Really?? No way to visit Disney on budget. ? You can get a 2 bedroom 2 bath over 1500 sq feet with one balcony overlooking a lake and another balcony on the other side of the unit overlooking the fireworks less than 1 mile outside the WDW line near Disney Springs that cost 165 night.
The hotels within Disney cost what they cost because of guests, not Disney. They sell out 6 months in advance at those prices and the overhead is monstrous. If the Contemporary did not book the rooms they do they very well might only cost only 200 a night. No business is going to charge 200.00 a night when the demand at the higher prices still sell. If the room at the Contemp was 200 a night it would be booked ten years out! The trick is to charge as much as humanly possibly to get a 90% occupancy and Disney apparently does that at 650 a night. So go to Paris on a budget, but please do not compare a cheap 108.00 room in Paris, to a top of the line 650.00 room on a monorail system steps from MK, that in today's dollars would cost billions to build.
I love Disney, but we decided we could not spend what those rooms cost anymore so we bought a second home near AK(6 minutes form the door). 8 months of my payments including everything, cable , electric mortgage, Insurance, fees, cost us what one 21 stay at the resort cost us on two different trips. That was our solution, but there are so many other ways to go to WDW on a budget.
Anyone can Motel 6 it and still be closer to the parks than many Disney hotels. It is the person themselves to decide if for them a Disney trip must be at a Disney hotel. The parks themselves are just not that expensive, heck I pay more going to one Bears game on a Sunday for massive traffic and a 3 hour game than a day at any Park!
The actual point of my post was the OP said it was not right for us to have a certain FEELING, who the heck is anyone to say how I feel? The point of my post is apparently lost on people that are so money focused it erases a feeling. Money does not erase my feelings, it might make me upset I can no longer afford it, but that feeling does not disappear. I still love the football games, I would love to go a Super bowl, but I just can not afford it, I can no longer even afford the Bears games. If someone was to take me to a game that feeling would still be there,it is not erased for me.
It is wrong for someone to tell us that saying "Disney is our Happy Place", is wrong, please don't be telling us what makes us happy! If Paris at 108 a night makes you happy great, it does not make me happy. If Disney at 108.00 a night just outside the 42 sq miles makes you happy great, that makes me more happy than Paris at 108. Just don't be telling anyone it is wrong to feel a certain way.
