Disney Prices, Are They High Enough?

[MickeyLuv'r]

There were folks on Disney boards 18 years ago who said they were going to stop going. Guess what, they're still going.

Maybe, but I doubt you've actually kept track. Alas, I also accept your premise that hyperbole is rampant. We're full of it these days.

I've also seen many Disney board posters come and go over the years. Many folks are excited for their first trip to WDW, ask a bunch of questions, stick around the Disney boards for a time, but then they get tired and do something else. Another comes in their place.

Personally, I hear many (most?) folks say they'll cut back. Many first timers get caught up in splurging on all kinds Disney upcharges. Then the prices go up, and they realize they don't have get the Premium-whammy package every trip to have fun, or they realize January costs quite a bit less than Easter week.

WDW trips themselves aren't static at all, they are dynamic. The cost of a trip varies widely if you modify your hotel, which week of the year, tickets style, dining style, on/off WDW property, length of your stay, room view, transportation costs, merchandise, and the biggest variation of all: how often!

Personally, I'm also happy to go to Universal and beyond.

 

[eliza61nyc]

Maybe, but I doubt you've actually kept track. Alas, I also accept your premise that hyperbole is rampant. We're full of it these days.

I've also seen many Disney board posters come and go over the years. Many folks are excited for their first trip to WDW, ask a bunch of questions, stick around the Disney boards for a time, but then they get tired and do something else. Another comes in their place.

Personally, I hear many (most?) folks say they'll cut back. Many first timers get caught up in splurging on all kinds Disney upcharges. Then the prices go up, and they realize they don't have get the Premium-whammy package every trip to have fun, or they realize January costs quite a bit less than Easter week.

WDW trips themselves aren't static at all, they are dynamic. The cost of a trip varies widely if you modify your hotel, which week of the year, tickets style, dining style, on/off WDW property, length of your stay, room view, transportation costs, merchandise, and the biggest variation of all: how often!

Personally, I'm also happy to go to Universal and beyond.

But I wonder if that is because of being a return guest or the prices. For example we've been annual visitors since about 2000 or maybe every 16 months. lol, we no longer need tee shirts and mickey ears. we no longer need character meals. Yep I totally admit when we first went we signed up for just about every thing mainly because we thought we would only visit once or twice.

we use to get the ride photos but seriously how many years of them do folks really want. I just think for repeat customers you realize that all the "trinkets" aren't necessary. for a family trip we did the illuminations cruise, loved it had a ball but I don't need to do it again. not because it was expensive but more of the fact of how many times do I really need to do that?

 

[Minnesota disney fan]

Along with the great economy, people have credit cards. They will use them for a Disney vacation even if they can't afford it. That's the way a lot of people apparently think. Go now and pay what we can later, and pay and pay...……..Not criticizing using cc's, but it sure makes it easy for some to use over and over. I don't know exactly what the credit card debt is in this country, but read somewhere that it is pretty big.

 

[Disstevefan1]

As the prices for everything in WDW continue to climb faster than folks income. It will be interesting to watch what happens. Some folks will be priced out, some folks will stay off site to save money. Its clear Disney is confident they can just keep raise prices at will. It will be interesting to watch...

Keep in mind that when prices go up at WDW it allows Universal Orlando to also creep their prices up too.

As for SeaWorld Orlando.... Poor SeaWorld Orlando, badly damaged by the fake, phony Blackfish documentary, I fear they may never fully recover from the damage done by the fake, phony Blackfish documentary,

 

[NelsonRD]

Wow, I didn't say that at all. I just said that the demographic would change, not the behavior.

And credit card millionaires exist in any social strata. How else do you think most people afford anything? Credit nation. Mortgage central. There are dreams to be made and interest rates to be divvied out.

Then why did you use the adjective Cocky Twits to describe the demographic? Why couldn't you just say that wealthier people would be the new demographic? You implied having more wealthier people in the park was a bad thing, for no other reason than they may have more money than you.

I am not taking issue with how people are paying for their vacations, I am taking issue with describing wealthier people with demonizing characteristics. Say something negative about a poor person and its almost a felony, but the wealthier people are always fair game to all criticism, and are mostly hated for just simply having nice things.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

That's also why I just bought DVC. The potential room rates in the future are insane. I'm sure a standard polynesian room will be $1000 per night.

Nope...they can’t sell the deluxes at racks as is and it’s been that way for a decade. They heavily discount them in blocks to TAs...

