It's not less money for Disney if your staying at a resort and going out for a nice dinner at night. I guess if your the type of person that likes to go go go 12 to 16 hours a day on a vacation you might get bored, but I think most like a little down time on vacation.
I doubt many people buy one day tickets to WDW. Look at this forum and others most people plan week long trips at wdw resorts and make dining reservations at multiple restaurants. Its not just about rides for everyone.
It's so much more than that, or I should say, it used to be so much more to me than just the attractions. Immersion is a huge part of it, food and beverage is a small part but counts for something and entertainment is another.
For me it's never been about dining or entertainment. Maybe that's why I like Cedar Point and places like that more.
That's not true for everyone, and especially not at WDW, where many guests are there for multiple day stays. Sometimes we ride all we care to at MK, AK or HS and hop to Epcot for dinner and to look around the WS and enjoy the entertainment.
My family likes to "take it in", so to speak...we take lots of breaks in our favorite spots, just listening to music, deciding what we're going to do next (I tend to be an uber-planner, but make sure we always have more than one option unless there are FP or dining reservations involved...hoppers are a must for us), talking about our favorite moments, etc. We're park open-to-close a lot of days, but it's usually not planned to be that way.
I've never seen long lines at the ticket counters.
All I can say is that pre- covid the resorts were full, the pools in the afternoons were packed and the restaurants at night were packed. I may not be the typical guest, but there are certainly a lot like me.
With APs or multi-day tickets it’s actually pretty easy and the extra cost is zero (with an AP) or negligible (with a multi-day ticket). If I’m at WDW for 10 days and I get a 10 day ticket that costs me less than $75 more than a 5 day ticket so pretty negligible extra cost. So if I was going to spend 14 hours a day in a park for 5 days I can spread that out over 10 days but only spend 7 hours a day on average in the parks. That may mean one day I go to MK from rope drop to close and another day I sleep in, spend the day at the pool and then go to EPCOT at 4 or 5PM, walk world showcase, eat dinner, catch the night show and leave without doing any rides. For me I like to spend a little time at the resorts, a little time at DS just walking around and shopping and I like to have a nice meal or 5 while I’m there. Yes, the rides are the main draw, but I like the other stuff too and I just feel more relaxed knowing I’ve got time to do it all. If I had one day at WDW I’d probably do a commando style rope drop to close at MK doing all or as many rides as possible. Luckily I don’t need to do that most cases. I have for the most part determined that if I’m going in the summer I need more than a week. I need those afternoon pool and room breaks to get out of the heat. Going in more mild weather when the parks are open less hours I am more likely to go without a break.
I can't help you with what you haven't seen but I've seen plenty. Especially at the Ticket and Transportation Center.
You also don't know if they are buying one day tickets or multi day tickets. They are certainly not the majority and not where disney makes money. They money off people like me that spend thousands on a one week vacation.
why the jump in positivity rate?
Best guess would be testing less asymptomatics/close contacts. Might be a one day fluke, but the trends in overall case count isn’t awesome (much like the rest of the nation, tbh)
And that’s fine for you. I’ll go to Studios just to see citizens of Hollywood and to Epcot just to see voices of Liberty. Pretty sure I’ve been to magic kingdom and just watched Main Street entertainers and muppets, although usually I’ll do an attraction at Mk either the train or the riverboat.
Yikes I knew it was coming
While some people may not act as extreme as they type, it is part of a dangerous processes of normalization. Outright lies and conspiracies are now the “other side” that “deserves” due consideration. We’ve seen dangerous actions spin out of what starts as trolling and rather incoherent nonsense.
I don’t remember exact figures, but across the industry and even at Walt Disney World the number of people who still buy tickets day of at the park is surprisingly high.
