Flights of Passage and Disney Officially Suck

[BuckeyeBama]

Friend called last minute with free tickets, free place to stay, we got last minute discount air, we were off.

Wow! That sucks, for sure.

 

[bladiator]

That won't be very leisurely. That's WDWs 50th anniversary.

I'm going to take a nice leisurely trip to WDW in 2024 once the dust has settled....

 

[MikeandReneePlus5]

I'm going to take a nice leisurely trip to WDW in 2024 once the dust has settled....

but Star Wars land will just be opening by then.

 

[Polybound]

Wow! That sucks, for sure.

Now we payed for the meals, drinks and snacks of our friend during our stay, which for the 3 of us cost around $950. That included drinks and meals Thursday night all day Friday and Saturday. (2 signature restaurants, 2 table service and 1 counter services + Drinks before dinner each night) Discount Air cost around $250 total for 2 of us so, the entire trip cost around $1200. Pretty cheap trip, but not a totally free.

 

[patrickpiteo]

Now we payed for the meals, drinks and snacks of our friend during our stay, which for the 3 of us cost around $950. That included drinks and meals Thursday night all day Friday and Saturday. (2 signature restaurants, 2 table service and 1 counter services + Drinks before dinner each night) Discount Air cost around $250 total for 2 of us so, the entire trip cost around $1200. Pretty cheap trip, but not a totally free.

Disney wise that's cheap LOL

 

[bladiator]

but Star Wars land will just be opening by then.

I'm going to take a nice leisurely trip to WDW in 2030 once the dust has settled....

 

[Micca]

I'm going to take a nice leisurely trip to WDW in 2030 once the dust has settled..

I''m building a time machine and going to WDW in the 80s before this all got so complicated and Epcot still had cool stuff in FW.

 

[BuckeyeBama]

Now we payed for the meals, drinks and snacks of our friend during our stay, which for the 3 of us cost around $950. That included drinks and meals Thursday night all day Friday and Saturday. (2 signature restaurants, 2 table service and 1 counter services + Drinks before dinner each night) Discount Air cost around $250 total for 2 of us so, the entire trip cost around $1200. Pretty cheap trip, but not a totally free.

I wish you had a better experience, but it sounds like you did a lot of other things. Hopefully that plus the lower cost point made the trip something less than terrible for you.

 

[BuckeyeBama]

I''m building a time machine and going to WDW in the 80s before this all got so complicated and Epcot still had cool stuff in FW.

The early 90's - WDW was absolutely amazing in the early 90's.

 

[Micca]

The early 90's - WDW was absolutely amazing in the early 90's.

You're right! Now I'm going to need a bigger flux capacitor

 

[ucfknight]

The early 90's - WDW was absolutely amazing in the early 90's.

Good plan. You'd still have Horizons and World of Motion in all their glory. Plus you'd get to experience the "working movie studio" of Disney-MGM Studios as it was originally intended. With real animators working on real movies in the Animation pavilion, and getting to see actual working sets in the sound stages on the original full backlot tour.

 

[quandrea]

The early 90's - WDW was absolutely amazing in the early 90's.

Probably when my love affair with the mouse truly began.

 

[bladiator]

Good plan. You'd still have Horizons and World of Motion in all their glory. Plus you'd get to experience the "working movie studio" of Disney-MGM Studios as it was originally intended. With real animators working on real movies in the Animation pavilion, and getting to see actual working sets in the sound stages on the original full backlot tour.

This is all very depressing.
Would we trade Pandora for all the 90's glory?

 

[Micca]

This is all very depressing.
Would we trade Pandora for all the 90's glory?

 

[patrickpiteo]

I''m building a time machine and going to WDW in the 80s before this all got so complicated and Epcot still had cool stuff in FW.

Aww the good old days

 

[Polybound]

it just seems to me that they could come up with some sort of a system where if you were in a stand-by line and an attraction went down, you would be given a color coded slip of paper for that attraction only, that would allow you to return to the attraction when it reopened. Said stand-by line reopening would be limited to those with the color coded slips of paper first (of course good for the day it went down only) for a limited time period, let say 1-2 hours, and then the stand-by line would be opened to the rest of the guest.

People in the FP line, as they do now, would receive a paper FP (or scanned magic band) that could be used anywhere else in the park at anytime during that day.

 

[maxiesmom]

Star Wars is a completely different beast, and you know it, lol. There will be people camping out for this one. Star Wars Weekends were super popular, so imagine all those people that are currently with visitation plans on hold until the land opens. I mean, the other 3 parks will be great to visit, but like with new things, there will be huge crowds for ONLY DHS and the Star Wars area of the park. So it's a wonder what they're going to do. I'd have to say looking ahead that they're going to need to start working now on plans for that when it happens, not if.

I would love love love to be there for Star Wars opening day!!!! I'm pretty sure I can talk my nephew into going with me.

 

[Farro]

I''m building a time machine and going to WDW in the 80s before this all got so complicated and Epcot still had cool stuff in FW.

Agreed. That's when Horizons felt like this amazing dream that could actually happen one day and it really seemed like there was a great, big beautiful tomorrow.

Sniff.

 

[quandrea]

This is all very depressing.
Would we trade Pandora for all the 90's glory?

No. Not me. That's just when I became captivated.

 

[disneydreamer781]

Probably when my love affair with the mouse truly began.

Awww! hands fanning face.