I agree the prices are outrageous. In 2010, was it still 4 ppl or just two?
It’s the tickets that nail you. There is very little incentive now for multi day tickets. A 7 day base ticket was about $225, it became heavily discounted as you added days. Now that same ticket is around $800 depending on the day. That’s before adding on park hopper.
Everyone keeps saying it’s inflation, but I have yet to find anything that scales with inflation show almost 400% increase in cost. It looms like they’re trying to correct this by offering steeper discounts on 4 day tickets during certain promotions.
I don’t do big trips now because there is very little cost savings for extended stays. Now I go for a day, and spend my money off property and at universal. I would easily stay on site and for longer if they incentivized it more for me, but cost is the driving factor for us.