Disneyland struggling to cope?

[pumpkin7]

this popped up in the news the other day.
although the source isn't the best (yes daily mail!) it looks as though Euro Disney is struggling with a mountain of debt.
i remember watching the opening of Euro Disney on tape as a child many many times, i even got my mom to copy the old VHS onto DVD. it's a shame to see it unable to cope with the financial pressures.
i doubt they would ever close it... would they?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...iversary--despite-costing-51-adult-enter.html

and do you guys in america have this problem? :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/a...-tickets-cost-60-Britons-French-families.html

 

[Master Yoda]

this popped up in the news the other day.
although the source isn't the best (yes daily mail!) it looks as though Euro Disney is struggling with a mountain of debt.
i remember watching the opening of Euro Disney on tape as a child many many times, i even got my mom to copy the old VHS onto DVD. it's a shame to see it unable to cope with the financial pressures.
i doubt they would ever close it... would they?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...iversary--despite-costing-51-adult-enter.html

and do you guys in america have this problem? :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/a...-tickets-cost-60-Britons-French-families.html

In regards to your second link, Florida residents have access to the rather drastically discounted seasonal AP, $99 3 day tickets and a myriad of other Florida resident discounts on tickets and rooms. WDW has frequently has UK only promotions as well as 14 and 21 day tickets not available anywhere else.

This seems no different.

 

[TP2000]

thi

and do you guys in america have this problem? :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/a...-tickets-cost-60-Britons-French-families.html

It's not really a "problem", it's simply the way the theme park business works.

Disneyland USA offers discounted tickets and annual passes for residents of Southern California and Northern Baja California, based on your postal zip code. If you live south of Santa Barbara, or north of Ensenada, Mexico, you get discounted rates for Disneyland. So, a Californian living up in San Francisco will pay higher prices for tickets than a Californian living down in Los Angeles. Or, a Mexican citizen living just over the border in Tijuana will pay less for a ticket than an American citizen living just over the border in Arizona. You have to show your drivers license at the ticket booth with the correct zip code on it to get the discounted rate.

Disneyland has been running these types of "local discount" promotions for decades. Most other theme parks also offer similar locals discount schemes around the country; Sea World, Legoland, Universal, Cedar Fair parks, etc.

If the British press just figured out that Disneyland Paris is doing the same thing, and wants to try and whip it up into some sort of bizarre rehash of World War II allegiances and European resentment against each other, they have the right to do that in an attempt to sell more newspapers.

(For the record, I'm firmly on the British side of the World War II issue, and would be happy to help the Brits again while the French quickly roll over for the Germans a third time.)

 

[sittinpretty]

Hmmm, the Daily Mail, I think you can treat anything they print as an exaggeration, plus they love to whip up a storm. For the instance, the Virgin flight which had an emergency landing yesterday had, according to the mail (and no-one else) 1) a fire in the cockpit (nothing of the sort) 2) it was in the mid Atlantic (it was still over the UK) and 3) they 'battled' the fire mid flight with fire extinguishers (which they didn't!).

 

[sittinpretty]

It's not really a "problem", it's simply the way the theme park business works.

Disneyland USA offers discounted tickets and annual passes for residents of Southern California and Northern Baja California, based on your postal zip code. If you live south of Santa Barbara, or north of Ensenada, Mexico, you get discounted rates for Disneyland. So, a Californian living up in San Francisco will pay higher prices for tickets than a Californian living down in Los Angeles. Or, a Mexican citizen living just over the border in Tijuana will pay less for a ticket than an American citizen living just over the border in Arizona. You have to show your drivers license at the ticket booth with the correct zip code on it to get the discounted rate.

Disneyland has been running these types of "local discount" promotions for decades. Most other theme parks also offer similar locals discount schemes around the country; Sea World, Legoland, Universal, Cedar Fair parks, etc.

If the British press just figured out that Disneyland Paris is doing the same thing, and wants to try and whip it up into some sort of bizarre rehash of World War II allegiances and European resentment against each other, they have the right to do that in an attempt to sell more newspapers.

(For the record, I'm firmly on the British side of the World War II issue, and would be happy to help the Brits again while the French quickly roll over for the Germans a third time.)

I'm British and a WWII buff, visiting Normandy in France each year to pay my respects to the American, Canadian & British war dead and I have no idea what you mean by being on "the British side of the World War II issue".

An allied British Commonwealth and French force tried to repel the Germans during the Battle of France in May & June 1940. However, we both failed and during what was called the Dunkirk Evacuation 338,226 soldiers (198,229 British and 139,997 French) escaped from the Germans. So both we British and the French must have "rolled over".

The Battle of France lasted 6 weeks and 85,310 French people were killed, 120,000 wounded and 1,540,000 captured. 68,111 British were killed or injured. Did all of the French dead "roll over"?

The reality of 1940 was that unfortunately France was next to a country of overwhelming force, we British had the good luck to have the English Channel in the way. Otherwise we too would have been invaded like the French and likely had to sue for peace in the same way.

I don't understand why there is this unrelenting anti-French sentiment out there. When you go to Normandy you will see the Stars and Stripes being flown and a grateful & friendly people, most of whom will always do their best to try to speak English and will be hospitable. They would be pretty hurt by comments like this.

The 85,000+ French people who were killed in 6 weeks defending their country really don't deserve to be forgotten.

 

[pumpkin7]

well yes i know about the florida residents discount, so yes, i suppose i worded it a bit wrong for it to be a problem.
it's probably not that much of a difference, it's just the DM have got their hands on it.

 

[Bolna]

The financial situation of Euro Disney S.C.A (the company which owns Disneyland Paris - and itself is partly owned by the Walt Disney Company) has been horrible for a long time. So that part of the story is just old news, digged up because of the 20th anniversary.

Actually, just at the beginning of the year there was as substantial agreement reached with the lenders which allowed for a new investment - the Ratatouile ride which is currently being built at WDS.

The issue of the different prices might be annoying, but I do see a point in giving tickets to "locals" (and if you think in European terms, France is the local market) cheaper. It does happen with other parks as well, often coupons in the local newspaper and stuff like this.

A lot of visitors from other countries come for a few days and if you look at the package deals offered by DLP, it is often the UK that gets the best discounts. While I was able to book a UK package despite living in Germany, I only could do it because I heard of this here on the internet, the average German customer would never think of checking the UK - or even the Dutch, French or Swedish website for DLP for prices...