I know what you mean about needing to charge your phone. I use only my iPhone for pics and it really drains the battery. Now I carry two battery pack cases so I never have to worry about finding a charging station or an outlet. The case like best is the Mophie (around $70 at Target).
If you need two battery packs, you are purchasing the wrong spare battery. My extra battery pack fully charges my phone two times plus, on only one charge. I use my phone at Disney for lots of things too: GPS while driving, dining research and last minute reservations in-park, pictures and videos, calculator, note-taker, texts, etc. I have never used up the entire charge on my backup, regardless of all that I do on the phone during a day at Disney.
Would it be possible to have a thread where people disagree on an action without using any supercilious terminology?
Not my business what people do with their phones. Just, again, it's presumptuous for people who run down the battery one or more times during a day, to expect a business to provide a means - openly or via "shared secret" electric outlet locations - to recharge the device.
As described in this thread, there are charging cases available; bringing additional charged batteries is another option. A person's failure to plan shouldn't constitute an emergency on the part of the business.
Is there really an emergency here? If one or two (or even a thousand) people look to charge their phones in the park, how is this an emergency?
Further, we're talking about DISNEY. You know, the people who throw massive expensive fireworks every night, who shovel candy into people's bags at Halloween parties, who give away a cookie here, a free meal there, a balloon on Main Street, the people who replace a sad girl's lost Pooh bear for free. They'll comp you a night at your hotel if the concierge even looks at you crooked. Those aren't emergencies either. Do you really really REALLY think there's a problem
here, with the tiny little amount of electricity OPs are using? I guess they should crack down on people charging their phones in their rooms?
Good grief, now I've heard everything.
For the record, I sat at AKL and watched the animals frolicking; I had my phone plugged in right next to me as I sat outside. I was heading home that day, and wanted the charge for the GPS to the airport, and for my in-flight movie (had my backup, but figured it would be great to start out with a full charge). I talked with several cast members while I rocked away, and never once was one word said.