And if I pay for my room, I’m entitled to do whatever I desire — within the bounds of the law — with it. Including not using it at all.
Indeed, one of the reasons anyone books an onsite hotel is to get FPP at 60 days. Disney hotels are hugely expensive and there are plenty of other options. So why stay at one at all? For the perks. One of which is FPP.
Booking two separate FPPs for FOP is undeniably selfish. Everyone knows it’s a hugely popular ride and that FPPs are tremendously difficult to get. The alternative is a very long queue, or a very early morning. If you book two separate FPPs you are denying someone else the opportunity to book an FPP.
You cannot have it both ways. Either both things are wrong, or neither is.
That strikes me as somewhat hyperbolic. For someone’s entire vacation to be ruined by my booking a room I’m going to cancel in a few weeks, every single room at all the All-Star hotels would need to become booked up between now and when that person tries to book a vacation which includes the date I’ve booked. And they would have to give up the search after the day that I cancel the room and never look again for a room opening up.
Who is this mythical person? Why are they booking their Disney vacation so late? The date I’ve booked is just over three months away. Why are they so determined to stay at an All-Star resort and brook no other option? How are all the many thousands of rooms at all the All-Star resorts booked up on that date?
Disney knows what people on the dining plans order. If they spot that people on the dining plans tend to order more expensive dishes compared with people not on the dining plan, then they’ll increase the cost of the dining plan. So everyone suffers. It’s the tragedy of the commons.
It seems to me that there is some received wisdom that the most wicked thing one person can do to another is to book a hotel room that they don’t intend to use. Those who adhere to this view seem wilfully deaf to any argument that suggests either that it is not wicked at all, or that there are many, many, many things that everyone does in their lives that disadvantage others.
In general I try to make my posts funny and self-deprecating, though not everyone seems to understand my sense of humour. Sometimes I get caught out myself.
But this thread is irritating even me at this point. There’s a whiff or righteous, cherry-picking superiority wafting around that reminds me of the reasons why I loathe politics so much.
And now I’m annoyed at myself for spoiling what is in general actually the friendliest and most supportive forum I’ve ever encountered on the internet.
My apologies. I shall step away.