News WDW Resorts to add fees for parking

Laketravis

Laketravis

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GoofGoof said:
I think it depends on how you define the metro areas. How far out do you consider a city's metro area? Last stats I saw Las Vegas was still #1 in the US with over 170,000 hotel rooms but Orlando moved ahead of NY for #2 on the list. To be bigger than Vegas and NY combined you would probably need to stretch from the gulf to the Atlantic in central FL and call that the Orlando area. Either way there's still a huge number of rooms in Orlando and it's all due to a guy who drew a mouse cartoon. Pretty crazy.

Edit: here's the stats from 2016:

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Interesting stats but they are strictly hotel rooms. I wonder how the comparison would fare if it included condos for rent by owner on an almost continuous basis. I'm sure there aren't 45K condos for rent in Orlando (or maybe there are?) but I'd be willing to bet there are more then Vegas.
 
GoofGoof

GoofGoof

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Laketravis said:
Interesting stats but they are strictly hotel rooms. I wonder how the comparison would fare if it included condos for rent by owner on an almost continuous basis. I'm sure there aren't 45K condos for rent in Orlando (or maybe there are?) but I'd be willing to bet there are more then Vegas.
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Hard to say. Vegas is a pretty big condo market too. During the housing boom they were building condos all over both on the strip and in the surrounding areas. It was a huge market and lots of buyers from the pricey Southern CA market buying investment properties which were cheap to them compared to local real estate. When the housing market busted the condo market in Vegas dried up so there are less being built now, but there were quite a few built before the bust.
 
LuvtheGoof

LuvtheGoof

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raven said:
Oh that's right! I forgot that every city has airboat rides, water parks open year 'round, mega ferries wheels, aquariums and wax museums, skydiving and hot air balloon rides, ice bars, about 15 separate escape room companies, 10 or more dinner theatre experiences, a NASA launch pad nearby, a beach on the ocean an hour in both directions and the worlds tallest roller coaster being built soon.

Silly me for not partaking in all of that in the frozen north every winter and only going to the mall instead. In fact I don't know why this area is the World's #1 Tourist Destination when they can just do the same things at home. My bad.
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You must work for the Orlando tourist board, as hard as you're pitching for them. :cool:
 
peter11435

peter11435

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raven said:
What difference does it make? This isn't a website solely for Disney CMs.
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What the heck are you even talking about?

Most of us are not Disney cast members. But most of us also didn't post years ago that we were CM's and then suddenly become increasingly negative and cynical towards the company while denying having ever worked there.
 
raven

raven

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peter11435 said:
What the heck are you even talking about?

Most of us are not Disney cast members. But most of us also didn't post years ago that we were CM's and then suddenly become increasingly negative and cynical towards the company while denying having ever worked there.
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As long as you keep quoting me I'll just keep coming back.

I'm a realist, I tell it like it is. I don't sugar coat anything to hide what it actually is. And I will point out things that aren't so "Magical" but that doesn't make me negative or cynical. If you don't like my posts I invite you to click on my profile and hit "ignore," it won't bother me.
 
peter11435

peter11435

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raven said:
As long as you keep quoting me I'll just keep coming back.

I'm a realist, I tell it like it is. I don't sugar coat anything to hide what it actually is. And I will point out things that aren't so "Magical" but that doesn't make me negative or cynical. If you don't like my posts I invite you to click on my profile and hit "ignore," it won't bother me.
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flynnibus

flynnibus

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raven said:
I'd love to see photos "a lot of those things in pretty much any city." And people do choose to be near the beach. But then again a lot of them usually spend a day or two in this area as well, and not just for Disney.
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The blind don't realize that most Disney tourists don't even stay at Disney.... and why Disney needs to have those massive parking lots that fill up :banghead:. And it's been this way for decades... and why Orlando continues to grow, not just disneynthemselves.

Sand lake rd and I drive have way more variety in dining and entertainment than the Disney-blinders crowd could ever realize. Even the big polished places like pointe Orlando... which is not much more than an outdoor mall is a worthy stop for food compared to what used to be the leader at Disney.

This sounds like the people that go to a Sandles resort and consider themselves worldly and experienced.
 

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