. in the end, it would have been cheaper. i will miss relaxing at epcot and the kilimanjaro safari though.
yes, we are. but we get a one bedroom dvc and cook in. we lounge by the pool and take a relaxing florida vacation usually in december to celebrate our anniversary and usuallly two other trips thoughout the year on months we have not been on before. with our annual pass, there was many times we would park hop all four parks in the same day. of course, good luck with that anymore. the promises made when we bought dvc are no longer the case. so we prefer not to add to bob the beancounters expanding profits. fortunately we have been dvc members long enough we can say "been there, done that". and also fortunately the dvc resale rates are enough to recoup our original expenditure on dvc. for now.
What promises were those? I'm DVC too and I'm not sure what you're talking about - the number of units, condition of the property, availability?
My guy grew up at Disneyland with his mom. Our first trip together to WDW was in 2000 where we saw Illuminations and Tapestry of Nations during their inaugural year.
I haven’t been since Magical Express ceased, and I will miss it. However there are at least two companies running coach transfers, including Mears who operated DME. And also taxis, ride shares and private hire companies who can get us from MCO to the resorts.
I did just that and felt the same way about it as the prior poster. Once I had to start booking my own transportation, I said oh well, might as well go for it. And we did. And Disney lost a big chunk of our budget. We're AP holders at Universal now. Looking at our next annual trip (just inside the 1 year mark) being most USO with maybe 1 day in the MK. The balance keeps shifting.
I don't discount that there is a big shift. Hell, I'm even a Uni passholder now and I hadn't been there for 20 years. However, I feel that cutting myself off from WDW would be cutting off my nose to spite my face. I'm one of those bad guys who is ok with the upcharges as long as I get what I want out of them.
In this hypothetical you're waiting for 12:30. It's in relation to the last one you booked.
