Disney World Cabanas Cancelled

[DisneyJayL]

I assumed it's a place to stop and rest. Depending on where you are in the park, you could just get back to your hotel room across the street about as easy.

Again that involves leaving the park. If Disney could have maybe lowered the price and made it more aesthetically pleasing they had something. You have some that may want a place to rest a bit without taking a monorail and car fight traffic to go back to a hotel room and then once rested up, do it all over again.

 

[truecoat]

Again that involves leaving the park. If Disney could have maybe lowered the price and made it more aesthetically pleasing they had something. You have some that may want a place to rest a bit without taking a monorail and car fight traffic to go back to a hotel room and then once rested up, do it all over again.

Ooops, I thought I was in the Disneyland section of this site. I had a bunch of forums open at the time.

 

[Disneyhead'71]

I don't think the concept is bad, but the price point is beyond ridiculous. At $350/day, these things would sell out everyday.

Are we sure they are cancelled? It was only a limited test run. So maybe the test ended.

 

[networkpro]

Besides greed what is the reason they need more money from the parks? Is it because Shanghai secretly failed? Still paying off Paris? Rivers of Light?

Shanghai has been a drain on the parks division budgets. There's been a mad scramble for alternative revenue to make up for the short falls.

 

[donsullivan]

So it was a product that was tested and failed. Nothing more. I thought the reason why people went into business was to make money. This wasn't a product you were forced to buy like say water or electricity for your home. I guess they should just shut Disney down altogether with your logic.

Do you have facts to back up your statement that it 'failed'? Just because someone didn't like it, or felt it was too expensive does not automatically make it a failed test. From everything I've seen they were sold out every day they were available; that doesn't sound like a failure to me. There was clearly demand for the offering.

It was a product test that had a finite schedule to run and that time period has ended. Companies do things like this all the time to evaluate customer responses to a potential new offering. They then take the feedback from the customers who experienced it and evaluate that to determine next steps. For all we know, they might make some adjustments to the offering and bring it back during a less busy season of the year to see if the demand is the same or was it a seasonal thing. The bottom line is that this was always a test and had a finite schedule and the test is now over. Everything else is just projecting personal views on it.

 

[DisneyJayL]

Do you have facts to back up your statement that it 'failed'? Just because someone didn't like it, or felt it was too expensive does not automatically make it a failed test. From everything I've seen they were sold out every day they were available; that doesn't sound like a failure to me. There was clearly demand for the offering.

It was a product test that had a finite schedule to run and that time period has ended. Companies do things like this all the time to evaluate customer responses to a potential new offering. They then take the feedback from the customers who experienced it and evaluate that to determine next steps. For all we know, they might make some adjustments to the offering and bring it back during a less busy season of the year to see if the demand is the same or was it a seasonal thing. The bottom line is that this was always a test and had a finite schedule and the test is now over. Everything else is just projecting personal views on it.

I misspoke on the failure part. I did not intend to put that up there. There was a lot of the wrong kind of buzz that I think led to it's quicker than normal demise.

 

[Rich T]

So it was a product that was tested and failed. Nothing more. I thought the reason why people went into business was to make money. This wasn't a product you were forced to buy like say water or electricity for your home. I guess they should just shut Disney down altogether with your logic.

But it was a tacky product that went one more step into dividing Disney guests into "haves" and "have-nots." Money has always made a difference in guest experience at DL, but some ideas cross the line into obnoxiousness. This is/was one of those ideas. The parks, like Disney in general, are a balancing act between art and business. When it becomes too obvious (and visible) that management is trying to squeeze every last nickel they can out of the public, it feels especially repulsive at Disney because it's in such direct contrast to the fantasy they're trying to sell in the first place. There's a point where they kill the golden goose.

 

[Deleted member 107043]

There's a point where they kill the golden goose.

Not to mention tarnishing the brand. If they're going to do cabanas then do Disney cabanas and offer them at a price that is a reasonable value for a theme park add-on not a suite at the Ritz Carlton. Same goes for the $45 pizza pies they were selling on the parade route last year.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

I guess they should just shut Disney down altogether with your logic.

It's the only viable option.

 

[Deleted member 107043]

@Kira Nerys Why did you change your persona from Endor Sightseer?

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

Because Star Trek is better than Star Wars.