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    Disney Genie announcement

    For whatever it's worth, looks like they are selling ILL$ timeslots up to different times vs applicable park closing. Rise until 8PM, but MRR until 8:30 (9 PM close). FOP until 6:30, but Everest until 6:20 (7 PM close). Haven't seen anything yet that gets closer than 30 min before park...
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    Disney Genie announcement

    Pretty much! Just confirmed 7DMT did the same thing... widespread ILL$ timeslots available again starting as soon as 9:15 EST
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    Disney Genie announcement

    I was watching Rise times right as it hit 9:00 EST.... what previously was only 7PM+ availability immediately opened a bunch of other spots. Since I was MK reservation, had multiple time slots available from 2PM onwards, and the Tip Board was showing items as early as noon. Interesting that...
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    Disney Genie announcement

    Any thoughts yet on how late-arrivals will work with IA$? Are the windows really likely be ~1 hour like FP+, and you get denied if you are more than 15 min late? Would hate to be the CM telling a group that their late bus pickup from the resort just made their IA$ purchase expired and...
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    Official 2021 Disney Very Merriest After Hours Thread

    We have a tentative trip booked for Nov 11-16, and seeing the first park hours starting to post. Am I seeing correctly, that typical MK closing times seem to be loading at 9pm, but pulled back a full hour to 8pm on these first After Hours nights? In other words, unlike Boo Bash, they are...
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    Disney's ALL-STAR MUSIC RESORT Information & Questions

    I've been watching this availability all day, and noticed that rooms stopped showing available for our November trip mid-day, then became re-available this evening - when they came back online, the thumbnail pictures during the room selection screen now show refurbished pictures, but they...
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    AoA or Deluxe?

    Interesting... I definitely acknowledge the poor use of "adjoining" when I should have stated "connecting".... but I also had 3 consecutive years of booking POP and being told by the reservation CM that our family alignment was one of few situations that they would guarantee the connecting room...
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    AoA or Deluxe?

    Any reason to not just pursue 2x adjoining rooms back at POP which effectively become a suite? I think that still remains a cheaper option than a single AoA suite (at least was true back in 2019), you still pick up the 2nd bathroom, and I believe even some extra overall sq ft. We did that for...
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    Upgrading to park hopper after arrival

    And honestly, that's the "best case" upgrade price. Since not traveling until February, any other ticket price increases that happen between now and then would only add to that upgrade charge to first onboard your ticket to the revised pricing schedule. With the latest MDE app enabling these...
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    August MK Hours

    I just emailed as well, expressing quite a bit of frustration and also pointing out their competition. Not feeling it will make a difference, but maybe someone will listen. Best case scenario the MK planner was out on vacation and our update comes tomorrow afternoon!
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    August MK Hours

    Still so frustrated, and hoping that another update is yet to come. Like so many others above, just wanted to have some of those after dark MK hours that work so well with an afternoon break from the summer heat. The kick-me-while-I'm-down moment was just seeing that they added 2nd RoL shows...
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    August MK Hours

    If they are really done updating for 8/11-8/17, this was quite the buzzkill for a Friday afternoon. Isn't it pretty odd that AK is the park with the longest hours on a few handful of days, especially when there don't seem to be after-hours collisions? Was most surprised by 8/10 with it open 2...
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    Park tickets and FP question for same party arriving different days?

    So I actually tried exactly that, and it let me get all the way through the selection process, but then it never “stuck” once back to the My Plans page. Must have tried that technique 3-4 times with different attractions and it never took even though it felt like I finished them. I was only...
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    Park tickets and FP question for same party arriving different days?

    Only if the FPs trying to be made include both you and someone from the earlier-arrival party (sounds like that is the case per OP). I missed this nuance when I booked for split arrivals earlier this week. We were trying to get some evening FPs for the party that arrived on the second day in...
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    "Free" fast pass for completing 2 pirate adventures?

    Out of curiosity, do these 2x missions have to be done within the same day, or could they be split up within a trip? We have 2 Magic Kingdom days in August and I could see it likely that we would do a mission on one day, then come back for another on another. However, our travel party will...
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    Garden Grill Seating Options for Party of 8

    We have finally settled our August itinerary and plan for a GG breakfast/brunch which we've never tried before - unfortunately we were too late to find an ADR for party of 8, but have no problems finding 2 reservations of 4+4 or 5+3. Realistically, I think our group would split best along the...
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    MK Still Lower Daytime Crowds on First Party Date?

    We moved our September, low-crowd-hopeful trip into August once the SWGE opening was announced. While we know the change will bring some uptick in crowds from our original vision, we were hoping to mitigate that somewhat by making 8/16 a MK day, which is the first date of MNSSHP for 2019...
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    How likely are MK hours to get extended?

    Without starting a new thread, I'm interested in a similar question for 8/12-8/17. We want 2 MK days in that span, and have already decided Friday 8/16 to intentionally go for the full party day, without attending the first MNSSHP in the evening. I'm confused on where to put the other MK day...
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    Keys to the Kingdom Tour

    We took the tour on 2/28 - rides were Jungle Cruise and Haunted Mansion and lunch was Pecos Bill. Note that the Jungle Cruise had our tour guide with the microphone instead of the boat driver, so it focused much more on some facts and history of the ride with only 2-3 of the usual jokes thrown in.
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    SWGE Opens August 29!

    Another observation that I should have picked up on last week.... when Disney released initial park hours for our Sept 5-10 trip, I was trying to figure out why the very first release had MK open until 10pm on all non-party days. That seemed completely inconsistent with the typical crowd levels...




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