Its a good point but I could argue that they are letting these guest in at 7pm. So those who have purchased a normal priced ticket are going to experience a fuller park because these guest can enter while they are still in there.
But I think the theory is that this is a test to see how popular this is and if Disney can continue to cut back on EMH (which they have done year after year all while increasing price and resort fees and cutting CM's hours and pay) and make people pay for them.
I think you'll find that CM pay is actually going up, not down. Aren't they increasing to $10 per hour or something?
Disney is a luxury, but it shouldn't be a huge one if you don't want it to be.
Why shouldn't it be? It can be as big a luxury as Disney wants it to be.
Attendance is increasing every year, along with all these add ons. That says something right?
Have you ever been to
Disneyland?
Please don't compare DL and WDW. It's comparing apples and oranges. Totally different parks, different demographics, different attendance. Just because something works at DL, doesn't mean the same system will work at WDW (and vice versa).
No I haven't.
But Disney doesn't give a toss, obviously.
If they want to have magic mornings at WDW, they'll do it, regardless of whether it's apple and oranges.
Considering there's the announcement floating around about paid early morning entry, I don't think morning EMH is safe either. I know none of this has happened and I hate to sound all doom and gloom, but if enough families of 4 are willing to drop $600 for evening hours and $236 for mornings, even though they say it's not impacting EMH, I can't see how it wouldn't at some point. Let's say it's limited to 1000 people...that's an extra $836,000 per day in their pockets for just MK. If it becomes an all 4 parks thing, that kind of paid early and late access could lead to an extra $3,344,000 per day. Of course, all speculation, but it seems crazy not to consider that they're looking at it from this angle. i.e. if enough people buy into this stuff, we no longer need to "give away" EMH or standard evening hours in the parks.
I think your math is a little off, the $836 is for 4 people, so your calls work for 4,000 people.
But you're right, Disney is doing it because they can.
The market loves the hard ticket events, so they're smart enough to roll it out to the people who want to pay for it.
OR is it a sign that buses, boats and monorails could be RFID reader equipped at some point to ensure only onsite guests are using these services? Active imaginations- maybe, but could it be foreshadowing?
I have to admit, if this was going to make waits for transport shorter, I'd be all for this.
How ever, I think the reality is, it would probably make the congestion on the Disney roads worse.
But if totally be ok with only resort guests being allowed to use Disney transportation.
when all of this was previously something included in general admission.
EMH aren't part of general admission though.
They're part of your resort rate.
Absolutely - but wouldn't Disney want that family to have an amazing time and come home and tell all their friends so they then plan their $8,000 vacation?
But here is the rub: me, as a "diehard", is getting more and more upset with the direction they have been going lately. Which makes me consider not heading back anytime soon (aside from my trip I already have planned). Now Disney may not care that my family never comes back BUT when people come to me asking for vacation advice because they know I'm all about Disney I have become more and more reluctant to recommend Disney to anyone that asks.
As Scott pointed out earlier, I don't think Disney cares what you tell your friends.
I'd say word of mouth is actually very very ineffective with the Disney parks.
People come in droves, and it's probably not because of word of mouth, but advertising and the ingrained mentality of "LETS GO TO DISNEY WORLD!!"
Has nothing to do with being fair, it has to do with being ripped off. You didn't understand my original post, because your response has
nothing to do with my original post.
In response to your response, January used to be a slow time at WDW. That's no longer the case. There are no slow times. When there were slow times wait times weren't as high as on busy times of the year.
Well in that case, your response to my January response has nothing to do with my January response either.
I wasn't talking about crowd levels.
I was talking about the money you throw down for a ticket.
The simple fact is, you paid (not anymore obviously, hooray for tiered pricing!!) the same $ for a day ticket in January as you did in July, but got less park hours.
