Firsts new policy on non disney hotels

[Madison]

Getting a room onsite should a bit easier this season for a number of reasons. . .

First, they're apparently trying to cut the number of attending teams by 25% this year, so that automatically increases your chances.

Couple that with the opening of the new, value-priced, Disney's Pop Century resort and you've got plenty of room for teams, I hope. Heck...add a recession of sorts into that and there ought to be no problem.

The fee isn't being applyed to team who stay off-site, but to team's who book outside of FIRST's available packages. So, even if a team should book a stay at Disney's Grand Floridian, they'd be asked to pay the fee since it's not included in any of the packages.

Does that mean, then, that I can't stay longer than the packages and not be assessed a fee? That's a bit ridiculous.

Disney's transportation is available to anyone who's purchased park admission media for that day. I know that not all team's do that, though, and so, technically they're using the transportation system free of charge.

But, realistically speaking, so do thousands of other vacationing guests. Disney has rules against it, but they rarely enforce them. The cost of FIRSTers transportation around the property is negligible, and hardly worthy of any sort of additional fee.