I always say genie plus is a huge rip off and anyone purchasing it is just a sheep. But I always get down voted into oblivion.

@@firestorm-qd3tm Right, because we want to get the most out of the day and ticket we already paid for..It’s like the airlines! Your seat costs this much, but if you want to bring bags it’s another $50. Do you want to sit with your family? (Or take the single rider all day?) Americans are so unhappy with the airline service model and Disney thinks it is the model for them to follow, too.

​@@firestorm-qd3tmtoo bad us sheep ain't more like you shepherds. I don't like G+ either but it did get my family on more rides quicker. Would have been nice to not have to pay but we sheepishly paid because we don't get to WDW often enough to spend our day in line.

Learn Patents my ignorant ones... feeding the beast teaches no lessons to the gluten company. Starve it & it will learn that it got fed fine the old ways! STOP Buying G+ & free will return.

@@firestorm-qd3tmIt actually isn’t, maybe for you though. Without it you can’t get through all the rides in a park at Disney World, Magic Kingdom won’t even be able to do it in 2. So forms I need it and it’s for it. However I hate that I have to pay for it now along with a really expensive park ticket so it costs way more money than before. That’s what sucks and is ridiculous. I edited this but by the way you can still coordinate your day with genie, you just have to do it in the morning of that park day. You then plan to be by that area of the park around the time of your pass.

What do they do about the volume of people wanting to go and are willing to pay? If they make things cheap, then they'll have even more people lined up to go. Higher prices helps to reduce volume. You could make entry based on a lottery, but other places have tried such things and it leads to professional resellers (there's always a way) buying up the lottery spots and then being able to set prices themselves.

The issue is that there are far too many people these days who go to places. Almost everything from before 2000 has been ruined and over crowded. I have never been to one of these places and probably never will because of the lines and large wait times. I am not going to a expensive place to just have 2 rides because I did that back in 2011 with a theme park. Even at my local McDonalds I got a 50 minute wait time on average.

​@@staticbuilds7613I've been to Disneyland quite a bit. While the waits can be awhile, if someone tells you they only got 2 rides done all day long, especially if they arrived first thing in the morning and stayed all day, they're lying to you. Most rides have an average of 30-45 minutes with the exception of the big rides like Radiatior Springs Racers or Rise of the Resistance, which tend to run 60-100 minutes. It is a wait for sure, but you're definitely able to do way more than 2 rides.

@@staticbuilds7613lol comparing Disneyland to McDonalds is wild😂

I'm only in my 60s but I feel the same way. I don't understand why anyone goes just to be shaken by the ankles for all the money in their pockets and abused for days.

NEITHER DISNEYLAND NOR DISNEY WORLD HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE A LUXURY ONLY FOR THE RICH AND I DEFY ANYONE PROVE OTHERWISE

NEITHER DISNEYLAND NOR DISNEY WORLD HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE A LUXURY ONLY FOR RICH PEOPLE AND I DEFY ANYONE PROVE OTHERWISE

Plastic is bad in general, yes, but straws are especially dangerous to wildlife. That’s why plastic straws are singled out specifically.

Neither Disneyworld nor Disneyworld have a legal right to be a luxury only for rich people

Yes! It’s all hypocrisy

Depends on what the virtue signalers are pushing at the moment

​@gc4697 "But...but...the statistics that 5th grader made up mean something!!!!"

Because of their lightweight plastic and design, plastic Straws are particularly prone to ending up in our waterways where they break up and account for a large percentage of all microplastics in your drinking water. Unlike those "Giant plastic shells" which are actually biodegradable and less likely to end up in your drinking water. Banning straws may not be an all time solution, but it's a start and far better then doing absolutely nothing. Can you prove otherwise? But yes keep living in denial, go right ahead and keep pretending there is nothing wrong with everything you casually throw away. You'll die one day and it will all be your kids and someone elses problem, right?

Don’t forget that paper straws are even worse for the environment

Something any bartender could've told them

Us guests have noticed an uptick in super rude cast members. Y’all should fix that problem before finding others.

@@LeaverWildWhen cast members have to interact with guests like you it’s no wonder.

