we drive to disney. We just spent 8 days at Pop in June, for our family of 4 it was $7500. We didnt eat a table service every day either.
We're flying to South Dakota and Wyoming next year, for flights, a car for a week, and hotels at expensive national park lodges, our trip is going to be cheaper.
These Disney trips used to be no brainers for us. It used to be cheaper for us to go disney for a week, then it would be for us to rent a cabin in the mountains or a beach house and do those vacations for a week. It's just not anymore.
In the last 3 or 4 years, between this and the parking fees, that adds up to be at least $600 in additional fees, that's a little less than 2 of our plane tickets out west next year. We get nothing in return for that $600. We get the same services we got before they added the fees. I get it, in the grand scheme of things this isnt that large of a price increase, but when you add it to the other increases, it starts to add up.
This is why I said i wanted it to fail, because Disney can and should do better. All of us spend a lot of money on these trips, whether we're staying at a Value resort, or a Deluxe, none of its cheap.
We're just one family, so we don't matter to Disney, but the constant nickel and diming drove us to look at other options next year.
