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Waitlist: Staying Overnight at a Disney Park
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On this episode of the Waitlist, the guys answer the question, if DVC let you stay in one of the parks overnight, what would that experience be like?
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Introduction to 'The Waitlist' Podcast
00:00:06
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This is Skipper Albert A. Wall, the voice of the jungle, broadcasting on the DVC to all voice unknown. If you're within the sound of my voice, you're listening to Welcome Home Podcast on the DVC.
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Music Music Music
00:00:30
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Welcome to The Waitlist.
Return and Theme of 'The Waitlist'
00:00:32
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Those that don't know, we done a waitlist in a while, guys, I feel like. ah Right? it means It's been a minute. Yeah. We haven't done a good waitlist in a long, long time.
00:00:43
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It's been a while, right? Yeah. And so for those that don't know, The Waitlist is just kind of ah ah it's a topic-based show where we kind of do like... I don't know. Crazy questions. I feel like we don't do the normal topic based show where we like, you know, what's the best time to go? Yeah, I guess. Yeah, it's more theoretical and like what if kind of stuff, I guess, is the best way to describe it.
00:01:04
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Yeah. Yeah.
Managing Vacations and Podcast Continuity
00:01:05
Speaker
And I mean, i you know, I think a lot of people know that the reason why we're doing this one is that both Trevor and I are going to be away on vacation over the next couple of weeks here. So ah this is, this is our, our way to still give you some content while we're, while we're gone. So ah we, we thought a lot about some different topics for this one. And i the one we're going to do is, ah it is the question of what if Disney lets you stay inside a park overnight as a DVC experience?
Concept of Disney Park Overnight Stay
00:01:34
Speaker
Which I think is an interesting question. I mean, first of all, the question would be, is that, are they going to like, I mean, it's a DVC experience, right? So it's going to cost points, I guess. Or it would be like a Moonlight Magic type thing. Like, you know. yeah I feel like points.
00:01:48
Speaker
You think it would have to be point? Yeah, because Disney's always looking for way to burn points. And as they continue to open, you know, 8,000 DVC hotels, they they need ways to kind of burn up points. and Instead of using them at the hotels.
00:02:01
Speaker
Yeah, that's what i would say. Like a once a year park night experience or something. Once every five years. i don't think you could do it once every year. Really? I feel like you'd have to be a pretty exclusive experience, though, too, right? Like it wouldn't it wouldn't be like Moonlight Magic level of people, right? Wouldn't you think it would be like a small amount of people or no?
Logistics of Overnight Stays
00:02:20
Speaker
Again, I think it depends on the amount of points people are going to spend. And also, like they need a certain amount of people to justify the cost of it, too. it was what What are we even doing? I mean, are there are there rides? Is there food? Or is there just nothing? like In my head, it's nothing. You're just hanging out in the park. There's no rides. There's no food. There's no nothing.
00:02:37
Speaker
I was thinking like how they did the 24-hour thing yeah like years ago. Yeah. Would you did not want that, Damon? I mean, No.
00:02:49
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okay I was under the impression we were just talking about spending a night in the park, like where you just kind of hang out. I mean, you could do that. you know like I mean, I remember when I was a kid, and I don't know if they would still do this or not, but I was in Boy Scouts when i was a kid, and we did a thing where we you know stayed overnight at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
00:03:10
Speaker
ah you know You just brought up brought your sleeping bag, and we just like slept overnight in one of the exhibits, basic basically. But we didn't like get to do anything. that's Okay. Yeah. All right. so So, okay. Then then let's let's explore that for a second. And let's say, are are we giving free reign to a whole park?
00:03:29
Speaker
Or are we saying that it's an experience like you're staying in a particular land or particular area? Yeah. I mean, I'm going to say they're going to have to quarantine it to a land, I feel like. Yeah.
00:03:41
Speaker
So let's just say you get to pick your land in a park. And here's the other question. Is it just you or is it like a group full of goons? Well, I would assume it's a group, but yeah, unless you pay a lot of points.
00:03:54
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, unless you're doing it like ah like a plaid kind of thing, right? Where you're doing like the private thing where it's you have just your group is in there. which But that would be a ton of points, like you said, Trevor. Like, you can't do something that exclusive and not have it be like a lot of points, right?
