This is a great addition, especially if it tells you the fast route using WDW transportation (bus? monorail? boat? combination?), for example from one resort to another for an early breakfast, or late night dinner back to your own resort.
Being from Canada and not wanting the roaming charges my cell phone gets shut off when I board the plane. It gets put in the safe at the hotel and stays there. I access MDE on my ipad while at the hotel room, but not in park. We stay for a full 2 weeks usually so open to close park days aren't on the agenda and a 4th FP+ has never been used.
So I won't be the one running into to you while walking staring at my phone.
Not saying you want to use your phone in the parks, but if for some reason you did and you didn't want roaming charges, you can always turn off the cellular data on your phone and use the Wi-Fi in the parks. I know it's spotty, but it's still there.
Not saying...just saying...
Agree with this 1000%. I'm not sure where they are at with the countdown clocks at the all the bus stops (if any of you know where they still need to install them, please fill me in), but I'd find great value in this type of info. And if they can integrate it into MDE...even better. For Example, you get to the bus stop and realize you forgot something (sunscreen, water bottle...whatever). If the clock says the bus for the park you're going to is 2 minutes away...I'd say oh well, bite the bullet and buy the sunscreen (or whatever) at the park, or do without it whatever it is. If it says the bus is still 10 minutes or more away, I'll run back to the room. If we're eating breakfast at a resort food court, and then are heading to the bus stop...similar thing. If I can see on MDE that it's coming in a few minutes as we're finishing up, we can hurry it up and get to the bus stop. If it's still 15-20 minutes away, we'll take our time and wait inside in the AC instead of standing outside waiting in the heat.
Yeah...I realize that.
I'm not really a "glued to my phone" type of person anyway.
True...Just a quick PSA, some of the folks you see 'glued' to their phones at the parks are using them as assistive technology and/or alternative communication devices. Like yours truly (autistic, constant need to stim, phone lets me do it without offending your standards of 'good behaviour'). I'm also 20, so I look like a teenager while doing it, but I'm savvy enough to look where I'm going most of the time. If anyone is using their phone at the parks and isn't actively running into you or otherwise being unsafe, keep your judgement to yourself.
I'll get off your lawn if you agree to respect this
You'd be surprised what the rates of diagnosed and undiagnosed disorders like anxiety are among Gen Y and Z. If anything, most of them are applying the principles of adaptive technology (channeling anxiety and forming relationships/communicating with people through the Internet instead of in the stupid nerve-wracking real world) regardless. Maybe I'm just optimistic, but most of the time, I'm seeing teens today using their phones to talk to and share with friends from afar and to play games to pass the time. Which is what we all did before phones...we just had to put up with the people around us instead of being able to tell our real friends about things.True...
But most people glued to their phones are just being the bratty little poops that they are everywhere else on earth...
You'd be surprised what the rates of diagnosed and undiagnosed disorders like anxiety are among Gen Y and Z. If anything, most of them are applying the principles of adaptive technology (channeling anxiety and forming relationships/communicating with people through the Internet instead of in the stupid nerve-wracking real world) regardless. Maybe I'm just optimistic, but most of the time, I'm seeing teens today using their phones to talk to and share with friends from afar and to play games to pass the time. Which is what we all did before phones...we just had to put up with the people around us instead of being able to tell our real friends about things.
True...
But most people glued to their phones are just being the bratty little poops that they are everywhere else on earth...
You'd be surprised what the rates of diagnosed and undiagnosed disorders like anxiety are among Gen Y and Z. If anything, most of them are applying the principles of adaptive technology (channeling anxiety and forming relationships/communicating with people through the Internet instead of in the stupid nerve-wracking real world) regardless. Maybe I'm just optimistic, but most of the time, I'm seeing teens today using their phones to talk to and share with friends from afar and to play games to pass the time. Which is what we all did before phones...we just had to put up with the people around us instead of being able to tell our real friends about things.
You are an extreme exception, but certainly not the norm. Most people who are stuck to their phone have no excuse for doing what they do. Sorry, but that just doesn't float.Just a quick PSA, some of the folks you see 'glued' to their phones at the parks are using them as assistive technology and/or alternative communication devices. Like yours truly (autistic, constant need to stim, phone lets me do it without offending your standards of 'good behaviour'). I'm also 20, so I look like a teenager while doing it, but I'm savvy enough to look where I'm going most of the time. If anyone is using their phone at the parks and isn't actively running into you or otherwise being unsafe, keep your judgement to yourself.
I'll get off your lawn if you agree to respect this
Saw him this morning. Wasn't in MK yesterday.
