many many things, LOL. The buffets got dropped due to HIGH risk of covid spread, characters, I have no idea, raised prices,it worked. Most are still paying them.
Us too, just minus the Parks for now.
it doesn't, and IN my humble opinion and experience they never really got magic bands to work super well, but it did get better. However long ago we realized to cut back on frustration, take a hard copy of EVERYTHING with you. At least once during each trip it has been a vacation saver. I do not have a phone, nor do I take my small tablet with me into the park. I leave the mobile stuff up to others and warn them about their upcoming frustration. We laugh about it. BUT we live nearby now, so it's not that big a deal. I can't tell you how many accidents of varying kinds and dangers we witness because people have their eyes on their phones instead of where they are going. People losing track of their kid, tripping, falling over strollers, walking into things, and one time a young women trying to do something on her phone and keep track of two kids ran right into a older person and knocked her right down on her butt. Another women with her, slapped that phone woman right across the face! Welcome to the happiest place on earth?The OP really made me stop and think back to the 90s and even early 2000s. Back in the day, it was a lot easier to get ready for vacation. It's interesting that back then room reservations were made by calling the 800 number, tickets were purchased the same way, and ditto for the dining reservations. Often you didn't have to wait on hold for someone to pick up and rarely was it more than 15 minutes. The person who took the call could complete everything reliably in maybe 10 minutes. They didn't hang, or crash. It's pretty bad that technology, coupled with policy changes, has made it way harder, more involved, and takes much more time than the human-intensive way of the past.
Back then, we also had free choice the morning of as to which resort to visit. Weather is cold, let's do MK today and we'll go to Typhoon Lagoon on Thursday when it warms back up, for example. We were still planners, carefully reading both the Unofficial Guide and Burnbaum, and developing each park's plan, but that anticipation of the vacation during planning was itself fun. And, we had the plan for which rides to do first and the order we would get fast passes on whatever day we ended up in that park.
Now, I swear it takes me way longer and it's way harder to successfully get the vacation set up using the technology given us, and forget about trying to get a human to help these days. In making operations cheaper (for Disney), they have made it way harder and frustrating for the guest. Fold in all the long-lived (unaddressed) bugs and the technology actually interferes with the "story". It took Disney literally years from the time it was first rolled out to get something as simple as online check in to be reliable. Forget about the fiasco rolling out magic bands and MDE.
The required park reservations still make it impossible (or at least risky depending on the week) to swap days around last minute during the trip. But, I'm really hoping Genie+ (despite the fee and current technology issues) gets us closer to the days of paper fast passes, when we tended to get on a lot more of the rides we wanted and weren't distracted from enjoying the story.
You are 100% correct!
You buying those passes and not seeing how they are taking advantage of us is making it harder for all of us. Just sayin. Glad you can waste money, most of us can't.
See, this one doesn't bother me at all as we never used the service. Ever. Having said that, I can certainly understand why it would irritate folks that did use the service.
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Wait what? Crystal Palace not having characters is a hangover from COVID that's waiting on staffing levels to get back up to normal. They haven't been eliminated.
Well it wasn't open for breakfast last week when we were at WDW. If there plans to bring it back, I'd sure like to know when. We have another trip in September and would love to go.
Sorry, and with no disrespect, but this is absurd.
My daughter and her friend flew to the Galapagos around Dec 10, 2021 and had an awesome time! They stayed at a small (and very clean) hotel for under $50 a night, which included fresh fruit, coffee and breads each day. It was a budget trip but not a budget experience. The lodging owner picked them up at the airport, offered all kinds of information on what to do and where to go, even to the point of offering to do their laundry if needed. They visited various beaches, did a fishing boat expedition of some sort, visited a compound with the turtles as well as saw them in the wild, and did other stuff I can't remember right now. It's absolutely possible to go and stay deluxe as well, but sometimes the experiences can be first class without being super expensive. I followed along demanding whatsapp videos and pictures as it was my idea of a quick getaway. The first video had a seal waddling around and a blue footed booby on the rocks - so exciting!
