Meaning paid attractions- RoTR and MMRR?Even the paid lighting lane?
Meaning paid attractions- RoTR and MMRR?Even the paid lighting lane?
Yes, only onsite can purchase ILL (which is the paid individual rides) at 7am. Offsite cannot purchase until park open.Meaning paid attractions- RoTR and MMRR?
$45 per person would not be enough. Universal is in the upper end of the $300's during busy times. Slow times it's still $70+ per person but during slow times you don't need the express pass. WDW would have to charge $400+ per person for unlimited passes otherwise everyone would purchase it, making the LL useless.I think #2 would be the way to go to actually make it usable. Saddly making it cost more but guarantee available rides all day would make it worth it. 45$ a person per day multiple rides ok. And that might be even too little to get a balance.
I agree that $45 wouldn't be enough, but $400 feels like an overshoot.$45 per person would not be enough. Universal is in the upper end of the $300's during busy times. Slow times it's still $70+ per person but during slow times you don't need the express pass. WDW would have to charge $400+ per person for unlimited passes otherwise everyone would purchase it, making the LL useless.
I agree that $45 wouldn't be enough, but $400 feels like an overshoot.
If I understand it correctly, at Universal, you pay for the pass by the day and it is only good at the two main parks (not the water park). The express pass would be expensive, but not COMPLETELY out of reach for a family of 4 during a typically-priced time (wherever that falls). You'd have two, maybe three, park days and can reasonably expect to ride/see most everything. Does that sound right?
I studied the ins and outs of it before we went and we were able to have a lot of success using it. However, as you can see from the above, just because it "worked" for us, doesn't mean I want to do it again.
In the US, it's $15 pp, per day.While I dislike it too #1 isn't correct or at least in the UK it isn't - was coming in at around $10 a day (inc tax) to add it to a 14 day ticket as opposed to the $15+tax for individual days.
100%. When we went, some of the original loopholes were still active, but then on day 3 of our trip, they were closed, without notice. I didn't find out what happened until I read these boards later that night.This is the biggest reason why I won’t do it - I don’t want to have to STUDY like I’m on an academic curriculum in order to be able to use the feature. It is NOT intuitive, it requires a ton of reading these boards to understand optimization, which is ridiculous. I’m a smart person, I could figure it out, but why should I have to? Do better, Disney. I’ll give you the $ when you don’t make me work so hard for it.
This must have been a special promotion offered to UK guests. It’s $15/day for US (and Canadian) guests whether we purchase in advance for all days or, daily as wanted.While I dislike it too #1 isn't correct or at least in the UK it isn't - was coming in at around $10 a day (inc tax) to add it to a 14 day ticket as opposed to the $15+tax for individual days.
While I dislike it too #1 isn't correct or at least in the UK it isn't - was coming in at around $10 a day (inc tax) to add it to a 14 day ticket as opposed to the $15+tax for individual days.
Yes, all that, except that I did use it on the last trip, although on some days G+ was good (for me) for only 1 attraction. It has to do with the way I tour the parks.This is the biggest reason why I won’t do it - I don’t want to have to STUDY like I’m on an academic curriculum in order to be able to use the feature. It is NOT intuitive, it requires a ton of reading these boards to understand optimization, which is ridiculous. I’m a smart person, I could figure it out, but why should I have to? Do better, Disney. I’ll give you the $ when you don’t make me work so hard for it.
Please forgive my hubris here but “The express pass would be expensive, but not COMPLETELY out of reach for a family of 4 during a typically-priced time”… what world do you live in where this is not absolutely our of reach for 90% of Americans? Median household income was $67,521 in 2020, a decrease of 2.9 percent from the 2019 median of $69,560. An average 4 night stay at Pop Century with 4 day tickets in April of this year is about 3,700, tac on 1,300 for food for 4 days and your at an even 5k (that’s playing it cheap at wdw), you do understand that’s 8% of their ENTIRE YEARLY INCOME income. I’m gonna let that sit for a moment. Slapping on 1,300 - 1,600 dollars for one day of unlimited fast passes is COMPLETELY out of reach for 90% of American families.
By the grace of providence, we are blessed enough to travel. Recently came back from the World over the holidays. Lots of things needed painting, over flowing garbage, stupid wait times for food, cast member service was lacking, and the overall Disney guest experience is gone. We don’t cry over this, will simply spend our dollars elsewhere. My frustration comes when I see post like yours that give Bob Paycheck a “thrill up his leg” when you say 8% of your income for 4 days "ain’t that bad, here’s another 1,600 so I can ride all the rides on my once in a lifetime experience.” You’re enabling the downfall by patting their untenable logic as “good”. If you think the Disney economy can be supported by monied silver haired people, your gonna be REALLY disappointed at the quality of experience in 5 years.
Please have a little cognitive understanding of the economy and what real people make for a living . It’s insulting on some level and enables the worst from the top. 11% of a YEAR’S worth of post tax income is NEVER really in reach for most families today. Finically healthy people sometimes don’t live in the real world economically, it’s insulting to people who can’t afford first class.
I wondering if parks will get more modern with "robo-mobile waste baskets" in my life-time?Overflowing trash cans would really disappoint me! I hope this is getting better!
WTH? What a mess. Those charge errors should not be going on. That's the bare minimum of service expectations.Not sure how this will pan out for us. We are on day 6 of our trip and I’m beyond frustrated with G+. We’ve paid for it 2 or 3 days and have ridden far fewer rides in our time here than on any of our past 15 trips.
This morning we got up at 6:55am (me and 15 year old daughter) to try and get a SDD time. I saw a 10:15am pass. Selected and paid for G+ and got an error message. My charge went through, but the pass res did not. Nothing else available. Kept checking and saw a few later in the day that would not work for us and I was not booking them because to cancel and rebook would be nearly impossible. Saw another 10:15 after an immediate refresh. Grabbed it quickly - “Please return 2:40-3:40 for your experience”. What??!!!! We have a dining reservation at MK at 2:40! Which we can’t cancel without being charged $30.
Oh and apparently my daughter and I both bought G+ for the 3 of us today because I have two receipts and different transactions. Wonder if the $45 will be refunded from one of them!?
I can’t understand how they can expect you to make ADRs, which you need this week in January!!, something I can’t believe, and then just assign any time of day for the rides?
They have basically forced us to be major planners, but none of that matters now. I’m NOT a planner by nature, and our first big family trip back in 2009, we didn’t book anything except our hotel and a dinner show. We were able to walk up to most restaurants and get a time. Now, we can’t even get into a restaurant without making it so far in advance and then be at the mercy of some IT nightmare to even try and get on rides.
They have basically forced us to be major planners, but none of that matters now. I’m NOT a planner by nature, and our first big family trip back in 2009, we didn’t book anything except our hotel and a dinner show. We were able to walk up to most restaurants and get a time. Now, we can’t even get into a restaurant without making it so far in advance and then be at the mercy of some IT nightmare to even try and get on rides.
I remember those days when i was a kid, but welcome to the digital age, for better or worse, there is no turning back now.