What Disney rule did you discover during your planning that is totally ridiculous!

[geenerbell]

Mine is.... anyone older than 9 years old is considered an adult! What?

 

[jenfromjersey]

That if you book a room with a cast member discount you can't add the dining plan at full price, you can only add it if a cast member discount is available for the dining plan. You would think they would want our money

 

[Phatoomch]

That if you book a room with a cast member discount you can't add the dining plan at full price, you can only add it if a cast member discount is available for the dining plan. You would think they would want our money

That makes no sense - I love it

 

[DISHoppy]

Mine is.... anyone older than 9 years old is considered an adult! What?

On Southwest, anything above 2 is an 'adult'.

-Kevin

 

[andyman8]

Where to begin? To name a few:

1. The DDP is only available with packages. Why not "Room-Only" too?
2. Although most places do it now a days, charging $15 to park your car for the day is ridiculous
3. In order to eat at decent restaurants, you must book an ADR 180 days in advance
4. Everyone in a MYW package has to buy the same amount of days for their tickets

I've got my flame suit on, because I know it's coming.

 

[disneybliss2]

Just recently learned that in Disney's eyes there's no such thing as a split stay, which led to learning that the dining plan isn't available with room only packages. I wanted to do a split stay by keeping our mod resort and trying the deluxe for a couple of days and keep my tickets & dining the same. Who knew Disney wouldn't want my extra money for those additional nights? Oh, no...you have to book a separate reservation and start all over again with at least purchasing one ticket per person again to get dining plan at second resort on split stay which offsets your savings of buying multiple park day tickets from first resort. ARG!

 

[DoomBuggy0922]

Where to begin? To name a few:

1. The DDP is only available with packages. Why not "Room-Only" too?
2. Although most places do it now a days, charging $15 to park your car for the day is ridiculous
3. In order to eat at decent restaurants, you must book an ADR 180 days in advance
4. Everyone in a MYW package has to buy the same amount of days for their tickets

I've got my flame suit on, because I know it's coming.

Totally unrelated, but your screenname makes me smile. It was my dad's self-imposed nickname.

 

[DISHoppy]

Where to begin? To name a few:

1. The DDP is only available with packages. Why not "Room-Only" too?
2. Although most places do it now a days, charging $15 to park your car for the day is ridiculous
3. In order to eat at decent restaurants, you must book an ADR 180 days in advance
4. Everyone in a MYW package has to buy the same amount of days for their tickets

I've got my flame suit on, because I know it's coming.

No flame here, but the cost for parking @ a sports event costs as much if not more for less service (trams, boats, monorail, etc.) and less time (around here ~$10 a college basketball game, $5 for a minor league baseball game, $20 for a college football game...all of which last about 3 hours and you get to hoof it to the events). Heck, I paid $25 to park in someone's garage near Wrigley Field circa 1993 or so. It's a fact of life. On tickets, you have a choice to buy tickets through a 3rd party for a slight discount or at the gate. They are called packages for a reason and they make the planning process easier for the vast majority. Also consider that the cost for extra days beyond the first couple of days is fairly minimal.

-Kevin

 

[minnie mum]

I'm not going to flame you at all, just want to make a few comments in response to those things that you think of as ridiculous.

Where to begin? To name a few:

1. The DDP is only available with packages. Why not "Room-Only" too?It is called a "Room Only" reservation for a reason. You are only reserving a room and nothing else. It is called a package for a reason as well: you are reserving multiple elements of a vacation: room, tickets, dining, etc.
2. Although most places do it now a days, charging $15 to park your car for the day is ridiculousNot ridiculous at all, just expensive. As you yourself said: most places charge for parking. COLOR]
   [*]In order to eat at decent restaurants, you must book an ADR 180 days in advanceHere I really must disagree. It is actually fairly easy to get reservations at the best restaurants (if you mean the best food). If you mean that you have to book at 180 days for the most popular ones, then you are correct. But I must admit that I have never considered character meals as serving the best food.
   [*]Everyone in a MYW package has to buy the same amount of days for their ticketsNot necessarily. They all have to have the same minimum number of days of a base ticket. But the minute you've checked in you can change any of the tickets to add on any number of days or options that you want.
   

I've got my flame suit on, because I know it's coming.

Just want to add that what may seem completely ridiculous to one person may seem logical to someone else.