00:04:09
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But like, they don't need to really do anything for you, right? I mean, I would say if – so my my stipulations for doing something like this is that you're given you're given access to a land.
00:04:22
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I say that there should be at least a – Not necessarily like a full quick service open, but there should be like somewhere where you can get food like like or snacks.
00:04:35
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Yeah, snacks or something, right? so so there So there should be, you know, at least that. And then, you know, leave the lights on in the land kind of thing. Leave the lights on in the land.
00:04:45
Speaker
But like who's cooking for you? Like you're just saying like a spot where you can grab some food, like ah ah lounge. Like you're not going to have like people cooking. You're to have cooks all overnight, right?
00:04:57
Speaker
No, I wouldn't think so. I mean, i think I'm thinking more like sandwiches and, you know, chips kind of thing, you know? Yeah, nothing like a fancy meal or anything. But, yeah, I say quick service because, you know, quick service has a lot of, like, grab and go. What came with a fancy meal, though?
00:05:13
Speaker
Oh, so have, like, a meal beforehand somewhere, and then you go and get your... During, like, so, like, they just keep one restaurant open a little bit later for you in the land. Okay. So, all right. So then, yeah okay. So I think we have, we have some rules established, I think. But the the question is, is how many goons are with you? Right? Like, is it just your family? Is it 10? Is it a hundred people? like you're just calling them goons. Yeah. Well, because there are people that I probably they don't want there. Right. How many other unknown factors are there? i mean, like randos. Okay. It's going to be randos. That's the thing. Like how many people are there?
Ideal Locations for Overnight Stays
00:05:47
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Yeah.
00:05:48
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I do want to mention really quick before we keep talking about this. They actually did this one time. like And I don't know if you guys remember us. The Haunted Mansion thing? No, they did this in Pandora. ah years I think it was... I'm just trying to find it on the internet. But I found one ah article from 2018. It was like a contest thing. And they had somebody do some glamping. They have like a two people basically get to sleep in a fancy tent in Pandora overnight.
00:06:15
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That's what I'm saying. Yeah, now like that's pretty cool. Absolutely. See, I keep gravitating towards Adventureland, but Pandora would be cool, too.
00:06:26
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Star Wars land, I feel like, maybe. World Showcase. World Showcase would be cool, yeah. what What if you did Star Wars Land and Stormtroopers come and wake you up at 3 o'clock in the morning? Oh, no.
00:06:41
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You're not waking me up at 3 o'clock in the morning. like Shuttle you off somewhere.
00:06:47
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I think that Star Wars Land would be most would be the easiest, to be honest with you. You think so? Cause you have an entrance exit, right? and Like that can be blocked. Oh, I mean, they can't be blocked off, but have an entrance exit. kind of way more self-contained than some other spots. Right.
00:07:06
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Because you truly have like a tunnel entrance exit. Right. um Yeah. I feel like there's more to look at. feels kind of cooler. I don't know. hey I mean, I'm sleeping outside the millennium Falcon or am I sleeping inside the millennium Falcon?
00:07:20
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and I don't know that there's actually... the queue for Smuggler's Run or like in in like the boarding area for Smuggler's Run? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Am I inside or outside? Sleep on the couch in that little lobby area first thing for Smuggler's Run. I think that would be actually be really cool. Just just like like they close down Smuggler's Run early and you just get to like hang out in there.
00:07:40
Speaker
like that That would be very cool. That would be interesting. Yeah. it And does it really need to be a land or could it just be straight up a ride? Okay. Pirates of the Caribbean just shut down to sleep, and they would also be kind of cool.
00:07:55
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Wait, to, like, in the ride? no, no, no, no. but Like, in, like, the queue to the ride. Oh, okay, okay. I thought you meant, like, you know, youre aunt you're, like, in the middle of, like, the scene at the end there with, like, you know. That would be really cool.
00:08:10
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That would be kind of crazy, right? That would be creepy, though, wouldn't it? I would not. Yeah, I would not be able to do that. like Because there's there's too much like sound and movement and stuff going on. That would creep me out. like like And then turn it worse. Both ways it's creepy.
