Where has this guy been?
When my wife and I went to Disney World in 1996, we planned nothing in advance. We found ourselves waiting in massive lines for rides and spending hours waiting for tables in restaurants. We realized we screwed up and we had to do better.
That was 27 years ago. Since then, we had kids and raised them to adulthood.
Every trip after that we scheduled reservations in advance. Every morning we wake up, we know what park we are going to. We spend about 20 minutes every day we are there planning that day’s activities, and we roll with whatever changes we encounter.
I don’t understand how having a plan in place in advance of your vacation somehow makes it more stressful. I’ve always thought it was easier to not have to wonder what we’ll be doing and where we’ll be going during our Disney trips.
Are there really people who insist on just showing up with no plan and then blame Disney when they are stressed?
Also, it seems like most of the Disney criticism I see is coming from Fox news in some form or another. Is that just my news feed, or is it an extension of the culture war that the right is trying to foment?
Super introvert here and a few years back, I did a Disney World trip. When I did it, you booked everything online (and I mean everything, down to FastPasses for rides six months in advance.) This also included restaurant bookings, as well as the hotel itself.
Not sure how it works now, but back then, we actually got the Magic Band wristband shipped to us ahead of time. With these wristbands, we could get into our hotel room - we didn’t even need to go to the front desk to check in.
So yeah, regardless of whether you’d enjoy it or not, Disney did make it very easy to build an experience on your own online without needing to interact with a bunch of people.