GatorChris
Not of This World
- Joined
- Feb 18, 2014
We were at WDW for 3 days last week. We had an amazing visit after 9 years removed. I bought the Genie+ on two of those days, simply because I had eGfit cards from Disney when they refunded my Disneyland MaxPass money. I found it VERY helpful at MK. Didn't use it at Epcot and sorta wish I had. Then used it at AK where I felt it wasn't worth the money because by the mid-afternoon, there was nothing else to Lightening Lane.
But here's my rub. For the ILL (couldn't have picked a better acronym, Disney!) rides, I noticed the times were inflated for what they were. And I mean grossly inflated.
MK:
7 Dwarves said 70 minutes. It took us 35.
Space Mountain said 45. It took 25
Epcot:
Frozen said 70 minutes. We waited 25 minutes, no joke. The line started just inside the main doors. I was shocked at how fast we got on, even with ILL riders coming through.
AK:
Flight of Passage said 75 minutes. We waited 35 minutes.
ExEv was about the only ride that was always spot on for time.
I realize that Disney will often add 5 minutes or so to an expected wait time so that they can exceed customer expectations. But for the ILL rides, it was incredible how far off the numbers were repeatedly. Which leads me to ask this question: Could Disney be artificially inflating the ILL time significantly so that they can draw people into spending cash to skip the "long" line? I know, I know. That's conspiracy theory stuff. It just seems suspicious to me. Anybody else experience these wait times inflations? Or were we just the luckiest family at WDW last week?
But here's my rub. For the ILL (couldn't have picked a better acronym, Disney!) rides, I noticed the times were inflated for what they were. And I mean grossly inflated.
MK:
7 Dwarves said 70 minutes. It took us 35.
Space Mountain said 45. It took 25
Epcot:
Frozen said 70 minutes. We waited 25 minutes, no joke. The line started just inside the main doors. I was shocked at how fast we got on, even with ILL riders coming through.
AK:
Flight of Passage said 75 minutes. We waited 35 minutes.
ExEv was about the only ride that was always spot on for time.
I realize that Disney will often add 5 minutes or so to an expected wait time so that they can exceed customer expectations. But for the ILL rides, it was incredible how far off the numbers were repeatedly. Which leads me to ask this question: Could Disney be artificially inflating the ILL time significantly so that they can draw people into spending cash to skip the "long" line? I know, I know. That's conspiracy theory stuff. It just seems suspicious to me. Anybody else experience these wait times inflations? Or were we just the luckiest family at WDW last week?