http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/...up-sales/?icid=main|main|dl6|sec3_lnk1|181402
im not sure if this would be good or bad?
im not sure if this would be good or bad?
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Disney now on priceline
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NoChesterHester
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This has to be a good thing for us, the consumer. It doesnt change the people that stay on property, but rather reflects a true change in the hotel market.
I hope this means the availability of rooms at a reasonable rate on less notice.
TravisMT81
Well-Known Member
If you read the article, it states that it will appear in the standard search engine just like Expedia and will not be on "name your own price". The slantinel is the one that put out this misleading headline
DMC-12
It's HarmonioUS, NOT HarmoniYOU.
Ausdaddy
Active Member
Yep. People on the bidding for travel boards report getting Disney every few months.
"Walt Disney himself despised classism, and he specifically chose hotels with generic themes, such as Polynesia or the "Contemporary," as not to impose upper-class pretensions on his guests. That laudable ethic shattered in the Michael Eisner era, when the snob appeal of construction projects such as the Hotel del Coronado-inspired Grand Floridian made exclusivity a crucial aspect of the Disney profit model."
how much truth in this?
how much truth in this?
awilliams4
Well-Known Member
This article is pretty pathetic as far as how it was written. Seems this guy is either a Disney hater or upset he can't afford a deluxe.
He starts out by stating how terrible bookings are and how Disney is doing this to drop the price on the rooms so they will be filled.
Then mentions, oh, they already sell tickets on priceline...not much of a discount though.
He starts out by stating how terrible bookings are and how Disney is doing this to drop the price on the rooms so they will be filled.
Then mentions, oh, they already sell tickets on priceline...not much of a discount though.
Not only that, but Disney hotels have shown up on Travelocity and Orbitz in the past. Not sure why this is newsworthy. I thibnk they show up when they release public discounts.
Clever Name
Well-Known Member
The bottom line is that WDW attendance is down across the board. Park visitation is way down, current and advance hotel bookings are down and WDW is trying to soften the decline by selling off blocks of rooms to Priceline. Frankly, if WDW doesn’t start offering some steep room discounts in the near future, the attendance levels will continue to plummet. Mr. Iger needs to reconsider his discount policy for WDW.
TravisMT81
Well-Known Member
Sentinal have recently updated their story, clarify some things.
Rooms won't be included in Priceline's popular "Name Your Own Price" feature. Instead, Disney's rooms will be for sale only through the site's conventional booking engine, similar to those run by Expedia, Orbitz and others.
But it's worth noting that Disney has tested Name Your Own Price in the past. For about two months during the spring of 2006, Disney made rooms in its All-Star Sports and All-Star Music hotels available through Priceline's auction engine. The hotel rooms, which are in Disney's cheapest hotel category, sold for as little as $35 per night — less than half of their cheapest rack rate.
Rooms won't be included in Priceline's popular "Name Your Own Price" feature. Instead, Disney's rooms will be for sale only through the site's conventional booking engine, similar to those run by Expedia, Orbitz and others.
But it's worth noting that Disney has tested Name Your Own Price in the past. For about two months during the spring of 2006, Disney made rooms in its All-Star Sports and All-Star Music hotels available through Priceline's auction engine. The hotel rooms, which are in Disney's cheapest hotel category, sold for as little as $35 per night — less than half of their cheapest rack rate.
sounds true enough to me.
jakeman
Well-Known Member
I always found it amusing that Walt was anti-classism but was passionately anti-communist.
71jason
Well-Known Member
I thought it was pretty clear...WDW used to put the values online occasionally, now they are putting the deluxes online as well. And he points out, at rack rates, WDW hotels are ridiculously overpriced for the Orlando market--that makes him a realist, not a hater.
lwalker8
Member
You didn't really have much of a choice but to be anti-communist. Hitler and Stalin were really putting a damper on things.
It's labels. Even today, polls have shown that people are voting against people that are deemed "socialists," yet when they are asked about speicific policies they practically agree with that person's positions. I think it's the sheep mentality and people not thinking for themselves.
Joshua&CalebDad
Well-Known Member
The reason for being anti-communist is that although communism levels the playing field you have a central authority which dictates what everyone else will do. In a historical communist society an individual does not necessarily have the right to be a cartoonist of imagineer. Could you imagine if Walt had been told that he could not be a cartoonist, he was relegated to another role in society. There would have been no Mickey, no Disneyland and (eegad, don't say it) no Disney World.
