Jimmy Mouse
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- Sep 3, 2017
Most attractions, not all. Some attractions were included in park admission but most you had to buy a ticket book.The article leaves out an important bit of info- that $3.50 admission fee didn’t include the rides, and so for most was not the true cost of enjoying the park.
While carrying a huge credit card debt isn't necessarily good for the person who owes the money, it could well be an indication of consumer confidence.
My hats off to those that manage to do Disney on $5k. It costs me twice that.
I have a somewhat bigger family than you. When we travel, it is my wife and I, our two kids, one whom is an adult, and the other whom is a Disney adult (14 now) and my mother. When the kids were younger (we had 3 with us back then) and my mother didn't travel with us, we would stay at POR, and could manage a two week stay there, with free dining, driving our own car, making breakfast in the room etc. The trip would cost us around $6500, and that was pretty well all we could afford.Your post definitely puts things into perspective for me. While we are at different points in our lives, $5k for a Disney trip seems unimaginable for us (forget about $10k). Then again, it's just my wife and I who try to stay at the cheapest on site property (minus camp grounds) and we try to book only breakfast and dinner, with a small snack for lunch during the day.
And I hope this post isn't taken negatively at all, that's not it's purpose. Just made me realize that my wife and I probably have a very abnormal cost for a Disney vacation.
About this this part: "The middle class ($35,000 to $100,000) and lower class (below $35,000) have shrunk because Americans are graduating from them."
The lower class is growing so I don't know where he got this idea from.
Wallethub just posted some record amount of credit card debt so all is not rosey.
My last trip before merchandise and food was like 200 bucks, and it was all spent on the flight/transportation to the airport. Family living there and APs helped there a lot (not explaining again how since already asked)While carrying a huge credit card debt isn't necessarily good for the person who owes the money, it could well be an indication of consumer confidence.
My hats off to those that manage to do Disney on $5k. It costs me twice that.
While carrying a huge credit card debt isn't necessarily good for the person who owes the money, it could well be an indication of consumer confidence.
My hats off to those that manage to do Disney on $5k. It costs me twice that.
Well, for one thing it's the Post, so you should go in with a low bar for the research and depth of reporting. The author's home base is National Review, which has seen its journalistic quality drop precipitously over the last several years, in search for clicks.
The author wants to make a point that the economy is doing well and builds this around high crowds at Disney. He could have written the same piece around new-vehicle purchases or the housing market, but Disney stories are sexier. The only thing of significance here about Disney that you may have not already known is that MK is now topping 20 million in annual attendance.
I like that Disney is accessible to people at both ends of the middle class, however you define it. In 2002, making well under $100K a year, our family of three had a very nice week there. In 2017, making over $200K a year, we had an even nicer week there (and where we live, $200K is middle class). Now if our wages hadn't grown - or shrunk - between 2002 and 2017, I would be pretty frustrated about ahead-of-inflation price increases over time, but could probably still construct a satisfying vacation.
One child became an adult and I added one child. One reason for the expense is I have to pay for a room for her mother and stepfather. These costs are for 2 rooms.Ken - Would it be possible to run the numbers for FQ in 2018? I note the 3k swing but you did jump from Moderate to Deluxe. So maybe 16,500 for FQ.
Also other variables in play would be are there any children that are now considered adult.
For my wife and I, we can see a price swing from 2008 - 2018 but when I compare WL2010 to AKL 2018, its not almost triple the price. Yes it has gone up, but thats a huge increase.
This intrigued me enough to finally post on here HA HA HA.