DVCOwner
A Long Time DVC Member
Respectfully, I think you've missed the point.
Virtually everything at WDW today was built by the mid-1990s. Compared to previous decades, corporate Disney is not investing in WDW.
Unless you want to count more Disney Vacation Club resorts.
It is market based. If this price is too high - do not go. Enought said.
A much smaller Disney company invested billions in Orlando and remained highly profitable throughout its first 25-30 years.
It's only been during the last 10-15 years, during which the theme parks have absolutely stagnated compared with previous decades, that prices have spun out of control.
And it does not cost Disney more to run the parks today. Quite the opposite. WDW's biggest single expense is payroll and, adjusted for inflation, CMs are paid less today than they were in WDW's Golden Era. Meanwhile, maintenance budgets have been slashed.
And families do not make more today than in the past. Even with the rise of 2-income families, adjusted for inflation, median household income is up only about 10% since 1971. Families are working more hours than ever and yet are barely keeping up with inflation.
Unlike the 1970s and 1980s, today's WDW makes a ton of cash from hotels and timeshares.
WDW has never been more profitable.
Corporate Disney is drawing a boatload of cash from WDW and not investing it back into the parks.
The price is market based, if it is too high do not go. Enough said.
