Can someone name me any form of mass entertainment/leisure/vacation offerings, owned and operated by a corporate entity, that has not increased in price and decreased in value in a fairly short amount of time? It's a common tactic across the board. We pay more for sports tickets, movie theater tickets, concerts, etc, in addition to paying more for food and drink at these venues. We pay more for flights, all-inclusive resorts, cruises, etc. We have to have subscriptions to multiple streaming services to be able to watch shows/movies that are available on each specific service. I know we would all like Disney to be different, to be that mega-corp that cares about value for $ for their customers-but it's not. It doesn't make it fair, or right, or something that we have to like, but it is what it is and will probably not be changing as long as the $$ keeps building in the shareholder's pockets. At this point, most people have to selectively pick what they want to experience, when they can fit it in to their schedule, and how much they can afford to pay, and, unfortunately, there may be no feasible options for a specific type of entertainment/leisure activity in many people's budgets, and WDW is definitely one of these types of options. I would certainly hope that for anyone who is priced out of WDW, they find other, more cost effective alternatives, maybe something completely different than a theme park, and find that they enjoy that more than WDW. I would definitely sacrifice a WDW trip to explore Route 66 from Chicago to LA.