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  1. Disney Genie and Disney Genie+ information. Coming this fall

    in WDW and Disney Park Discussions

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    Some companies are paying $15 an hour, Disney has plans to get to that pay.  So if a cast member wants to enjoy a park all he/she will need to do is work an hour.  But if the family wants to come also it will take more hours.  

    Wonder how much time a visitor will need to put in to be able to afford WDW? 

    I understand many families save for years to have a Disney vacation, gonna take more years.

  2. Updated with on sale and opening dates....Pricing and information for Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser

    in WDW and Disney Park Discussions

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    18 hours ago, lightbikes said:

    I have only one word for this - OUCH !!!!

    I can't begin to list the number of other experiences, several Disney ones, that I can have for that price tag and as much as the entire family loves Star Wars - this just ins't in the plans unless someone wins a big, big lottery !  There aren't enough "perks" to even bring me close to spending that kind for money for 2 nights.   Holy crap !!!

    Sorry probably more than one word  - but OUCH !!!!

    I agree.  lightbikes  and your TAG says it all 

    "Tag:Common sense left the planet quite some time ago"

  5. High End RVs

    in Camper Suggestions: from tents to Class A beauties

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    14 hours ago, TnBob said:

    I have lived full time in a Grand Design Reflection for the last 5 or 6 years. Winnebago bought Grand Design a couple years ago and some of the personnel started their own RV company called Alliance.  I haven'y followed them lately but last I did follow them they were perfecting their 5th wheels before moving to other types of campers. They used a lot of customer input before they sold their first one.

    I hope their company does well, imagine asking and listening to people who use the RVs!

  7. High End RVs

    in Camper Suggestions: from tents to Class A beauties

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    9 hours ago, BradyBzLyn...Mo said:

    While I personally will not be spending millions on a luxury RV this year (although it's fun to look!), I will say I've had my eye on that Grand Design 5th wheel ever since we walked through one a few years ago at the dealer.  If we ever pull the trigger on giving full-timing a try...

    So, where do the dog crates go? ;)

  10. Nighttime Spectaculars returning July 1!!

    in WDW and Disney Park Discussions

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    3 hours ago, lightbikes said:

    Most of Canada is open now for internal travel except for a few isolated spots that are still restricted.  However there is speculation that June 22 is possible but more likely July 21.  I think they want to keep us all home until all the kiddos are out of school.  

    However,  I can't see how the border can stay closed much longer, Manitoba is over 70% of 12 year's and up vaccinated at this point with at least 1 dose and the second doses are being given everywhere.  Both hubby and I have our second dose as do our kids.  Only the grandchildren haven't had their second dose.  There are a couple of provinces (Ontario & Newfoundland & Labrador that are a bit further behind but everyone else is doing well.  

    So cross your fingers !!!

     

    Congratulations Canada!!!

  12. We all knew it!

    in Travel and Transportation

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    And my opinion is impatient local drivers and lost tourists. 

    The impatients weave in and out of traffic going as fast as possible.    (at times you are likely to end up at same exit with them just in front of you)

    Then we have the wonderful tourists and the locals who slow down to be able to read their phones.  PULL OVER you fools.

    I-4 has been a nightmare to drive these past few years.  It is getting better but is still under construction.  I forget who first called the "construction of I-4" the Destruction of I-4.   That has been what I've called it since.

    During the first several years of the destruction we never knew when a lane would be changed and the road markings were so confusing.  The 'old' markings never totally removed and new ones hard to see.  There is bridge west bound near Universal where it was especially treacherous.  Hated that area. Especially at night or in the rain.

    Then there are lanes that just appear or disappear.  I would be in the middle lane and all of a sudden I was in right hand lane that was turning into an exit only lane.  That has improved, however be careful east bound heading into Orlando.  The right hand lane becomes the exit lane for South Street.  Just over the bridge over OBT another left lane is added, so before the bridge I drive in the left lane knowing I will soon be back in the middle lane as that new left lane comes up.

    The road is smoother in a lot of places now, so we can hope.

  14. What is happening? Is FF dying out?

    in General Camping Discussion and Questions

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    I agree with what you all are saying.   Good to 'see' you Lou and TCD so glad your girls have found other jobs.  Their youth and education probably helped them.  I know former cast members with years at WDW in salaried and 'helping' Tigger  positions and they still trying to find a new job.  Two in my neighborhood went ahead and retired, at least that freed up a couple jobs.  I haven't even tried to get a reservation to get in a park yet.  Now have learned I need to navigate that system to make, if possible, resies for out of town friends coming in Sept.  rats :(

    I hate not being able to just say let's go walk around a park on the spur of the moment.  However, even tho many people and fiends said they felt very safe at WDW I still haven't even been back to Disney Springs let alone any parks.   I do have my 'jabs' tho so hoping  to be there soon, if I figure the system.