But they have massively increased the price of DVC during the same period and use the threat of the $1000 room that isn’t paid for...

So that’s what the trap looks like once you jump in.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

or many are waiting for 2019 (Star Wars) or 2021 for the fiftieth.

I believe these will be proven to be the biggest two misconceptions in the current Disney-interdom

 

[wdisney9000]

I believe these will be proven to be the biggest two misconceptions in the current Disney-interdom

The average park guest (one time/first time visitors) have no clue when SWL is going to open and even if they do, they are not the type of Disney World fan that has enough knowledge of the parks to know (or want) to plan a WDW trip one or two years out. Same for the 50th.

 

[LUVofDIS]

Wow, I don’t know where to begin, except to say that it doesn’t matter how much money you have when it comes to entitlement. But I’ll go back to steerage.

You remind me of someone:

I grew up in an exteremly poor family, I now do pretty well for myself, I agree with what Mr Bernard is saying, but would add that when it comes to entitlement, it seems the upper class feels they deserve more. There are bad apples in all three groups and awesome people in all three. So I don't believe that class is a deciding factor into peoples attitude.

Edit: Sorry Mr Bernard, I meant Nelson RD.

 

[LUVofDIS]

I believe these will be proven to be the biggest two misconceptions in the current Disney-interdom

The average park guest (one time/first time visitors) have no clue when SWL is going to open and even if they do, they are not the type of Disney World fan that has enough knowledge of the parks to know (or want) to plan a WDW trip one or two years out. Same for the 50th.

I feel that the internet and all these blogs have changed the perspective of the first time guest or the non-fanatic guest. I have talked to many who have never been or have only been a few times in the last few decades and many have said that they were waiting for Star Wars land. I am asked what seems like once a week about when the land will open. I am known as the Disney guy at work, which I don't know if that is good or bad.

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

Disney Revenue Meeting:

VP: "How much should we increase?"
Sr.VP: "How much they got?"
EVP: "How much can they finance?"

 

[networkpro]

I grew up in an exteremly poor family, I now do pretty well for myself, I agree with what Mr Bernard is saying, but would add that when it comes to entitlement, it seems the upper class feels they deserve more.

Edit: Sorry Mr Bernard, I meant Nelson RD.

In a capitalist society, intentions and motivations mean little. If you have a good or service and someone can pay for it, then it works.

Discretionary spending, not needed to just stay alive (food and shelter) is value based. If you complain about how someone else spends anything it's your value system versus theirs. No one forces you to consume, you have a choice.

 

[Santa Raccoon 77]

 

[spacemtnfanatic]

I would happily pay the current prices for the experience and quality of the WDW of 15 years ago. This includes, attractions, food, shows, etc. It's not priced too high for what it is advertised as. It's priced too high for what it actually is. Which is a subpar shadow of its former self

 

[networkpro]

I would happily pay the current prices for the experience and quality of the WDW of 15 years ago. This includes, attractions, food, shows, etc. It's not priced too high for what it is advertised as. It's priced too high for what it actually is. Which is a subpar shadow of its former self

Great, then hop in your time machine and relive the past. What exists now is the result of so many disparate events. 15 years ago today is just before travel was set on its ear both domestic and international.

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

15 years ago today is just before travel was set on its ear both domestic and international.

15 years ago....nobody knew what an Iphone was.

I would happily pay the current prices for the experience and quality of the WDW of 15 years ago.

When you get there...and find you can't make a FP...you'll lose your mind.

Edited: by a Ferret.......

 

[Santa Raccoon 77]

15 years ago....nobody knew what an Iphone was.



When you get there...and find you can't make a FP...you'll loose your mind.

Only Canadians loose their minds . Everyone else loses them.

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

Only Canadians loose their minds . Everyone else loses them.

*lose. Fixed. I didn't use a "z" though.

 

[Santa Raccoon 77]

15 years ago....nobody knew what an Iphone was.



When you get there...and find you can't make a FP...you'll lose your mind.

Edited: by a Ferret.......

 

[spacemtnfanatic]

15 years ago....nobody knew what an Iphone was.



When you get there...and find you can't make a FP...you'll lose your mind.

Edited: by a Ferret.......

No... if I were to go now and see ridiculous standby lines because of inflated demand due to FP+ and the FP+ selection being so limited in availability and what I can choose - that is what makes me lose my mind. And what has made me not go to a WDW park in two and a half years.