Time to Allow Park Hopping?

[Gehrig1B]

This may have been discussed elsewhere but... Why not resume park hopping? You get a park reservation and then, on the day of, allow entrance to any other park(s) that has not reached capacity.

1) Out of State APs like myself would consider another trip.
2) Seems to be plenty of capacity available at most of the parks, especially during the week.
3) More would schedule ADRs at park restaurants (esp. Epcot)

Yes, I know, as the park hours are being reduced there would be even less reason to hit 2 parks in a day but with staggered start times, morning park then afternoon park, seems to make some sense to me.

Is this cost cutting - not having to provide park to park transportation for guests without cars?

I'm missing the reasoning behind denying park hopping at this point in time. Ability to hop is never guaranteed based upon park capacity anyway. Those of us with APs have already paid for the privilege. A nice long weekend with park hopping privileges might entice me back.

 

[APiratesLifeForMe2]

My assumption was a crowd control measure. I do think this helps with costs too since they know the exact number of tickets for each park on a given day to staff etc. according. hopping would throw the reservation system out the window too since they could only control total resort wide capacity and not individual park capacity without capping it at the gate which would be frustrating to people. I wish they would allow it in the evenings, say after 3pm so you could go eat dinner somewhere else.

 

[ucf_knight]

I’ve been hearing complaints of people here on the boards of how they are treating AP’s and felt it was an overreaction but now when I look that Disney is booked for two weeks out for AP’s it has me concerned. As a platinum plus AP paying the same price for a lot less (no water parks, no park hopping and now no availability) it has me wondering what we are paying for. Living in Florida with an AP we always do our trips on relative short notice (sometimes just a couple days). I think they could add park hopping if it was controlled like no availability until after 12 or 1. This could be added for AP’s only since we already paid for it and add some value back into our pass. Obviously Disney has a lot to take into consideration and needs to make as much money as they can but hopefully some things will change for the better when it comes to AP’s soon.

 

[Mrsjvb]

It’s possible it’s a caution. Be eliminating park hopping, if someone tests positive, they can reduce exposure to one park.

 

[ctl]

I’ve been hearing complaints of people here on the boards of how they are treating AP’s and felt it was an overreaction but now when I look that Disney is booked for two weeks out for AP’s it has me concerned. As a platinum plus AP paying the same price for a lot less (no water parks, no park hopping and now no availability) it has me wondering what we are paying for. Living in Florida with an AP we always do our trips on relative short notice (sometimes just a couple days). I think they could add park hopping if it was controlled like no availability until after 12 or 1. This could be added for AP’s only since we already paid for it and add some value back into our pass. Obviously Disney has a lot to take into consideration and needs to make as much money as they can but hopefully some things will change for the better when it comes to AP’s soon.

I agree with you that AP's are getting a raw deal right now. I too have Platinum AP's and I bought them specifically so I wouldn't have block out dates and I could park hop (neither of which are available right now.) I always stay on property. But it is not worth the flight and the cost to go all that way for what is currently on offer.

 

[MouseyMin]

I think it's to cut down on transportation costs needed to switch parks. They may not have enough buses to be able to do it.

 

[Jess.stw]

I am on the verge of cancelling my September trip with the new shorter hours...if they reinstated park hopping that would tip the scales to keeping it for sure.

 

[Micca]

I am old, the shortened hours are still longer than I'd want to spend in any one park. Yay me!

 

[Jess.stw]

I am old, the shortened hours are still longer than I'd want to spend in any one park. Yay me!

ha! I’m old too but I like to do stuff in the evenings after it gets cooler! And come back for a mid day rest when it’s hot