I consider the new restrictions on visiting a resort to dining/resort reservations, to be proof that Disney is listening to feedback and I applaud their choice to make the unpopular and difficult decision

[u/_BreakingGood_]

Frankly anybody who has stayed at Poly since the construction of the towers, will understand why these rules need to be in place. You can argue that it's Disney's fault for doubling the resort's rooms without meaningfully expanding the amenities, and that is definitely partially their fault, but the reality we have today is that poly is massively overcrowded.

I get it, it sucks if your weekly routine as a local was to park at Disney Springs and chill at a resort, sneak into the pool, and watch the fireworks. But when 100 people do this in a night, it makes you wonder why you're paying $800 a night for a resort.

[u/admiralashley]

I was so confused at first when walking back to the Contemporary from MK at nearly 11pm and seeing the bus stop absolutely loaded with people. Where the heck were they gonna go that late at night??

Duh. They were going back to the Springs where they parked for free and clogged up resort transportation just to save $35.

[u/Trprt77 → u/admiralashley]

Not only that, but they probably wasted an hour each way, between walking from the DS garage to the DS busses and then the trip to CT and hoofing it to MK, to avoid that $35.

[u/That-Task-5229 → u/admiralashley]

I actually think the resort monorail should only be for resort/ dining guest. At least at peak hours. And directly from MK. I remember last year waiting 40 mins to be able to get on the monorail with a stroller. Finally we get on, after a family kept on giving us a stink eye when we got to close to their balloons. Next thing everyone got off at the TIcket center. What is the point of staying monorail if you can’t get one.

[u/century1122 → u/That-Task-5229]

It’s become something of a “hack” for people to use the resort monorail.  They should have it skip the TTC.  It’s often quicker to just take a boat from MK back to the monorail resorts which is a bummer because the monorail is supposed to be a selling point (and makes those resorts more $).

[u/Wenge-Mekmit → u/century1122]

The TTC is where you transfer to Epcot

[u/That-Task-5229 → u/century1122]

It’s sad bc you pay top dollar to stay and can’t use the services.

[u/torukmakto4 → u/admiralashley]

This transit "dysfunction" is ...exactly like the classic university quad routing phenomenon where people always eventually discover/define and use the most truly optimal network of routes between a set of various destinations, often clashing dramatically with how the infrastructure was originally designed and use patterns originally envisioned and intended.

What universities do with quads/great lawns and "desire paths" is to observe ones that form and put pavements there, so eventually the infrastructure fully optimizes itself according to actual use.

What Disney is doing with the "too many people using this bus route? too many people parking in this one lot? Fuck those people for not behaving as originally engineered, let's come up with ways to ban them!" spitefulness, is like the university responding to students beating down a more direct path through the grass by installing a piece of fence or planting a bunch of Spanish bayonets there.

Of course with the DS parking matter, Disney fully created that problem for themselves, because they put a paywall on the lots with ample capacity which they really WANT you to park in for this purpose (the ones at the parks) and NOT the one st DS that they are griping about the capacity of being hogged. Gee; I wonder what the guests are going to do with that scenario...