Very valid points!
To add to the above...
What
I suspect will occur at WDW is this:
- on site hotel guests will get priority for going online or through the My Disney Experience app to make a theme park reservation for their party for each day.
- on site hotel guests will be given a window to do this before it is opened up to off site guests
- I also wouldn't be surprised if WDW AP holders are also given a priority window to make a theme park reservation.
I also suspect that DL may handle it in a similar fashion. So...for example, a Disney disclaimer that an on site hotel reservation does not GUARANTEE you access to a theme park WOULD still be a correct statement in a scenario like this. Why?
Because YOU yourself, the guest, would still have to take action to make the theme park reservation during your priority window. If you snooze and you miss it because you forget or something, Disney can tell you, "Sorry, but we're not holding any extra theme park reservations for on site guests who did not make a reservation during the priority window."
It works the same way in the past at WDW for FP+ reservations. On site guests can make their FP+ reservations starting 60 days before day 1 of their on site stay. And you can make FP+ reservations (3 per day) for the entire length of your on site stay on that "day 1 - 60 days" date.
BUT....if you screw up and you don't remember to do it until 30 days beforehand (which is when FP+ opens up for everybody else), you can't call Disney and complain and say "Give me the FP+ that I want!" You can't demand that they give you FP+ for 7 Dwarfs Mine Train when there aren't any left now for your entire 10-day vacation.
My bet is that DL on site guests will get 1st crack at doing a theme park reservation, followed by AP people, and then everybody else. And for the 1st month, the AP'ers will use up almost all of the available DL reservations each day. I think that DCA will be easier to get a reservation for, similar to how DCA was always easier to get into if you had a Flex Pass. Middle of the week will also be easier for EVERYONE to get reservations for, compared to weekends.
These are all just hunches and my own personal opinion. I have no connection to the Disney company nor do I know any CMs or anything like that. I have ZERO inside scoop on ANY of this. This is just my own personal speculation.