lockedoutlogic
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Sorry for the duplicate post.....
Then you know that once you "crap"...you never go back
Sorry for the duplicate post.....
As a Disneyland goer I don't think WDW regulars realize how small our walkways are! This saves you a miserable sprint/crawl to get across jammed pack sidewalks. On busy days it's very time consuming all to retrieve a piece of paper.
He's saying you don't need to be on Wi-Fi to get the digital FPs, you can just use the data on your cellphone. I would imagine it won't take a ton of data, so I don't think unlimited data will be necessary. It would be very unusual for someone who has a smartphone who can download the DL App not to have data (actually on most carriers I believe it is impossible to have a smartphone without a data plan).
I'm curious, since I've never done it.... how do e-Tickets work on the app now? From what I can tell, you can buy more than one eTicket on the app under one account and scan them all at the gate to exchange them for the paper tickets. It would seem, then, that the MaxPass would only have to be bought on one account (eventually...maybe not now, but eventually) and it would be for length of ticket. You would scan the app for redemption. This saves the gate from having to hand you a hard ticket...
In my world of make believe, I am hoping that Maxpass is offered as a no extra cost perk for those staying at a Disney resort. As the song goes: "Dream until your dream comes true."
In my world of make believe, I am hoping that Maxpass is offered as a no extra cost perk for those staying at a Disney resort. As the song goes: "Dream until your dream comes true."
That seems like it would be appropriate incentive to book a resort room. As a Floridian, when I was considering DLR, I wouldn't pay the prices to stay on property when I can pay so much less to stay across the street.
In my world of make believe, I am hoping that Maxpass is offered as a no extra cost perk for those staying at a Disney resort. As the song goes: "Dream until your dream comes true."
That seems like it would be appropriate incentive to book a resort room. As a Floridian, when I was considering DLR, I wouldn't pay the prices to stay on property when I can pay so much less to stay across the street.
People aren't going to pay 100-500 more a night for something that costs a family of 4 $40 a day.
With only 3 onsite hotels, they really don't seem to have trouble keeping the rooms full at DLR. This is not WDW with 25 hotels to keep full.
Don't doubt the consumer.People aren't going to pay 100-500 more a night for something that costs a family of 4 $40 a day.
Yet, people pay for the dining plan.
I'm not saying it's enough to make *ME* book, but it might sway someone to staying onsite vs across the street.
Don't doubt the consumer.
People pay hundreds of dollars for earlier access to FP+ and 10 extra days of dining reservations here in Florida, and both of those are free
WDW includes much more for free for on site guests. If any one is booking onsite just for the FP+ and dinning then they are being silly. Really people book onsite in FL because of the convenience especially with transportation. Magical Express and the property buses can drastically save a family the cost of a rental car. DL does not have a free airport shuttle, and the ART is consistent and affordable but there are more then enough hotels with in walking distance of the Disney property. In FL you can't get extra hours for free off site. You must be an onsite guest to get that perk no matter how many days worth of tickets you buy. In sharp contrast in DL you can get a free morning magic hour at DL with any 3 or more day ticket.
As PP pointed out DL has 3 hotels right now and those hotels are filling just fine and on top of that Disney really would have to compete on a far bigger level to get people to book that weren't going to book there in the first place. Again when you are talking 100 or more a night that would be like saying people who stay at Value would suddenly splurge for Deluxe if they got 3 more FP+ at deluxe. Sure there may be a handful that do it but realistically it won't bring in a ton of new business or upgrades. Now if Disney charged $10 more per a person per a day across the board for those additional 3 we would see almost every deluxe hotel guest paying the upchage, a large amount of moderates, and a decent amount of values which would be more value to the company then a couple of value guests upgrading to deluxe.
One thing that has always been clear to me when looking at the great Disney parks business is that DL and WDW are two completely different beasts and trying to compare the two would leave a lot of room for short comings. You can not run DL like WDW or WDW like DL they serve drastically different demographics and markets. That's one reason DL gets a ton of changes and specialty things that WDW doesn't get (Haunted Mansion over lay, space mountain overlays, candy cane making).
People book $25/person breakfasts at BOG for an empty park picture. Guests do silly things. And there are whole threads on throwaway rooms - why else would someone do that? Booking a Disney/Good Neighbor hotel through Disney to get MaxPass is not something I'd put past anyoneIf any one is booking onsite just for the FP+ and dinning then they are being silly
That's because WDW is a hotel company that operates theme parks.
DLR is a theme park business that operates hotels.
Well, good for one or two people for one or two days ... not so much if every member of a family 5 has to get it for 5 days (or even 2 as that would be $100 vs $80 for the current photopass)