Park reopens soon..... who's going?

I don't live in the state of California, so I won't get the option for a while.

 

I can wait. I'm more eager for the opportunity to eventually return to Disney Hall than I am for the opportunity to eventually return to Disneyland. Of course, another return of the MSEP could change that, but headline-level parades are unlikely for quite a few more months.

 

We will be waiting. Especially since we did the DCA thing.
I don't know if we can handle waiting until everything is fully open and feels safe but that is what I want.
I find myself wondering if tickets will ever be easy to get again.

 

Disneyland is my Godfather III—just when I think I'm out they keep pulling me back in. I have no idea what the remainder of this year will look like, but I am vaccinated and all but the youngest of my kids are vaccinated, and I'd really like to take them to Disneyland. It would likely be a couple of days or so as part of a larger trip to SoCal to go to the beach and Universal to see Harry Potter and all of that jazz. I have to imagine that predicting crowds at Disneyland for the foreseeable future will be a fool's errand, and so that's a wildcard for me. I don't live all that close and I don't really care to go when the park is packed to the gills with people thinking exactly as I do: We've been cooped up for a year, let's get out! As fun as it might be to take my family, it gets a lot less fun staring down a 2-hour wait for rides.

 

Pretty much my sentiments. I figure we will put it off until one or both of our daughters decides to take their families. If they go I am pretty sure we will; crowds notwithstanding.

 

I don't think crowds will be as bad as you think because the parks will not be operating at full capacity for a while. I think what will be bad is the crowd control to get IN to the parks because I'm sure there will be those that think they can just drop in without advance tickets.

 

I hope it remains that way, since we won't be able to go for a few months. Regardless, I'm sure we'll figure something out, even if it's just soaking in the atmosphere and doing fast pass to get on rides.

 

Funny, for years, I've been exactly the opposite when it comes to the idea of reinstating my pass (which, at present, is kind of a moot issue): every time I thought they'd finally given me a reason to reinstate my pass, they'd go and do something stupid, like getting rid of something beloved, or putting in something noisome (can you say "Pain in the Night"? I'd gladly take a return of Light Magic, even with all of its myriad problems intact, before I'd sit through that total dog of a parade again!).

 

Something stupid like this "virtual queue" bovine scat, requiring a mobile app. Making attractions available only to those carrying mobile devices capable of running the Disney App is discriminatory against those who -- whether by choice or otherwise -- do not have smartphones.

I flatly refuse to own, much less carry, a full-on smartphone, I do not tolerate having unwanted software shoved down my throat, and I refuse to carry my tablet (such as it is) into a theme park.

Not that I'm all that attracted to RotR. It reminds me of the Borg attraction at the late lamented "Star Trek Hilton" in Vegas (and I much preferred the Klingon attraction). And I have even less interest in the Spider-Man attraction (and am not quite sure I understand what it is).

 

Smart phone free here as well. We would have had to stand in a very long when we did DCA just for food if not for our daughter's phone.

 

I admittedly have a "smart" phone, but when I have attempted to use it in the parks the signal was very poor. They are going to need to do something to boost their signal if that is going to truly become a thing. I also agree that moving things to a virtual queue would exclude quite a few people. Any person coming from another country would have to pay to access the internet outside of wifi zones...and speaking from experience it is not cheap.

 

What would Walt do?

 

Well, he did like to look to progress and the future so maybe he foresaw this. I would like to think that he would do whatever is necessary in the Parks to make access equitable to all.

Our bills have been telling us that our phones will no longer be supported after April 2022 so it looks like we will have some sort of *smart* phones. I will not be going for the latest and greatest that is so expensive the payments for it become part of the monthly bill. There are actually still some plans that provide a free phone.

I remember years ago when LP was in its prime; we had an international meet. The folks from Europe would have to text us as that was only a dime as apposed to calls that would incur international fees.

 

During my first Canadian vacation, in the Fall of 2017, my previous cell phone (which was literally falling apart -- I'd had to patch a crack in the case) turned into a paperweight, without any advance warning, as soon as my bus from Seattle crossed the Canadian border on its way to the Vancouver train station.

It remained a paperweight in Vancouver, in Winnipeg, in Toronto, and on the train connecting them, and didn't turn back into a functioning phone until my flight from Toronto landed in Boston. In Toronto, I found that I could not even make a collect call home: no functioning pay phones left, and my hotel required a phone card to call outside.

I made it my business to replace it in time for my Fall 2018 vacation (Chicago, Toronto, Halifax, Charlottetown, St. John's, and Boston), and I now carry an LG VN220 "Exalt" (LTE/UMTS/GSM, with a rudimentary browser that's good enough for checking my email and getting quick answers to any question that can be answered with a Google search, but not much else). It did not turn into a paperweight in Canada, although I did learn that international data was not included in my free monthly data allotment, and was in fact quite expensive.

I will note that while the VN220 is discontinued, Verizon offers more clamshells now than they did when I got the VN220.

 

@hbquikcomjamesl I have run into similar issues when I was in Europe. We got twist-turned around in Amsterdam (easy to do) and we had to use our phones to navigate back to our hotel. Generally we did pretty good w/ the printed maps, but we ventured outside of the map boundary for longer than we thought. It was a shock to our wallet when we came home, but I must say that it was worth every penny to not argue about which direction to go.