I completely agree with you, however, this only applies to American tourists. Jim from Kissimmee staying at the Super 8 will get to choose his selections 3 days before arriving, whereas a Canadian shelling out for 2 weeks at a deluxe resort (aka me) won't get to make my selections until I arrive on american soil. That is frustrating.
what email address did you use? and where is the petition?
I really hope that VPN will be a workaround or that Disney realises that this rule is not okay.
I didn't realize that internationals staying onsite have this challenge. That would be rough.
I had totally forgotten about free MagicBands! Those were the days
I'm reading that VPN won't work because it's through location services on the phone. Unfortunately, my party can't take the risk of trying because we are arriving on July 27th. I can't believe i'm actually typing the words, but on the 24th we are going to drive down to the states to do the selections. I've done a lot of hoop jumping for the mouse, but this one takes the cake.
They should just bake it in to the cost of the rooms for the onsite guests. Then have a separate charge only for the off-site guests. Basically exactly like Universal does.
These were my thoughts until I saw the dreaded tier system will be in place again!
Bob Chapek had said approx 50% utilization in a 2022 earnings call, but since then I feel like I recall Iger saying something like 70% utilization in a recent call. I've listened to every call as a shareholder. You also have to consider that 70% could mean that closer to 100% of guests use it, but not every single day. Or that stat could be manipulated to be 70% utilize it for at least 50% of their park days, we really don't know other than that the utilization has risen since early days of G+, hence allowing them to go from $15 at the start to dynamic pricing that can hit $39 around Christmas.
'Lucky' me is only planning to travel back in October 2025 and who knows how the system looks by then. But if the system will remain as it currently looks like, I will reconsider spending more than in WDW vs Universal... we'll see!
This is so odd and unfair. Given that Disney often gives promotions for international customers that aren’t available to domestic customers, it seems unlikely that this is some Disney conspiracy to treat international customers poorly, but, instead, some sort of IT issue or external issue. Regardless, I expect this to change.
At this point, none of the Meet and Greets are included.
