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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m super organized. I had our recent Disney trip planned to a T. I was up getting our genie reservations at 7am, I’d booked all the best character dining. I was on my phone booking new passes every 2 hours.

Even still, dh was so over it. The crowds were out of control (we went M-Th during the lowest week of the year) and we often waited in line 45-90 per ride. My 2 year old lost her mind at having to wait in lines like this. My biggest beef is with child swap. Dh would go with one kid while I waited with the other two and then I would go with the other kid while he waited with the toddler. Doing this took foreeeeeever. You used to be able to walk on (rightly so, we already waited once!) but now the wait was 20 min each time.

I don’t think I can ever convince my easy going husband to go back to Disney. We’ve been 2x a year for years. It’s just straight up miserable now. Dh thinks they’ve allowed too many people in for the rides that they have.

Oh yeah and not one character was walking around. You either pay $$$ for character dining, wait in long lines to meet them or wave while a parade goes by. [/quote]

We had the same experience last year, I love planning and watched dozens of videos to understand it all, no problem.  We’ve probably done 6-7 park visits over the years, but the latest updates make everything more time consuming.  Got up at 6:45 every day.  Got all the virtual queues.  Still, my easygoing DH is “Disney’s out”. Even the kids said I’m staring at my phone too much and I’m missing out… and they were right… one of my kids wants to go back to just strolll around, but that’s not really feasible.  One thing we noted is that everyone, very large groups, have disability passes, large increase in those..  They go in front of everyone and even with genie reservations we waited a long time sometimes.  [/quote]

Agree on people abusing the DAS pass system.  Seems like every podcast trip report had someone in the group with one.  Some disabilities are legit, but too many game the system and are allowed to bring something like 6 companions with them.   Also, the scooter/wheelchair people are allowed to bring all their party (could be 12-15 on the buses, jumping in front of other people waiting).  That needs to be limited to 2-3 companions at most. [/quote]

Yes, DAS was out of control.  Huge groups.  And every person 60+ seemed to be on a scooter with a very extended family.

Then we saw one family of 3 with a severely disabled child struggling toward the DAS entrance, when a DAS group of 15 or so laughing, walking, 20 something’s jumped in line in front of them.  That was not magical.  [/quote]

You can’t tell DAS from Genie+ at the scan in. Both use the lightening lane. Also, DAS groups are capped at 6 and they are very strict. We have DAS and you couldn’t tell from looking at us whether we were using that or Genie+. [/quote]

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