The last minute stuff does get to me at times, but obviously as a business they can’t be constrained by only being able to make decisions today and putting them in effect 6mos from now! Then they’d be accused of not reacting fast enough to business realities and there would be all kinds of side effects from that.
I was hoping to plan an awesome trip to WDW for mine and my daughter’s birthdays in Jan. We just got our vacation approved so we haven’t booked yet and we’re just going to wait for 2019 deals to drop in early Oct. It’s looking more and more like it might not be awesome and maybe we should reconsider where we should go. It was going to be a trip all about me and my daughter to begin with and now my train loving son would have NO train since the MK railroad will be closed too. Poor guy— the one at our local zoo was broken all summer and every time we went he looked like he could cry! My kids loved Rafikis. Rafiki is their fave m&g (and chip and dale when they were there) and they love brushing the goats. Seeing as I have one kid that’s only 40 inches it’s nice to have some things to do with her while her bro gets to ride fop and Everest too. Now we’d pay Disney prices for her to basically play in the boneyard all day. Especially since Kali will probably be closed too. AK is MY fave park but maybe won’t be able to justify it on my birthday trip. Or even justify a bday trip. I think if Disney is looking to boost attendance they should not be cutting offerings. It’s making me reconsider my trip and I’m a Disney nut. I can’t imagine what other people who are just starting to research and come up with these threads about closures would think.
Probably a technicality, but I understood these were equity actors employed by an agency, not directly by Disney. And just to be clear, not all of The Citizens of Hollywood have been let go. There are just fewer of them now.
Wondering how much they charge per mile.
Which still isn’t good. It takes away from what the citizens are.
Make that 6 months two years, and then you have their approach to cast member retention and labor negotiations.
Yeah it’s not just the closing of that. And I realize that most wouldn’t cancel for that reason but if you are googling January WDW and you see that last year the lines were so long, complaints about garbages overflowing because I’d staffing etc, then add the closing/canceling of so much it seems like a disappointing time to go. Not the way to get their crowd numbers back oin the upswing, unless they just don’t care about that til Star Wars and 50th. We typically go in summer because I’m a teacher. We will still go without Rafiki, just might wait until there is more to do and go somewhere I can gaurentee nice weather in Jan. Still need to decide
I feel bad for your son. Lucky for us the train in MK is supposed to be open when we are there in mid October but the hours still are not listed yet so I don't feel like we are out of the clear yet. DS will flip out if all the steam trains are closed at the last minute. His top things he was looking forward to for our Disney trip were to ride the train in AK, see the snakes in AK, ride the train in MK and ride Slinky Dog Dash. I guess what makes it even worse is this was dropped less than a month before we leave. The other thing is unlike some people on here this is our first trip and if we go again it won't be for several years.
Definitely not two rides.
Very stale. Ha!
