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Why the paltry selection of TV at Deluxe Resorts
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hokielutz
Well-Known Member
Does anyone really want Skin-imax or late night or HBO night dreams to ruin the magic of Disney? How about some of the more violent unedited movies?
I'm not a prude or a conservative christian nut since my TV programing package is not limited in my home, but keeping the Disney atmosphere for the kids is essential for that magical experience. If you want to watch movies in your room that the channels don't carry, then bring DVD's with you or rent them.
I'm not a prude or a conservative christian nut since my TV programing package is not limited in my home, but keeping the Disney atmosphere for the kids is essential for that magical experience. If you want to watch movies in your room that the channels don't carry, then bring DVD's with you or rent them.
gatordoc
Active Member
Oh, you don't know what we went through last week. Wednesday night was the Project Runway finale. It's one of my wife's favorite shows, and given that Disney of course does not carry Bravo, we had set it to tape at home. However, we spent the next few days at WDW avoiding news of all sorts, as well as conversations with anyone who even looked like they might know the outcome (I was promised great misery if I even mentioned either the words "project" or "runway" in the presence of another living soul). There was a happy ending when we got home Sunday with the outcome still unknown and my dear wife was able to watch the show. But oh, how much easier it would have been to be able to watch it on live on Wednesday night...
hokielutz
Well-Known Member
That's right... Disney covers the revenue lost from in room movie orders by the higher prices of its rooms... nah... not really.
I'll tell you, the prices at Disney resorts are on par with what i have experienced travelling elsewhere in the U.S. In fact, some are less expensive (allstar-pop.)
Heck, in New Orleans, you can't find a decent hotel at low season for less than $150.00 dollars a night. Most of them are 180 and up. Same goes for other areas of Mississippi and tennessee, Georgia. So, Disney hotels are not what i would call expensive. Now i am going for New Years and paying 140.00 a night after tax at POP Century. That is alot, yes. BUT, roach motels in Kissimmee at that time of year go for about the same thing, so i still feel i am getting a good deal.
For Mardi Gras here in New Orleans, No-tell motels charge a hundred plus bucks a night......Now that is ridiculous.... Decent hotels are 300 and up...Disney hotels are ok......
Heck, in New Orleans, you can't find a decent hotel at low season for less than $150.00 dollars a night. Most of them are 180 and up. Same goes for other areas of Mississippi and tennessee, Georgia. So, Disney hotels are not what i would call expensive. Now i am going for New Years and paying 140.00 a night after tax at POP Century. That is alot, yes. BUT, roach motels in Kissimmee at that time of year go for about the same thing, so i still feel i am getting a good deal.
For Mardi Gras here in New Orleans, No-tell motels charge a hundred plus bucks a night......Now that is ridiculous.... Decent hotels are 300 and up...Disney hotels are ok......
davewasbaloo
New Member
At conference the other week I paid $200 a night for my Holiday Inn room, and rack rate was $500. AKL is a bargain in comparison!
figment1985
New Member
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
interesting range of responses so far....
I appreciate the responses that you all have taken the time to make. I hope no one even for a second thought I was advocating Disney allow on their televisions, quite to the contrary, that is why I suggested TCM and AMC, I have never seen anything that could be depicted as , soft , or excessive blood and gore on those channels. Even HBO has a family channel which is very tame. As a further precaution against offesive television programming I am fairly sure that all of the television sets at WDW are of a recent enough vintage that they have the ubiquitous V-chip the government mandated over a decade ago which Disney could easily set to a PG or PG-13 limit. Some of the comparisons between Disney's pricing and other hotel pricing is a bit tortured. I travel a lot for my business and know that hotel prices are very regional, you must compare the prices to other local hotels. If you compare Disney prices to Manhattan they are downright cheap. If you compare them to Pontiac Missouri they are outlangdishly over priced. I always stay on Disney property because I like the convenience and think they provide a very superior hotel in most ways but the deluxe hotels are at the very upper end of the Orlando area, which is justified by their convenience.
Since Disney basically closes everything on property (except PI) by 11:00 or 12:00, and I am a night owl, there is basically nothing for me to do between 11:00 and 3:00 unless I want to take the 35-45 minute bus ride to PI and spend the evening with a crowd of 20 somethings and then spend another 35-45 minute bus ride back, and please don't take this as a queue to start the busses are great vs. monorail it too expensive vs. light rail will save the world vs. any other transport discussion, I know that on average from the time I walk out of the hotel till the time I get to PI is almost always between 35 and 45 minutes, done it many many times from virtually every deluxe. From Animal Kingdom Lodge the average is even worse. On occasion out of sheer impatience I have jumped in a taxi. (I develop high end telecom and hospitality software so professionally I do a lot of my work in the wee hours, if you wonder why I am up so late) I understand why Disney closes everything, that is their target audience, but it does lead to crushing boredom (it would be great if they had at least 1 bar at 1 hotel that stayed open late). Wow, I drifted my own thread.