Neither Disneyworld nor Disneyland have a legal right to be a luxury only for rich people

I feel like it made sense in epcot as some drinks that show case the countries do have alcohols in them

@@littlesongbird1 I agree, though they shouldn't have it at the others. It just creates problems.

@@littlesongbird1 Yeah I'm kinda sad to find out how pervasive it is now. Like Epcot and California adventure are one thing, they're kinda geared more to the older crowd, and then it's more contained (I used to love getting a glowtini at ElecTRONica) . EVen the Cantina I can understand as long as it's kept to Galaxy's Edge which shouldn't be hard in DL since the entrance/exits to the area kinda bottle neck and could be used as passive checkpoints (though I could also totally get behind mocktails only till the PM hours so kids could maybe get more of the experience) . But finding out they sell booze in FantasyLand and magic kingdom just breaks my heart. And I do say this as someone who had 2 drinks at the cantina before leaving on each of my last 3 visits.

I question "shocking". Not one of those is shocking in the least.

If I went to Walt Disney World at some point since the introduction of Disney Genie, I probably would've left the park immediately after lunch because of all this nickel and diming!

Exactly. I know when I used to go to Six flags they had a "fast lane" service you could pay for to get on the e ticket rides but it wasn't that much more an guarranteed a spot on the ride at a certain time (I think it was 10 or 15 extra been years so I can't say for sure)

Yes!!! Thank you!!! Someone gets it

Yeah the minute Lightning Lanes were announced I knew it was WAY too cheap, it was a price point that you knew a LOT of people would happily slap down $25 but still have others object to paying more, the net result is that all "skip the line" queues would always be filled with people making standby queue guests stuck for a lot longer than necessary AND Disney would be financially encouraged to offer more slots for Lightning Lane than they did the old Fastpass system meaning yeah longer wait times for everyone not paying extra. Then compare to other parks e.g. Universal, where the cost to skip line is comparable to the cost to enter the park (with multi-day tickets), and a lot less people end up skipping the lines.

It's illegal for Disneyland to be a luxury only for rich people

Luggage Handling does seem like the sort of perk that should be available for Deluxe resort guests or for an additional fee.

Neather Disneyland nor Disneyworld have the right to be a luxury only for rich people I DARE YOU PROVE OTHERWISE

Me too!

I have one. I wonder what it is worth.

That perk had me buying more Merch!

I miss it. I think people would buy more stuff. Buy. How much does it cost Disney to implement. It’s all about the $$

Disney World too. I was there last month. At least I saved some money by buying less 😂

We loved this service. Yes, we would buy less in the future.

There is a big difference between "Can" and "Can't". Just saying...

TP&TH fan here, but then he went and got a channel on siriusxm....the fan club price is ridiculous....I'll always be a fan, but it seems he enjoyed the $$ as well.

Nailed it! Sick of all of that! We really noticed how much phone looking we had to do.

Sugar cane straws are also offered as mentioned in the video

We just stopped ordering drinks that require straws for my son. Carrying his plastic straws to the park was too much of a hassle. But that means everyone else just drinks water. It seems cruel to get a fun drink in front of him

@@DelphineDenton I didn't realize those were more durable than paper straws. I hope those act as a good alternative then.

Same here but with Universal now being far easier to holiday well spend more time (therefore money) with them..

Did the room prices increase the same time they removed parking fees?

Problem then is that people will complain about lines and wish there was a system in place to speed up the process... for themselves. And people will probably just spend money to pay others to wait in line for them. And Disney won't get a cut.

There will always be enough upper/upper middle class families in the world with enough money to burn to fund Disney lol the parks started to decline when they realized no matter how insanely expensive everything is, people will still come lol

@@clamcrewcarclub6017 Somebody has to fill the economy hotels. The people you speak of won't stay there.

@@---Tre--- there are no economy hotels at Disney 🤣🤣🤣

We didn't though. Fast Pass was included in the price of Admission. Don't let DFBGuide gaslight you into thinking that it was a freebee.

@@DonMachado prices didn't go down after they started lighting lanes.

That seems like a really small thing to stop going over, especially considering all the other changes listed in the video.

Was it really the alcohol or another reason? I notice patterns.

