We just got back from a 5-day trip. We had a lot of fun, but the cost is getting harder to justify. Everyone has their own breaking point and I think we've reached ours after visiting more than 30 times. I actually don't mind paying for Genie+ (with fewer people using it than Fastpass, you can get some good use out of it if you use it well) and I don't have any real issue with the cost of the food. So, for us, it's not about the cost so much as it is about the decline in value. The entertainment is lacking compared to what it used to be, and the ride breakdowns are off the charts.
Maybe we just got unlucky and happened to be at the rides that were breaking down, but the number of times we had to route to another ride due to a breakdown was a bit silly and negatively impacted our usage of time. Also, the lack of any goodwill gesture seems odd to me. We were on Indy when it broke down and had to sit in there with the emergency lights on for 10 minutes. They eventually got the ride working again and we finished the ride (it kind of sputtered but worked decently). They unloaded us and loaded new passengers. It seemed odd to me that they didn't run us through it again or offer us a pass or something since we didn't really experience the ride as it's intended. Toy Story broke down while we were on it and we were on that ride for 32 minutes as it broke down at each screen. Two of the screens weren't playable on our ride and, like Indy, they unloaded us like normal and loaded the next guests after us after we had a poor experience with the ride. Maybe I'm just expecting too much. We've been on those rides countless times so I wasn't going to waste any time complaining to anyone about it; we just moved on feeling odd about it.
One positive I will note that we appreciated was DL being open 8am to midnight every day. We are rope-droppers and park-closers with a break in the afternoon, so this helped us make up the time we lost in the ride breakdowns.
Maybe we just got unlucky and happened to be at the rides that were breaking down, but the number of times we had to route to another ride due to a breakdown was a bit silly and negatively impacted our usage of time. Also, the lack of any goodwill gesture seems odd to me. We were on Indy when it broke down and had to sit in there with the emergency lights on for 10 minutes. They eventually got the ride working again and we finished the ride (it kind of sputtered but worked decently). They unloaded us and loaded new passengers. It seemed odd to me that they didn't run us through it again or offer us a pass or something since we didn't really experience the ride as it's intended. Toy Story broke down while we were on it and we were on that ride for 32 minutes as it broke down at each screen. Two of the screens weren't playable on our ride and, like Indy, they unloaded us like normal and loaded the next guests after us after we had a poor experience with the ride. Maybe I'm just expecting too much. We've been on those rides countless times so I wasn't going to waste any time complaining to anyone about it; we just moved on feeling odd about it.
One positive I will note that we appreciated was DL being open 8am to midnight every day. We are rope-droppers and park-closers with a break in the afternoon, so this helped us make up the time we lost in the ride breakdowns.