Disneyland Now Enforcing "No Show" Policy For Park Reservations - Inside the Magic

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  1. Lesley Pearce

    Good idea as it gives others a change they may have missed out before. I also feel this could be applied to ride times that are booked and the rider/s doesn’t show. I the ‘good old days’ a physical collection of a fast pass made you more likely to return and if you didn’t show it didn’t really matter ( unless all times were allocated of course). I may be wrong and this might work the same way with genie + ?

  2. Tom

    I think it is a reasonable policy. That said I am really getting tired of making reservations. I make them guessing when I will want to go to the Parks and if the weather will be to my liking. I usually go mid week or Sunday night. So often I really would like to go last minute and no reservations. Other times I have a reservation and am not up to it, it is pouring rain, extra hot that day or, something comes up. I have only not shown once when I planned to visit with my son but he changed plans on me. More than once I have stopped by for an hour so I would not get dinged for no show.

  3. DLand

    I’m always reading these post on this site just to SEE what we’re getting ourselves into for my Granddaughters Birthday coming up in May. She wants to go to Disneyland & We live in Anaheim California, 10 minutes away from DISNEYLAND. I use to work for the Mouse 🐭 & also my whole family & I were Annual Pass holders for YEARS, then 💥 BAM 💥 Covid hit. My last visit was 3 DAYS BEFORE Disney had to shut its doors 🚪 to the public because of this Covid mess & THEN ALL OF THERE CRAZY CHANGES HAPPENED. Some were good & others have been just FLAT OUT WRONG & OR STUPID. It made me really Open my eyes with this company and How it’s treat there crowds as so called “GUEST” 🤣🤣🤣 No we’re not. You DONT CHARGE “YOUR GUEST” FOR EVERYTHING & THEN treat them like trash 🗑 I am NOT YOUR GUEST DISNEY, I am the buyer of your wares. Host “DONT DO WHAT YOU ARE & HAVE BEEN TO FOR YEARS) to there Guest & “YOU ARE NOT A TRUE OR EVEN GOOD HOST ANY LONGER” & I’m not the only one who feels that way. In time, thing’s WILL CHANGE YET AGAIN & MORE RULES & CHARGES WILL GO UP UP UP & You CEO’s of the “MOUSE HOUSE” will be LAUGHING 🤣🤣🤣 all the way to the bank 🏦 Great Host 🤣👎🏼🤣👎🏼🤣👎🏼🤣👎🏼🤣 I’m DREADING this up coming outing & I LOVE DISNEY 😞😞😞

    1. Eugenia

      I hear you. I used to go all the time, had various passes over the years because I live next to Disneyland too. Planned to be a lifelong passholder. Now it’s just a rip off. I did go ahead and get a pass because my grandkids are that age of magic; in a couple of years they won’t be. But if this crap is still going on then, I’m done with Disney.

  4. Charmaine Nash

    Well, excuse me Disney. I just paid for 14days Park admission. So I should have the right to use every day of that ticket. Ok, happy (not) to pre-book. But don’t penalise me for something I’ve paid for. How dare you. The magic is ebbing away, the nearer the holiday. Its just so much hassle now.

  5. I LOVE PEACE

    IS THE MAGIC GONE TO THE MIGHTY DOLLAR

  6. M Howell

    We had reservations but I woke up with diarrhea that morning. The Disney app has no way to cancel the day of the reservation. Things happen need a way to cancel the day of reservation.

    1. Julian H

      Disney should just do away with this crap reservation system. They will know how many people are coming from ticket sales.

      Disney have been in the game long enough to know how to estimate how many people staying on property and pass holders on average will come to the parks.

      This system is just more stress on your holiday which I do not need.

  7. Mary Murphy

    It’s total insanity to have to make reservations for every minute you are their GUEST while in the park. My daughter and her husband recently went and after waiting in line for several attractions they came out of one and wanted a beverage. It was a place that had pub height tables to stand around. Unfortunately they didn’t know they would be thirsty then and that place also required a reservation. Sorry…no drink for you! WTF?!

  8. Gray

    Granted, I suspect that this is less of an issue in CA than in FL, but I really have to wonder about this from the perspective of the weather often going sideways in FL. The prospect of having to drag one’s rear out to the park “day of” (or worse, having to drag the whole family along) if the weather turns upside down out of nowhere is flatly ridiculous. Pre-pandemic, there were more than a few times when plans to go to the park got binned because of massive thunderstorms deciding to stage a “surprise raid” on Orlando in the middle of the afternoon. Take it from experience, wandering around Epcot in the rain sucks.

    [The whole reservation thing is just annoying at this point, but the above issue is a real problem. If Disney proves to be willing to flag “unexpected bad weather days” and other major issues, that’ll be one thing. If not…]

    Then again, I read through the T&C on the WDW website and as far as I can tell WDW doesn’t have a provision for this (only “Passholders should cancel any reservation that will not be used prior to the date of the reservation”). So I’m guessing that if they were to implement it and enforce it in the near term, legal would find their hands full.

  9. carlos

    I love the idea a of a reservation based pass if it actually functioned the way its supposed to. The purpose of a reservation is to ensure that the park isnt packed to the gills so that everyone can experience the “Magic” of Disney that everyone claims is missing. Heres the reality to all of those people complaining about a reservation system, when you just pop in when ever you want you overcrowd the parks and dont spend any money which overburdens the rides and park facilities. If the reservation system worked the way it is supposed to no one would be complaining. Before the pandemic, Disneyland was slowly bringing in the “Knotts crowd”, and I gurantee if that had happen you’d be complaining a hell of alot more.

  10. Cristian

    Another reason why other theme parks like universal are thriving right now. Disney has made the process of going to the park such a complicated and stressful one….

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