I doubt that Disney is giving cast the cruise at cost. There has to be a little bit more margin to play with here
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I doubt that Disney is giving cast the cruise at cost. There has to be a little bit more margin to play with here
Disstevefan1
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There is a difference between affording something and if something is worth spending money on.
I can "afford" it, but I would need to make a lot more money to feel I can throw away money on this.
Likewise, if it cost less, I could be willing to throw away money on this.
I can "afford" it, but I would need to make a lot more money to feel I can throw away money on this.
Likewise, if it cost less, I could be willing to throw away money on this.
It's the end, this must be marketed towards full-time white collar Disney employees to get them onto the last voyages and pump up the tips for the staff. No way they'd do it otherwise, especially because the timing is atrocious PR-wise (it looks like they're offering unhappy frontline employees a "let them eat cake" deal).
The CM can bring up to 3 people, that'll help them afford it at $750 per person.
Tha Realest
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“sorry, not paying you $18 retroactively, but here’s a coupon for half off our $5,000, two-night experience.”
I knoooow at this point it goes from "way overpriced experience that's probably still fun" to "Occupy Starcruiser"
Can they book more than once? They can get 3 people a $2000 discount, and pocket the rest.
MagicHappens1971
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I would assume they’d have to be staying with the guest(s) to get the discount
MagicHappens1971
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I would say this is true, but also that’s it’s been open a year and they're ready to release CM discounts.
flynnibus
Premium Member
‘Cost’ here is fuzzy. The operating cost for the cruise is already fixed. The food&bev cost per stateroom is minuscule in this scale…. So an empty stateroom is literally just a hole in customer spending. You can talk about the overhead cost divided by the number of staterooms as their ‘cost’ but it doesn’t really work here because you’re likely comparing filling empty rooms instead of comparing to non-discounted guests.
Not many hotels(and this one with limited size especially) offer CMs 50 percent off discounts.
Particularly going into Spring Break.
MagicHappens1971
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Almost all of the Disney hotels offer 30-50% off for CMs. I’ve booked the All Stars for $68/night for example
Yeah. The avalibility is a lot more on those.
Starcruiser is a premium experience with a tiny amount of rooms. Not really comparable.
And not in a shoulder season when inventory could go to people paying for those rooms at the difference for a place that only has 100 rooms.
MagicHappens1971
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Totally agree with you, just saying that accompanied with its lackluster performance it’s not that surprising that after it’s been open a year they’ve started CM discounts. I think the other thing about it’s cheaper to have discounted guests than to let the rooms go empty
Vegas Disney Fan
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Most front line CMs wont be able to but with 225,000 employees I’m sure there’s quite a few who’ll take them up on the offer.
Some may have to take a further hit to take a day off to fit two days in or lose their overtime.
Vegas Disney Fan
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Only about 100,000 of those employees are CMs working in DL and WDW, the other 125,000 working corporate and media jobs will likely have no trouble getting paid time off… especially to give Disney a couple thousand of their hard earned dollars.
True.
Further evident of how this is not a benefit to nearly half of their employees.