RotR Planning & Daily Boarding Group Discussion - *CLOSED*

[Boardwalk III]

Send us a private message so we can compensate you so you stop tweeting us lol.

OK I’m not on Twitter - how do I best send a PM about our displeasure regarding this morning?

 

[NejTheLion]

Yeah but we are in a very busy stretch here normally with DVC December, and Pop, and Holidays.

I would imagine there will be "SOME KIND" of slowdown once January hits. Though it might be small it might help.

I think the best opportunity may be early on January 1 with so many people staying up late the night before. It’s usually a great time to visit MK.

 

[SirBill]

Swan or Dolphin could be really advantageous here...?

Swan/Dolphin (or Boardwalk) is the way to go for a ROTR focused trip. I was there Wednesday through Friday, it was awesome being just a 15 min walk away. You could get up at 4am and be there by 4:30 with a shower. Because I was up early I could ride early, and then when I was done I could go back for a nap whenever I got tired from getting up early.

Or if you have a late boarding pass you can go back to the room to relax and wait for a boarding pass time to come up.

It made my whole trip really enjoyable even when getting up at 4am (or earlier) every day.

 

[Liljo22]

Unless they haven’t opened access to boarding groups until after 6, right? It seems like they should make it possible to sign up for a boarding group as soon as they’re letting people enter the park, rather than letting people in at 6 but then not having boarding passes available until closer to 7. (Times are an example- but it sounds like something similar to this was happening this morning at opening.)

Today was an EMH day so they pretty much had to hold opening BGs until after allowing non resort guests in. It gave non-resort guests and resort guests the same advantage. If they opened BGs as they were letting non-resort guests in, guests there for EMH would scoop up the early boarding times.

Tomorrow not being EMH should go back to first in line first served which would put the 5:30 guest ahead of the 6 one.

 

[DGsAtBLT]

OK I’m not on Twitter - how do I best send a PM about our displeasure regarding this morning?

I’d email, I’m not on twitter either.

 

[Boardwalk III]

I’d email, I’m not on twitter either.

Thanks, anyone know the guest services email for this type of thing?

 

[hiroMYhero]

Yes. Today was the most frustrating day by far IMO.

It makes me wonder if they’ll move to a rolling release of VQ boarding positions every hour, so more people will have a chance to join a boarding group If they arrive later. I just keep thinking, more and more people are going to arrive earlier and earlier if it moves back to the early bird gets the worm like the past 3 days. Does Disney want these bigger and bigger crowds each day?

Today was a test of how to run an EMH morning.

BGs 1-9 were in effect today for the first time and so far, no offsite guest has posted they were assigned one of these BGs.

Studios probably needed to test that BGs could be restricted to EMH guests while offsite guests were also vying for BGs and the system could handle that programming without crashing.

Of course, if offsite guests report they did join groups 1-9 then that blows this theory.

 

[2vets]

Swan/Dolphin (or Boardwalk) is the way to go for a ROTR focused trip.

We went with YC, but only b/c the room we wanted at BWI wasn't available with the discount we were after. the discount that made our "throw money at it" approach more doable, that is . Glad you've been able to do this!

 

[courtney1188]

Today was an EMH day so they pretty much had to hold opening BGs until after allowing non resort guests in. It gave non-resort guests and resort guests the same advantage. If they opened BGs as they were letting non-resort guests in, guests there for EMH would scoop up the early boarding times.

Tomorrow not being EMH should go back to first in line first served which would put the 5:30 guest ahead of the 6 one.

I’m going on an EMH day though! And am staying on site. I guess I’m confused - what’s the point of EMH if you can’t ride ROTR during it?

 

[Weedy]

Today was a test of how to run an EMH morning.

BGs 1-9 were in effect today for the first time and so far, no offsite guest has posted they were assigned one of these BGs.

Studios probably needed to test that BGs could be restricted to EMH guests while offsite guests were also vying for BGs and the system could handle that programming without crashing.

Of course, if offsite guests report they did join groups 1-9 then that blows this theory.

Anyone know why 1-9 wasn’t used the first few days and now it is?

 

[ForceIsStrongInMyFamily]

I’m going on an EMH day though! And am staying on site. I guess I’m confused - what’s the point of EMH if you can’t ride ROTR during it?

I think having opportunity to ride the Tier 1 rides is still part of the point. Kind of the same value as it was a week ago. You can still get a lot done in that time frame.

 

[kae11]

As far as we could tell, it would have been difficult for an offsite guest to get an early boarding group. The groups were open for several minutes before they let any off site guest scan into the park.

 

[hiroMYhero]

Anyone know why 1-9 wasn’t used the first few days and now it is?

Probably because they programmed these BGs to use on EMH mornings for onsite guests.

 

[DGsAtBLT]

Thanks, anyone know the guest services email for this type of thing?

I think it's guest.services@disneyworld.com, but not 100% sure.

I’m going on an EMH day though! And am staying on site. I guess I’m confused - what’s the point of EMH if you can’t ride ROTR during it?

Well that remains to be seen lol. If they operate similar to this morning the only advantage is (ironically) being able to sleep a little later on an EMH morning and arrive later to grab the BG, unless of course you want to ride other things.

 

[DGsAtBLT]

As far as we could tell, it would have been difficult for an offsite guest to get an early boarding group. The groups were open for several minutes before they let any off site guest scan into the park.

Wait, did I miss this posted somewhere? I thought they were already in and being held when the BG opened.

 

[ofcabbagesandkings]

Going during EMH two weeks from today, Ogas and Droid Depot ADRs have us locked into an EMH day unfortunately. Right now the posted hours are 9am regular opening with 8am EMH. If I get there at 6:30, should we be OK to get through security tap in and get a BG? Was hoping to do SDD and Aliens during EMH because we don’t have FP for either ride.

 

[DGsAtBLT]

Going during EMH two weeks from today, Ogas and Droid Depot ADRs have us locked into an EMH day unfortunately. Right now the posted hours are 9am regular opening with 8am EMH. If I get there at 6:30, should we be OK to get through security tap in and get a BG? Was hoping to do SDD and Aliens during EMH because we don’t have FP for either ride.

No way to really know at this point. Depends when Disney opens the VQ, this morning the didn't do it until about an hour and 20 minutes into EMH.

If they stick with what they did this morning, you'll have to keep an eye on your phone but should be totally fine for SDD and Alien with that plan.

 

[kae11]

I was at the gates this morning as an off site. The groups were definitely open before we were let in. Less than five minutes but there definitely was a small gap

 

[wareagle57]

Wait, did I miss this posted somewhere? I thought they were already in and being held when the BG opened.

Pretty sure this is correct. I've seen that said multiple times. At the mickey touchpoints, they do not determine if a guest has EMH or not. Anyone with a ticket can scan in. You have to check in at another point if you have EMH.

 

[DGsAtBLT]

I was at the gates this morning as an off site. The groups were definitely open before we were let in. Less than five minutes but there definitely was a small gap

Thanks! I believe you're our first offsite guest"on the scene" lol.