Originally Posted By Mr X Okay, so you just won $200,000,000 in the lottery...you decide to plan out a dream vacation at TDR. What would be your absolutely perfect itinerary? What amount of time would you spend? Where would you stay? What extravagant "extras" would you go for? No rules, really. Just keep it based in Urayasu if possible (I'm assuming everyone would make other luxurious plans in Japan, but for the purpose of this fun exercise just describe your Tokyo Disney Resort plans). For me, I would book at least a couple of weeks or perhaps even more. I would split my time between the Mira Costa and the Disneyland Hotel (best available suites, of course). I would dine at all the best places, and I would make it a point to get into Club 33 if at all possible. So, what would YOU do?
Originally Posted By Bob Paris I think ten days would do me exclusively for TDR. My hotel choices would be the same as yours - MC first and DLH second. I would just purchase an AP outright to save hassles. There would be lots of dining at Magellan's and on the the Columbia along with viewing whatever night show TDS had from my suite's balcony. I think the best part of such an extravagnace for me would be what I fantasized about during my trips in the past. I'd pay to bring all the people I loved, who would never even consider(or know about)the wonders at these places and I'd play tour guide and introduce them to these magical playgrounds. So, in addition to my ten days, with my partner, I'd stay longer afterwards and just bring different groups of friends and family. THAT, for ME would be the true joy of having SO MUCH money.
Originally Posted By SuperDry Interesting question. How about a week at each of TDLH and the MiraCosta? At the MiraCosta, I'd want one of those rooms with a balcony that overlooks the harbor, and visit during a time of the year where the weather was nice. It would be so great to be able to sit outside on your own private balcony during Mythica and BraviSEAmo. 14 days is way too much time to be able entertain yourselves in the parks, but if money was no object, it would be nice to have a stay that was long enough to be able to actually relax, which might mean not spending all day in the parks (or perhaps not at all on some days) and doing some of the other things at the resort: pool time at the hotel, have a nice dinner each night at a table service restaurant in a park, at a hotel, or in Ikspiari, see some movies at the AMC, and so on. A two-park AP would be a must so that park schedules and park hopping would not have to be decided upon up front. I did something like that once about 3 years ago, but it was shorter: "just" 7 nights at the MiraCosta. It's probably the most relaxing vacation I've had in years, as I didn't feel rushed for time at all and just did whatever I wanted to do.
Originally Posted By Mr X Yeah, I was trying to figure out how to word it because I, for one, probably wouldn't contain myself to any of the resorts for such a long time (possible exception of Florida). Certainly I would do other stuff too, if I felt like it (For example I always wanted to take one of those helicopter flights over Tokyo but felt it was out of my price range for now, and I'd probably seek out the best Fugu restaurant in Tokyo as well lol).
Originally Posted By MagicalNezumi Call Customer Service, tell them you're a VIP of some sort (flash the news articles showing you won the lottery), and reserve a table in Club 33. -- MagicalNezumi
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones I would want to stay for two weeks, not just going to TDR, but spending a ton of time in Tokyo and Japan in general. For example I would probably spend a couple full days at each park, but I would also go out and take the train somewhere in the Tokyo area, and then come back at say, 5-6 PM and hit the parks for a few hours, getting that kind of annual passholder experience. I would want to stay at an off-site hotel "commute" to the park in the morning and commute home at night.
Originally Posted By barboy 1)10 nights in a balconied room at Mira Costa's 'Porto Paradiso' Suite(no, not the hugely lavish 'Il Magnifico' since I'd become too overwhelmed, distracted and lost and thus could not appreciate). 2)7 nights at the DL hotel 3)one table service lunch at a different spot on property each day; the balance of meals would be counter service and hitting the carts like the Expedition Eats Yucatan Sausage near IJ or the Village Pastry in Fantasyland. 4)an April visit 5)have a good 50+ passports available per day ----for Fastpassing of course--- and send my privately hired help to make a mad dash to each participating FP machine early on(my most trusted minions would be given the special mission of handling multiple passports to stake multiple claims on my favorite attractions like Hightower, JTTCE and Splash Mountain). My personal 'Oopa Loopas' must then surrender their 'booty' to me. And anyone holding out with the spoils, naturally, won't get paid. By the way I'd have 2 minions wait in the 25 minute food cart lines too; and they'd better not come back to me empty handed or with the wrong item or there would be hell to pay.
Originally Posted By barboy 6)I'd shop too--- I'd shop my ass off and bring back a truckload of TDR goodies and cool artifacts 7)after ech days events and well after fireworks and BraveseaMo! each night a 1 hr. soaking in my roman tub(bubble bath) followed by a 2 hr. foot, leg.........ah heck just the entire body.....massage in my suite.
Originally Posted By Mr X lol...sounds great (love the 50 passports idea, though I'm guessing there'd be a cheaper and easier way to go, perhaps if you did stay in that el magnifico place they'd take care of that sort of thing for you lol).
Originally Posted By barboy ///though I'm guessing there'd be a cheaper and easier way to go/// Ya, probably there is an easier way to secure a large supply of FP's LOL!. And as to cheaper I guess it wouldn't matter whatsoever since I got $200 extremely large ones ready to drop solely on TDR(that's probably the net worth of someone like Jack Nickolson or Kobe Bryant).
