Waldorf here we come. We might occasionally stay at Dixie Landings for nostalgia/decor, but probably will end up just staying at the Waldorf. So much nicer, cleaner, better food, room service, etc.
Now that Disney is offering more and more to non Disney hotels, why stay onsite?
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2016 POR
2015 CS
2014 WDW-Offsite
2014 Disneyland-offsite
2014 CBR
2013 Dolphin
2012 POR
2012 WDW-Offsite
2011 ASMusic, POR
1998 Dixie Landings
1990's, Dixie Landings, Misc Offsite
This is good news to me. I actually prefer the offsite hotels over most of the onsite. In particular, the Hilton brand hotels. It was already nearly impossible to get FP's for the popular rides unless you have a 10 day reservation and you get them for the end of your trip.
The biggest problem I see with all the adding more and more people to the FP system and giving more out is the fact that no matter how many of those they give out, the maximum throughput for the attractions stay the same. All that is accomplished by giving more of them out is you move a fraction of people from one line to another. It is already getting to the point where the FP line is as long of a wait or longer than the standby lines used to be for the attractions that didn't previously have FP at all. FP is a joke anyway. All it does is shift your wait time from one attraction to another by only having to wait in line 15 minutes for one you have a FP and you then have to wait 70 minutes each for the next 3 that you don't. There is nothing exclusive about it, it doesn't save you time and it doesn't accomplish much of anything other than giving you the frustration of planning, coordinating and scheduling all this mess.
The only way any of this nonsense is ever going to stop or change is attendance will have to drop substantially. I have been thinking they would tip the scale for 5 years but they are doing such a good job with marketing, they keep bringing in new first time guests. I can tell you though, the people I know that have gone for their first time in the last several years all said it was the most stressful "vacation" they ever took and they probably won't go back for a long time if ever. None of them have made return trips so far either. So the question still remains just how long is it going to take before all of this nonsense tips the scales? It will at some point because that is what corporations do....they focus on making more profit any way they can until they run the ship right into the ground.
