I've been lurking in the shadow for weeks....and couldn't take it anymore.
I'm one of those people who really sees the benefits of
MDE. In theory, it should make our vacations easier to plan-- but my last two visits have been infinitely more stressful BECAUSE of MDE. 18 months ago, our trip was planned and ready to roll--we had all the ADR's, FP+'s, special event tickets for all the times and days we wanted. Fantastic until my daughter went to the hospital and we had to postpone our trip at the last minute. It was a monumental feat to get ADR's during Free Dining...yikes..and to get FP+'s (especially on days where MK was opened half-day for parties). Our plan wasn't ideal, but we made it work despite a ton of planning stress.
THIS time, we dropped the dining plan because of the stress of planning ADR's. We're trying to plan a trip for the last week of April-- and we'd really like to see AK at night (thinking this should off-set a half-closed DHS). When Dis announced RoL, we got the kids excited about the show, safari, etc... and now we're less than a month away, and we have no idea what's going on. I know it's 1st world problems, but why did Dis make an announcement about the 22nd?? That alone wouldn't have been a big deal...but THEN they release After Hours packages during our trip that seem like a colossal desperate cash grab. I'm sure this will all work out, but it's a headache and I need a vacation from planning for a vacation.
Bottom line, my kids are 5 and 7 and this is probably the last Dis trip we'll make for awhile---not only are we considering Universal, but we may go there instead of AK on our upcoming trip. Dis really needs to get it's stuff together.
Ok.. going to go back to the shadows....
