minniemous
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- Jul 31, 2013
I hope that they do it to try and get rid of the "cheaters", people trying to stay that did not pay for a ticket. We always see a few every party.
Just to see it from the other perspective...
I have been to both Halloween and Christmas parties a couple of times each. I have also not gone to the party but gone to MK on a party days. I have booked dinner around 6:30 on those days simply so we do not waste park time on an early closing night eating and that happens to be the time we generally like to eat our dinner preferably at 7pm. There is absolutely no attempt to cheat and hang out at the party. Our intention is to eat our dinner at a reasonable dinner time and then leave the park which is completely understandable. Dining Reservation CM's have in the past told guests not attending the party they can book reservations up to 7pm and I would say in my experience encouraged it.
I would say it is much more annoying for the non-paying party park guests on party nights. Inevitably as we are leaving the park after eating we are "spotted" by the disney CM's and made to feel like criminals and been escorted to the exit even though that is where we are headed at a good pace. Also received comments from party guests (as we are exiting the park) We are not lingering or trying to hang out. I find it so hard to believe that anyone could get through the night not spotted by CM's. Perhaps people have a system of doing so and I think that is very unfair to paying guests. That being said I think the non-party goers have it much worse. I feel there is nothing wrong with eating dinner and leaving the park directly after.
One year our stroller was parked back near the mermaid ride and we had a BOG dinner reservation. I told the CM at BOG where I checked in that my stroller was over there and I was going to run and get it now. They said no leave it there and get it after dinner and that it will be fine. Oh my goodness the way we were treated when we left BOG and a CM saw us heading that way to get our stroller. A nice CM told a manager of some kind that we had to get our stroller and she gave us such look and told the CM to not leave us and then said what she thought I could not hear...make sure they even have a stroller parked there and take them to the exit. So yes we went and got our stroller and then got escorted to the park exit.
Frankly if they change the time to eat dinner to non-party goers to before 6pm..I will not go on a party night. I do not like eating that early and I really do not want to pay for a day at MK and leave at 7pm and then have to go and eat somewhere else. It is getting harder to plan trips around party nights. We have done them,do not love them and do not want to do one every trip. However if we want to go to MK (of course everyone does) we find ourselves going to the party to avoid the crowds on non-party nights.
On the party nights I have been there...I have not noticed "cheaters" I am not looking for them and I am just there to have fun...the few people who fall between the cracks are of no concern to me. If there were tons of people blatantly cheating then it would be a different story. My guess is they do a fairly good job getting people out and do not have to resort to changing the dining time for non-party goers. They certainly get "us" and we are not trying to cheat!
Is there anyone else here who sees it my way? Have you gone on party nights and had dinner that has ended after the 7pm time? I feel like it would be near impossible to not be spotted. It is tough for people not wanting to go the party. There are so many parties now and on non-party nights MK is so crowded.
Wow sorry that was along post!
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