00:08:27
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yeah Both ways it's creepy. yeah Yeah, listen, that's I like the idea of Pandora. I mean, assuming they keep the lights on all night, because like if I could just like poke poke my head out in the middle of the night and be like...
00:08:37
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Ooh, look at that. That's pretty cool. I mean, I don't know if that's what they did or not. I mean, this was all the way back in 2018. And i you know we were doing the show at that point. And that's why I remembered it because I remember talking about it. But ah yeah, I don't know. I mean, obviously, you still had like a bathroom and stuff like available to you. you know i don't know. yeah I think you'd have to have... You still to have facilities and stuff, right?
Financial Viability of Overnight Stays
00:09:00
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Yeah. i And that's where like I think you know having like it limited to a land... like I can't think of a... in any given land, like there, there's a bathroom or, you know or, you know, they have a path to a bathroom somewhere nearby. Right. But how many people again are we talking about in this land?
00:09:16
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Let's say you can have, uh, you know, not your closest family members. So you're, you're talking about other just random people, right? Yeah. Like like if they did like, they're not going to do it for eight people. Yeah. Like how many people are they going to do for this experience? Like what was it? A hundred people? Hmm.
00:09:30
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Hundreds, a lot. I feel like a hundred, I mean, 50, yeah, would be good. 50 people a night. Yeah. Yeah. 200 points a person? i mean, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it kind of puts it into like Adventures by Disney kind of.
00:09:47
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Yeah. So hold on. So 200 points a person, 50, right? So what is that? 10,000 points? Yeah. And then what are we talking? $16 a point-ish?
00:09:58
Speaker
I don't know. What's the point? I don't. What are the points? without can So the question is can you keep the, are you keeping the land open for 160 grand? Probably not. Yeah, I mean, that's fair. I mean, it's interesting, though. What if you just only had it for DVC members, but you actually had to pay cash for it?
00:10:15
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And how much is it then? But then it's like thousands of dollars. yeah would have to be thousands of dollars. Five grand a person? I mean, yeah. yeah I would say, right? Five grand a person, right? So what is that? If you're going to do that, though, you need to leave the park open all night or leave the land open all night. well now You can't for half a million dollars? No way, man.
00:10:34
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You're talking half a million dollars. It's nothing. You're barely going to get one quick serve open for half a million bucks. Yeah, the the operational cost for it is like... It's crazy how much it would cost just to keep the park open. I'm going to say it's got to be $10,000 a person.
00:10:51
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million bucks. okay yeah That's doable. yeah yeah One quick serve. You got the lights on. Are the lights on all night anyway while people are cleaning? See, we're we're kind of hosing the people that clean. Like, what happens? They got to clean around you. They got to clean around you. yeah but Yeah. It's one of those things like what happened in – for the 24-hour stuff is they were open literally literally for a day straight. And I feel like that – I guess they probably don't do stuff like that much anymore because it does mess up operations.
00:11:21
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Right. Like I, I can imagine, you know, they, they could probably, if it's somewhere that they could set it up, that it's, you know, fairly low maintenance that they, that they don't need to, um, uh, you know, do a lot of cleaning or, yeah, like you said, they can figure out how to clean around you.
00:11:38
Speaker
Star Wars land would be doable. I don't know why I feel that way, but I feel like it would be easier. yeah I think there's a lot of spots like Star Wars. line I know what you're saying about it it has like two entrances and and whatnot, but but a lot of the lands are actually like that. it's There's even...
00:11:56
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like even ah um even Pandora is the same way. There's only two entrances in and out. Pandora would be another good one. I mean, considering that they did it already, for sure. yeah a lot of the newer lands or newer stuff that they put in has... You couldn't do World Showcase either, because I feel like you got the water there. and just seems like it was bad. You have to cut off, like...
00:12:18
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from You would have to cut off basically from like test track going in to World Showcase. Like like that's a huge area to come. I would say if you're going to do something like that, it's like they could maybe like...
