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Disney world Florida


BMX Bandit said:
Wasn’t blurred this week.
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I had a read last night, apparently the projectors sometimes go out of alignment.
Still, you'd have a 3 in 4 chance of being ok on that day.

Not great mind. After queuing for that long.
We rope dropped out both times, it dominates your while morning for one ride.
We missed the safari for it, queues just too big by the time we got off

Kids absolutely loved it though
 
PTR said:
I had a read last night, apparently the projectors sometimes go out of alignment.
Still, you'd have a 3 in 4 chance of being ok on that day.

Not great mind. After queuing for that long.
We rope dropped out both times, it dominates your while morning for one ride.
We missed the safari for it, queues just too big by the time we got off

Kids absolutely loved it though
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It's rubbish that they got rid of the old fast pass system. You could pretty much get on everything with minimal queues with a bit planning.
 
BMX Bandit said:
That the ticket one with the machines? Where you got a ticket for each ride ?
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No, the one that they had until covid. You just booked slots in advance and then once you used them you could book more. It was great and if you planned things well you didn't have to queue.

The really old paper based one wasn't brilliant but it's better than the current rip off system.

In Paris the hotel was late getting our room ready once so they gave us a special pass that meant we could just walk on the rides.
That was canny
 
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AndrewP said:
No, the one that they had until covid. You just booked slots in advance and then once you used them you could book more. It was great and if you planned things well you didn't have to queue.

The really old paper based one wasn't brilliant but it's better than the current rip off system.

In Paris the hotel was late getting our room ready once so they gave us a special pass that meant we could just walk on the rides.
That was canny
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Best work around at minute is the parent swap. Get two adult cards scanned as waiting. Then go kill sole time. App says return 30 Minutes time. Straight up lightening lane and on. No queue needed. We did it for slinky when it was 40 minute wait. All of us got on within 15 minutes after a bite to eat.

Longest we actually did wait in line was 35/40 mins this trip. Ten or so less than last year according to the wife who likes to time things for betting games with kids and me 😂
 
BMX Bandit said:
Best work around at minute is the parent swap. Get two adult cards scanned as waiting. Then go kill sole time. App says return 30 Minutes time. Straight up lightening lane and on. No queue needed. We did it for slinky when it was 40 minute wait. All of us got on within 15 minutes after a bite to eat.

Longest we actually did wait in line was 35/40 mins this trip. Ten or so less than last year according to the wife who likes to time things for betting games with kids and me 😂
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I thought you could only get one adult waiting with that? To be honest we had it easy as we get DAS so didn't have to queue in person at all.
 
AndrewP said:
I thought you could only get one adult waiting with that? To be honest we had it easy as we get DAS so didn't have to queue in person at all.
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We just used to give them all three cards. Never once questioned did it for pretty much every ride which has the swap. Eldest got on Toy Story mania 3 times without waiting longer than 5 minutes in total using this legit swap 😉. 100% reckon they’ll put a stop to it.
 
BMX Bandit said:
We just used to give them all three cards. Never once questioned did it for pretty much every ride which has the swap. Eldest got on Toy Story mania 3 times without waiting longer than 5 minutes in total using this legit swap 😉. 100% reckon they’ll put a stop to it.
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Which cards? We didn't even have cards?
 
AndrewP said:
It's rubbish that they got rid of the old fast pass system. You could pretty much get on everything with minimal queues with a bit planning.
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First time we went we had the fast passes and a Disability pass for my son. Between the two of them we did virtually no queuing. The Disability pass allowed us to virtually queue for the long wait rides like Avatar which was great.

This time the old fast passes had gone and they changed the requirements for the Disability pass so we didn’t get one. Made a massive difference to our Disney experience.
 
Gene Hunt said:
First time we went we had the fast passes and a Disability pass for my son. Between the two of them we did virtually no queuing. The Disability pass allowed us to virtually queue for the long wait rides like Avatar which was great.

This time the old fast passes had gone and they changed the requirements for the Disability pass so we didn’t get one. Made a massive difference to our Disney experience.
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I heard things had changed a lot. Like you we didn't queue for anything which made things loads easier. I'm glad we went when we did as it was great.
 
AndrewP said:
Ah. We only ever used the free magic bands. Back when they were free of course. 😂

It's like a cash grab at every turn now.
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The bairn got hers free and used it but me and wife old school and collect our Disney cards. She keeps them all in a box the didgepot.
 
Sunderland06 said:
Just got an amazing price for hire car for this October.

£325 for 2 weeks, Ford Escape SUV with Budget Car Rental via AutoEurope.com

It was a £100 drop in price from what I already had booked elsewhere.
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Not sure I mentioned, but you know how there was always that thing that cars in the states are huge.
Its got way way way worse. I just didn't expect the cars to be the size they were. Its insane.

We had a 7 seater Crysler thing, which by our standards is a big people carrier. No. It was dwarfed by 80% of the cars out there. Madness.


Good deal that, though.
 
PTR said:
Not sure I mentioned, but you know how there was always that thing that cars in the states are huge.
Its got way way way worse. I just didn't expect the cars to be the size they were. Its insane.

We had a 7 seater Crysler thing, which by our standards is a big people carrier. No. It was dwarfed by 80% of the cars out there. Madness.


Good deal that, though.
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We had the Crysler Pacifica last time, felt like driving a bus to begin with. 🤣
 
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