Same thing is happening on Orlando. The parks have decided that they are getting to crowded, so they raised the prices. That keeps out the poors, and makes the park less crowded for the wealthy, who buy more, and have a better guest experience without the crowds.
The parks still get crowded at peak times, but the parks conveniently have expensive passes that wealthy people can purchase to skip the lines.
I got free express passes for a work event, worth normally around $160 each. I got to spend 2.5 hours in line (the express line!) before the ride broke down and we all had to leave. In just over 8 hours in the park, we rode exactly 2 rides and would have spent over $500 each for the privilege had it not been a work trip.
Disney didn’t charge extra for fast-pass last time I went there. Anyone could schedule their rides on an app so they didn’t have to wait in long lines. The only shitty thing there was that they used to make you schedule day-of, and when they changed to letting you schedule months in advance it meant that when I went on a trip with like a week’s notice all the reservations were booked.
Same thing is happening on Orlando. The parks have decided that they are getting to crowded, so they raised the prices. That keeps out the poors, and makes the park less crowded for the wealthy, who buy more, and have a better guest experience without the crowds.
The parks still get crowded at peak times, but the parks conveniently have expensive passes that wealthy people can purchase to skip the lines.
I got free express passes for a work event, worth normally around $160 each. I got to spend 2.5 hours in line (the express line!) before the ride broke down and we all had to leave. In just over 8 hours in the park, we rode exactly 2 rides and would have spent over $500 each for the privilege had it not been a work trip.
Fuck Universal Epic.
Universal really is the worst on that.
Disney didn’t charge extra for fast-pass last time I went there. Anyone could schedule their rides on an app so they didn’t have to wait in long lines. The only shitty thing there was that they used to make you schedule day-of, and when they changed to letting you schedule months in advance it meant that when I went on a trip with like a week’s notice all the reservations were booked.