I hear people on here complain about the crowds, but our trip this Summer wasn’t near as crowded as our February 2019 trip. In February 2019 we stayed at AKL and BWI club level with 35% off. Rented points this Summer no discounts available.
You missed the point, it's the mental state that increasing prices creates. People are complaining about high gas prices, yet they are still driving all over the place. Same with Disney, people complain all the time about prices and still go. I agree, people must be pleased if they keep going, however there is a certain amount of people that will no longer pay the price (clearly not enough to stop the increases).
Wrong, them not adding a fifth or sixth gate has caused this problem. Sure, adding another one or two gates would bring in more people, but it also spreads the crowds out (unless they build terrible parks nobody want to go to).
Disney doesn't desire to spread out crowds. That requires more labor costs.
sure that's fair, and it happens all the time with most businesses. The only time a company takes notice is if it starts affecting the bottom line, the rest is just fluff that they typically ignore
I think it's a nice thought but we aren't going to see eye to eye on this one
The science behind motion sickness fascinates me. MS often is about the brain not being able to process what it's going through (so, for instance, sitting and facing "backwards" on a train where one can see things moving the opposite direction the train is headed). I, for instance, don't really experience MS except for when I haven't slept (which understandably leads to my brain not being able to keep up, even with things it's previously had no problems with). It blows my mind.
The time will come where people won't pay it because they can't. Currently people have a lot of equity in their homes some use it as a bank. The market went straight up for ten years. All that can change in a blink of an eye. We saw it in 2008... these prices won't last forever.
I don't know if it's a case of "must be pleased if they keep going...", for us, it's been a case of going back and trying to find again what we originally fell in love with. And Disney laughing all the way to the bank! It is very much like an addiction if you think about it. It starts off great and makes you feel wonderful....then things go downhill, but you keep at it, hoping to feel great again.
I really do hope the plan is back by next year
The way food prices are soaring I doubt it. If it does come back expect it to cost double.
With that logic they just shouldn't sell food there anymore
Yeah i never understood the 180 days, why do you need 6 months in advance to book dining. I assume most booked what they could and then circled back every once in a while to see if another one they wanted opened back up. You don't need 6 months to stalk the website for dinner, not to mention there are sites that can manage all of that for you
Again you missed the boat. Don’t expect with soaring food prices Disney to offer dining plans that lock in the price of meals for a year.
You make it sounds like Disney shops at the supermarket like we do. They typically sign contracts with suppliers to lock in food prices for long periods of time, which is how they are able to lock in the Dining Plan costs for a year at a time.
There has not been inflation like this in 40 years…and it’s only going to get worse. The dining plan is not coming back.
