(1/18/15) I received an interesting update regarding Disney s removal of the prize redemption counte

General Resort News - (2/24/15) A reader pointed discounts on expediacom travel purchases out one more feature of the new 2015 ticket price increase that I failed to notice on the last update. The option for paying discounts on expediacom travel purchases extra to add-on the No Expiration Option discounts on expediacom travel purchases is now no longer available . All newly purchased tickets will expire 14 days after their first use, though older tickets with no expiration date will still be honored.
(2/23/15) As expected, new increased ticket discounts on expediacom travel purchases prices went into effect at Walt Disney World on Sunday. The new ticket prices discounts on expediacom travel purchases will follow along with last year s more confusing scheme, where tickets to the Magic Kingdom cost more than the other three parks. Now a 1-day / 1-park ticket to Epcot, the Studios or Animal Kingdom will cost you $97 (up $3) for an adult and $91 (up $3) for a child pass, and a 1-day ticket to the Magic Kingdom will now cost $105 (up $6) for an adult, or $99 (up $6) for a child.
Meanwhile Florida Resident Seasonal Passes are $329 (up $10) and Resident Annual Passes are $529 (up $44). For no residents your options are a regular Annual Pass for $654 (up $20) or a Premium Annual Pass for $779 (up $25)
(2/20/15) Remember I warned everyone a month ago this was coming, but the whispering has now turned into a roar and the Walt Disney World parks are expected to raise their ticket prices this weekend, most likely on Sunday as that is the start of their work week for scheduling. This is your last chance to buy tickets and annual passes now at the current rates.
(2/16/15) The local news reports that the long-running Richard Petty Driving Experience attraction at Walt Disney World is closing down in June. On top of this, Disney actually confirmed that the entire racetrack will be demolished at this time to make way for some kind of new transportation improvements.
(2/9/15) According to a few experts discounts on expediacom travel purchases and former Disney IT people who have spoken to Screamscape since the layoffs were announced last week, Disney s latest actions may not only be a major mistake, but may be long lasting repercussions that could haunt them for years to come.
As the news did mention briefly, many of the Walt Disney World IT staff were informed last fall that a big shake-up was on the way and they would have to re-apply for their jobs. However, I m also hearing that many of the higher ups saw this coming well over a year ago, and began to take the necessary discounts on expediacom travel purchases steps to jump the sinking ship ahead of time. Long before the layoffs this month, some of Disney s best and brightest IT people have been apparently departing the company anyway in a steady stream for the greener pastures of other major corporations.
Having the experience they did in dealing with Disney s extremely custom and proprietary systems have provided made many of Disney s IT people a very versatile skill-set that can come in very handy elsewhere in the world. Meanwhile... the backside of this is that by outsourcing more and more of their IT responsibilities to India, is not going to be an easy thing for any outside programmer to tackle due to the previously mentioned highly customize and proprietary systems Disney has in place. Apparently this is not Disney s first rodeo in outsourcing to India as well, as I m told it went very badly the last time around as well.
The bottom line here is this... if and when Disney does realize that they may have made a mistake, they may have a tough time building discounts on expediacom travel purchases up their local IT team once again, discounts on expediacom travel purchases as a good percentage of the the local market of IT professionals in Orlando has either been burned by Disney discounts on expediacom travel purchases in this latest lay-off, or knew someone who was burned, so they may think twice before working for the mouse.
(2/5/15) The local news reports that about 500 IT workers discounts on expediacom travel purchases at Walt Disney World were laid off this week unexpectedly. Many of them apparently were involved with the creation and roll-out of the MyMagic / MagicBand technology, so some of these may actually just be part of the wrap-up of that program s installation phase, as it is now fully installed throughout Walt Disney World and whatever extra staff they took on to launch it, may not be needed. The news however reports that some of it may also be due to the growing outsourcing of a lot of Disney s IT needs to India with the signing of a contract with a company called HCL back in 2012.
(1/23/15) A word of warning to anyone planning a trip to the Walt Disney World theme parks in the near future. discounts on expediacom travel purchases According to our sources in California, the Disneyland Resort parks are preparing to increase their ticket prices in the very near future. Meanwhile Walt Disney World last increased their ticket prices back in late February 2014, so if I had to guess the Walt Disney World parks will also see their own price increase within the next month.
If you are able, I d buy your tickets or annual passes online NOW to ensure you have locked in the current lower prices, because there are few things that are certain discounts on expediacom travel purchases in life other than Death, Taxes and annual Disney price Increases.
