Major changes when I re'eveluated' my plan

Walt Disney World Touring Plans
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leaving in 11 days!
I ‘evaluated’ my plans and had them perfect about a week ago.
Today I re’evaluated’ them and the wait times increased by x4!

Does that sound possible?

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Seems to be going around:

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I’m leaving in 12 and I’m on that ^ thread too. Wonder what the deal is.

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I’m certain it’s some kind of recalibration.

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But they did actually say in the blog it was going to be the quietest July ever (or something. Certainly in a long time) and not much busier in August.

I think it must be that there is reduced staffing.

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I haven’t been paying too much attention to this, as I have been busy moving DD to her new hovel. Has anyone from TP officially weighed in on the magnitude of the changes that people have been seeing? I can’t seem to access the blog right now…

Anyway, given how WDW has been monkeying around with everything, reduced staffing certainly makes sense. TP might be taking a worst case scenario so that people have a pleasant surprise when things work out better than predicted.

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Not yet, to my knowledge.
@Brian @len @SteveBloom @fred?

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I’ve asked Steve to respond. He’s traveling but will do it later today.

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Thank you, @len.

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I firmed up a plan about a week ago for mid-November and today reevaluated and Frozen went from a 22 minute to 58 minute wait at 8pm in the evening. Wasn’t planning on using fastpass because Soarin is higher on the list of must do’s.

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@SteveBloom just spoke to this on another thread: Sudden increase in wait times? - #56 by SteveBloom

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I don’t mean to be dense, but I read his replies - how does that explain huge increases in wait times?

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They realised there was a mistake - they have estimated what the posted wait times will be, and are confident that those are right. The estimated times for the plans should be 80% (or whatever figure he gave) of the posted times, but there had been a mistake and the plans were estimating 60%. Now they have corrected them so they are back to the normal 80%.

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Just a note, the night before you use that plan, do another evaluation. Things change all the time. For the best information, do it again. I say the night before because that gives you time to rework anything that’s changed.