What do you think about the new Disney park reservation system?

At Walt Disney World in Florida you have to buy a ticket for the parks and also reserve which park you want to go to on a certain day. Disney World has four parks, plus two water parks.

There are people during this busy spring break time who bought tickets, but cannot book a reservation for the park they want to go to on the day they want to go.

The reservation system is meant to prevent overcrowding in the parks (it still can be get very crowded) but is obviously frustrating for people who want to go last minute during a busy time of year, or who didn’t realize they need a reservation. There are warnings that you need a reservation when you buy a ticket.

If you are trying to coordinate an in-park restaurant reservation with a park reservation, that can be problematic, although if you buy a park hopper ticket, you can hop to a second park (or go go all three other parks, so not including water parks) after 2:00, and you don’t reserve that. You can’t just go to the desired park after 2:00, you have to check into the first park with the reservation first, which I think is annoying. I think why not go ahead and allow anyone with a ticket to go to any park after 2:00? I must be missing something. Except, this does force the person to pay extra for the hopper ticket. Maybe that’s why? I like to think Disney isn’t all bottom line. Ha. ~

Annual pass holders have different park quotas than someone buying a regular ticket.