This type of question is purely designed as a means to disprove the worth of DHS and the perceived lack of value Disney offers. It's the same attention grabber headline garbage people use to get clicks when they write, "Disney Raises Prices to Nearly $100/Day." It's just a means to get peoples' feathers all ruffled and really lacks any reasonable analysis of the total story.
DHS is a smaller park that technically does charge $94/day if you visit that park and go home. However, I think judging a park's worth on the single day ticket pricing is both unfair and unlikely in a real world scenario. Who is really going to visit DHS for a day and go home? If you do, Disney has every right to charge a high entry fee because they have very little opportunity to sell you other services. I understand as consumers, we feel this is an exorbitant price for "only one day," but Disney's fixed costs are astronomical. They have to recoup costs somehow. Tower of Terror was $100m attraction. They have to pay employees, taxes, vendors, energy, etc, etc, etc. The costs just to open the doors are simply huge.
Staying 5 days brings your per day cost down to $60/day for all your entertainment. Shows, attractions, fireworks, parades, transportation, performers, characters, etc, etc, etc. Disney isn't stupid. Of course they know you're going to eat their food, buy their snacks, and load up on Frozen merchandise. Guess what? That's where they have to make their money because your park admission barely covers their incredible fixed costs. Read their annual reports. Disney isn't making a killing at their theme parks. They do make a good amount in total dollars on the sheer volume, but margins are actually pretty terrible.
Compare Disney to other lesser entertainment options. How about a 2 hr movie? $35. How about a Broadway show? $150/ticket. A crappy dinner at Chili's or Olive garden for 2? $50. Put put golf at your local course off a highway? $20 for 2 hours. Heck, compare it to Six Flags, Sea World, or even the "great" Universal. Pricing is on par with other theme parks and actually SUPER cheap when you compare it to other options that offer much less. People spend more money going to the mall for an afternoon than a Day at EPCOT.
So is $94/day for DHS a great value alone? Maybe not, but you're not going to just spend one day and even if you did, you'd get more for your $94 than trying to entertain yourself for 8 hours in any major US city. Don't like what DHS has to offer? I don't think it's perfect either, but you can't just use the $94/day argument because it's impractical. WDW has to be judged as the sum of its parts. You have to consider all factors and think about comparable alternatives. Saying you can do "everything" at DHS in 3 hours isn't an argument I think is valid either. I could say that about virtually every park at Disney, Universal or any theme park. All that really means is you're cherry picking what you like to do and omitting everything else.
