DisneyKidds
<font color=green>The TF thanks DisneyKidds for mo
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- Mar 30, 2001
I think we are of a similar mind regarding G+ but I gotta say…..this post baffles me.I've never understood this comment. You had to pick three rides that you wanted to ride. You literally had to plan about 30 minutes of your day between 30-60 days in advance. Not your entire day by any stretch of the imagination. Are you really telling me that when you go to Magic Kingdom you couldn't thing of three rides you wanted to do? And not only that - you could modify them.
Now however, you have to plan what park you want to go to months in advance. And you have to be up at 7am if you want to book your choice of ride. Before, when I planned - I was done. Now you have to continually look for your next ride and plan your day around what time it give you. And don't bother to say "well - you don't have to do that". Because you didn't have to do it before anyway. And don't try the "well - the best rides were taken". Well - now you have to pay extra for them and the ones you can get you could get easily under FP+.
The only thing it does that I think has value to many is that they can purchase two of the top rides and not have to worry about them selling out. But your primary argument about having to plan your entire day under FP+ is really just nonsense.
For starters, to plan your “30 minutes a day in the MK” 60 days in advance you had to, you know, plan that you were going to be in the MK. While it wasn’t a park reservation, per se, it was darn near the equivalent. Ok, so 60 days out you had to decide which parks you’d be in which days to make your FP+ reservations. Oh, but it wasn’t that simple, no. Will you be park hopping any of those days? Better figure that in. Oh, and then you needed to worry about ADRs before you book those FP+. Honestly, a lot more went into planning under FP+….pretty much your entire day….than your hyperbole here let’s on.
Don’t get me wrong, I long for FP+ over G+, I think. Not that it matters a whit. While G+ will allow you to avoid pre-planning ride times months in advance, you still need to plan your days months in advance to make park reservations and ADRs. In that regard….the more things change the more they stay the same, as they say. With FP+ you chose 3 guaranteed rides, in advance, for which you picked your times, then in park FPs, and you had it for free. Under Genie you can pick your times to guarantee 2 rides, but you do it day of, and you can make other ride reservations starting at 7am day of. However, it comes with a $40 ($15 G+ plus up to $25 ILL$) per day per person price tag. That’s a big change.
Oh, and because Disney is ingraining in cast members that monetizing every aspect of the Disney experience is of paramount importance those cast members now tell little kids to go scratch in circumstances where they would otherwise have created a truly Magical moment for the kid in the past. Disney Magic vs. Disney “Magic”. That’s a big change, too…..
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