Very 😔😔 Don’t worry though, Universals are a doddle😉😉

too far to go for me@@MC-nb6jx

Disney parks are complicated if you're trying to do absolutely everything in a minimal period of time.

In the seventies, kids were way more independent than they are today. They had to be because mom was working, and divorce rates skyrocketed in the seventies. @@Durwood71

Something she forgot to mention is that Delta became the official airline of Disney after Eastern folded.

wow what happened?

@@Durwood71 Yes always. They can’t enforce this because my Target Coke looks identical to the cokes they sell at their hotels and parks. A few years ago they had to ban wagons because they just take up too much space. At Disneyland, young children are more likely going to be forced to walk, vs at WDW, but that also meant banning coolers. If you brought in a lunch box, they wouldn’t care. A full day at the park, you can’t really lug around that many drinks for your family, so I usually just had two in my backpack, one I held, and one my husband held, so 4 total for a family of 3. We would end up buying drinks for dinner, and possibly lunch if we didn’t finish what we brought into the park. If it was a cup, I would try to use their ice in my bottle. Or pour some of the drink back into the bottle since it’s easier to carry. Some things don’t taste as good hot, which is why my husband only gets one bottle and buys everything else, and why I usually end up just adding ice cubes sometimes to my second. These bottles are also used at the hotel, where we drink with breakfast, and when we get back from the parks, so they are all used, and we still buy $5 drinks, just not as many, and save a ton doing it. People got greedy though and started doing things like instacart, so all their groceries are shipped to the resort themself, rather than picked up. This means now they have to charge EVERYONE a flat $6 fee for every delivery because they simply need additional staffing and storage for this nonsense. I ended up shipping myself a $40 spirit jersey because I knew I wouldn’t get it before my flight, and had to pay that $6 fee, for something so small.

@@Durwood71I think foreign parks may have different policies, but I swear I heard no outside food at Universal Studios, but I never got stopped with my drinks. No outside food at Tokyo Disney, according to DFB Guide, but then she goes on about the difficulty in locating Coke Zero and diet, mentioning buying it at 7/11 and then bringing it, so I dunno if she is telling us to break the rules, or if it’s food specific, not beverage, which explains hour long lines for a waffle.

It’s like EPCOT’s drinking around the world challenges. You can get drunk anywhere. You can get drunk at home. Why on earth would you want to get drunk in a public place like that? At least at a bar, there’s a minimal amount of people. At the parks, you are dealing with thousands of people. What’s so special about the drinks anyway? Is their frozen margaritas better than the ones back home?

In Epcot esp. it’s annoying.

@@UmmYeahOk Same reason people go to a restaurant instead of making the same thing at home. It's about the "experience" But yeah it is annoying because clearly they want to experience the fun of drinking or eating at a party but without the cleanup afterwards.

@@stylesrjyou go to a restaurant to eat, you go to a bar to drink. You don’t go to a theme park to get completely hammered in front of thousands of people. Plus you’re at your most vulnerable. People could take advantage of your condition.

How are plastic straws a problem?

Paper straws collapse too easily and some people need to drink through a straw

I’m surprised there aren’t lawsuits over this, because paper straws can be a choking hazard for some people

Don't know if you're still having issues but the sound volume and quality is fine for me. You may need to troubleshoot whatever device you're using to watch.

No issues here with sound..

yeah I remember using it over 5 times in one day

@@dreamkittywas it at EPCOT? I think that was the ONLY time I managed to get more than 2 rides out of it. Hate to think what would have happened had I not woken up at 7am each day. Might’ve only gotten one. This was late Jan/early Feb BTW, so not exactly what they consider “peak time.” Essentially after the second, the only things available were stuff that were typically walk on anyway.

I was 34 when I bought mine, and I still used him. I loved it, but then again, I'm a big kid.

yeah that's just too weird to me and kind of bizarre for a disney park

mmm this poop tastes so good 😂

It's like when at baby showers someone has the bright idea of putting chocolate inside of nappies as "plates" Or the horror that was armpit candy... you fill a bag full of powder or some stuff and warm it up by sitting on it or putting it under your armpits then telling people "Hey I just put this under my butt for an hour! You should try it!"