Remy is Up
Registered
- Joined
- May 10, 2018
This was our 12th Trip in the past two years as AP holders. We generally go down for F&G, F&W, the Christmas celebrations, and the arts festival with a couple of smaller trips in between. Some observations in general:
Refresh is the best way to approach parks at this point for people who do not want to stay on property to gain access to EMH or plan out their day hour by hour. We were able to pull FPs daily for every major ride in every park and then work the times backwards to fit what we were doing. And that was starting each day with zero FPs and not showing up at the parks until around 10AM. One morning we pulled slinky, ToT, RNRC, and then TSM at Studios, bounced to Epcot after a resort break and pulled a test track, then after dinner at Jiko had pulled one for FoP. Not once on this trip was there a ride or attraction we could not get a FP for sometime during the day. It worked even easier on Christmas day this past year so whether its busy or not, it works. And Im not walking around with my nose stuck in a phone. I can generally do it in line waiting for a ride and it takes at most 10 minutes to find a specific ride and then adjust the time to what you want.
For those who dont like the refresh method and like to plan, then plan and use EMH, get out of bed and do rope drops. In the first two hours at most parks you can do a ton without an issue.
After Hours;;;Wasnt impressed with the one at AK because its very limited but it was fun to ride Everest 7 or 8 times and FoP 4 times. Plus that park is beautiful at night. However, MK is an excellent value for the after hours, particularly at the AP rate. You can do so much in such little time, its well worth it.
All in all, I have seen slight improvements in the parks and it is obvious they are working to make things better. MDE was a disaster on this trip and I ended up using Chrome to get to my account to refresh, but, they certainly need to fix the MDE App as has been discussed here ad nauseum.
Bus service...They really have to fix some things with the inter property transportation. It is miserable sometimes but I dont have any sort of suggestions to make so I wont complain too much.
Ill do a resort review of all the resorts we stayed at the past two years plus the restaurants we ate at on the proper boards tomorrow or the day after as I have time. We had some fabulous meals on this most recent trip and while I was not impressed with our resort, it wasnt awful. Just felt like it couldve been better for what we paid even with the AP discount.
Refresh is the best way to approach parks at this point for people who do not want to stay on property to gain access to EMH or plan out their day hour by hour. We were able to pull FPs daily for every major ride in every park and then work the times backwards to fit what we were doing. And that was starting each day with zero FPs and not showing up at the parks until around 10AM. One morning we pulled slinky, ToT, RNRC, and then TSM at Studios, bounced to Epcot after a resort break and pulled a test track, then after dinner at Jiko had pulled one for FoP. Not once on this trip was there a ride or attraction we could not get a FP for sometime during the day. It worked even easier on Christmas day this past year so whether its busy or not, it works. And Im not walking around with my nose stuck in a phone. I can generally do it in line waiting for a ride and it takes at most 10 minutes to find a specific ride and then adjust the time to what you want.
For those who dont like the refresh method and like to plan, then plan and use EMH, get out of bed and do rope drops. In the first two hours at most parks you can do a ton without an issue.
After Hours;;;Wasnt impressed with the one at AK because its very limited but it was fun to ride Everest 7 or 8 times and FoP 4 times. Plus that park is beautiful at night. However, MK is an excellent value for the after hours, particularly at the AP rate. You can do so much in such little time, its well worth it.
All in all, I have seen slight improvements in the parks and it is obvious they are working to make things better. MDE was a disaster on this trip and I ended up using Chrome to get to my account to refresh, but, they certainly need to fix the MDE App as has been discussed here ad nauseum.
Bus service...They really have to fix some things with the inter property transportation. It is miserable sometimes but I dont have any sort of suggestions to make so I wont complain too much.
Ill do a resort review of all the resorts we stayed at the past two years plus the restaurants we ate at on the proper boards tomorrow or the day after as I have time. We had some fabulous meals on this most recent trip and while I was not impressed with our resort, it wasnt awful. Just felt like it couldve been better for what we paid even with the AP discount.