Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

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Our machine overlords will know us better than we know ourselves.
Someday. Machine learning is great at some things but has a LONG way to go to understand why humans make irrational one off decisions one wouldn't usually make and how to account for them, and Disney World is full of irrational one off decisions one wouldn't usually make.
 
Used to be free parking...
30 hrs + EMH weekly....
They cut these things as the FP 60 day booking window became more and more important as overall attendance increased during an 11 year economic run.

Attendance is going to be down for a while. Taking away ride access advantages will have consequences to resort bookings, to DVC sales, and to perceived value and thus satisfaction. It will be fascinating to see what happens.
 

They cut these things as the FP 60 day booking window became more and more important as overall attendance increased during an 11 year economic run.

Attendance is going to be down for a while. Taking away ride access advantages will have consequences to resort bookings, to DVC sales, and to perceived value and thus satisfaction. It will be fascinating to see what happens.

Fair point.

Even with increased attendance I would never have believed they would have been able to increase prices to such levels while simultaneously stripping away perks.

It's true they will need to be a little more judicious moving forward....At least for a bit.
 
Apparently nothing they do can stop people from paying $270/night for POR.
Well- few people are willing to pay for Disney Hotels right now. Pulling multiple hotels from the reopening schedule pretty much screamed that.

Whether it’s due to lack of offerings or COVID? Jury is still out.
 
If FP+ is gone forever, this is what I could see Disney doing when business starts getting back to normal crowd wise...…...

Disney offering more days of EMH at the parks for onsite resort guests to justify what they charge for rooms. Then using Genie as an attraction planner when you arrive in the park based on what is going on in the park at any specific time that day. It will make suggestions based on the preferences you enter for your party and on what it learns about you while you our at the park. Then Genie will offer you the ability to purchase the right to jump to the front of the line of one attraction you choose for an extra fee. That fee will be based on the current wait time for that attraction. So if you want to jump to the front of a two hour wait for FOP, that will be $50 per member of your party. If they aren't getting any takers at $50 the system can be programmed to drop the price to $40. If you want jump to the front of the line of another attraction or that one again, you pay another fee. Maybe, they offer some kind of discount for onsite that varies based on what level of resort you are at. Maybe the offer one free use to resort guests on any ride that is not one of the top two in demand attractions at the time you decide to use it.

Disney can program the system to figure out what you are willing to pay and then price the upcharges on an individual basis. Why only charge $40 per person to the family that is clearly willing to pay $60 per person to avoid a two hour line? Everyone will be seeing different prices on their phone based not only on current demand but based on what Disney has learned it can charge you individually.
I would also expect whatever version of EMH comes back to look different or be scaled down in some way.
https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/a...passholder&defaultSegment=resort&locale=en_USNoticed that on Sat 9/5 DHS is NOT available to Resort Guests but IS available to Theme Park Tickets Guests. I don’t remember seeing this happen before.

Edit: Sat is the 5th, not 6th
This has happened on one or two other days. After a few days/weeks, they've reallocated some availability over to the Resort Guests pool (turning the day green again) in the past.
 
Well- few people are willing to pay for Disney Hotels right now. Pulling multiple hotels from the reopening schedule pretty much screamed that.

Whether it’s due to lack of offerings or COVID? Jury is still out.
I think it’s safe for the jury to conclude that it’s the once-a-century pandemic, not the (albeit excellent!) fireworks show.
 
Really hoping that's just guests coming for a long Labor Day weekend and then skedaddling!

Cant imagine its anything but. The parks are getting more crowded, but not enough people are coming to visit to pack these parks up on the regular basis. Not to mention with school back in session. I wouldn’t expect a long term influx of guests until at least Spring 2021
 
Likely depends on retraining and what not. Shouldn’t take too long but next week may be close.
Was there a list anywhere of what was unavailable because of this? I know lion king and Nemo at AK and Frozen at HS, what else? Happy to be on the lookout for it when I am there
 
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