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I ranked the EPCOT World Showcase pavilions three times and refused to combine them
Three rankings of the eleven country pavilions, and no overall score. Any single number would need weights, and the weights turn out to decide more of the answer than the data does.
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Cast members can lose you the day. They cannot win it.
Bad service is one of the strongest negative signals in 21,656 labeled Reddit paragraphs about Orlando theme parks. Good service has no detectable effect.
4 days ago6 min read


Disney World guests rate almost everything positively. Except getting in.
I spent a few weeks turning 604 Walt Disney World trip reports into a guest journey map. Eleven stages, from booking a hotel to flying home, each one rated bad, neutral or good by the person who lived it. Almost every stage came back positive. Rides scored +65, resort stays +62, dining +51. Cast members, fireworks, characters, all comfortably in the black. One stage went negative: park entry and crowds, at -6. It's the only part of a Disney trip that guests, on balance, do no
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