What we need to remember on these boards is that the vast majority of us do not represent the general public at large. Most on here will go to Disney no matter what, but people in general will have a breaking point
You are completely right. Most people do not “Know” Disney like many of us do.
I am amazed at the ignorance of some people. Not putting anyone down, just saying they are not informed. You all probably have a similar string of things you have heard or encountered over the years. Mine includes:
A sister-in-law (again, knowing how often my wife and I go), planning a whole trip to go over Christmas break, without talking to us. As she mentioned, everyone goes to relatives at Christmas time, so the parks will be empty. Plus it is Florida, so the weather will be perfect!
Another person telling me how you can buy all the fastpasses at Disney, so you can do all the parks in just a couple of days.
One friend (after spending two days with us at WDW), calling us on the phone at noon the next day as we were driving back home. She was telling us they need our help because they have been at the parks for three hours on their own, and only gone on two rides.
Don’t get me wrong, we are Disney veterans, and have scheduled a trip on Monday night to head down on Thursday night. However, we have also done everything 100 times over, and I know if we do not ride Sorrin’ that weekend because there is a 2 hour wait, it is ok. We will be back another day.
Having said all of that, I keep saying, we only have so much money to budget to our entertainment choices. We know enough tricks that to us, we still call Disney a good value. Then again, our current annual passes were bought in 2017 thru a special sale with DVC. They cost us about half of what they cost the general public now. We shall see what happens beyond the summer of 2019. If enough people ae turned off by the ever increasing cost, perhaps DVC will have another special discount for AP.
If not, well there are plenty of other places that are clamoring for our entertainment dollars. For the last four years, my gross income has gone up 1.60%, 2.36%, 1.54% and 2.77%. That is not too far off from the inflation rate of 0.7%, 2.1%, 2.1% and 1.9% for the same four years.
As a comparison, Premium Annual Pass prices have gone up 3.32%, 6.42%, 4.83% and 9.21%, based on the price in June of each year. There was another increase this month (the second for 2018), adding an additional 4.74%.
If you could not already tell, I am a numbers guy. Clearly the growing cost of Disney is outpacing both the general inflation rate as well as the growth of my income. That is not a good thing…
