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News WDW Resorts to add fees for parking
- Thread starter The Visionary Soul
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twilight mitsuk
Well-Known Member
How about luggage fees
No thanks.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Granted...but that's...a lot...still
twilight mitsuk
Well-Known Member
How about pool and beach fees
That will be a part of the resort fee. I think a better approach might be the "premium" parking option at the resorts which will be a step above "regular" parking but a notch below "valet"
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
I'm a doubter...but I don't see the doubt angle on this one...
Again...they don't "float" feelers on pricing. It's too dangerous to the stock ticker
Well, they need to do something -- it's down 7.9% over the last year...
CaptainAmerica
Premium Member
A minor fee at WDW has zero effect on stock price.
The fee, no. The backlash, we'll see...
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Parks will be soon the primary profit generator for that stock...there are no "minor" free gobs of cash in that scenario
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
It's overvalued...and the street hates that the free money extorted by espn for 25 years is drying up.
CaptainAmerica
Premium Member
The backlash is from the Disneyphiles who love to complain and absolutely never put their money where their mouth is. The rubes who make up the bulk of the customer base don't even know this is going on.
mikejs78
Well-Known Member
I've never gotten the dining plan. We get groceries, eat breakfast in our rooms, and maybe one table service per day and sometimes a QS in the parks if it's more
That would all be well and good if:Maybe. I'm just trying to accurately describe a strategy that I think many people are missing. I'm not predicting its success or failure.
For me, this will absolutely mean I no longer rent a car. I've never had the nightmare experiences that people describe with Disney transportation so we only rent if we get a steal of a rate on the car. But even with a rental, we still take the bus to Magic Kingdom and occasionally the other parks as well. Now, no more. But, as I said, I don't mind the Disney transportation and I won't miss hauling two car seats through the airport.
* It was easy to get from resort to resort
* It was easy to get to the water parks
* The Disney Springs busses weren't so awful
And no, don't say Minnie Vans, because that is a $50 charge just for a round trip.
CaptainAmerica
Premium Member
Holy hell, what aren't people getting? Disney will NEVER charge for DME. Ever. Ever. Not because they're generous, but because it's in their financial best interest.
The money that Disney makes from getting you on property without a car and wholly reliant on them for every meal and keychain purchase is worth orders of magnitude the cost of the rental spaces at MCO and whatever a few Mears drivers cost. Charging for parking and NOT charging for DME are two elements of a single coherent strategy.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
There are probably fifty angles...but rest assured: no prices are ever safe
mikejs78
Well-Known Member
I think you're underestimating the backlash. This has hit the mainstream. My Facebook feed is full of this from people who aren't Disneyphiles but go every 2-4 years....
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
My first instinct was to completely agree with you...
...then I remembered they just decided to charge for something they wholy own, have ample land for, and cost near nothing to operate.
All frontiers are eventually crossed