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If you don’t have hoppers, yes this will be an issue. Hopefully they announce the days / parks well in advance.
You can always add the hopper feature at GS in the parks.
If you don’t have hoppers, yes this will be an issue. Hopefully they announce the days / parks well in advance.
Yes you can 10 pts STD studio @ $20/point and that is $200 a night NO TAX. You can also rent for less than $20/point. Look at the points charts and average rental per point. My value studio in October @ Jambo is 9 pts per night. Standard view is 13 pts.No, you can't. DVC points is still much more than a value room, almost twice as much.
Walt Disney envisioned Disneyland as a place for everyone to enjoy. Walt frequently spoke about providing his customers with "value", and DL was intended to be affordable (even if it was not cheap).This and some other posts actually make me wonder about what it was like when the first values were created, etc/the first differences emerged. I don't know enough about that history!
Totally agree! We used to go only to WDW and were Passholders. With 2 trips a year from west coast 10-14 days each it was worth it. Then APs doubled in price, and no longer worth it, dropped the January trips And the AP. We stayed a lot at Deluxe resorts. Now priced out of them. IMO not worth the price.They are hoping that will happen. I see that once this pent up demand goes away that they will have issues filling rooms. I think once Epic Universe comes and Disney is still playing the money game they might be in trouble. Already people who only did Disney are now deciding on Universal.
What once was a place for everyone is now becoming a place for those who wish to spend big bucks. All the power to those that do. I have no issue with you. I just think they are traveling down a slippery slope.
Yes you can 10 pts STD studio @ $20/point and that is $200 a night NO TAX. You can also rent for less than $20/point. Look at the points charts and average rental per point. My value studio in October @ Jambo is 9 pts per night. Standard view is 13 pts.
There are plenty of people that would shell out 3 to 4 thousand a night if Disney would give them a reason to.
they will for the Star Wars resort.wow I feel poor after reading that; there is no way I would ever do that. You really think they could fill up a resort like that year round?
What I find odd is they really don't have any deluxe properties on site. The Grand is 3/4* at best. I think Disney is missing the boat by not offering any 5* resort properties. There are plenty of people that would shell out 3 to 4 thousand a night if Disney would give them a reason to.
It's probably a sound business move now, but as discussed many times before ... what do you do during an economic downturn and you may have ticked off the old-school fans? They do have DVC to rely upon, but I think most times as soon as WDW starts offering discount packages or free dining everyone will come running back and the cycle begins anew
I totally disagree about your take on the PM EMH. We had "always" went during night time EMH and by midnight a lot of the crowd had left and most of the rides were no more then 10 minute waits and when we left the park at 1 or 2 AM it was great because of the lack of crowds, the parks all lite up and no summer sun.We used to go to morning hours, then take our resort break at lunch and hopped to another park that evening. It was a break we were going to take regardless, so not a waste of travel time. EMH in the mornings were signficantly more crowded during the day, lesser crowds at non emh parks. But the EMH's got so crowded that we quit doing it. For evening hours, we just skipped that park entirely. They were more crowded during the day and the EMH's were too crowded to be useful.
This. you had the run of the parks that late at night, it was so much fun.I totally disagree about your take on the PM EMH. We had "always" went during night time EMH and by midnight a lot of the crowd had left and most of the rides were no more then 10 minute waits and when we left the park at 1 or 2 AM it was great because of the lack of crowds, the parks all lite up and no summer sun.
I totally disagree about your take on the PM EMH. We had "always" went during night time EMH and by midnight a lot of the crowd had left and most of the rides were no more then 10 minute waits and when we left the park at 1 or 2 AM it was great because of the lack of crowds, the parks all lite up and no summer sun.
The second trip (to a momdsp erate hotel) my parents generously paid for.
I reached the tipping point a few years ago when they doubled price of AP, and started lowering discounts while raising room rates.Me as well, I am wondering where the tipping point will be. I thought it was gonna be the boo bash but that sold like hot cakes, maybe it will be payed FP? idk but we keep showing disney they dont need to offer much and we will pay for anything they come up with. I am acually surprised its free for someone and not a payed for everyone..
We bought Boo Bash, but that is our only Disney park day of 7 nights on property...hoping it will be worth it for short lines. Rest of the trip, we will be hanging at Ft. Wilderness and heading over to Universal.Boo Bash, good Lord above, that is a thing I was surprised went like it did. I fully expect the paid FP in some form. It won't be pretty!
Just for fun, I looked at March 20-26 2022. Spring Break season. Pop for that week is 1567 for the cheapest room. AOA LM room is 1751. Or you could rent DVC thru Davids that SAME week at Old Key West, have a bigger room and this Deluxe perk, for 1786. So for $85 more, you could have a Deluxe resort for that week. I know it's not the same EVERY week all year. But it absolutely is doable for less than 1 single meal at Disney.No, you can't. DVC points is still much more than a value room, almost twice as much.
one of the reasons they're long gone, is because disney cut the park hours...and now for the rest of us, the magic hours.It's been a long time since EMH's ran until 1 or 2am. But yes, back in the day, the super late nights were great. Still, those with children aren't near as likely to keep their kids out that late. I fondly recall our trip when the MK was open until 4am and we stayed until they ran us out, but those days are long gone.
We bought Boo Bash, but that is our only Disney park day of 7 nights on property...hoping it will be worth it for short lines. Rest of the trip, we will be hanging at Ft. Wilderness and heading over to Universal.
To be fair though, for the next couple of years you won't find to many of the cheap value rooms on short notice either. But you can almost always get a studio at SSR or OKW which runs about the same price as current POP and AOA rooms.Also point charts are deceiving. It's unlikely anyone will be able to rent some of the lowest category rooms and definitely not at short notice.
Oh yeah I love the discussion on it, I have no alliance to a corporation. There's many places to vacation, my family humors my love for disney world.