 

[sewingmolly]

None of these seem ridiculous to me.
If someone can experience all the attractions or occupies a seat, why should they pay less?

 

[Deb & Bill]

Mine is.... anyone older than 9 years old is considered an adult! What?

Actually, they are considered a guest age 10+. There are no adults or children at WDW. Just guests 3-9 and guests 10+.

 

[scrapquitler]

Mine is.... anyone older than 9 years old is considered an adult! What?

At Six Flags, "adult tickets" are for everyone over 54" tall. My DS was 54" tall long before he was 9 years old.

At Universal 9 is the magic cutoff for Adult Tickets, too.

 

[Balt ravens fan]

Actually, they are considered a guest age 10+. There are no adults or children at WDW. Just guests 3-9 and guests 10+.

Please .. that is just semantics .. Disney thinks of kids 3-9 and adults as 10+. Disney has kids meals for kids 3-9 and adult meals for 10 and over. Which makes the Buffett restaurants CRAZY priced once your kids reach 10 - 40 dollars for a 10 year old - ugh! I saw people in the Chef Mickey line lying about their kids ages to get the lower price ... You could tell because the Mother kept shooshing her kids .. The lady asked what ages oh they are under 9 and they were like Mom and she was "shhhh".. of course this might happen if you set the cut off to 12 as well. There is a big difference between paying 40 for your kid and paying 20 for a meal. The actual Park tickets aren't that much difference .. For a 6 day hopper on UT its like 306 compared to 287 .. like 20 dollars difference again but you are talking 6 days of tickets. The real killer is the meals.

Anyway Ages at other parks:

At Legoland kids are ages 3-12. (Better than Disney)

At Hershey park kids are 3-8. (Worse than Disney)

At Dollywood kids are 4-11 (Better than Disney)

Like PP.. Kings Dominion, Cedar Point, etc... Go by Height - 48" .. of course Kings has a good deal right now that anyone can play the Kids price - 37.99 - great park too.

(Usually the height is worse than Disney - my short daughter was 48" by the time she was 8)

 

[summermac]

I don't mind having the "adult" ticket price for 10+ but I do think being charged as an adult on the DDP starting at age 10 is ridiculous. I think there should be a "junior" age group for DDP, maybe ages 10-13?

 

[chartle]

None of these seem ridiculous to me.
If someone can experience all the attractions or occupies a seat, why should they pay less?

OP, by many here this is going to be at best looked at as a venting thread and at worse a whining thread neither of which garner much support, so expect the worst.

Oh and I'm sorry that your child is now 10, which I assume is the reason for your post.

 

[WillAustin]

Heck, I paid $25 to park in someone's garage near Wrigley Field circa 1993 or so. It's a fact of life.

I recently stayed at a hotel where the overnight parking charge was $57.

 

[chartle]

I don't mind having the "adult" ticket price for 10+ but I do think being charged as an adult on the DDP starting at age 10 is ridiculous. I think there should be a "junior" age group for DDP, maybe ages 10-13?

If you think this through, the problem is now do they have to come up with a new set of meals for this group (larger kids meals or small adult meals) or do you just expect to pay less for the adult meal they get.

 

[Jennasis]

Where to begin? To name a few:

1. The DDP is only available with packages. Why not "Room-Only" too?
2. Although most places do it now a days, charging $15 to park your car for the day is ridiculous
   [*]In order to eat at decent restaurants, you must book an ADR 180 days in advance
3. Everyone in a MYW package has to buy the same amount of days for their tickets

I've got my flame suit on, because I know it's coming.

This isn't a Disney rule. Nobody is required to do it. Of course, it can be very difficult to get an ADR if you don't, but it certainly isn't a rule.

 

[Iwant2BAprincess]

Let's steer this ship in a different direction, shall we...How about a little scary humor.

Mine wasn't during planning but during our first trip to AK with kids. We had to remove the straws from our juice boxes by order of the security guard-who proceeded to tell us to just use our BUCK TOOL to open them when the kids needed them, um what???

3in straw BAD
Weapon, just fine

 

[Minnesota!]

I will say - I have never had an issue getting popular restaurants...even a few weeks out. Hell, even the same day.

I just scored a prime Ohana time - for the first week of free dining - yesterday. About 150 days out.

We have scored Ohana, Crystal Palace, Le Cellier, Biergarten, Garden Grill, etc. in very short time...same day on most of them.