00:12:32
Speaker
like cut off a pavilion, but then it would be like, I'm thinking of somewhere like Morocco or Italy where like the pavilion goes pretty far back and you could, you could realistically like close off the entrance. The problem is, is yeah, a lot of world showcase is very just like open and, and, you know,
00:12:51
Speaker
very multi-directional. People can wander in and out of places, right? The benefit of World Showcase, though, is it doesn't open until 11 a.m. m the next morning, right? So that you could
Preferred Rides and Sleeping Conditions
00:13:00
Speaker
kick people out at like 8 a.m. m and they'd still have a couple hours to clean up, you know?
00:13:04
Speaker
I mean, the benefit for Disney, anyway. Like, not for the people, but... I think that while we continue to stay at land, I almost think it still has to be a ride. I think ride is just so much better, right? You have less people, less money,
00:13:20
Speaker
ah less, you know, again, so you bring them in food. There's a bathroom in all rides, isn't there? Not in lines always. I mean, there's usually one right outside, though. Yeah, there's usually one right outside. yeah Yeah.
00:13:33
Speaker
I would expand that to, or you could do a pavilion in Epcot because pavilions are kind of set up the same way that there's only one way in or one way out of them. That's true. Okay. So now if we're coming down to just rides, man, Tower Terror has got to be on that list.
00:13:48
Speaker
That'd be pretty cool, actually Oh, yeah. yeah that would just Just in the lobby? or or Yeah. yeah would you Would you sleep downstairs? Sorry, I say like you know in the like boiler room.
00:13:59
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you asking me would I be Well, well it not would you be scared, but like I don't know if I could stay down there because it's the same problem of like just random noises and stuff dode I don't do well with.
00:14:11
Speaker
I mean, that's part of being scared, though. No, it's it's a matter of, it like, i just, I need a certain amount of quiet to actually go to sleep. Like, if there's something, like, running in the background, I tend to, yeah. Or, I mean, it would have to be, I guess that's not fair. I do i do use white noise stuff to yeah drown out other sounds. You're good. You got white noise headphones on, you're good. Yeah.
00:14:36
Speaker
By the way, according... Oh, sorry, go ahead, Tim. No, go ahead. What were you saying? According to Wikipedia. According to the internet. Yeah. You can rent out Magic Kingdom for four hours after the park closes for $180,000. Like, because just that like his companies will like currently today?
00:14:52
Speaker
This article is from 2022. So it's probably a little more than that now. But... yeah Still fairly recent. So, okay. Okay. But that's for four hours. That's for four hours after the park's closed. park But everything's open, though, isn't it?
00:15:05
Speaker
Yeah. And this this article also mentions, too, if you were to rent it out for a full day for a private event, which has happened before. Corporations have done that. It costs between $2 million and $5 million. dollars So there you go.
00:15:17
Speaker
If you want to know how much that costs. So overnight, basically divide that number by three for an overnight stay. And that's it being open? Yeah. That's with it being, like, open, yeah. Okay, well, what's our discussion, though? Is it open or not open?
00:15:33
Speaker
I mean, would at least want some rides to be open, right? Like, it doesn't need to be completely open, but I would like to have, like, some things open, I would say. You know? Like, maybe if you're just doing a land, it's all the rides in that land are open, you know?
00:15:45
Speaker
Okay, but then, like... how many people again? Yeah. it's, it's, that's a tough question, right? I I'm of the opinion that for anything like this, and I know what you're saying, Damon is, you know, having it exclusive would be amazing, but I feel like if you had 50 people that like, that's the cutoff for me where the group is not too big that it gets out of control. And I feel like having 50 other people, you know,
00:16:13
Speaker
you get enough people that really want to be there that they're not going to do things to ruin it for the rest of the crowd. Right. yeah Like, like, I, I feel like the larger a crowd gets, the more you kind of get that variance of, you know, somebody in the crowd goes like, Oh, I'm going to like, you know, go out of bounds or I'm going to, you know, you know, go, you know, wreck, wreck something. And not to say like, you know, DVC people don't,
00:16:40
Speaker
I've never heard of anybody in DVC doing something like that. But it just feels like the more that like when you get there's a weird crowd thing there, right?
Animal Kingdom Overnight Experience
00:16:49
Speaker
like Like if it gets too big, it just becomes something you can't control. I feel like 50 is like that cutoff number that if there was 50 other people, it's that's like, yeah, there's ah other people here, but they're not, you know, everyone's kind of minding their own business. And, you know, you all understand why you're there, right?