Originally Posted By Mr X Yeah, absolutely. But for me personally, no matter how much cash I had I would never intentionally overpay unless the cheaper option were a big hassle or something. In any case, Disney definitely has the means to accommodate the whims of a VIP and at some point the amount of money you drop there begins to qualify you I'm sure. But anyway, that was a great suggestion (tons of AP for the fastpasses). Hadn't thought of that.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< (tons of AP for the fastpasses) >>> I don't think you could do it with APs. As of August 1 2008 you have to give your full name and date of birth and show gov't ID to get an AP, so I would imagine they're keeping track of people more than they were before. I'd be surprised if you could have more than one valid AP per person at the same time. But barboy said only "passport" - not necessarily of the annual kind. Even if you had 50 passports, a passport can't be used to get a FastPass unless it's been used for admission into the park that day. So, unless you also had 50 minions, you'd have to have the minions enter on passport #1, leave the park, enter on passport #2, leave the park, etc. Eventually this would be bound to attract attention. I've thought about doing something like this on a small scale, although I've never actually done so. Just buy a second park ticket, entering the park twice. I'm sure you could do this without attracting attention. Then, you'd be able to have twice as many FastPasses as normal. <<< But for me personally, no matter how much cash I had I would never intentionally overpay unless the cheaper option were a big hassle or something. >>> I don't know that the above would be "overpaying." How much is twice as many FastPasses worth on a busy day? Also, my perspective is different than a local's, as the cost of park admission is a tiny percentage of the overall cost of visiting the resort once I factor in airfare and hotel. So, doubling that portion of the trip is akin to saying "Super Size Me" at McDonald's as far as affecting the total cost.
Originally Posted By barboy There are rules at TDR limiting 1 passport per person per day? I've never read all the terms of use on any admission ticket or at ticket windows at any Disney park; if there are such rules then I can see the wisdom as that would be a much more fair policy; the wealthier segment(or anyone) would not be allowed to monopolize FP's at the expense of commoners.
Originally Posted By barboy ///Just buy a second park ticket, entering the park twice. I'm sure you could do this without attracting attention./// If that practice is indeed prohibited and you were caught in the act by a terribly observant cast member you could always say that you lost the first passport and you wanted FP priviliges and 'in and out' of park availability so you decided to use another passport----even if it cost you twice as much. I'm sure some have done that(buy a second passport) if they lost the first one early in the day.
Originally Posted By barboy I doubt that you could adequately explain away 3 or more passports though........ LOL!
Originally Posted By barboy ///But barboy said only "passport" - not necessarily of the annual kind/// Right. And is there something about AP's and Fast Passes that is different than regular passports and FP's? I've never held an AP at any park..... not even my 'home' park Dl Anaheim(which is 350 miles away)
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< And is there something about AP's and Fast Passes that is different than regular passports and FP's? >>> Not that I'm aware of. The only difference about APs at TDR as compared to regular tickets is that they reportedly have a much lower probability of winning the castle forecourt stage lottery if not used in a group that contains at least one non-annual passport. <<< There are rules at TDR limiting 1 passport per person per day? >>> I'm not aware of any explicit rule, but I would imagine that if abused to a large extent, someone could invoke Disney's version of the "no horseplay" rule and say that it was something that was causing inconvenience to other guests and ask you refrain from doing so. After that point, they could enforce it if they wanted to. Regarding APs, although there is no explicit rule against having more than one to the same park, it would not surprise me if you were not able to actually do so, now that they are making it a point to have the full name and date of birth backed by gov't ID for all AP holders. I can think of several reasons why they'd want to have this information (and they're not saying what the actual reasons are), and preventing multiple passes held by the same person would be one reason.
Originally Posted By barboy ///Also, my perspective is different than a local's, as the cost of park admission is a tiny percentage of the overall cost of visiting the resort once I factor in airfare and hotel. So, doubling that portion of the trip is akin to saying "Super Size Me" at McDonald's as far as affecting the total cost./// Well said. And to add to it TDR passports are cheap to buy even against US Disney parks($69 for Dl or DCA and $75 for a WDW park) since typically over the past several years they have been about $58(currently $65 since the dollar is most weak) So the way I see it the passports are both absolutely and relatively cheap.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***<<< But for me personally, no matter how much cash I had I would never intentionally overpay unless the cheaper option were a big hassle or something. >>> I don't know that the above would be "overpaying." How much is twice as many FastPasses worth on a busy day?*** Well, I wasn't commenting on the intrinsic value of a fastpass so much as assuming that if someone is dropping the kind of money we're talking about here I would guess a manager would be happy to just HAND you a stack of FP's if you asked. Thus the "overpaying" part. And also that was based on Barboy talking about spending 50X the normal admission price, not a mere double.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***preventing multiple passes held by the same person would be one reason.*** Hijacking my own thread here , but aside from our "fantasy scenarios" here WHY would someone want to have multiple passes and even if so WHY would Disney care? Even if the intention were to get more fastpasses, I don't see why Disney would care so much. After all, they are being "paid for".
