Prince-1
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They always do. They complain and complain and complain......and then they open their wallets and make it rain!!
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News Disney hikes the price of Mickey Bars and Dole Whip along with hundreds of other food and beverage items at Walt Disney World
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They always do. They complain and complain and complain......and then they open their wallets and make it rain!!
ppete1975
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They have been around for quite awhile, just go into black spire and someone will sell you some from another planet evenEvil thought for the day....
As people can enter the Parks with coolers? How long before we see "Black Market Soda" being sold?.
DisneyNorthFan
Active Member
I've never brought in outside food/snacks or dined outside the bubble. But this, on top of all the other nickel & diming, has me changing my plans for the next trip. Still TBD if we'll even stay on site, but we'll definitely be eating a few meals offsite and doing a grocery order. We'll spend less money overall, and less money specifically at Disney. In a weird way, I almost appreciate some of the poor long-term pricing decisions WDW has made. I now have enough reasons to make a change, and feel good about the changes I'm making rather than feeling like I'm missing out. Universal hotel? Possibly, or renting DVC points. 3 Disney park days rather than 7? Definitely. Offsite dining? Absolutely. Genie+? Nope, we'll just come early and stay late on our Disney park days, and have rest/Universal/Discovery Cove days in-between.
Neither can Bayview Gifts.
In order to save
I wish there were lower price options as well (i.e. less fancy than the regular bottle). For example, $4 for a bottle that has a slow leak and isn’t labeled so you don’t know what soda you’re getting.
prberk
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You know, I completely understand you. I am not going any time soon. Haven’t been in five years. Used to have an annual pass. But it has gotten ridiculous. But if a special opportunity came up I might do it. Still too sad that it has come to this point, however. It was truly an inspirational place to me in the past. But very hard to justify these days overall.
TikibirdLand
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Check E*Bay. I bet there's one in their store!
BuddyThomas
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Not that I am defending them, but none of this high pricing is unique to Disney. Last summer, I got charged $12.00 for a 12 ounce beer at Adventureland on Long Island. Broadway shows charge $30.00 for a plastic sippy cup of wine. Ball games, concerts- you’re not getting out of there without depositing half your life’s savings at the concession stand. I mean, I have a feeling that if people can afford an expensive Disney vacation, a few more dimes on a Mickey bar probably won’t break the bank.
Vegas Disney Fan
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True, it‘s just another quarter… the problem is that’s on top of a few hundred more for tickets, a few hundred more for hotels, a few hundred more for transportation, a few hundred more for dining… it adds up quick, the exact same vacation that was $3000 a couple years ago is $5000 today.
WDW is now priced with vacations like Europe and Hawaii. It’s not whether we can afford it, it’s whether we’d rather go to WDW or Europe, with current travel restrictions we don’t really have a choice, next year we will though.
EpcoTim
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It’s not on any printed menu, but you can get a souvenir bag of coca-cola for 85 cents at any outdoor kiosk in Epcot or the one with the castle.
John park hopper
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A bag of coca-cola hope it's not in a paper bag
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
The breakdown in every comparison such as this (the “Broadway effect”) is that you don’t board a plane to stay a 7 day average with total out of pocket expenses…in your examples.
the “death by a thousand paper cuts” analogy is fitting
BuddyThomas
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Yeah I get it, but if I have the opportunity to go to WDW again if this pandemic ever ends, the last thing I’m going to worry about is the price of a Mickey bar. I realize that others feel differently.
EpcoTim
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Same bag they use for small popcorn.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
In reality…it won’t make a dent. As you correctly point out: it won’t move the bar. Just become a forgotten higher jump point for the next price increase. The wheel keeps turning.
only we that care enough to always watch notice
These things…and crack and go along with it anyway.
someone a few months back…in a fit of “rage”…said something to that effect:
“after my upcoming 14 day trip in November…I’m seriously considering cancelling my January and/or April trips”
please, Hammer, don’t hurt em?
networkpro
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- In the Parks
- Yes
It depends on your location. For our locations, it would involve a long plane flight, accommodations, meals to see anything on Broadway. A WDW trip is quicker, more convenient than going to a Schengen Area. Frankly, I've had enough international travel for several lifetimes. after our December trip we're renewing our APs and going in April, September, and December.
On the macro level, they are practically obligated to do this. The Disney consumer base is more cowed and compliant than the average American consumer base, which is the most compliant and cowed in Earth's history. It's why we have deserts full of old clothes, why perfectly edible food is thrown out and locked into dumpsters, and why the Walt Disney Company can continue to raise prices and create upcharge opportunities out of thin air across the board without widespread and immediate material financial impact.
I take this one pretty hard because this is the one thing I spend money on in the parks, as I'm usually there on comp tickets and eating meals off property to minimize the impact the company has on my wallet. But it's not surprising. It's expected and with respect to management's superficial responsibility to Wall Street, obligated.
I take this one pretty hard because this is the one thing I spend money on in the parks, as I'm usually there on comp tickets and eating meals off property to minimize the impact the company has on my wallet. But it's not surprising. It's expected and with respect to management's superficial responsibility to Wall Street, obligated.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
The duration of those trips are consistently less…4 days in New York is practically a lifetime…
but on the low end in Orlando
John park hopper
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"There's a sucker born every minute" is a phrase closely associated with P. T. Barnum,"