It sounds like it sold out later in the day, so that must've been people buying it throughout the morning (maybe after they saw crazy lines). I really doubt that buying it at 6:50am is going to be a big issue. You'll also be there post President's Day weekend, which should ease the crowds at least a little bit.
No, it isn’t some sudden AP surge. It’s cold in a lot of the US, a holiday where if you don’t ski you have nothing to do but amuse the kids, and post-Covid travel is still hot, hot, hot. Recipe for a ton of people at a Disney park.
Agreed. If anything, it seems like the rate of people renewing is extremely high these days, as folks don't want to lose access to their APs. This time of the year can often be crazy, with the convergence of President's Day, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras (some years), and Daytona all around the same time. And yea, people sick of cold weather, too!
When I went around this time last year, I talked to a few people at the resort pool and all of them said that their kids had the week off from school so they went down to Disney. I remember them being from New York, New Jersey, Minnesota, Massachusetts and there was even a family from Toronto. It's similar to "Jersey week" in November where practically the entire state packs up and goes to Orlando.
The problem was with it overlapping with Mardi Gras, which is rare, and it exploded out of control
Be up at 7:00 am and be prepared to plan at the mercy of the system for that day. We have had meal reservations to change at the last minute due to Genie+ and LL. We do not care for this system at all and miss our fast passes. Fast passes gave a scaffold of your day before leaving home AND you did not have to get up so early. However, the revenue stream being generated will never see fast passes return.
They could have kept it exactly the same and just charged for the service in advance. Or you know start at a more normal hour like 8am, or even allow you to book your first one the night before.
For sure. It was so much better in our opinion. Can't get DH to return because of the changes.
Wow - very interesting trend. Still a very busy holiday weekend, but still something I wasn't sure we'd see.
Could be the busy weekend. but, they had also talked about decreasing the number of Genie + sold to lessen those lines. Could that have happened?
We'll never know! But I really expect they have a max number and they hit it the past 2 days.
And if you do ski like our family the price of that has sky rocketed so bad. Even my husband said with