00:17:07
Speaker
Yeah, that's that's my thought on it. if If I'm just looking at the now i'm looking at the Disney fairytale weddings website. And so you can do like a wedding in the Magic Kingdom for up to 300 people. Now, what if you were doing just like a wedding after hours and it was 300 people of the people that you would invite to your wedding?
00:17:24
Speaker
But is again, the rides are open during that wedding thing. Kind like you have exclusive access to those rides. Do you? i It does not actually say in here. I can't imagine you do. i'm just saying. I'm just seeing here. It doesn't seem like it.
00:17:38
Speaker
um Well, it says, no, taking all the beauty and wonder of Magic Kingdom Park without all the crowds experiencing incredible ceremony. It doesn't say that the rides are open, though. So I don't know. That's a good question.
00:17:49
Speaker
I mean, the way they phrase that is kind of yeah enjoy Magic Kingdom without the crowds that like asterisk also no rides. Like yeah so no ride i not I'm not enjoying Magic Kingdom if that's the case.
00:18:00
Speaker
But if I'm paying $180,000 for that, I feel like I kind of want to have rides open. i don't know. I mean, I guess I just don't think like how are you paying those people to run the rides for that little I mean, they don't make that much. of i mean I'm saying running up the ride itself.
00:18:17
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no, you mean like the electricity and the... Yeah, all that. Yeah, that's a good question. Just yeah the general ride-ness of it. That's good question. I don't know. I don't know. he he Here's what what I'm saying. if you're just If you're telling me I got to jump on... or I'm going to go all all the routes.
00:18:32
Speaker
If you're telling me got to jump on just a ride, I'm feeling like it's going to be Tower Terror, Guardians of the Galaxy...
00:18:44
Speaker
I feel like those are probably, or the Millennium Falcon, right? Like Smugglers Run. Like yeah those are the, oh, and um the, what's it called one? The Pandora, the the good ride.
00:18:56
Speaker
Flight of Passage or? the good ride. at the river ride. Okay. think so yeah I forgot who I was talking to for a moment. Exactly. I think those would be the ones that I would do if it's a ride.
00:19:06
Speaker
If you tell me i get a land, o I'm going to take Star Wars land. I don't know why I'm going to take Star Wars land, but I'm going to. And then after that, I obviously take the Italian pavilion.
00:19:18
Speaker
Okay. Okay. I don't know if there's anywhere in Magic Kingdom I would care about. I just don't think so in Animal Kingdom. I'm not trying to get like tiger. Do you know what I mean?
Creative Overnight Stay Ideas
00:19:27
Speaker
In the middle of the night. They all go into their enclosures. and i just No thanks. I'm out on that. That's actually a good point. I feel like outside of Pandora, anywhere else in in Animal Kingdom. Yeah. I'm not getting tiger, dude. monkey or just catered or anything like that, man. oh Okay, it's it's it's not goingnna it's not going to turn out like ah like a horror movie.
00:19:48
Speaker
but I don't know. I don't know the answer to that. I feel like Animal Kingdom at night, again, leans to that problem of there is a lot of animals that are nocturnal.
00:19:59
Speaker
And, you you know, if I'm trying to sleep in one of these areas, it's going to be a lot more noisy than you think. Like like lions and stuff, they're they're up all night. That's what I'm saying. And it's a far right now. So... o Okay, so all that's out.
00:20:14
Speaker
And then, like, if you're telling me I got to just pick a park, straight up just a park, oh, I don't know. It would be probably Hollywood Studios. But how much would they have to pay you to sleep in the safari?
00:20:27
Speaker
Like, straight up in the middle the- Like Kilimanjaro Safari? Yeah, yeah, yeah. In a tent. There's no animals out there at night, though. They call them all in. In a tent. Yeah, I'd be fine with that. I am not staying out there in a town. I'm not either, but I was just curious. like No, they're all they're all put away.
00:20:42
Speaker
ah By the way, they have to charge the animatronics. Oh, I thought you meant killing Majora's Safari. no yeah Yeah, but so like I know that they have means of like calling the animals back off the safari, but I don't yeah i don't think they actually do every night. like I don't think every single animal goes into a cage at night. That's just not what I'm thinking. Some of them are By the way, I also did some further Googling here, and I did find a another article that's claiming that if you do rent out a land, that you do have to pay anywhere from $3,000 to $17,000 for a ride.