For the people that suggested I bring my own DVD player (and disks of course), I don't really like watching DVDs that much, if I own the DVD then I have more than likely already watched it and I would prefer to see a random selection from the millions of titles that exist in the world that I have not seen than a selection I have made from my miniscule collection. Bedises, I really don't want to give the TSA anything else to kvetch about or break. But thanks for the thought.
I appreciate the responses that you all have taken the time to make. I hope no one even for a second thought I was advocating Disney allow on their televisions, quite to the contrary, that is why I suggested TCM and AMC, I have never seen anything that could be depicted as , soft , or excessive blood and gore on those channels. Even HBO has a family channel which is very tame. As a further precaution against offesive television programming I am fairly sure that all of the television sets at WDW are of a recent enough vintage that they have the ubiquitous V-chip the government mandated over a decade ago which Disney could easily set to a PG or PG-13 limit. Some of the comparisons between Disney's pricing and other hotel pricing is a bit tortured. I travel a lot for my business and know that hotel prices are very regional, you must compare the prices to other local hotels. If you compare Disney prices to Manhattan they are downright cheap. If you compare them to Pontiac Missouri they are outlangdishly over priced. I always stay on Disney property because I like the convenience and think they provide a very superior hotel in most ways but the deluxe hotels are at the very upper end of the Orlando area, which is justified by their convenience.
Since Disney basically closes everything on property (except PI) by 11:00 or 12:00, and I am a night owl, there is basically nothing for me to do between 11:00 and 3:00 unless I want to take the 35-45 minute bus ride to PI and spend the evening with a crowd of 20 somethings and then spend another 35-45 minute bus ride back, and please don't take this as a queue to start the busses are great vs. monorail it too expensive vs. light rail will save the world vs. any other transport discussion, I know that on average from the time I walk out of the hotel till the time I get to PI is almost always between 35 and 45 minutes, done it many many times from virtually every deluxe. From Animal Kingdom Lodge the average is even worse. On occasion out of sheer impatience I have jumped in a taxi. (I develop high end telecom and hospitality software so professionally I do a lot of my work in the wee hours, if you wonder why I am up so late) I understand why Disney closes everything, that is their target audience, but it does lead to crushing boredom (it would be great if they had at least 1 bar at 1 hotel that stayed open late). Wow, I drifted my own thread.
For the people that suggested I bring my own DVD player (and disks of course), I don't really like watching DVDs that much, if I own the DVD then I have more than likely already watched it and I would prefer to see a random selection from the millions of titles that exist in the world that I have not seen than a selection I have made from my miniscule collection. Bedises, I really don't want to give the TSA anything else to kvetch about or break. But thanks for the thought.
CoffeeJedi
Active Member
Yeah! Seriously. Closing them at midnight is ridiculous, we usually didn't get back until close to midnight (esp after EMH at MK) and that's when a poolside beer would have tasted so good. We weren't the only ones either, they turned a whole pack of us away one night.
LudwigVonDrake
Well-Known Member
I LOVE APPLIANCES!!! :sohappy:
sorceresssamara
New Member
There is nothing better after a long day at the parks of sitting in bed watching Appliance Direct!!! White Porcelain!
I actually look forward to it
TimeTrip
Well-Known Member
Lol.. before I watched all those commercials, I never in my wildest dreams would have wanted to compare my washing machine to a toilet bowl. I still don't!
MickeyTigg
New Member
Who spends a lot of time watching TV when you're at Disney? I can watch those stations at home.
mickey7879
Member
After one day of watching Disney's TV you've seen all of the "Top 10 Must See Attractions" countdowns, that I can't stand watching any of Disneys own channels. I love Disney as much as the next person but at the end of the day when I like to watch a little tv to unwind the LAST thing I want to hear is the same things over and over again about Disney!!
Only 10 more days til Coronado Springs!! Woooohoooo!!!
Only 10 more days til Coronado Springs!! Woooohoooo!!!
makonyy15
Member
If you need your fix of the wacky nu nu and same day delivery, the video links are on the right side of the screen. I remember someone posted this before just thought I'd throw it back in again.
http://www.appliancedirect.com/main/index.asp
:lookaroun :sohappy:
http://www.appliancedirect.com/main/index.asp
:lookaroun :sohappy: