I agree on not splitting up. I think most families will be fine with splitting up for a few hours or maybe a day, but multiple days and nights seems much less likely. IMHO, Its more likely that if a family with 3 small kids and a grandma is going to WDW they would just skip this experience instead of paying for half the people to go and not really use it. Maybe try it on a later trip without granny and/or when the kids get older or maybe just mom and dad for a quick several day getaway.
2 days is way to long to ask a family member to “suck it up” and go with what the majority is doing. Making your 10 year old son go to a princess character meal for an hour is pretty standard if it’s a mixed group, but multiple days and nights isn’t fair or right to do...and that’s not even taking into account the thousands of dollars you would literally be wasting. Will some people do that anyway, sure. Will the majority of guests, no way. Especially not when you are paying $1K+ per person.
There is the problem. You can’t assume this will be “just like any other resort.” That was not the original intent of this project.
We don’t yet know specifics about what they will actually build and open. At this point all that we can go by is what the original intent was.
Actually, I CAN see families splitting up their time so that the family members who really want to will have a chance to experience it while the rest of the family stays elsewhere and does their own thing...especially when you consider that for many families, paying for everyone to do this who isn't really into it isn't a viable option.
I think it is going to be extremely hard to get a room in this resort...therefore it will weed most of those people out. This does not have to be targeted towards families. They can fill this if done right with another segment of the population.
I can only speak to the money side of it. We're not paying $1000 for anyone in my family to go who is not going to try to be into it! Mrs. "Who's Yoda?" Lensman will not be going unless she gets with the program. So until this is resolved, no one will be going.
I think that the fact that we have had multiple people with polar opposite opinions posting in the past few hours about whether they would split their party or bring the hypothetical “Star Wars hating granny” with them proves this isn’t a straw man argument. Many people travel to WDW with extended families and people of varying ages and interests. This is a very real issue Disney needs to consider and I’m sure they have a plan or at the very least a team working on a plan. A lot of it comes down t how they market it.
You are probably correct based on past history at WDW but I am giving it the benefit of the doubt that maybe this will be different. I honestly believe that people bringing babies and toddlers should be discouraged (I know Disney will never ban it completely because of PR). Everything doesn’t have to be for toddlers and if the place is clogged up with mega strollers and 3 year olds looking for autographs it will take away from other guest’s experience. I say this as a parent of 2 kids who were toddlers not so long ago. When my kids were toddlers they would have been more than happy with the SW meet and greets and rides in the parks. (This is where someone posts how their special snowflake was so into Star Wars at 18 months and would love to go to a place like this). I know by posting this I’m making a generalization and there are exceptions but on average this type of experience is really not for the preschool and under crowd...the vast majority of WDW is so they aren’t hurting for stuff to do.
