Originally Posted By Rebekah This topic is for discussion of the 1/21/2003 news item <b><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/orange/la-ed-ocletters19bjan19.story" target="_blank">LATimesLetters: Feeling a Bit Goofy for Paying to Stand in 3-Hour Disneyland Lines</a></b> The January 19th <I>Los Angeles Times; Letters to the Editor</I> offers the thoughts of Linda Peterson, Modjeska Canyon who describes her recent experiences at Disneyland on an extremely crowded day and wonders if she is goofy for planning to return.
Originally Posted By driftwood714 Can someone cut and paste this? I don't feel like signing up to the LA Times website.
Originally Posted By JeffG I don't believe LP's policies permit cutting and pasting entire articles. -Jeff
Originally Posted By Crazy Pirate The thing with that is, if she knew it was going to be busy, why did she go? We, as a Company did not make her or anyone else go. They handed over their money, and came through the gates. I compare it to Las Vegas...millions go there. People complain it's busy there, but they still go when everyone else goes...holidays, summer, etc. But no one forces you to go to these places. If you hate crowds and will complain when it's busy, then don't go during the holiday season and summertime, because guess what, it's going to be busy. Now is the perfect time to be going to the Resort...very slow, and not too many people. Wait times under 30 minutes, and in a lot of cases, 10 minutes...Indy, Splash. Sorry...had to vent, that was building up ever since the holiday season began and people complained about it being busy. Gotta love the off-season! Such a nice change of pace.
Originally Posted By tangaroa She admitted that she knew it would be busy, she just didn't expect it to be THAT busy... which is reasonable. A three hour wait for anything is rediculous. With fewer rides and more people, there are longer lines for everyone.
Originally Posted By Crazy Pirate So a 4 and a half hour for Indy was pretty ridiculous when it opened?
Originally Posted By tangaroa >So a 4 and a half hour for Indy was >pretty ridiculous when it opened? Yes.
Originally Posted By Crazy Pirate I know...it was pretty ridiculous, but when it opened it was worth the wait...
Originally Posted By tangaroa And a lot of people asked for refunds because they didn't want to wait in a long 4 hour wait or didn't even get to see the ride in the first place. People complained then, and peopel complain now.
Originally Posted By Crazy Pirate well, guess what, you won't get a refund for that. And I would imagine no one did because after all it just opened. Remember...Splash Mountain's line stretched all the way past the Mark Twain dock on opening day...
Originally Posted By tangaroa You'd be surprised. Guest Relations give away passes like candy now. I heard a story the other day that Guest Relations were giving away passes to people who were getting confused by the "2 parks for 2 days" deal since they thought they would be park hoppers on both days.
Originally Posted By BCMOMMY No need to stand 4 hours in line with Fastpass....let me tell you..we were there over the holidays and they closed the park three out of the six days we were there due to overcrowding...and...we never once waited longer than 15 minutes using fastpass...the best invention ever for Disneyland!!
Originally Posted By Crazy Pirate Forgot to mention this...they never did close the park this past holiday season. They suggested guests visit DCA rather than DL at that time, but the park was never closed.
Originally Posted By Crazy Pirate PS - Technically they never do close the park when it becomes too crowded, they just stop selling tickets until people leave and bring the numbers back down, then they resume selling tickets.
Originally Posted By Crazy Pirate PS - Technically they never do close the park when it becomes too crowded, they just stop selling tickets until people leave and bring the numbers back down, then they resume selling tickets.
Originally Posted By tangaroa >PS - Technically they never do close >the park when it becomes too crowded. Uh. Of course they do. It just never gets THAT crowded anymore. But there are all sorts of laws in place that make sure they can only have X amount of people in the park, and when they reach that, they can't let anyone else in, tickets or not. Go look up in the OC Register the "final" days of the MSEP where the fire marshall got involved.