  15. If your Traveling to the Fort on I-95 you need to know about Buc-ee's

    in Camping To and From the Fort

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    On 4/5/2021 at 1:56 PM, dblr....Rennie said:

    Well I sent Buccee's a email regarding my situation regarding our tow vehicle to see if maybe they would exempt us and let us use their locations, I hope they do as seeing they are building a lot more locations north and east and will fall into our travels plans. Will let you all know the response.

    Good luck to you.  I hope they allow you to spend $$$$$ at their stations.  I want the tater chips!

  17. Predictions

    in General Camping Discussion and Questions

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    On 4/5/2021 at 8:17 AM, Grumpy and Grandma said:

    Better than no job.....Their original position may not need to be filled at the moment.   Gretchen mentioned "asst to Tigger", well Tigger isn't out meeting guests so that position doesn't need to be filled. 

    And my friend is lucky, she is in a position to wait for the job she loves to be available.

  20. Don't Forget to Cross the Chains

    in General Camping Discussion and Questions

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    4 minutes ago, BradyBzLyn...Mo said:

    Oops, sorry - didn't mean to blame you for the Key Bridge LOL.  I

    Crazy enough, we actually did tow our very first big camper over/through the Chesapeake Bay Bridge/tunnel. What's even more bananas is that we had no idea what we were doing at the time and didn't even have the tow setup completely corredt - I don't think we even had sway bars!!  (Talk about not knowing what you don't know.) We survived, but it may definitely have led to DH's bridge-phobia.  ;)

    I'd have to bring a suitcase full of Xanax.  :ROFLMAO-1:

    Don't forget the depends ;)

     

  24. Another sad story about me first individuals

    in WDW and Disney Park Discussions

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    A security guard reminded a guest to put on his mask before he walked into Disney World’s Contemporary Resort near the Magic Kingdom last month.

    “I’m a guest,” argued the middle-aged, fedora-wearing man. He asked to be left alone.

    Then he spat, and some of his saliva hit the guard’s forehead.

    It was one of several confrontations on Disney property in recent weeks as some guests have angrily refused to follow Disney’s pandemic safety rules. Some of the situations have led to arrests, although not in the case of the spitting man, who hurried inside the hotel and disappeared in the elevators before he could be identified on Feb. 5.

    At Disney World, visitors are required to have their temperatures checked and they must wear masks at the four theme parks, hotels and Disney Springs. Many have praised Disney for putting strict rules in place and devoting employees to enforce them during the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 31,000 Floridians.

    But Orange County Sheriff’s reports released to the Orlando Sentinel last week also depict the challenges theme parks and their employees face enforcing the rules. Not everyone is willing to obey them. Some visitors spit. They yell. They push Disney employees out of their way. They are drunkenly defiant.

     

    “There’s never a day when I don’t have a story,” said one employee whose regular job was upended during the pandemic so she took a new assignment enforcing mask rules in the Disney Springs parking garages. “I cried the first week I started. It was not a good time at all. Imagine going to work every single day where people ridicule you.”

    People get angry because they can’t wear a gaiter mask or don’t understand why Disney has mask requirements when the state of Florida does not, the employee said. She asked not to be identified over concerns about losing her job.

    “I’ve had a guest literally get right up in my face and literally curse me out,” she said.

    She was scared she was going to get punched if her supervisor hadn’t been there, she said.

    “If I honestly didn’t have good coworkers, I would have already quit by now,” she said.

    Disney spokeswoman Andrea Finger said most of the visitors who returned to the parks since the pandemic reopening are supportive of the safety rules.

    “Millions of guests visit our theme parks each year, and in rare instances when things of this nature occur, we hold them accountable,” Finger said in a statement.

    Theme park-goers don’t want to be told what to do in a society where “we’re more prone to think about ourselves than about the welfare of those around us,” said Gregory Webster, a psychology professor at the University of Florida.

    “They’re thinking about it in terms of having their free will repressed instead of making a very small and trivial sacrifice for the betterment of the whole,” Webster said of the COVID-19 rule violators.

    The mistreatment of Disney employees is a problem that runs deeper in the service and retail industry, Webster said.

    On Tuesday, Hyatt officials complained that attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference acted with “hostility” when hotel staff urged them to wear masks and socially distance during the event last month in Orlando.

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