Not this particular thread but there have been many lately about this sort of thing. Too many for me personally but I understand people are upset. However you are choosing to visit DL and I just get annoyed that some people seem to feel entitled to having everything open and ready for their trip when it is impossible for disney to do so year round. By doing refurbs in jan/feb they are inconveniencing less guests.
Well...
I would have to answer "yes" to your question, LucyDingo.
I don't think I, or anyone else who has posted in this thread, have a sense of entitlement because we have expressed concern over how Disney is handling their planning calendar and refurb situation. (Gee, I pay for everything. A sense of entitlement would be more like if I tripped at DL and then asked them what are
they going to do for
me since I tripped on their property even if it was my fault.) I am concerned for my fellow Disney Planners and myself. And most of the people who have posted in this thread, and others I've seen, are expressing concern over the refurb, and hoping and wishing that something they have looked forward to for a long time is going to be up and running. What is wrong with that?
It's a message board. That's what it's here for.
I don't think it's unreasonable, since I am leaving on my trip
in less than 4 days, to expect that Disney should update their calendar. (They haven't; F! is still not showing on the calendar after Dec. 31.) The calendar is there for a reason -- to plan out your DL experience. Disney encourages this. They have really dropped the ball on this one.
I totally understand that they have to do refurbs, agree that they need to be done, and obviously that would mean that they do it off season. My main concern (and I think most of the people posting in these planning related threads) is that Disney isn't updating their planning calendars -- so how can they plan?
Yes there are a lot of other things to do at DL, but if the info on the calendar is not there to plan with, what are we supposed to do, call our psychic friends network?
I am one of those who intentionally go every year at peak time, and know I will have massive crowds to deal with; they don't bother me, I'm used to it. In exchange, I get to enjoy everything the park offers -- barring any unplanned emergency. I understand that.
Normally they do show the fireworks on the weekends even during the slow/off peak periods so it's perfectly understandable that people would be concerned by the lack of fireworks on the weekend especially if they booked their travel plans months ago. There is no way in heck that Disney did not know about this Main St refurb well in advance. The fact that they have not updated their calendars so that their customers can plan accordingly is not acceptable, imho. Yes, things need to be fixed and can't be running 365 days a year, but it's not impossible for them to update their planning calendars in advance is it? They do it all the time. They've just dropped the ball on it in these last few months. (Or maybe it was intentional, since it was there, and then suddenly, it wasn't there. And then it was back again, but still not completely current.) Anyone who has ever worked for any major corporation who had equipment or site refurbs knows -- a refurb of the magnitude of the one planned for Main St is a MAJOR refurb that was probably planned last year at the latest. It's the corporate way -- they don't do anything on a whim; this was planned out for a long time. The least they should do as a courtesy for people who are planning a DL trip is to update their calendars to reflect current info. If you don't think it's right for people to get upset, concerned or even wonder about the refurbs, (some of those posts you quoted Dreams seemed more like people wondering and hoping for things to be up and running) because some things are going to be down, you have the right to think that. I also think that anyone going anytime in the near future has the right to be concerned and or upset, since
Disney has still not updated their planning calendars to reflect the most current info about F! showing 5 days a week and it doesn't say theat Main Street will be down for refurb either.
And by the way, Dreams, I did post that I was happy F! was going to be shown during my stay. I didn't know that it was to be scheduled 5 days a week, because, again, Disney didn't update the calendars to reflect that when I last posted.
I just checked through Jan 11, and
it's still not showing up on the calendar. If it's true that it will be showing 5 days a week, then that's completely unacceptable. Maybe if they had updated their calendar, I and others would have known this. Then you would have probably seen a lot of happy posts.
I see a lot of people write things on message boards like, "Unless I hear it from Disney then I won't believe it." It's not good to make assumptions that it will be showing 5 days a week when I haven't seen it on the DL planning calendar. That will only lead to disappointment if, in fact, they don't show it 5 days a week, right? I can see it now... Someone goes; F! doesn't show 5 days a week, and they post how disappointed they were because they read about it on The Dis, MP, MC, et al, and it was
supposed to be showing. Then someone else comes along and says, "Did it show up on the DL planning calendar? Well that's what you get for making assumptions!"
And that's why Disney should get on the ball with the DL planning calendar which was and is my biggest concern... Ya'll have a nice day.
Hi wwomant!
I was just going to post over here what you wrote on MP about this! I'm glad they are showing F! Yay!
Disney really should update their calendar though, especially since someone posted that VP knew about this a few months ago.
... thanks, I needed that laugh!
