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Too many variables. Imagine a flight is 400 a person but I don’t know where you live. Rooms will run you from 220 a night for the not as nice places to a grand a night. You can get good rooms for 4-500 a night. You can package park tickets in with your hotel but they’re probably a 100 a person per day.
It can be rough. We had a great stay this past week but we barely went to the parks. The campground there is awesome and more than plenty to do to fill a day.
Yep. Been there a few times as my brother in law takes his camper to Fort Wilderness during Christmas each year. I was floored when I heard how much the cabins were. I only live an hour away, but the wife knows not to ask me to come along when she goes.
Update on taking a Lyft/Uber to Contemporary and walking to MK…Had a breakfast reservation for Chef Mickeys and used Lyft to get there. Guard at the gate asked if I was staying at the hotel or had a dining reservation, then scanned my magic band to confirm. Not sure if I just had an overzealous guard or if that is standard operating procedure there.
That is indeed the SOP. It's mainly to prevent people who are going to the parks but not staying at the resorts from parking at the resorts instead of the parks.
My wife, who is a Disney die-hard and has bought a ton of park tickets over the years, says "not that I am aware of."
Yeah, when I went to the Poly in September, I had the dig our bands out of the trunk for the guard to scan. I even showed him our reservation on my phone, but no-go. Seemed a little over-kill since I had the reservation on my phone.Pip's Invitation said:
well regardless the free shuttle was going away. We knew that we would be paying to get in/out of MCO eventually. This is just another option. However, IMO the biggest thing here is that it will be servicing UO. Up until now, WDW had a pretty solid control over the MCO > WDW bubble flow. People would dismiss going to UO simply b/c of the expense in getting there. Now with all things being equal, I'd be interested in seeing the attendance shift. May not be a ton, but I def think this removes a huge barrier for those wanting to visit UO.
Thx. As I suspected. And I bet the "compliance" indoors is somewhat shaky (crappy masks, below the nose, loose fitting, people eating/drinking). Sigh.
not really, WDW cast members have been pretty strict about it. They have ben given the green light to make sure guests are compliant. Obv you are going to have your rouge guests who will skirt the rules no matter what, but 99% of them are complying.
Whatever capacity is for a normally full park, that’s what it is at. Place is mega-full again.
Someone recently gave my wife 4 passes without the reservation. We just had to go in and make a reservation and then link the tickets to the reservation.
Not sure how they bought them but they gave us the credit card tickets with the numbers on back.
true, but the $40/pp vs Free via Magical Express would def sway people from going to UO. Now that both properties are on a level playing field—or should I say "Paying" field—I think people will think about visiting UO more then they would have in the past.
My buddy just got back from a weekend trip and said all the parks he went to (all but Animal Kingdom) was mobbed. We went a few years ago during Thanksgiving (never again) and he likened the crowd to that.
member here....Davids is a great place to rent points. I've rented my own through there. Another good place is the DVC Rental Store They have a cool way they list, where as the member books the trip and then rents it to you. Vs Davids where you rent the points 1st and then go and make the reservation (hoping you can)
Here are a few sources I trust:
glad you enjoyed your trip. I pretty much agree with all fo your point and as soon as more WDW only people dip their big toe into the UO pool, they may begin to feel the same.
What does the 2 free dated mean? This is basically a park hopper pass to all 3 parks for 3 days right?
I cant confirm but since both WDW and Universal went to "date-based" tickets, meaning that certain calendar days are more expensive then others (normally by a few dollars), they have put limits to how long your multi-day passes are good for, so for a standard 3 day ticket, you may have say 6 days to use it. So say you are going to UO for a week, you dont need to use those 3 days consecutively, but you will need to use them within that time span.
) My wife isn't the type of mom to let her kids travel a few states away, so the idea off us going the same week "just to be there" is on the table. Would be me, wife and 12 year old son. 
I do. I've been to WDW more than 30 times and have been to most of the WDW resorts and a few DVC resorts. Still love Saratoga for the laid back vibe and ability to walk to Disney Springs.
good to know...thanks!! I think the Dis Springs walk would be cool and seeing it across the lake at night would be a cool sight
Hey, Buffett has Parrotheads and Herman's Hermit's has Peter Heads. I have an old friend who used to follow Peter Noone's tour, she loved him so much.
