Ok so the Disney dining plan is changing and there are debates ongoing about that. Park tickets are also on the rise. However, when it comes to tickets and food, Disney over the past few years has created a plethora of so called "options" for guests so that they can pay only for what they want. My question is this (and no I have not run the numbers but I'm sure there are people on here that have) but are we honestly saving money for only paying under this whole "magic your way" plan and the DDP options?
Remember when all park hoppers had no expiration date? Now you get the choice. It's tough to know with inflation but before this "option" was available, do you think that if Disney offered the "no expiration" option back in the 80s that there would have been as much of a difference in price? Looking at prices today for tickets, the difference between having an expiration and not having one is quite significant. Was Disney sticking it to us for all those years in the past by making all those park hoppers automatically expiration free? Or... by offering two separate kinds of tickets were they able to jack up the price of the "no expiration" tickets because this was now an option and not the norm?
On the surface, it just seems to me that "magic your way" is simply a marketing ploy to make you believe you are getting more for you money because you are cutom fitting whatever tickets you want to get for yourself. Question is.. are we?
It doesn't bother me that gratuity is no longer gonna be included with the Disney dining plan. We're only talking one meal per day. My beef with it (no pun intended) is that Disney should not have made the plan include gratuity to begin with because now that they are changing it, you feel as though the deal isn't as good. For the member complaining about spending hundreds of dollars more because of the added gratuity (he did the math below)
I'm sorry, but if you have the budget to take 4 people to Disney for 10 days, I don't feel sorry for you. :lol:
Remember when all park hoppers had no expiration date? Now you get the choice. It's tough to know with inflation but before this "option" was available, do you think that if Disney offered the "no expiration" option back in the 80s that there would have been as much of a difference in price? Looking at prices today for tickets, the difference between having an expiration and not having one is quite significant. Was Disney sticking it to us for all those years in the past by making all those park hoppers automatically expiration free? Or... by offering two separate kinds of tickets were they able to jack up the price of the "no expiration" tickets because this was now an option and not the norm?
On the surface, it just seems to me that "magic your way" is simply a marketing ploy to make you believe you are getting more for you money because you are cutom fitting whatever tickets you want to get for yourself. Question is.. are we?
It doesn't bother me that gratuity is no longer gonna be included with the Disney dining plan. We're only talking one meal per day. My beef with it (no pun intended) is that Disney should not have made the plan include gratuity to begin with because now that they are changing it, you feel as though the deal isn't as good. For the member complaining about spending hundreds of dollars more because of the added gratuity (he did the math below)
Family of four. Bill = $150. Tip = $27. $27 x 10 = $270
So yeah, 18% = Hundreds of dollars over 10 days easily. Guess you aren't that much of a generous tipper after all???
I'm sorry, but if you have the budget to take 4 people to Disney for 10 days, I don't feel sorry for you. :lol: