I HIGHLY recommend renting DVC points in your situation. (It's what we're doing) Take a look at that versus moderate resort prices and I think you'll be surprised.
As someone who travels to multiple amusement parks each year and usES different skip the line systems, FP+ was awesome and we never waited in stand by for literally anything for many years at WDW.
Geez, you really hate your phone.
Actually I've seen this complaint about G+ too. Too much like a video game and not sure what you're going to "score". I don't mind playing the game, but some do.
Agree. I think the onsite value prop has taken a beating in the last year, but I'd rather not see it rectified at offsite's expense. I'm baffled by Disney's decision to cut Magical Express. Their strategy should be to make it easy for high rollers to drop $$$, and hassle-free airport-to-room baggage transfer seemed like a good way to achieve that. And yet they cut it to save ¢¢¢. Silliness.
Same here. We were thinking of staying at the Poly but it got too expensive. We then started looking at moderates and then realized that we might be able to get a deluxe DVC for a price that might be higher than just a moderate but not as much as the Poly. We ended up with BLT for this summer. First time renting DVC points (we did it through David's). Hoping it's a smart move!
Well, I clearly wasn't making a complaint.
I appreciate that you have made it work for you and have a positive outlook - but if I can represent another viewpoint: it has always seemed ludicrous to me that people plan Disney World vacations that skip or barely touch the parks. That pool and that drink are obscenely overpriced and there's a big world out there. Even if we had ever made the leap with DVC, I wouldn't use my points on an Orlando property if I wasn't going to the parks.
While that may work well for you, most of the people going to WDW aren't paying that much money to sit by a pool when they could do that somewhere else for a fraction of the price.
Agree. My phone enhances my WDW experience. I use it a lot for navigating around the parks, checking weather, and staying touch with my party. G+ too but generally at defined intervals.
FP+ being free was the only good thing about it. The reason I hate both skip the line systems Disney uses is cause of the return time aspect of it. I do enough scheduling in my day to day life. When on vacation a schedule is the last thing I want.
You didn’t have to. If you were able to book a morning FP for a ride you wanted that worked. Your could either book evening times and modify them as others mentioned or just go in with 1 or 2 and then refresh day of to fill in your 3. The 3 only really mattered at tiered parks. A lot of people would book the easiest Tier 1 they could get at Epcot, fill in with throw away Tier 2s that they just tapped out and didn’t ride.
No one had to. You could have picked your 3 FPs and been good with those and waited in line for the rest. It was absolutely a choice I made. Memorizing the times that FOP FPs were available to me was a very small price to pay to be able to ride without a 2 hour wait. YMMV.
I don’t know what you’re talking about with “getting value out of an on site stay.” I was offering my opinion that going on a vacation to WDW and not going to the parks has never made any sense to me. (Of course, I never understood mid-day breaks until I did…or scheduling non-park days until I did. So maybe I just need another decade.)
