News Round Up 2018

[skier_pete]

Man I could totally see someone buying up a parking lot somewhere north of WDW where it thins out a bit. Valet service. You drive there, they drive you in your car to the resort, you unload, they take the car back to the lot. Have an app where the day before you can request your car for the day and they bring it to the resort early a.m. (pre-rush hours) with a pickup vehicle for all the drivers. Your car is then waiting when you wake up, you can bring it in and out of the lot all day, and they come pick it back up after say 10 or 12 p.m. Not real inconvenient, but I'm thinking not many people would use the car that often. Charge by the pickup. So $10 per day, $10 per dropoff, one free dropoff/pickup to get you to the hotel and back.

You'd need a bunch of workers early a.m. and late p.m. to shift the cars around for each day, and a few during the day for the regular drop offs, plus a shuttle for your fleet of drivers after they've dropped the vehicles off.

Well, the problem with $10 a day is that it's not that much less than just paying to park and having the convenience of your car. I think you'd have to do something like car rentals do. Maybe $8 per day or say $35 for 7 days. You'd have to be on the low end of airport parking to make it work. The shuttling people back and forth thing is a big hassle too, you'd have to have set pick up times - maybe have a shuttle for every 2 or 3 resorts. I am not sure you could make the model profitable, though. As someone else said, you have to pay for land - which is NOT cheap even in Florida. Stroller rentals has high profit margin. Once you pay the $200 for a stroller, you make $10 a day and after 20 days its all profit. Just not sure you could it cheap enough to make it worth while as a business venture.

While I think in the end is this won't have a lot of effect. A few people will move off-site. Even more won't rent a car when they come. But mostly people will pay it. I've learned over the last 10 years of being on these boards that nothing Disney seems to do dissuades people from coming.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Well, the problem with $10 a day is that it's not that much less than just paying to park and having the convenience of your car. I think you'd have to do something like car rentals do. Maybe $8 per day or say $35 for 7 days. You'd have to be on the low end of airport parking to make it work. The shuttling people back and forth thing is a big hassle too, you'd have to have set pick up times - maybe have a shuttle for every 2 or 3 resorts. I am not sure you could make the model profitable, though. As someone else said, you have to pay for land - which is NOT cheap even in Florida. Stroller rentals has high profit margin. Once you pay the $200 for a stroller, you make $10 a day and after 20 days its all profit. Just not sure you could it cheap enough to make it worth while as a business venture.

While I think in the end is this won't have a lot of effect. A few people will move off-site. Even more won't rent a car when they come. But mostly people will pay it. I've learned over the last 10 years of being on these boards that nothing Disney seems to do dissuades people from coming.

or, for every person that taps out and says "that's it!" there are two people to take their spot .... and that will be like 10 more once Star Wars:GE opens

 

[MommaBerd]

or, for every person that taps out and says "that's it!" there are two people to take their spot .... and that will be like 10 more once Star Wars:GE opens

AND more than likely they will have never been to WDW and won’t be surprised by the “parking fee” because they will not have known anything different.

 

[rteetz]

News

UPDATE: runDisney Wine & Dine Half Marathon Registration Will Open March 20 at Noon

 

[Carol Jackson]

Isn’t Disney Springs a great big off-site parking lot with an already free shuttle service?

 

[rteetz]

Isn’t Disney Springs a great big off-site parking lot with an already free shuttle service?

There is not transportation to the parks from Disney Springs.

 

[JETSDAD]

There is not transportation to the parks from Disney Springs.

But it is a short walk to a SSR bus stop.

 

[DizDaD7]

Or if the car is not needed for the whole week, they can leave it there and just use resort transp.

 

[thepops]

Both Iger and Chapek have areas at Castaway Cay.

Do you mean TakeYourCashAway Cay??

 

[thepops]

Esp in a new 21 and older Resort.

Come on Baby.... Roll a 7! Daddy needs to pay the parking fees!

 

[thepops]

Man I could totally see someone buying up a parking lot somewhere north of WDW where it thins out a bit. Valet service. You drive there, they drive you in your car to the resort, you unload, they take the car back to the lot. Have an app where the day before you can request your car for the day and they bring it to the resort early a.m. (pre-rush hours) with a pickup vehicle for all the drivers. Your car is then waiting when you wake up, you can bring it in and out of the lot all day, and they come pick it back up after say 10 or 12 p.m. Not real inconvenient, but I'm thinking not many people would use the car that often. Charge by the pickup. So $10 per day, $10 per dropoff, one free dropoff/pickup to get you to the hotel and back.

You'd need a bunch of workers early a.m. and late p.m. to shift the cars around for each day, and a few during the day for the regular drop offs, plus a shuttle for your fleet of drivers after they've dropped the vehicles off.

Like an owner's locker for your car!

 

[rteetz]

News

Blizzard Beach closure extended

https://www.wdwmagic.com/attraction...d-beach-closure-extended-through-thursday.htm

 

[rteetz]

News

Guardians show at Epcot starts June 9th

http://blogmickey.com/2018/03/the-g...some-mix-live-concert-series-begins-june-9th/

 

[Capang]

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Guardians show at Epcot starts June 9th

http://blogmickey.com/2018/03/the-g...some-mix-live-concert-series-begins-june-9th/

I so love the Guardians soundtracks. I really hope this isn't along the same lines as the dance parties at MK. Those drive me nuts and I hate having to navigate around those more almost more than I hate getting rolled over by strollers.

 

[rteetz]

News

Save the Date: Incredible Summer Begins May 25 at Walt Disney World Resort

 

[TheMaxRebo]

I so love the Guardians soundtracks. I really hope this isn't along the same lines as the dance parties at MK. Those drive me nuts and I hate having to navigate around those more almost more than I hate getting rolled over by strollers.

This is in the big theater in World Showcase so you would have to go into the theater to see this and assume no strollers down by the dance floor area in front of the stage - so should be different structure than the dance parties in MK

 

[rteetz]

News

Morimoto Asia's Month-Long Sakura Festival Celebrates Cherry Blossoms, Begins Today

 

[rteetz]

News

Apparently former ESPN President John Skipper was a Cocaine user

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/f...is-espn-exit-a-cocaine-extortion-plot-1094657

 

[Capang]

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Apparently former ESPN President John Skipper was a Cocaine user

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/f...is-espn-exit-a-cocaine-extortion-plot-1094657

Maybe I've seen too many '80's movies about corporate America but this stuff never surprises me anymore.

 

[skier_pete]

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Guardians show at Epcot starts June 9th

http://blogmickey.com/2018/03/the-g...some-mix-live-concert-series-begins-june-9th/

I know there's a lot of hate towards this, but a little disappointed it will end 6 days before we arrive in August. I was hoping it would be something to look forward to, but it really depends on if it is just the tunes being played (not a live band) then it's probably pretty skip-able.

Maybe I've seen too many '80's movies about corporate America but this stuff never surprises me anymore.

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