Post #744774 by wizzard419 on Sat, Jun 13, 2015 10:40 AM

Figures for WDW are heavily skewed though, as it is a destination resort where the average guest is buying the park-hopping pass. At DLR, with more frequent single day visitors, you likely are not seeing as many multi-park purchases. Though you are seeing more APs.

From what I recall, the main reason they did the overhaul for DTD/DV was the same reason they updated the poly, it was old and stale looking, which makes it harder to command the prices (rent and room rates) for what they are offering. Magicbands do not offer any improved infrastructure over the previous system. They were already tracking ride occupancy and general real-time heat maps for the parks and resorts to keep track of demand. The dining reservations still work the same way, paying for items with an incidental account is still the same, etc. So they are not getting new data nor are they getting better data. The one thing that may have changed is that it is now easier to get people to use the bands for purchases, saving on swipe fees (which do add up) as well as reducing the overall cash in the registers.