KyGirl
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We're a month away from our next trip so of course I'm basically obsessed with the details of Disney these days. We've had five trips in the last eight years, even before we had a little girl, and I've spent countless hours reading these boards and other websites over those years to plan our trips to a probably unnecessary level of detail.
Anyway, in the past it always shocked me how many people seemed like they were flying blind at Disney. I could never spend that much money on something and not do a little research but to each their own. The thing that used to always surprise me was how little the average visitor seemed to know about the old FastPass system. You would get so many evil eyes going through that line passing everybody and it seemed like many many people did not understand it was available to everybody. And then you'd hear so many of the comments, "We spent x amount of dollars on this trip and all we've done is stand in line!" After you heard that a few times, you had to feel pretty glad that you'd put in your planning time.
Our last trip was December 2013, so we had magic bands and FP+ (with no tiers!) and could still pull old fastpasses, with both our ticket cards AND our room keys. It was so awesome. We ended up not even using the legacy fastpasses very often but it was a nice option a couple of times for smaller things. Anyway, one of the things I remember about that trip was that SO many people were asking us what our "colored bracelets" were for and where we got them. Of course, back then only onsite guests got them so that was fair enough but still. It was big news all over the internet.
So for an actual question, do you still think that most of the people traveling to Disney just load up the kids and buy tickets at the gate or do you think more and more people are catching on to the planning required? It seems like there is SO much information that is so easily available that it would be harder to ignore it than to read a little. Plus it seems to me with this trip that Disney itself is really pushing the planning more than ever before. They sent a Dumbo magnet with all the different dates to book things and we've gotten a couple of other reminders in the mail and by email. You would really have to be trying hard to avoid all that.
At what point will the tide turn that so many people are "in the know" that all our careful planning doesn't really give us any advantages? If EVERYBODY knows all the tricks are they really tricks anymore?
And just to be clear, I'm not talking about cheating the system OR any other guest. Just trying to make choices that will maximize our experience during our hard earned and long awaited Disney time!
Oh, and I'm super nosy about other people.
Anyway, in the past it always shocked me how many people seemed like they were flying blind at Disney. I could never spend that much money on something and not do a little research but to each their own. The thing that used to always surprise me was how little the average visitor seemed to know about the old FastPass system. You would get so many evil eyes going through that line passing everybody and it seemed like many many people did not understand it was available to everybody. And then you'd hear so many of the comments, "We spent x amount of dollars on this trip and all we've done is stand in line!" After you heard that a few times, you had to feel pretty glad that you'd put in your planning time.
Our last trip was December 2013, so we had magic bands and FP+ (with no tiers!) and could still pull old fastpasses, with both our ticket cards AND our room keys. It was so awesome. We ended up not even using the legacy fastpasses very often but it was a nice option a couple of times for smaller things. Anyway, one of the things I remember about that trip was that SO many people were asking us what our "colored bracelets" were for and where we got them. Of course, back then only onsite guests got them so that was fair enough but still. It was big news all over the internet.
So for an actual question, do you still think that most of the people traveling to Disney just load up the kids and buy tickets at the gate or do you think more and more people are catching on to the planning required? It seems like there is SO much information that is so easily available that it would be harder to ignore it than to read a little. Plus it seems to me with this trip that Disney itself is really pushing the planning more than ever before. They sent a Dumbo magnet with all the different dates to book things and we've gotten a couple of other reminders in the mail and by email. You would really have to be trying hard to avoid all that.
At what point will the tide turn that so many people are "in the know" that all our careful planning doesn't really give us any advantages? If EVERYBODY knows all the tricks are they really tricks anymore?
And just to be clear, I'm not talking about cheating the system OR any other guest. Just trying to make choices that will maximize our experience during our hard earned and long awaited Disney time!
Oh, and I'm super nosy about other people.
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