You don’t get to. Stop being so spoiled and self centered would be the line. When people go to six flags they don’t go to 3 in one day.
That's honestly their biggest hurdle. No idea how they plan to solve it without grandfathering APs in until renewal.
Grandfathered or not, you don't treat AP holders as lesser. Period. This won't affect me sine 99.9% of the time I am an AP resort guest, but no other park or the like I know of treats their regulars as third class citizens. AP holders have been degraded enough with thecpark pass and hopping BS all while doubling prices in a matter of years.
Completely agree. Legally speaking though, there is a significant hurdle.
If there is a legal hurdle then IMO there is your sign that you're doing it wrong.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but I get the impression that Disney's trying to maximize their profits from a finite resource, measured mostly by $ returned for every warm body in their parks (the finite resource of so many bodies in the park per day). I assume people don't by APs unless it's cost effective compared to multi-day passes, so 15, 20, 30 days of visits to the parks in a year? More? Perhaps they're local and don't stay in the hotels and eat the Disney food. Compare that to a family that goes once every one or two years... stays in the bubble, tries the new eateries, buys souvenirs of the latest IP, buys a 6 day pass plus G+ for each member of the family. I'm assuming that for a given warm body slot in the park on a given day, Disney makes more money from the non-AP people than AP people.
This is a good way to lower the crowds.
We are AP holders I don't recall how many visits it took for us get out money's worth out of the passes. When we visit, we always buy at least two alcoholic beverages. We spend way more than we should at disney springs though. I guess that doesn't count but we spend as much in a year as an average guest on a vacation. Obviously we are not the gust disney wants though.
Some call APs the "sandwich crowd" for this reason. For example, if there are 10,000 people that want to get into a park that has only 5,000 reservations left, half of those people may contribute almost nothing in additional revenue and the other half millions. Equal access would lose the company potentially millions of dollars.
Yes, that seems to be what they're thinking. All the changes at this point are to maximize return per guest per day in the parks. It wouldn't surprise me if prices start going up for the tail end of multi-day passes as well for the same reason.
I'm not talking the every few years families who stay onsite and get G+ I'm talking off site day or two every 5-10 years and don't actually spend as much as the families you are saying.
True, but APs still spend significantly less than other guests. The other thing at play is that by offering equal access and allowing crowds to increase to out of control levels, low revenue guests would be diminishing the experience for high revenue guests. I personally hope people cancel their APs in droves if this approach proves to be too restrictive.