(1/18/15) I received an interesting update regarding Disney s removal of the prize redemption counters and ticket games last night. It seems there was a bill (PCB 668) that was given unanimous discounts on expediacom travel purchases support by the Senate s Gaming Committee last year, that was intended to fix the previous law, and allow arcades like Chuck E Cheese discounts on expediacom travel purchases and Dave Busters to continue to run their operations with coinless games. For whatever reason, the official listing of it says it was sent to the Commerce and Tourism department for review, and there it died back in May.
According to one source, discounts on expediacom travel purchases Disney s being pro-active in removing their ticket redemption discounts on expediacom travel purchases games and prize counters may actually be a hidden budget cut. Not that the cost of the tickets or cheesy prizes is all that high, but the operations labor required to keep them running is. By removing them they no longer have to staff positions to run the counters and maintain all the physical ticket hardware, or the positions needed to order and stock the prizes. discounts on expediacom travel purchases A switch back to a traditional arcade discounts on expediacom travel purchases operation is much cheaper on the labor end of things, especially in the hotels which wouldn t really need to staff anyone to sit in the arcade all day long.
(1/17/14) For those who frequent the various arcades across the Walt Disney World property there has been an interesting development. I m told that the arcade at the exit of Space Mountain will close in early February, and the various discounts on expediacom travel purchases arcades at the resort hotels are in the process of removing their prize redemption counters. Why?
Apparently a poorly worded an anti-gambling law passed in Florida in 2013 is to blame which was intended to ban electronic games of chance and a trend that was seeing internet cafe s turning into online casinos, with non-physical cash transactions. (aka: swiping a card vs putting coins into a slot). While it seems no action was taken against Disney, they are being pro-active and removing / closing the prize counters at the arcades to return the experiences back to being simple arcades and games of skill. Personally, discounts on expediacom travel purchases I couldn t be happier, as I think the ticket game redeption garbage has been choking the life out of the true arcade experience for years and has long since gotten out of hand, so it will be nice to see arcades free of ticket games and go back to just being about the skill of playing video games again.
On the other side of the coin, it will be interesting to see what kind of change this may have on the operations of other major arcade style attractions such as Chuck E Cheese, Dave and Busters or any of the various Mini-Golf Arcades that line the tourist corridors of not just Orlando, but the entire state.
(10/28/14) The OBJ has confirmed that the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin hotels are undergoing an extensive renovation the largest one in the resort s history actually. According to the article the linked resorts will spend $125 million during a multi-phase upgrade which will see all the guest rooms redesigned and upgraded with new furnishings and new technology.
Renovations for the first phase of 500 rooms at the Swan will be completed by the end of 2014, while the first phase of renovations at the Dolphin wont begin until sometime in 2015. The renovation work on both resorts will be completed sometime in 2016.
Fastpass+ discounts on expediacom travel purchases is currently being offered to all guests in all four parks. Guests can have up to 3 FP+ for the day, but they are only valid in a single park. So, you cannot, for example, book 1 FP+ in Epcot and use the remaining 2 in MK. If you book FP+ in a park, but do not use any of them, you can cancel them and set them for another discounts on expediacom travel purchases park, but if you use even just one, they are locked into that park for the day. This started in the beginning so the individual infrastructure for each park could be built up and made more reliable, and also to see which attractions (both new to FP and used to it) guests were going to. This continues today to ensure the parks can hold thousands of people a day on the system, and WILL eventually change so guests can use their FP+ in multiple parks a day.
Guests have the ability discounts on expediacom travel purchases to book 3 FP+ a day, and cannot book anymore, even after all 3 have been used. The reasoning discounts on expediacom travel purchases behind this is to ensure that most of the guests have the ability discounts on expediacom travel purchases to get their own FP+, and it spreads them out across the board, making it fair to all guests so the people who enter the park at 2pm for example still have a fair shot at getting some. I at this point am unsure about this changing, discounts on expediacom travel purchases but when the park hoping happens, you will most likely discounts on expediacom travel purchases see a change in this as well.
The reasoning for the tiered system both at Epcot and Studios is to give more guests the opportunity to get a FP+ for a big attraction, and to ensure that they have not all been given out within an hour of the park opening as Test Track, Soarin, and Toy Story have consistently done. The tiered system will not be changing.
Epcot and Hollywood Studios have a tiered system when it comes to FP+. Essentially what this means is that there are two categories tha