A Few Activities New Guests Skip...

[MikeTaylor]

Tell a friend.

Walt Disney World is a huge place and even the veterans have many things they haven’t yet experienced. Many think about the parks and just want to visit every attraction (and that’s fine), but they’re missing out. Here are a few activities that new guests might not know about or want to do until they consider planning a return trip. But if you’re going on your first trip and want to do some of these things, by all means, make it happen!

Read more here:

http://www.wdwinfo.com/walt-disney-...-usually-skip-during-their-first-trip-to-wdw/

 

[CampbellzSoup]

The only thing that I might agree with you there is the Magic kingdom Cards otherwise I think most people, even if it's theirs first trip tend to do most of those things.

 

[Accident]

I think I agree with PP, that list is everything disney either on the phone or via email and next steps to planning your vacation to tells you over and over.. minor exceptions..

Recommendation, DTD was officially renamed last month a first timer wouldn't be able to find downtown disney anymore and it should be called Disney Springs (formally Downtown Disney).

 

[MikeTaylor]

I wrote the article awhile back, just now published.

 

[Jon84]

I'm not so sure with PP comments.

On our first trip to Orlando, there were 8 of us (4 couples, who didn't always go in a big group) who were over for two weeks. As well as WDW we did UOR, BGT and KSC as well as other I-Drive activities. We probably did half of the things on the list at WDW, alot of people will miss out on alot of those things

 

[BadPinkTink]

I agree with the article and it applies to Disneyland California too. This year in California I got talking to an Australian family, first time visitors. It was at the end of their first day and they had missed out on so much that us regular visitors take for granted, like the Fast Pass system, the single rider lines, the huge amount of entertainment which you need to schedule into your day, the ADR, pin trading, character meets and so much more. I got the feeling they hardly did anything that day compared to what a regular prepared visitor can manage to do.

 

[Princess Jes]

I agree with the article and it applies to Disneyland California too. This year in California I got talking to an Australian family, first time visitors. It was at the end of their first day and they had missed out on so much that us regular visitors take for granted, like the Fast Pass system, the single rider lines, the huge amount of entertainment which you need to schedule into your day, the ADR, pin trading, character meets and so much more. I got the feeling they hardly did anything that day compared to what a regular prepared visitor can manage to do.

It's not as ingrained in us though. It's just a place to go, it's not an institution, somewhere to plan, somewhere to spend multiple days.
We have zero advertising for Disney parks here, zero. The only "advertising" is when the big travel agency (flight center) has a USA sale. That's as much Disney advertising as we get, so unles you actively sought out information, you'd never know to plan for it. It's not talked about, it's not a regular vacation destination, just somewhere to visit for a day, maybe two, on our way in or out of the stats via LAX.

 

[missmaryl]

Went to WDW for 1st time in 2013, did SOMK based on map description, didn't even know there were cards. We also missed out on getting special Halloween one because we didn't know there was such a thing for Halloween and Christmas party goers.

 

[dkrauss]

For a first timer many of the items in the article are skipped, or should I say were......... I believe with the advent of MDE ADRs, FP+, and Magic Bands more first timers are doing many of the things listed. Park hopping is fairly easy........not sure on a percentage but I would think from personal experience first timers are more apt to add the Park Hopper. Resort hopping as a function unto itself is an interesting one.........I'd bet not.........but with an ADR I bet many folks do inadvertently. Disney springs............maybe. Water Parks...........I bet the number is higher on this for first timers than one would think.

Back in the late 90's when I took my family on our first visit............we pretty much did the parks..........we park hopped (who knew?)..........and we resort hopped only because we had a Character meal at the GF..............

Doug

 

[samsteele]

It's not as ingrained in us though. It's just a place to go, it's not an institution, somewhere to plan, somewhere to spend multiple days.
We have zero advertising for Disney parks here, zero. The only "advertising" is when the big travel agency (flight center) has a USA sale. That's as much Disney advertising as we get, so unles you actively sought out information, you'd never know to plan for it. It's not talked about, it's not a regular vacation destination, just somewhere to visit for a day, maybe two, on our way in or out of the stats via LAX.

Of course, here in Canada, we have lots of US TV channels plus US advertisers buy time on our CDN channels so tonnes of WDW ads. But not all recent ads are actually helpful. There is a very recent ad that has just come out (and I'm not sure if it is a North American ad or just targeted at Canadians) that is actually really misleading. A family looks to be checking into the Grand Floridian and the CM (either on front desk or Concierge) asks them what they want to do today. They have a big list of wants including FP+ for 7DMT and ADRs for BOG. She smiles and pixie dust sparkles across the screen. Then shots of them riding the ride and eating the food.The msg I got was that you could just wait until you get to your hotel and get everything you want upon demand. If you pay for a Deluxe Hotel Pkg. That's not how it works in real life. Hopefully, no one actually thinks that's the way it works. Thinking that WDW is setting up their own CMs and naive first-time guests for some serious disappointment.

 

[MikeTaylor]

Yeah, just saw that same ad here in the midwest/south. If you have concierge service, you can call a number and get them to add another FP+ selection instead of going to a kiosk in the park after your first three are done. That's the only instance I can see how this scenario would make sense in the real world. I'm sure there's a little more to it than just that when you have concierge, but that ain't $81 per night, per person.

 

[SorcererHeidi]

Tell a friend.

Walt Disney World is a huge place and even the veterans have many things they haven’t yet experienced. Many think about the parks and just want to visit every attraction (and that’s fine), but they’re missing out. Here are a few activities that new guests might not know about or want to do until they consider planning a return trip. But if you’re going on your first trip and want to do some of these things, by all means, make it happen!

Read more here:

http://www.wdwinfo.com/walt-disney-...-usually-skip-during-their-first-trip-to-wdw/

Nicely done, thanx for taking the time. I have I don't know how many trips under my belt, and still LOVE to resort hop (especially over the holidays), and usually plan my vacation around my ADR's - not the other way around! And more often than not, I tend to park hop, unless I"m trying to save money on my pass, or unless it's Epcot - which seems like 2 different parks to me, and where I tend to like to dine @ night anyway.