Sorry but I disagree with TheMan on the VIP stuff. At present it is OK. If people are willing to pay £500 (or was it 1000?) fo unlimited Fasttrack then I don't have a problem with that. I would never get one, but for the limited number who want that pass, they can have it.
Again (I seem to see this a lot) read any Disney forum and you will see people moaning about premium add-on events. But generally they sell out and don't generally prevent the day guests from doing anything.
I don't disagree with "VIP" stuff. What I am against is the wholesale, in your face, up-sell that just reminds you continually of everything you don't have with a Standard or Premium pass. It's the wording I object to, and the brash marketing practice, not the idea of what are actually premium, not VIP, services.
Do they valet park your car?
Offer you drinks upon your entry, and special area for you to sit with complimentary this or that?
They nearly get it right with fireworks as a special treat thing, so long as it doesn't encroach on the normal guest experience who pays plenty to visit already. Nothing wrong with those kinds of services at all. If you want to treat yourself or someone else, why not?
The "VIP" pass is not a VIP pass. That's not the worst though, it's the whole "VIP" rubbish that's everywhere - all over park, VIP this, VIP that - get this front row seat or that experience etc - all the while other people are looking at their pass thinking, well wtf am I paying for then?
That's more my point. There's nothing wrong with choosing different service packages depending on what you want, it's when it cheapens the experience of everyone else and actively advertises how it encroaches upon your experience as a normal paying guest, or different level card holder.
But then, that's EXACTLY why they do it. It's no mistake, it's a heinous attitude towards their other customers to cream off more coin.
Really crap attitude. Kind of things I'd stand face to face with Varney and challenge him on.
One day.... one day. (Not in a creepy way lol!)