Trip Report Shortest Retirement in History?

Justin Bieber lasted 2 weeks.

Tom Brady lasted 40 days.

I, Tuvalu, outlasted them both. Not by much, mind you. Yet if not for the encouragement of some forum friends - along with some unusual circumstances - you wouldn’t be reading this.

Unusual circumstances, you say?

Around Thanksgiving my beloved Woody learned his presence was required at a work conference. In Orlando. At Universal.
Just down the road from Walt Disney World.

Woody said I could accompany him if he drove (rather than flew) to Florida. And that we could leave a couple days early and have some Disney time together.

Well you don’t have to ask me twice!

I’d be on my own during the conference. Since the majority of Universal’s attractions don’t appeal to me, it didn’t make sense for me to buy Uni tickets when I could visit WDW for free with my AP. Being solo, I thought it might be fun to do a live trip report so y’all could be my virtual companions!

Turns out I won’t be alone while Woody is occupied after all. Some friends that you have seen in my previous TRs (and one you haven’t) have offered to play with me. I can’t wait!

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Tuvalu

Tuvalu

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Grumble time.

Yesterday was 7 days until our check in - meaning we were eligible to purchase Lightning Lane Multi Pass for our stay. While I dislike having to pay for something that used to be free (who does?), I was hopeful that advance booking would solve the issue I hated with Genie+ - not being able to choose the time we wanted to ride. (I also found the two hour rule limiting and confusing.)

With FP+ I loved entering a park with 3 booked attractions. I'm a planner and a rope-dropper so this system worked well for us. I (incorrectly) assumed LLMP would work the same way except now there's a cost. A cost that swings from $17 to $29 per person per day, depending on date and park.

Knowing that this upcoming trip won't be park-centric, I decided to buy LLMP for the park with the worst waits (for us) - DHS. Because we are APs and still need park reservations (don't get me started on those!) I'd booked our parks months ago. We arrive on Sunday and DHS was booked for Monday.

I decided our Tier 1 choice would be Slinky Dog, with Toy Story Mania and Alien Swirling Saucers as Tier 2. At 7 am I was in the app, selected my choices and was stunned to see all three attractions with return times of after 4 pm. The app holds the attraction/time for 5 minutes if you want to modify times (before paying), but I had been given the earliest return times. Modifying to morning was not an option. And I wasn't going to pay for LLMP with my given times and then try to modify them day-of (I've read there are same day "time drops" for attractions) because we'd be back at the resort by early afternoon.

Frustrated, I decided to check DHS availability for days later in our trip. It wasn't until day 7 (our last park day) that I was given morning return times for my three choices. I booked and paid (also booking Lightning Lane Single Pass for Rise), only somewhat satisfied that I'd gotten what I wanted - but not until our last vacation day. Another item of note is that our park reservation for that day was MK and the system allowed me to book LLMP for DHS anyway. (Of course I then had to go online and switch the MK reservation to DHS. :banghead:)

Will be interesting to see how LLMP works in real time. I'll be posting the result!
 
93boomer

93boomer

Premium Member
Tuvalu said:
m&ms GIF by M&M's Middle East's Middle East

Grumble time.

Yesterday was 7 days until our check in - meaning we were eligible to purchase Lightning Lane Multi Pass for our stay. While I dislike having to pay for something that used to be free (who does?), I was hopeful that advance booking would solve the issue I hated with Genie+ - not being able to choose the time we wanted to ride. (I also found the two hour rule limiting and confusing.)

With FP+ I loved entering a park with 3 booked attractions. I'm a planner and a rope-dropper so this system worked well for us. I (incorrectly) assumed LLMP would work the same way except now there's a cost. A cost that swings from $17 to $29 per person per day, depending on date and park.

Knowing that this upcoming trip won't be park-centric, I decided to buy LLMP for the park with the worst waits (for us) - DHS. Because we are APs and still need park reservations (don't get me started on those!) I'd booked our parks months ago. We arrive on Sunday and DHS was booked for Monday.

I decided our Tier 1 choice would be Slinky Dog, with Toy Story Mania and Alien Swirling Saucers as Tier 2. At 7 am I was in the app, selected my choices and was stunned to see all three attractions with return times of after 4 pm. The app holds the attraction/time for 5 minutes if you want to modify times (before paying), but I had been given the earliest return times. Modifying to morning was not an option. And I wasn't going to pay for LLMP with my given times and then try to modify them day-of (I've read there are same day "time drops" for attractions) because we'd be back at the resort by early afternoon.

Frustrated, I decided to check DHS availability for days later in our trip. It wasn't until day 7 (our last park day) that I was given morning return times for my three choices. I booked and paid (also booking Lightning Lane Single Pass for Rise), only somewhat satisfied that I'd gotten what I wanted - but not until our last vacation day. Another item of note is that our park reservation for that day was MK and the system allowed me to book LLMP for DHS anyway. (Of course I then had to go online and switch the MK reservation to DHS. :banghead:)

Will be interesting to see how LLMP works in real time. I'll be posting the result!
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Ohh I’m not looking forward to doing this in Sept. It sounds complicated.
I’m glad that you are figuring it out, hopefully.
Good luck!! I can’t wait to see how it works.
 
TheMouseFan

TheMouseFan

Well-Known Member
Tuvalu said:
m&ms GIF by M&M's Middle East's Middle East

Grumble time.

Yesterday was 7 days until our check in - meaning we were eligible to purchase Lightning Lane Multi Pass for our stay. While I dislike having to pay for something that used to be free (who does?), I was hopeful that advance booking would solve the issue I hated with Genie+ - not being able to choose the time we wanted to ride. (I also found the two hour rule limiting and confusing.)

With FP+ I loved entering a park with 3 booked attractions. I'm a planner and a rope-dropper so this system worked well for us. I (incorrectly) assumed LLMP would work the same way except now there's a cost. A cost that swings from $17 to $29 per person per day, depending on date and park.

Knowing that this upcoming trip won't be park-centric, I decided to buy LLMP for the park with the worst waits (for us) - DHS. Because we are APs and still need park reservations (don't get me started on those!) I'd booked our parks months ago. We arrive on Sunday and DHS was booked for Monday.

I decided our Tier 1 choice would be Slinky Dog, with Toy Story Mania and Alien Swirling Saucers as Tier 2. At 7 am I was in the app, selected my choices and was stunned to see all three attractions with return times of after 4 pm. The app holds the attraction/time for 5 minutes if you want to modify times (before paying), but I had been given the earliest return times. Modifying to morning was not an option. And I wasn't going to pay for LLMP with my given times and then try to modify them day-of (I've read there are same day "time drops" for attractions) because we'd be back at the resort by early afternoon.

Frustrated, I decided to check DHS availability for days later in our trip. It wasn't until day 7 (our last park day) that I was given morning return times for my three choices. I booked and paid (also booking Lightning Lane Single Pass for Rise), only somewhat satisfied that I'd gotten what I wanted - but not until our last vacation day. Another item of note is that our park reservation for that day was MK and the system allowed me to book LLMP for DHS anyway. (Of course I then had to go online and switch the MK reservation to DHS. :banghead:)

Will be interesting to see how LLMP works in real time. I'll be posting the result!
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This is what I am worried about for our December trip since we will only be in each park for 1 day and are limited on what days since there are Christmas parties and Jollywood nights. I'm not sure I will be purchasing at all other than an ILL for Guardians.
 

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