News Round Up 2017

[leholcomb]

Tikiman is reporting on Facebook that a fee for self-parking may be coming to Disney hotels in Orlando......

It's not surprising. The Disneyland hotels already do this. Another method to keep you from driving in. This ties in nicely with the traffic congestion conversation...

 

[TwoMisfits]

And last thing I'll say about waits and getting out of MK vs other places...

It's is 1 million percent better to be sitting in an air-conditioned car with all your crap stashed and with kids buckled in and falling asleep in car seats to quiet music while waiting for traffic to clear than standing in a non-moving line in sticky heat, pushing a stroller or dragging a little bigger one with people over-tired, dehydrated, and in foot/leg pain surrounding you and getting crankier by the wait...

 

[STLstone]

Tikiman is reporting on Facebook that a fee for self-parking may be coming to Disney hotels in Orlando......

Whoa.

I've been thinking they would limit Uber on their hotel properties to force people into Minnie Vans. But instead they're going to make your own vehicle cost more - to try to get you to leave it at home - to try to get you into a Minnie Van.

2 steps ahead of me Disney, well played. IF TRUE.

 

[Killer Fish]

Charging for parking at the hotels would make a lot of "business" sense.....basically pure profit.

 

[MommaBerd]

News

Jingle Bell Jingle BAM will be back this holiday season!

I hope it is with some changes to the story/show. I was not impressed last year...

ETA - and I'm typically easy to please.

 

[MommaBerd]

Tikiman is reporting on Facebook that a fee for self-parking may be coming to Disney hotels in Orlando......

For hotel guests or for people coming to dine or shop there? Because if it is as a hotel guest, that just became a strike against staying on property.

 

[CJK]

For hotel guests or for people coming to dine or shop there? Because if it is as a hotel guest, that just became a strike against staying on property.

He's saying for hotel guests. They already do this at the Disneyland hotels.

 

[Roxyfire]

When I am there with only adults (which is only once in the last 4 or 5 trips), this is great. It doesn't work so well when you have little ones who are tired and you hope they get enough rest so they aren't terrorists when you are at rope drop the next morning for a different park.

Even with mine, I wouldn't expect him to stay up til midnight then rope drop the next day. It's just common sense. You have to pick and choose those times of staying up late vs getting up early. Personally, I'd rather push the boundary at night, collect all the cool mom tokens and sleep in the next day. We often do this on our last night at disney because we'll swap over to universal or have a late flight out. Obviously it doesn't work for those taking that 5am DME. Even smarter is to do it midweek so you aren't hoping your last night doesn't get torrential rain. Obviously the holiday season makes it even harder to manage this. But I feel like with kids, you gotta pick one or the other or you're setting yourself up for misery!

 

[joelkfla]

Minnie Vans have been spotted in the bus lanes already so people are assuming they can drop off there. Compared to some UberXL Disney isn't charging much extra if at all. Now if it is just one person it may not be worth it but for a group of 5 or 6 it could totally be worth it especially with the car seat option.

If you add the cost of a child car seat on Uber, Minnie Vans are usually cheaper than XL and almost competitive even with X. (I'm assuming Disney is not charging extra for use of the car seats, but I haven't seen that confirmed anywhere.)

 

[rteetz]

 

[jsebsirois]

Not park related, but Moana is joining the Disney on Ice line-up in a new version of the show Dare to Dream :

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170718005215/en/

 

[Tigger's ally]

When I am there with only adults (which is only once in the last 4 or 5 trips), this is great. It doesn't work so well when you have little ones who are tired and you hope they get enough rest so they aren't terrorists when you are at rope drop the next morning for a different park.

My wife can't always get a full 2 weeks off her job, but I'm hoping she can next time so we never have 2 park days back to back and we can avoid that issue.

You planned a park closing and then a rope drop? With Kids?

I'd sooner ride It's a Small world for three straight days!

 

[Tigger's ally]

Perhaps Uber would get a lot more of an avenue inside the gates if they sponsored something! I hear Illuminations needs a sponsor?

 

[wareagle57]

Perhaps Uber would get a lot more of an avenue inside the gates if they sponsored something! I hear Illuminations needs a sponsor?

How about RnR?

"I ordered you guys an Uber XL. (get head count, laughs to self) Make that an Uber XXL."

Then at the launch sequence the "driver" can offer you his aux cable so you can play whatever music you'd like to listen to on your ride. Maybe even offer a free bottle of water and a chance to charge your phone during the ride.

 

[mickeyfanachey1999]

And that would work great...without little kids...when you are already staying past bedtime, staying another hour is probably not a good plan...

I mean, this is the park for little kids, touting how wonderful it is for families...the exit is anything but good...especially when it involve lining up with pushing, sweaty, unhappy people...the meltdowns I've seen over the years...it's not a "magical" ending...

Conversely, every other park, you just walk out - it's glorious in comparison...

It's been the only strategy that makes any sense for us since DS15 was 5. Now with him and his brother DS6 it still seems to work well. But they both lean toward being nightowls and we aren't rope drop commando types so I'm sure that has an impact on how well it works for us.

 

[rteetz]

News

First Look at Disney MaxPass Coming July 19 to Disneyland Resort

 

[rteetz]

News

New Adventures Begin at Mission: SPACE in August at Epcot

 

[Buckeye218]

You add hot air balloons, blimps, 2 person bikes, and all other kinds of Suessian travel.

That's it...I hereby refuse to return to MK until they install an entire fleet of moss-covered, three-handled family grudunzas!!!

 

[RhodyOrange]

News

New Adventures Begin at Mission: SPACE in August at Epcot

Wasn't there a contradictory statement earlier today that MS wasn't going to reopen until September?

 

[rteetz]

News

According to Len Testa and Touring Plans, Flight of Passage is now the highest rated theme park attraction in the US.