HydroGuy
A Pirate's Life For Me
- Joined
- Jun 5, 2005
Prior booking of attractions requires a lot of capacity. It's easy to turn on a computer and click on a few spots to reserve something. It's much harder to be in the park and get yourself to the FP machine and get an actual ticket. When you remove that extra barrier and it's easier to use, you get...... more use. That's why they added FP to everything they could at WDW.
I can't even imagine what the huge local AP base could do to the pool of FPs available at DLR with prebooking.
Supposing that DLR has physical space for FP+ for most all the rides, it would seem that with the larger number of rides (per park) at DL and DCA as compared to MK would make FPs a bit easier to obtain than WDW. Maybe they could even allot 4-5 FPs per day rather than WDW's 3 per day. And because of the AP effect they could make them available much closer to the trip date - maybe one week?
Heck, since they control the system they could hold back a certain amount of FPs and make them available up until the day before possibly.
I agree with you that the lower barrier will make them more attractive. But with so many locals making last minute plans maybe it would not be so bad? I think the biggest barrier would be the physical space needed. Dealing with how to deploy for Disney hotel guests, locals with AP, local day trippers, etc. would be a smaller barrier. But an uproar is still a potential. A third barrier (LOL) is that they often do not even firm up their park hours until 4 weeks ahead of time.