A lot of the other queues were only 20 mins as they limited the number of guests to something like 13,000 by all accounts. It's a big shame that they didn't keep those in the Potter queue as informed of what was going on watching some vloggers comments who were in the queue.
The MK will retain the crown for attendance because Disney.
I honestly wish we could have a Frozen land redo like in Tokyo. I've seen youtube videos and they look amazing. My wife is pushing me a little bit to go somewhere out of our comfort zone for next year. But, that's just us. Nice seeing you again!
I'll be at Epic Universe in three weeks. Despite what the media tells you I believer we have been in a recession for about a year. I'm not at all surprised by the travel pull back. I've been expecting it along with everything else that's going on right now. If you can afford to travel and aren't afraid to leave the country there are a lot of great deals out there. You can even find deals domestically.
Q4 was positive so that's false.
When companies tighten their belts and strive for efficiency don’t count your chickens and think all offerings will be operational etc to include food and drink items on the menu.
Did you break down those numbers?
Q4 was in 2024?
Price increases…
Hi! OP here. I started this thread out of genuine curiosity as to how park operations and marketing shifted during a severe economic downturn. My heyday at the parks, personally, was early to mid 90’s, then a respite for about two decades until we had kids (mid-2010’s). So, my park going years really were missed major economic corrections (post 9/11, “Great Recession”)
It may be that as adults some are taking more responsibility for their lifestyle and day to day spending. Our country is a slaves to debt personal gratification society where more than half of the population lives paycheck to paycheck. There are fellow neighbors that didn’t pass common sense 101 in college where they spend money they don’t have to try to impress people they don’t even like. A job loss, serious medical condition etc can sink a family into serious financial difficulty also with medical debt the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in our country. You could say we are the richest broke country in the world. Some maybe taking a pause in their discretionary spending and reevaluate lifestyle and make necessary and difficult changes to get out of debt or at least pay it down. This affects FL which the top two industries which happen to be low paying are agriculture and tourism. What does it tell you when 75% of luxury good buyers are from the middle class ? Clearly I would give them an F when they took common sense 101 in college.
That's very disingenuous to the thread starter and many contributors. There's plenty of posts that don't use rumours, half stories and falsehoods under any sort of guises as you claim. Your statement is accusing all 23 pages and their posts to be some sort of hidden agenda to validate some people's views.
Don’t gaslight me. It has nothing to do with the original post.
You could just admit that your statement about the reason the thread exists and being started as being wrong, which it is? You've not even had the decency to apologise to the OP whose taken the time to politely respond to your accusations?
Why it may have started and why it exists are not the same.
Then why say
Well, because I had visited WDW almost exactly 4-ish years ago (late May 2021) and the parks and resorts were much more robust and busy than they had in our early Covid trips. Revenge travel was starting and households were still utilizing their CARES cash and increased child deductions on vacations.What I wanna’ know is, why wasn’t this thread started 4-ish years ago, when inflation hit 9.1%, gas was much higher, interest rates went way up, etc….?!
Why was it started just this past March…?!?!?!
