Too much inventory being removed before the day even starts. If they wanted to do something like that I would imagine they would have to use the prebooking time frame as the hook:
Technically, they're not wrong. There are no direct flights from abroad landing on WDW property. It's still pre-arrival on the bus from MCO to their resort.
I can see it for a lot of people. I could likely spend the entire day sitting in the monsters area but the rest doesn't do much for me.
Not onsite guests who don’t want to wake our kids before 8AM.
A re-themed Tiana ride plus Shrek and Kung Fu Panda aren’t moving the needle?
2025 should be Epic for sure….make sure to book your lightning lanes in advance 
Our first casualty will either be our HS day or will be combining IOA and USF into a park hopper day, depending on whether Epic needs a second day we’ll probably end up with 3-4 days at Disney and 2-3 at Uni… 10 years ago that would have been 6 days at WDW.
Indeed. But even on the bus on the first day of the resort stay, they've lost that 7-day head start that domestic visitors have had.Technically, they're not wrong. There are no direct flights from abroad landing on WDW property. One can plan all their rides while on the bus from MCO to their resort.
Joking aside, it's lame their canned response is just nitpicking about semantics instead of addressing the actual point.
For sure. It makes that benefit of staying at a Disney resort moot for international guests.
I'll trade your health care system for being able to prebook a week out.
Let’s not get too carried away now.
My thoughts… the pattern right now seems to be that the most popular rides have availability but it is often later in the day. The less popular rides have more immediate availability. I feel like that’s going to be the same now. The Tier 1 rides are the most popular so it seems to me it’ll be the same dilemma of better ride later vs lesser ride now. Although with character meetings being removed, lesser rides could go faster just due to having fewer options.
For some yes but a lot do 14 days plus meaning they will still be on equal footing for the second week. Not what anyone wants to hear I know but unless there is a legal issue I tend to think Disney will eventually allow it by either updating the app or putting together some other work around.
They could just add in the ILL attractions to LL options to have more choices and then raise the price of it. That would also less complicate things (single pass vs multi pass which doesn’t include the single pass which is just dumb sounding)
I agree but then they couldn’t double dip, it would leave a lot of money on the table. Why make $25 per person when you can fleece them for $50 per person. (Ignoring the fact many will reduce other spending as a result of LL and ILL).
What an abysmal reply. I'll email them shortly and tell them exactly what I think - I'm sure I'll get the same stock reply but it is totally unacceptable that international resort guests will have to pay exactly the same for Genie+ as USA guests but will have significantly less choice and in some cases no option to book certain rides. The more I think about it the more I find the behaviour of Disney on this absolutely dreadful. I'm determined to enjoy my holiday regardless but Jesus this has left a sour taste.
I think that’s an example, not an exception. I remember Space and Thunder were bad about only running one side. I haven’t seen that recently but it sounds like others have.
A lot of the times I went this past year it was only running one side