el_super
Well-Known Member
Everything is fine.
If you really don't think that, and you do think the sky is falling... when? When will we actally see the negative impact of all this bad management? Another year? Five? A decade from now?
Everything is fine.
There is a good bit of inventory getting wholesaled out right now, and it's not moving very well their either.
Onsite hotels will almost certainly start showing up on Hotwire before the send of summer.
My Spidey senses tell me there is more than one problem facing the Vacation Kingdom.There is a good bit of inventory getting wholesaled out right now, and it's not moving very well there either.
You honestly think Universal is worried about tourist bookings opening up a new theme park?Attendance is entirely up to them. I think they are worried about tourist bookings, since they are leading their offerings with multi-day tickets. If they stay soft, they can extend discounting to locals (offer AP add-ons and the like) too keep the park full, but they seriously run the risk of devaluing their product if they discount too much.
It will be interesting to see which way they go, but they definitely need to pay off that park and extracting more revenue from their local fans is going to be painful.
Because they’ve overpriced everythingThere is a good bit of inventory getting wholesaled out right now, and it's not moving very well their either.
Onsite hotels will almost certainly start showing up on Hotwire before the send of summer.
He's not getting the part about the quality of the experience being offered.You honestly think Universal is worried about tourist bookings opening up a new theme park?
Disney is the one that should be worried…them taking away days or even full trips away from Disney guests
I would argue that if they still had an industry leading experience to offer the complaints over the pricing would be a little lower on the volume. But with the current product being offered they are way overpriced.Because they’ve overpriced everything
Full stop
That is the problem
But they started cutting the margins because they lost their tv money and have to support the whole gig with parks now…I would argue that if they still had an industry leading experience to offer the complaints over the pricing would be a little lower on the volume. But with the current product being offered they are way overpriced.
MagicalSo Disney managed to chase away guests resulting in less folks in the parks while keeping the wait times the same.
They can’t reduce wait times TOO much…regardless of crowd levels.Magical
100% this, we’re going on another DCL cruise in January and between the 2 of us it comes out to $1000 per day, we happily pay it because we find DCL worth the money, we decided to add a WDW trip (since we’ll be in FL anyway and haven’t been in 2 years) and we are only doing 3 park days, and we debated only doing 2, we could easily add another day but we don’t feel like HS is worth the overpriced tickets and another night at the overpriced hotel.I would argue that if they still had an industry leading experience to offer the complaints over the pricing would be a little lower on the volume. But with the current product being offered they are way overpriced.
One word: Celebrity100% this, we’re going on another DCL cruise in January and between the 2 of us it comes out to $1000 per day, we happily pay it because we find DCL worth the money, we decided to add a WDW trip (since we’ll be in FL anyway and haven’t been in 2 years) and we are only doing 3 park days, and we debated only doing 2, we could easily add another day but we don’t feel like HS is worth the overpriced tickets and another night at the overpriced hotel.
Prior to all the cuts and price gouging our average trip at WDW was 6 park days and 8 hotel nights (including travel days), we used to happily pay for an entire week and often wished we could stay longer, now we struggle to justify 3.
Disney used to be a product that justified the highest prices in the industry, they’ve cut so much from the Disney experience the value just isn’t there anymore.
We’re looking at Princess for our upcoming Alaska cruise, we’re still Disney fans at heart so we give them first preference but all the reviews are leading us to the Princess land and sea package though.One word: Celebrity
Why does it say Bonnet Creek?
Correction:But they started cutting the margins because they lost their tv money and have to support the whole gig with parks now…
That is the elephant here.
It’s not just greed. It’s necessity.
The problem is their “Philosophy” doesn’t fit their reality as it stands.
It’s apparently how PL classifies the area.Why does it say Bonnet Creek?
It's always nice after being on various Disney forums since 1996, to be called disingenuous. Thanks for that.Posts like this are just so disingenuous. My post was only addressing how to increase guests. It in no way addressed customer experience. As a kid who loved playing baseball, we always talked about hitting the ball on the sweet spot. Right now Disney is struggling really hard at finding that sweet spot. I fear that the high profit execs are pushing greater prices and not enough attention to declining attendance. So after they spend the 70 some billion to expand and add new attractions, where are the new guests coming from? Since you have already priced out a great many, how high are prices going to be to recover the cost of the expansion? Talk about painting yourself into a corner.
I agree they lack capacity. I disagree in guests uncertainty with getting on attractions. That only pertains to the skip the line system. Guests can wait in standby if they really wanted to get any attraction.It's always nice after being on various Disney forums since 1996, to be called disingenuous. Thanks for that.
My post is not really about the customer experience. It's also a "painting yourself in a corner" post. In that, due to the attraction sell outs Disney can't attract more people to the park, without leaking a different set of people elsewhere. Your post did not demonstrate an awareness of this possibility. Sometimes in business returning a price to what it was isn't enough, because some other deficiency in the product means it's still a turn off to people.
IMO, that is why we're seeing things like the levers they usually pull, hotel discounts, free dining, not being enough anymore. This feels like a price issue to many, and while it is certainly part of the equation, I don't think it's the key. It's the uncertainty and frustration, due to insufficient attraction capacity. More people are simply aware of how hard it is to actually get on the rides they want.
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