00:21:19
Speaker
Meaning, so, like, you can have, you know, Toy Story Mini open, but you have to pay $10,000. I feel like that's terrible. That's really not. Yeah, that's not the worst, actually. Per ride.
00:21:29
Speaker
Per ride, of course. Yeah, but, but okay, even even if there was... a ride, like, open all night, or per ride, per ride? Per the however long the event is. So usually and from what I'm seeing, they're usually about four hours. So you're paying for like four hours.
00:21:42
Speaker
What ride am I riding for four hours straight? i don't I don't know. she write the first I feel like the the only one you could maybe stretch that long is PeopleMover.
00:21:53
Speaker
But even that's like four hours on PeopleMover is a long time. Can it really last four hours with without breaking down? i mean, it yeah, it it does.
00:22:04
Speaker
i know. I was kidding. It was just because it breaks out all the time. Uh, yeah, no, I listen, I don't know what I'd want to ride for four hours straight. And if you're going to pay that much money, I feel like you're going to want to keep riding it. Right. I mean, I probably do with big thunder.
00:22:16
Speaker
I'd ride big thunder all night, which cause I've done it before. I did it when they used to be open till 2am. There was like one time where, you know, we went and from midnight to 2am, we literally just rode big thunder over and over and over and over, which was great.
00:22:31
Speaker
Like, you know, we didn't get tired of it. It was it's a lot of fun at night. And, you know, so, yeah. But if I'm going to pay that much money, then then, yeah, um I'm doing that. so So you're camping outside of Big Thunder is what I'm hearing.
00:22:42
Speaker
I mean, Frontierland is a pretty cool place to camp, right? I mean, yeah, I'm not disagreeing. yeah Go camp out on ah Tom Sawyer Island and. No, no you're not doing that.
00:22:54
Speaker
No, I don't want to do that, actually. It's not happening anyway, because that's not going to be there. Well, yeah, i boy I'm talking about currently, I guess, right? So it's still there now. Fair point. I also have ah on the internet, too. and also Again, this listen, I'm just reading this off the internet, and it's someone claiming that they had a pamphlet quoting all these prices.
00:23:15
Speaker
So I don't know if this is true or not. But it said you can also have them do a late night parade for $30,000 fireworks for There's no way. there the No way you get a parade for $30,000.
Final Thoughts on Overnight Stays
00:23:28
Speaker
To be fair, though, this particular response... Two floats?
00:23:32
Speaker
Yeah. This is from over 10 years ago, so it's definitely more expensive than that now. But yeah the fact that it's even an option is is crazy. Can you imagine having your own private parade? That would be nuts. That would be crazy.
00:23:46
Speaker
like Kind of cool, though, right? like you yeah I keep envisioning like you're you're going to be in a tent. like No matter where you're staying, you're you're in a tent, right? And all of a sudden, like you end at the tent and there's like a parade rolling by front of you. like That would be so wild.
00:24:03
Speaker
I've got the one, though, here. And and this is doesn't exist anymore, so it's not possible. But let's go in like the let's go in our wayback machine and and pretend like it is. Damon, what about camping inside of Universal Energy?
00:24:15
Speaker
And they leave the dinosaurs on all night. You just poke your head out. Right? But he said Guardian, so it's kind of the same thing. Yeah. and That would be good, though. I would do that. Yeah, I mean, that that ride was really chill with the dinosaurs. There's no, like, really scary ones in that one. Like, you wouldn't want to do it in the dinosaur ride, because that would probably freak out. I'm not scared of animatronics. It's like, at the end of the day. like, you wake up in the middle of the night, you're just kind of, ah you know like, groggy. Like, it may freak out.
00:24:42
Speaker
For me it's just noise. like Like, just hearing, like, like... Things moving is just enough that like I would never actually go to sleep properly. That wouldn't bother me either. it's just I'm not going to real safari, that's all.
