I usually take a trip each year with one of my sons. I took DS9 in August before school started this year. He is already asking about next year. I’ve started looking at dates, but I’m just not that excited about it. We can afford the trip, but it is the question about whether I want to spend the money on this. Part of it is their constant price increases or taking something that was once free and now charging for it. I’m a shareholder, so I get their desire to maximize profits. And I’ll say that I actually don’t mind the idea of the park reservation system, but can we make park hopping a little earlier?
We had a great time in August. Genie+ and BG1 worked like a charm. We bought a fair amount of ILLs and actually rode GotG 10 times in 6 days with ILL and boarding groups.
But we also had booked our Genie+ before June 8, so I didn’t have to get up every morning to buy it; I just had to worry about booking my LLs. But next year I’ll have that added step of having to buy it every day, and who knows how much it will cost with this variable pricing.
Tron will be a new ride, but otherwise we will have done everything else numerous times. We did 6 days last year, but I’m definitely cutting back to 5, and maybe even 4. Not because of the cost, but because we are starting to burn out and some of it is also the principle of their constant increases.
We will likely stay at Beach or Yacht Club or Boardwalk because I’ve gotten spoiled with the convenience of walking to two parks, but I’ve also stayed at All Star Sports and that resort was perfectly fine if you take out the bus transportation issues. And other than the convenience, staying at a Deluxe gets you so little. My son isn’t a late night kid since we get up early to rope drop, so the Deluxe extra evening hours are not really worth anything to us.
So, if we go next year, it may be his last trip where I pull him from school to go, as it gets harder as they get older, but I’m not really excited about it at this point. Sure, Tron looks good, but will it even be open by next fall (I say that sarcastically). If he was a little bit more of a thrill seeker, I’d take him to Universal instead, but there are a few coasters there he won’t ride yet.
I’ve toyed with flying out to DL for something different, but not sure about that idea. And my wife and older son want to go if we go there, and my older son will be in the middle of cross country season and we can’t take him out of that to go to Disney.
Trying to get excited to start planning. This is the earliest I’ve started planning, but I also want to get a decent room and I can always cancel later.
I’m happy there are so many other aspects of it that I still love and use.