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[quote=Anonymous]I remember going to Disney as a kid and having a great time.  There was no real pre-planning.  We just showed up and hopped from ride to ride.  Even paper lightning lanes didn't really change our flow.

I've gone twice with my kids in modern times and didn't enjoy either.  We're in the upper income bracket and paid for the perks and still didn't have fun.

The first time the kids were little and we splurged for Polynesian to be on the monorail and close to MK.  The parks had FP+.  There ended up being a glitch in the tech system and we had tons and tons of trouble accessing the FP system, leading to us waiting in hour plus long lines several times a day to try to get it fixed.  It was awful and we still had to zig zag the park with little kids to make ride times.  We were so stressed and it wasn't fun at all.  There was also a bunch of maintenance going on, presumably because we were there in the off season, so pre-booked FPs would be lost and we'd arrive at rides to find they were down, plus all the other lines were longer because big attractions weren't running.  Plus I'd booked and paid a fortune for a couple of character meals, only to find out my toddler was terrified of the characters and would scream her head off if they even came into the room.  We had to give up on those very, very expensive meals altogether.  The whole experience was miserable.

We went back a few years later after the Lightning Lanes opened.  I did a ton of research this time and knew all the tricks.  But we arrived on a day with a major lightning storm that took out most of the rides at MK for most of the week.  That same storm had people camping out at their table at Cinderella's table so we waited 4 hours for our reservation with hungry kids in pouring rain because the people ahead of us weren't leaving.  The whole place was in chaos.  Then we'd booked another specialty meal at a restaurant and the kitchen caught on fire and we lost half a park day waiting to recover our belongings after being evacuated for a fire. We tried to get dinner in Epcot World showcase one night and all of the lines were so long from a festival that we eventually went back to our hotel room and ordered a pizza.  There was just no reasonable way to get food with the insane lines.  I could go on, but the entire trip was a series of disasters from a broken Disney bus that left us stranded for two hours on a park road to waiting an hour in line to have the ride go down when we were up next.

Disney didn't make any of this right for us.  The level of service was so so low for the cost.  The parks were so so crowded.  I'm slightly intrigued about the new Premiere Pass and not having to be on a schedule and being more able to work around ride closures, but I'm not sure I can be convinced.  We just paid so much on the prior trips for shitty experiences and stress.  The Disney adults can have Disney.  We'll go elsewhere.
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