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Anyone have any idea of occupancy rates for wdw hotels?
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epcotisbest
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From this very website, under news:
The Walt Disney Company released its first quarter earnings for 2019 yesterday, and the theme parks continued to show an increase in revenues.
Operating income growth was driven by higher results at domestic parks and resorts, through higher guest spending, and higher occupied room nights. Attendance at domestic parks was comparable to the first quarter of 2018, but per capita spending was up 7% due to higher spending on tickets, food and beverage, and merchandise. At the hotels, per room spending was up 5%, and occupancy was up 3% to 94%.
During the earning calls, Disney CEO Bob Iger also mentioned that he expects Star Wars Galaxy's Edge to require very little marketing beyond him tweeting "its open!" Iger also mentioned that Disney will continue to manage attendance patterns through pricing in order to improve the guest experience.
The Walt Disney Company released its first quarter earnings for 2019 yesterday, and the theme parks continued to show an increase in revenues.
Operating income growth was driven by higher results at domestic parks and resorts, through higher guest spending, and higher occupied room nights. Attendance at domestic parks was comparable to the first quarter of 2018, but per capita spending was up 7% due to higher spending on tickets, food and beverage, and merchandise. At the hotels, per room spending was up 5%, and occupancy was up 3% to 94%.
During the earning calls, Disney CEO Bob Iger also mentioned that he expects Star Wars Galaxy's Edge to require very little marketing beyond him tweeting "its open!" Iger also mentioned that Disney will continue to manage attendance patterns through pricing in order to improve the guest experience.
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Just be aware:
- the 94% includes both WDW and DLR resorts
- if a resort is undergoing maintenance, and for example they close 4 out of the 10 buildings at All-Star Music for refurb, and the remaining 6 are occupied at 94%, that is the number that they report - the closed buildings do not figure into the calculation.
ThatMouse
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I wonder what this really means though. Like DisneyJoe said, it does not take into account "dark" buildings, but I suspect hey can decide to close up floors and rooms at any time. Artificially controlling availability means less discounted rooms, and we see this figure in the annual report as well. This is not just a rack rate increase.
We've all been to resorts that had 0 availability, yet we can see many empty rooms that are still unclaimed the next day. No one has really given me a good answer as to why this is. Resorts never feel even 80% capacity to me ever.
We've all been to resorts that had 0 availability, yet we can see many empty rooms that are still unclaimed the next day. No one has really given me a good answer as to why this is. Resorts never feel even 80% capacity to me ever.
Is it possible you searched for a week's stay, e.g., but it was just one of those days which was 'full', thus returning back that there were no vacancies for that time frame?
Janir
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no wonder they keep building resorts. Damn. Build a new resort and its almost guaranteed to get filled to capacity? Yeah, Disney calls it printing money.
Generally resort will leave a block of rooms empty even with high occupancy. you need some "emergency" rooms on hand just in case something happens and you have to move folks.
ThatMouse
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I do check single night stays just to see what the prices are and how availability is, and then check it without discounts. With no discounts there is generally more availability. Whole buildings seem half empty to me, which is fine by me it's quieter, but I don't know why they don't try to sell them.
epcotisbest
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You're welcome.