member perks

[grumpydad]

has anyone ever suggested or heard of using our dvc member cards or even room keys as a fastpass ? i suggested this to our tour guide when we purchased and he said yeah that's a good idea, i'll mention it to my manager' bet he never did .
i believe at universal it works that way and i feel as memebers or even just staying on site we should have a little advantage against other visitors(not staying on site) to get on rides.

 

[bicker]

The FOTL access has been discussed here quite often. The general sentiment is that, while Disney has twice as many theme parks as Universal, Disney has far more than twice as many hotel rooms, so the same structure is probably infeasible. Some folks feel that that kind of perq is "anti-Disney," though that's debateable.

The current approach Disney has towards providing its own resort guests "a little advantage against other visitors" is Extra Magic Hours. Every day, one of the parks is open an hour early or stays open three hours late, and the attractions are limited to Disney resort guests during those times.

I do think we'll eventually see some sort of FastPass advantage for Disney resort guests, but perhaps not until Disney sees some weakening in the demand. Right now, Disney's load-levels are the envy of the industry, so they really don't need to do much more to keep their hotels as filled as they should be. However, someday perhaps they will, and at that time I'm guessing they'll offer the ability to Disney resort guests to get FastPasses for the day from a kiosk in the hotel lobby, before leaving for the park. There would probably be some limit, but the advantage would be the ability to choose your times, and have a set of FastPasses in-hand. That would be great.

 

[grumpydad]

thanks, i really don't think the "Extra Magic Hours" is that much of a perk, think about it, we as quests have to either get up extra early or stay up until midnight to take advantage, that can really ruin the day before are after you use it. if we go early one day, can we really stay late at another park the day before if we know we have to get up early and on the other side if we stay late do we really want to get up early the next day for another park, being on vacation do we really want to do that

 

[bicker]

I don't use the EMHs myself, but I do recognize how much of a perq they are to those who do. I suppose the point is that they're more than enough of a perq, at this time, to keep the hotels filled to the brim.