Can anyone explain what this survey question means?

[dieumeye]

Got this survey question after a recent booking at WDW. I can't figure out the implications of the first option.

The second option is clear. It's the current system. Reserve a SPECIFIC park for EACH DAY of the trip.

But the first option is weird. Pick the FIRST DAY you want to visit ANY park.

I understand that. You pick the first day of your trip and then visit any of the parks without a specific reservation to that park. Great. I get it. But what's confusing is: what would you do for the remainder of the days of your trip? Not clear.

Obviously, my preference would be visit ANY park EACH DAY of the trip, but that was not one of the options.

 

[DL1WDW2]

How old is this survey?

 

[dieumeye]

How old is this survey?

Yesterday.

 

[OhhBother]

I would definitely pick Option One -- tell Disney the first day I plan to visit a park rather than reserving every day. At least that's the way I interpret the options.

 

[DLgal]

It's for ticket pricing, basically. They want to know if they should have date specific pricing or "date range" type pricing. Which would people prefer.

 

[Skippyboo]

They already have date specific pricing for tickets. Option 1 seems like how it was pre reservation, you could go to whatever park you wanted and could start the clock on your ticket when you wanted

 

[Jennasis]

Option 1

 

[Mrs.AMC]

How old is this survey?

I got it last week

 

[Mrs.AMC]

They already have date specific pricing for tickets. Option 1 seems like how it was pre reservation, you could go to whatever park you wanted and could start the clock on your ticket when you wanted

That's how I read it also

 

[lanejudy]

I’ve gotten that survey st least twice in the past month or so.

 

[holden]

Wait... does this mean they could be considering charging more to visit a specific park on a specific day? For example, say you are making MK reservations for 7/23/22 because you booked a last minute trip. Because it's almost sold out for that day, you pay more for your ticket that day than people who booked MK months ago when they booked their trip. However, there is plenty of availability for EP, so the ticket to reserve EP that day is cheaper than MK.

Honestly, I wouldn't put it past them to do something like this.

 

[scrappinginontario]

I interpret it to be you can choose the first day you wish to actually go to a park. Not everyone wants to go to a park on their arrival day. Some go the next day, their arrival day and occasionally people go the day before their hotel stay begins.

Could they be asking that?

 

[DeeBee3]

I read that as you just have to pick the date of your first park entrance and it does not refer to picking which park. I think that's a good thing?

 

[scrappinginontario]

I read that as you just have to pick the date of your first park entrance and it does not refer to picking which park. I think that's a good thing?

You and I interpret the question the same way.

 

[DL1WDW2]

Very strange . I guess that’s why I asked how old is this survey .
I assumed the survey was current but including the 7 Basics for Covid awareness reminder adds a strange twist ?
And they specifically underlined those words.

I would choose No preference cause Disney wants to keep control of my mind and we all must resist.

 

[_19disnA]

I agree, rather strange survey referencing covid protocols no longer in place. Seems they should have reworded the question to be more current.

The two choices are worded poorly. If you choose first day you want to go to any parks, what about the rest of your vacation? Making daily park reservations is current practice. Seems like the choices are trying to steer you in a direction Disney has already decided and trying to use survey results to support their direction.

 

[LYSE]

I stopped with their surveys, they all heavily steer you toward what they want and purposefully avoid giving you an opportunity to dig into them.

Better off just writing them directly

But I see it asking:
Pick your first park day vs pick which park each day of your trip

Option one sounds like your only making one reservation.

 

[Genie+]

I wish there was option 4 - Very very very strong preference for Option 1 over Option 2

Personally it never bothered me at all to need a ‘start date’ on our tickets. We’re flying in, know what date we plan visiting the parks first and if something went awry our ticket values could still be applied to new tickets. Easy to recover a hiccup.

But now, uh yi yi yah. We need to commit to all of our parks and days months in advance. Can’t hop until 2pm. If our flight got delayed or something else went awry where we needed to shift our trip out a few days, very possibly no openings left for MK and HS at that point. Maybe no reservations left at all by that time. Supposedly they got rid of FP+ because guests desired more flexibility and a more level playing field. Well now I have less flexibility and a very high cost wager planning an expensive WDW that can severely go off the rails.

I remember long ago my mother used to say “Well that’s a fine ‘How do ya do’.” Many changes the past few years at WDW leave me thinking just that.

 

[lanejudy]

I stopped with their surveys, they all heavily steer you toward what they want and purposefully avoid giving you an opportunity to dig into them.

This! If they really wanted opinions, their surveys would be worded much differently. They word it so that in 6 months or a year when they make a change they can say “75% of guests said they want it this way” when really you weren’t given a choice of the answer you really prefer - no reservations and no designating the first park day.

 

[ktlm]

I got it too. I picked 1. I read it more as letting them know what day you are going to first activate your ticket as opposed to having to pick a certain park every day--- so they would have an idea of when off property people that bought tickets (or on property that bought tickets separately) are going to use them. That would give them an idea of crowds for staffing without the stupid park reservation system and hopping restrictions that everyone hates.

That would be a whole lot better in my mind than the stupid park reservation system. It is pretty easy to predict when people who bought resort packages are going to be in the parks-- not so easy to predict when people that just bought tickets separately are going to show up. If they make you tell them the first day you plan to activate it- then since they are good for 14 days-- it would be a way for them to predict needed staffing.