fillerup
Well-Known Member
Today's AK experience:
Four blue circles of death at the entrance. "Is that the same finger you used last time?" "No Mr. Castmember, I'm obviously too stupid to remember which of my ten digits I've been using for the last ten years."
Yes, one of the IPad Brigade got me in after a couple of more minutes so for those of you wondering why this is any kind of big deal at all, here's the answer: This is merely the continuation of 10 months of failure since I got the RFID card. My entry point success rate is no more than 40%. I've been infinitely patient but it's wearing pretty thin at this point.
Wanted FPs for KS and the tipboard said they were available. FP+ kiosk behind the tipboard was closed so on to the next one. Very crowded park by the way. At the kiosk were two guests and six CMs, so no waiting. In spite of the tipboard, the terminal said only standby was available. Then a quick intervention by a CM who said she had a workaround.
She booked us both for Tough to be a Bug and then went back to change it. At 2:30pm she successfully changed my wife to KS at 3:35. Ten more minutes of fiddling, changing, cancelling, booking, and rebooking and otherwise wasting our time, she had no luck changing mine. She had an explanation for why she couldn't change mine that was so convoluted and nonsensical I won't even repeat it here.
The following conversation ensued:
CM - "Here's what you do, and you didn't hear this from us, just have your wife use her AP to get you in. They'll "almost always" let you both in on just one card."
Me - "What if they ask me to show my card as well? What then?"
CM - "They "usually" won't ask for both. So give it a try. But you didn't hear it from us. Just try to look innocent or confused or something."
(BTW - the above is exactly how the conversation occured.)
In the end, it worked, we entered FP queue on wife's reservation and all was well. The second checkpoint wasn't in use, just as we experienced in January. With a standby queue of an hour, we were on a truck in fewer than 10 minutes.
On another note, as I'd posted a few weeks ago, I took the time to stand and observe the EE FP return and saw the same thing I did a month ago.
Around 10% to 15% of guests were getting the Blue Circle (both Cards and MBs). None of them, and I mean none, were trying to argue the case that they had a valid reservation and should be let in, they simply turned around and left. Clearly these were people who didn't understand the system or simply wanted to test it. Not a big deal but it does add to the congestion and frustration for CMs.
That's all folks.....
Edit to add: Just making a point of observing as many guests as I could over a few hours, I have to say that MB usage has to be approaching 50% at this point.
Four blue circles of death at the entrance. "Is that the same finger you used last time?" "No Mr. Castmember, I'm obviously too stupid to remember which of my ten digits I've been using for the last ten years."
Yes, one of the IPad Brigade got me in after a couple of more minutes so for those of you wondering why this is any kind of big deal at all, here's the answer: This is merely the continuation of 10 months of failure since I got the RFID card. My entry point success rate is no more than 40%. I've been infinitely patient but it's wearing pretty thin at this point.
Wanted FPs for KS and the tipboard said they were available. FP+ kiosk behind the tipboard was closed so on to the next one. Very crowded park by the way. At the kiosk were two guests and six CMs, so no waiting. In spite of the tipboard, the terminal said only standby was available. Then a quick intervention by a CM who said she had a workaround.
She booked us both for Tough to be a Bug and then went back to change it. At 2:30pm she successfully changed my wife to KS at 3:35. Ten more minutes of fiddling, changing, cancelling, booking, and rebooking and otherwise wasting our time, she had no luck changing mine. She had an explanation for why she couldn't change mine that was so convoluted and nonsensical I won't even repeat it here.
The following conversation ensued:
CM - "Here's what you do, and you didn't hear this from us, just have your wife use her AP to get you in. They'll "almost always" let you both in on just one card."
Me - "What if they ask me to show my card as well? What then?"
CM - "They "usually" won't ask for both. So give it a try. But you didn't hear it from us. Just try to look innocent or confused or something."
(BTW - the above is exactly how the conversation occured.)
In the end, it worked, we entered FP queue on wife's reservation and all was well. The second checkpoint wasn't in use, just as we experienced in January. With a standby queue of an hour, we were on a truck in fewer than 10 minutes.
On another note, as I'd posted a few weeks ago, I took the time to stand and observe the EE FP return and saw the same thing I did a month ago.
Around 10% to 15% of guests were getting the Blue Circle (both Cards and MBs). None of them, and I mean none, were trying to argue the case that they had a valid reservation and should be let in, they simply turned around and left. Clearly these were people who didn't understand the system or simply wanted to test it. Not a big deal but it does add to the congestion and frustration for CMs.
That's all folks.....
Edit to add: Just making a point of observing as many guests as I could over a few hours, I have to say that MB usage has to be approaching 50% at this point.
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