00:24:54
Speaker
yes you You don't want real animals around because they're not controllable is what you're saying. Correct. so i i I've got one that I think... like you know We were talking about having you know a place to eat. There's washrooms and rides.
00:25:07
Speaker
I feel like having the land pavilion... closed off for an overnight thing would actually be a pretty ideal spot. but because Because you do have, like, you could do either living with the land or Soarin', which I know, yes, you're not riding them all night, but it's still, like, you have them there.
00:25:24
Speaker
There is food in the pavilion, and there are washrooms, and it's big enough that, yeah, you can, there's lots of places you could camp, either on the upper or the lower floor and that pavilion.
00:25:34
Speaker
That's true. Yeah. So that would be one that I would go for, because I feel like logistically, it would actually be, like, You know, you know, I guess we're kind of talking about like a glamping experience. I feel like it would be a decent glamping experience because it kind of ticks all the boxes in my head.
00:25:50
Speaker
Well, I'm telling you right now, if I'm camping out, it has to be glamping just generally, even if it's indoors. Like I'm not, you know, it it has to be decent accommodations. I feel like, I mean, given, like I said, when I was a kid, I did the thing at the, at the museum where I slept, slept on the floor of an exhibit in a sleeping bag. But I don't know. Nowadays, I feel like I need to like bed of some sort. I mean, I'd be okay with like a cot.
00:26:12
Speaker
I think I'd be okay with that. But yeah, I don't know. All right. um Any other ideas or anything on this? i think I think we it's kind of an interesting thing to talk about.
00:26:24
Speaker
like like I'm glad we talked about this and and you know the fact that you brought up that ah you're like, I completely forgot about the Pandora thing, but yeah. Yeah. I hope that, that, you know, Disney and DVC start thinking you about this stuff a little bit more. Like I know we get moonlight magic, but I feel like this kind of experience would be yeah like, like you said, Damian, you know, not, not all the time, but you know, like maybe this is like a once every five years thing. I think this would be a very interesting thing for them to explore.
00:26:55
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it's when they did it at Pandora, it was a contest, right? So it's kind of like when they do the giveaways for staying in Cinderella Castle. You know, like you can't pay for it. It's just like was a thing that they did one time. And I think they only did it the one time. Like, I don't even think that they did did it again.
00:27:11
Speaker
that I can find anyway. But I just remember that one time when they did it. Maybe somebody can tell me differently. But, you know, i yeah, i I like the idea of doing this. i i I'm sad they don't do the, ah like, 24-hour things anymore or, like, you know, even till 2 a.m. m They don't even do 2 a.m. m anymore, you know?
00:27:29
Speaker
Like, that that used to be really cool when you could stay to the park till 2 a.m. m But it's just not it's just not a thing anymore. Is there really anywhere that's open late anymore? I feel like... like I guess i don't I don't see this a lot where I live, is that places are not open late. or not Not like they were before the pandemic, I guess. is yeah sure It feels like places are just not staying open late anymore.
00:27:57
Speaker
Yeah, that so that's a fair point. I feel like that was ah there was a pandemic casualty, right? i mean there was they Disney was doing the late night thing until the pandemic, and then it just never came back, right? Yeah. So yeah, one of those things we lost.
00:28:12
Speaker
So, all right. Well, any, anything else guys? No, I feel like, by the way, I feel like if they did do this, this would be like influencers galore. Right. Cause the half of like so many of the, not half, but like so many of the things on YouTube for like, uh, like there's so many of those people that go to like the abandoned parts of Disney, you know?
00:28:30
Speaker
Yeah. That's what it it would have to be. Right. It'd have to be no cameras. Yeah. Well, and if if this is a DVC thing that we're talking about, it hat like it almost needs to be like a contest with inside of DVCs so that, yeah, you don't get people like her you know the playing the angle or whatever. Yeah.
00:28:46
Speaker
Yeah. yeah ah Okay. Well, anything else, guys? Nope. All right.
Conclusion and Sign-off
00:28:53
Speaker
Well, this has been The Waitlist. Thanks for joining us. this is Skipper Albert the voice of the jungle, signing off from Welcome Home Podcast on the DVC.
00:29:13
Speaker
I looked around from pole to pole, found her in a sugar bowl. Look out, here comes my ball and change.