There seems to be two camps here so maybe I can help y'all find common ground. If NGE had been kept on budget and everything worked, everything you say would be true. It would be driving revenue growth, cost reduction, and guest satisfaction. The problem is, NGE is neither on budget nor functioning properly. Think of it like a movie. Spending an Avengers amount of money is fine, as long as you make Avengers level box office figures. NGE is the John Carter of the parks and resorts segment only on a much grander scale.
My opinion. NGE was not needed. What was needed was a scaled back amount of time one could book dining reservations. DDP eliminated altogether. Dining quality retained, and improved. Resort specific, park specific , and land specific souvenirs restored. I'm sure I went back to get something at Tomorrowland that wasn't to be had at DTD.
DTD, where is the Cruella apron I saw once at the kitchen goods store? At DLR, where is the Mickey Sci Fi lamp that I didn't pick up right away, I saw that looked like the Marvin The Martian lamp I eventually bought?
During Food & Wine...why no up priced prepacked groceries to buy after seeing that fabulous recipe you saw prepared by a Foodnetwork celeb to bring back to your kitchen equipped DVC? The variety among DVC groceries is laughable, mainly because they don't want you to cook in, they want you to book 180 days out at one of the on property restaurants....which you cannot do walk ups at anymore. The quality has gone down anyway, and you could burn a better dinner in your DVC.
Little Mermaid is a walk on at DCA anytime of the day, season or year, and after World Of Color let's out right in back of that show is the only time we wait 5 minutes. It has nothing to do with the quality of Mermaid, it is a people eater. Why the lines in FLA???
Magical Express, it takes up to 8 hours to get your luggage to your room. We get ours at the carousel, and drag it to the bus.
Hop De Doo, take a taxi back, otherwise every bar is closed by the time you get back by bus.
Bars close too early.
Um, hello, some of us are night people, we sleep in, we stay up late with nothing to do.We don't do rope drop. Haven't you heard of us????
Yes, we did pack formal dress for Al &Vic dropping hundreds for a fabulous meal, but there was no place to go afterwards.
We now get booze for exotic cocktails we can't get at the bars,that are usually closed by the time we get back from the parks anyway, and food offsite to cook fancy meals that would make the DisneyMoms horrified. They don't cook on vacation. Bless their little hearts. I guess quality goes out the window with them.
