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PumpkinKing
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- Apr 7, 2012
I spend a pretty significant time researching every major vacation destination I go to. Not quite a year, but close to about 6-8 months for sure. Smaller trips are different, but when I went to Europe or the big road trip through southern California, all about the same amount of time of planning as a first time Disney trip. Not at all unusual for a big vacation IMO. Some people like to have detailed plans no matter where they go. Some people like to just go with the flow. Both options are 100% possible for every vacation, including Disney. And both can have both positive and negative outcomes.
I agree 100%. We go to Disney once every other year, and twice on the alternating years...yet I still put a lot of time into planning. It’s part of my process, and I enjoy it. My point was that a vacation like a trip to Disney World shouldn’t take months of planning to ultimately be fun. Having to get up at 6:30 AM eastern time 60 days before your trip to try to ensure your family can ride a ride is not only absurd, it is ostentatious. Everyone knows that FP+ was put in place not for the customers’ benefit, rather as a way for Disney to avoid having to create new, updated rides by forcing customers into having to choose less popular rides as well as a means to “get people out of lines and into the shops spending more money”. Yet, all it really did was increase lines all around while allowing Disney to track our every move and purchase.