As was mentioned above, clearly someone thought to include the question. But also mentioned is that it's been there for years, yet Disney looks greedier than ever, particularly in the past 6-12 months.
Likely true. Back in the day (say, 7 years ago), I would get APs almost every year because it really only took one long trip and one short one to get your value out of them. No longer, though.
I don't know what the execs care about, because I haven't asked them.
We've been AP holders forever, and have taken many AP surveys. Only once in the last decade has that question been on one of ours. Please don't listen to the people here with an obvious agenda of bashing everything that Disney does. They are very tiring.
Fair enough, but I don't think this is an instance of bashing Disney unfairly. We're DVC/AP who have been visiting 2+ times a year since 1999. I'm sorry, but the past few years have given me little hope that current leadership will take survey results seriously. Until profits drop, the price increases (greed) will continue IMO.
We are also DVC/AP and the value is still there for us, but I agree that the prices are getting a bit out of hand (we haven't gone to a buffet, except Trails End, in years). My observation is simply that if current management doesn't care about the results of the question, then why ask it? Again, surely you don't think that they are asking the question just to make people think that they care, do you? If that is the case, you can bet that someone would have outed them by now. And you can absolutely bet that the "C" level executives see the results of these surveys.
Agreed. Character meals and special events are fairly easy to avoid, but that pricing strategy has started to carry over to park tickets and every restaurant. We still see value in DVC as well, but that's because we bought in a decade ago at SSR yet stay at the more expensive resorts. The AP and dining increases have risen drastically as of late, and this is where I'm ready to draw the line. Just because "somebody" will pay it doesn't mean I have to.
May be true, but I hope that you are wrong. I don't think we'll ever see a price decrease, but maybe smaller increases over the next few years. We also get a TiW every year, and that brings the prices down at the restaurants. We save literally hundreds in a year with that option.
We always buy and use TiW, but I'd argue we shouldn't need it just to get the astronomical prices down to something we can justify. Plus at $150 some value was taken out. Since we're debating a winter trip for the first time in 17 years, TiW might turn out to just be a break even in only one trip.
If they know enough to ask, then they already assume they are!
The survey did ask about the new benefits, and I somewhat grudgingly admitted that the unlimited photopass downloads is a nice addition.
Sure. And the survey appeared to be designed to get an idea of whether they are that point.
Get TiW. That'll give you all the food discounts you need on table-service.I would have, without question, said "NEED DISCOUNTS". It's so depressing after living next to Disneyland for 5 years, to switch to a WDW AP and pay full price for everything....especially food. Living 2.5 hours away, we'd be able to visit a lot more often if food wasn't so expensive. We used to go to Disneyland weekly when we lived in Cali because the cost per visit was so low (not factoring in the cost of the AP). WDW we only hit up every 4-6 weeks because the food cost kills us. We end up eating in Wawa parking lots at least 1-2 times per trip.
