Silock
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 15, 2011
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- 748
Magic bands are working flawlessly. No complaints there. I like them okay, except I find it a bit uncomfortable to wear all day because the back plastic is so hard.
FP is the issue. It's far too structured. The planned stuff was just not advantageous on the day of. Things we FP'd didn't need it, and things we expected to be good SB choices ended up needing FPs. Timeslots that worked for us were already out by the time our FPs came up and we discovered we didn't need them. So, that was pretty awful.
We felt rushed goi from attraction to attraction, not sure if we'd make our window or not. With only 5 days in the park, we kinda had a time crunch to get to everything we wanted to do. ADRs for the places we ate were difficult to come by even at the 180 day mark, so some days, we had ADRs in places where that park was very busy or it wasn't a recommended day. Many times, we started in a different park. Even RD'ing every park every day left precious little time to get to everything.
With the old system, you were essentially planning in two hour chunks of time, which was much more flexible and manageable. Not so with the new system. We brought two friends with us who are disney novices and even they were shocked at how much planning was necessary and how inflexible the system was.
I guess if we had a longer stay, it wouldn't be as bad, because we wouldn't feel so rushed to do everything we wanted to in each park in a single day (note: that's not doing every single attraction; merely the ones we wanted to do).
Our last day is tomorrow, and we have late FPs at Epcot, but because of how nutty the crowds have been (both Touringplans and EasyWDW were wrong about the crowds at the parks this week), I'm not sure we are going to keep them. But availability at the other parks is very limited by now, which is yet another downfall of the system.
Just really disappointed in it. It's as bad as I thought it would be from a flexibility standpoint. But the actual mechanics of it worked great. I wouldn't mind the new bands if they went back to the old FP type system of pulling every two hours. Or heck, keep two advanced ones, get rid of Tiering and then let people pull whatever is available every 3 hours.
I'll not provide a list of our activities unless asked. But we don't have kids, so we didn't do characters or many of the more kid-centric attractions (laugh floor, crush, dumbo, etc. were all skipped).
FP is the issue. It's far too structured. The planned stuff was just not advantageous on the day of. Things we FP'd didn't need it, and things we expected to be good SB choices ended up needing FPs. Timeslots that worked for us were already out by the time our FPs came up and we discovered we didn't need them. So, that was pretty awful.
We felt rushed goi from attraction to attraction, not sure if we'd make our window or not. With only 5 days in the park, we kinda had a time crunch to get to everything we wanted to do. ADRs for the places we ate were difficult to come by even at the 180 day mark, so some days, we had ADRs in places where that park was very busy or it wasn't a recommended day. Many times, we started in a different park. Even RD'ing every park every day left precious little time to get to everything.
With the old system, you were essentially planning in two hour chunks of time, which was much more flexible and manageable. Not so with the new system. We brought two friends with us who are disney novices and even they were shocked at how much planning was necessary and how inflexible the system was.
I guess if we had a longer stay, it wouldn't be as bad, because we wouldn't feel so rushed to do everything we wanted to in each park in a single day (note: that's not doing every single attraction; merely the ones we wanted to do).
Our last day is tomorrow, and we have late FPs at Epcot, but because of how nutty the crowds have been (both Touringplans and EasyWDW were wrong about the crowds at the parks this week), I'm not sure we are going to keep them. But availability at the other parks is very limited by now, which is yet another downfall of the system.
Just really disappointed in it. It's as bad as I thought it would be from a flexibility standpoint. But the actual mechanics of it worked great. I wouldn't mind the new bands if they went back to the old FP type system of pulling every two hours. Or heck, keep two advanced ones, get rid of Tiering and then let people pull whatever is available every 3 hours.
I'll not provide a list of our activities unless asked. But we don't have kids, so we didn't do characters or many of the more kid-centric attractions (laugh floor, crush, dumbo, etc. were all skipped).
