I’m sure they have data suggesting there aren’t too many guests who would otherwise stay at Pop who choose Drury instead. I presume they are trying to convince people who would otherwise stay at a random Hilton Garden Inn to go to Drury instead. Disney gets a kickback from Drury and these perks increase the odds that these guests will keep going to Disney parks and buying $8 pretzels. Plus, as I’ve said, I doubt many from these hotels actually arrive on time for EE.
If they regularly have more operating capacity than is used by on site guests showing up, it's more revenue. And those at off site hotels have a much harder time getting to the parks 45 minutes before opening than people who are on site. So these people are theoretically paying full price for the last 3 sips out of a soda can.
Also, Drury also pays rent to Disney being in the "Disney Springs Area." Disney wants Drury to succeed.
Disney just expanded early entry to all four parks. Theoretically, there should be only 25% of the crowd in the morning for early entry as there was before.
It's just more evidence that bookings and attendance look to be soft for awhile.
Or just evidence of continued partnerships that have been in place for decades now...
Cause everything is fine. There is no attendance issues. It's all over blown
I am not arguing about whether there are attendance issues or not. I am saying it is unlikely that these agreements are directly related to it considering they have been in place during the good times and bad times...
Did they or did they not just report record profits from the parks? Did we all not sit here and talk about how over crowded Disney was and how many weren't going to go anymore because it was such a miserable experience as recently as 2019?
I'm not saying they about to go bankrupt or falling apart but I do think they things are also not as good as many of make it to be. Judging by everything that have done lately bookings and attendance forecasts to be down for quite awhile. The parks will continue to make a profit. The problem is they seem to need high profits from the parks to prop up the media side right now.
As almost all of us have said, Disney has all kinds of issues, I just don't feel the rate they are recovering attendance is one of them. Look at the year over year numbers and they are increasing significantly and at a relatively similar pace to every other park on the planet with a few exceptions.
Realistically however, I don't see them removing any hotels from the list. Too big of a draw for Good Neighbour hotels compared to off-site, and that's money for Disney in the end.
She has a personal heated house for the winter and a mesh cot to keep her cool in the summer. Sometimes she lets me put her flea and tick medicine on her, too. Sadly, she's too feral to be a house cat.