note2001
Well-Known Member
There are far too many posts focusing on the impact to their own experience here and not enough looking at the broader picture.
To appease F91Ex... yes, everything does boil down to money in Disney. Usually they're looking to save it (wouldn't you?)
Now for the rest. Imagine yourself as a Safety & Security analyst. Your job is to make recommendations for changes that will help to ensure 2 year olds do not wander into pools while their parent is taking a shower in a pool-level hotel room with a broken lock slider to the pool deck. Your job is to ensure that those three young 20-somethings who've just had a few drinks at the bar all get to return home from their vacation alive, and no one drowns while the other two turn their back on him. There are a million other scenarios one can come up with, not all involve "stupid people" but rather bad timing and opportunity for an issue to occur. Disney may shoot for a 10 in safety, but they know they'll never achieve it without destroying the guest experience so a balance has to be made.
So, we can no longer metaphorically ride the tailgate of the station wagon on our way down to the beach. Does that make the beach that much less fun? Maybe to a few, but not to most. So be it.
Disney is still to this day known as the safest environment to bring your family to on vacation. They're trying to keep it that way, and if their insurance premiums happen not to spike in the doing so, great.
Let's just hope that the new quiet/not-so-quiet pool will have beautiful, well themed fencing around it, and not the god awful mammoth sized, black gates they put in over at the main pool. I'm imagining a natural wooden look to the metal.
To appease F91Ex... yes, everything does boil down to money in Disney. Usually they're looking to save it (wouldn't you?)
Now for the rest. Imagine yourself as a Safety & Security analyst. Your job is to make recommendations for changes that will help to ensure 2 year olds do not wander into pools while their parent is taking a shower in a pool-level hotel room with a broken lock slider to the pool deck. Your job is to ensure that those three young 20-somethings who've just had a few drinks at the bar all get to return home from their vacation alive, and no one drowns while the other two turn their back on him. There are a million other scenarios one can come up with, not all involve "stupid people" but rather bad timing and opportunity for an issue to occur. Disney may shoot for a 10 in safety, but they know they'll never achieve it without destroying the guest experience so a balance has to be made.
So, we can no longer metaphorically ride the tailgate of the station wagon on our way down to the beach. Does that make the beach that much less fun? Maybe to a few, but not to most. So be it.
Disney is still to this day known as the safest environment to bring your family to on vacation. They're trying to keep it that way, and if their insurance premiums happen not to spike in the doing so, great.
Let's just hope that the new quiet/not-so-quiet pool will have beautiful, well themed fencing around it, and not the god awful mammoth sized, black gates they put in over at the main pool. I'm imagining a natural wooden look to the metal.
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