Guests will be able to reserve ride times from home

[CptnSkippy]

Interesting idea. So now will we have complaints from those that didn't setup their ride reservations 180 days in advance?

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/disne ... 64674.html

Future visitors to Walt Disney World will be able to reserve ride times from their home computers and bypass hotel check-in desks once they arrive at the resort, the head of the Walt Disney Co.'s global theme-park division said during an investors conference Thursday.

Those advances are among of a series of technological initiatives Disney is developing in hopes of making visits to its increasingly crowded theme parks easier to plan and less intimidating to navigate, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Tom Staggs said at the conference in Anaheim, Calif.

[joanna71985]

All I can say is that I'm glad GMR doesn't offer FP

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I can just see the SG's coming out of the woodwork on this one.

DW and I were tallking about it last night, and she was saying that it sounds like you are now going to have to plan every single minute of the day, way in advance, if you even want to get on certain attractions.

and commando style is not our style, we like to be a lot more relaxed and not worried about keeping a schedule.

[Goofyernmost]

I said it on another board (gasp) and I will say it here. If that ever comes to be that will mark the end of my visits to Disney Parks.

If I wanted my vacations to be as structured as my work life had been, I would just stay at work, that's not a vacation. Disney already loses all the money that I would have spent on meals because of the absurd requirement of 180 day advanced planning for what I might be hungry for that far away, and this would surely put me over the top.

[shilohmm]

If I wanted my vacations to be as structured as my work life had been, I would just stay at work, that's not a vacation.

I don't mind structure and I am a planner, but I don't like this idea because I don't like to commit. :p: I may write out a plan and I may usually follow it, but I also like to be able to toss the whole thing with no consequences. But I'm fine with CS on my park days and already skip most rides that offer a Fastpass, so I doubt it'll change my experience a whole lot for the next however-many years (until I've exhausted the other options and feel like it's time to find out what the fuss is all about regarding some popular attractions).

There are people right now who visit Disney who don't get the FastPass system (which Disney thoughtfully described IN SCREETCHING BRIGHT COLORS the first fold of the map), and people who get Free Dining and discover too late they don't have anywhere to eat -- they're not going to be served by this. So is Disney trying to weed out those not willing to commit to sufficient research? Then again, if the reserving ride times thing simply replaces fast pass, it may not make that much difference to the average clueless first timer. I'm also guessing this is how Disney will shift over to a system where you have to be staying on-property to use the FastPass.

[Freak]

I can't wait for them to be able to buy something off my cart 180 days in advance....

[CptnSkippy]

I'm also guessing this is how Disney will shift over to a system where you have to be staying on-property to use the FastPass.

That's where the Mrs and I thought it was headed too. FP would basically be a perk of staying onsite.

[hobie16]

I can't wait for them to be able to buy something off my cart 180 days in advance....

Will the item sit there that long? :twisted:

[felinefan]

I for one hate this idea. Maybe it would be okay for someone who wants to go on certain attractions, but planning your stay that far in advance? This reeks of eventually large corporations dominating how you will live. I say let people make their own decisions on when to go, where to stay, where to eat, yadda, yadda, yadda.

[Jinxed]

I can just see the SG's coming out of the woodwork on this one.

Me too! And then they will schedule a ride at 1 PM in the Magic Kingdom then at 2 pm a ride in Animal Kingdom and so on and it will all be a CM's fault that no one told them they couldn't.

When I first read this my first impulse was to think they are trying to scale down on employees at hotels and parks? And also be able to monitor the guests every second spent at the resorts.