Your post makes me very curious as to how many parking spots each resort has. And what percentage are typically in use.
What bothers me the most about this fee is the inequality of it. Charging overnight guests while not charging day guests? And still making us compete for parking spots? Really?
Good for Disney. It's about time everyone starts to pay for parking. If you don't want to pay Disney rates, Park offsite, I am sure it is cheaper. Drop your luggage, food and other items off at the hotel. Use all the free transportation available to you bus, monorail, boat. I bet 90% of all the people on this board have been to Disney a gillion times. Relax, enjoy your vacation the extra minutes to get where you are going is not going to kill you. Plus with less cars on the road, the bus transportation will become more efficient, thus your wait times will decrease. FLAMEON
Official info straight from a Disney CM RE: Guests with Disability Parking Placards
To avoid the fee for the parking, you can register your car with security or front desk. You must have a valid disabled parking placard to park in the accessible parking areas. As long as you do this, there will be no parking fee charged to the guest(s).
If the guest doesn't qualify in their state for the disability parking placard and have it on their person at check-in or the security gate, which it should be hanging on the mirror or evident on the car's tag, then the guest will be charged the parking fee. It's that simple. Not to say that other folks with disabilities shouldn't necessarily have the same rights, but at the same time, guests with disability placards are already, typically, not absorbing every single handicap spot in the parking lot on a daily basis either.
I would use the facebook, more people read facebook. That will make a heavy impact for even first time visitors. All the extras they force people to pay is outrageous. If people would stop paying for all this WDW would get the hint. But this is mho.Well, I sent them an email. I know, it probably won't do anything, but this just irks me. As a person that's been staying onsite a long time, the point of diminishing returns was reached long ago. Having to budget extra for parking may be the final straw. (I live 90 min away. Flying and using ME is not an option.)
Because we are allowed our opinion just like you. sorry but, just because people disagree, does not mean the are belittling you.
Sorry...but maybe it is time for you to change to a cheaper option like Dollywood. Not everyone can afford a BMW.....it now seems that not everyone can afford Disney. Not belittling you...it is just economics
For every one person who stops going, there are 10 who will gladly pay the fees. Crowd sizes go down...profits for stock holders stay up. Seems like a win win to me.
Except, everyone doesn't. Day guests could potentially park at the resorts all day for free if they wanted to.
And they do. The monorail loop is the worst. Each hotel has a popular character breakfast and guests arrive, have their breakfast and hop the monorail for the MK. They dont return until dinner or when the park closes. I cant tell you how many times Ive returned from a park at closing, on the monorail to my resort, only to watch people get off and head straight to the parking lot.
That coupled with the popular dinners / dinner shows at the Contemporary and Poly and Ill even throw in GF because they have 4 TS dinner venues, with everyone hanging around to watch the fireworks/ water parade at 9, or going to the MK to watch up close, parking does not become easily available for overnight guests until after 11pm.
... If it rains when the car is parked at the resort do I have to pay a car wash fee?
There is no altruistic "crowd lowering" " less cars on the road" "better for environment" "lowering traffic" reasoning for this. Its just to increase revenue. Period.
THIS!!
We are not renewing is may and putting AP money towards one overseas and one cruise a year .. over it completely..
I would disagree on this as I think they will be losing more money from the backlash and people staying offsite or not going as much than the money coming in from the parking fees. They will make up for that money somehow. Most likely in some other new fee to charge the guest that gladly go along with Disney no matter what they do.
Thank you all for posting the email addresses of the people responsible for this fiasco. I added my email to the litany(hopefully) people who have complained.
We just got annual passes for the family for Christmas so it seems like we are a captive to this(at least until next June). I already told the family I thought we should stay at the Contemporary this June but after that I feel like we will be staying off site. Its truly a shame, we normally stay Deluxe so the extra 24$ really isn't out of reach but its just beginning to get hard to justify.
In my email i told them that I understand Walt Disney World is a business and businesses are out to maximize profit. I am really down capitalism but this idea just seems to be a all around bad business decision. We normally stay deluxe as I mentioned and we being onsite we normally have 1 TS and 1 QS meal per person(4). I am a bit of a miser so we usually share a little here and there and we don't get alcoholic drinks so I usually budget 140$ per day for meals. Does Disney think we are going to continue to spend that if they push us offsite? Throwing away 140$ to try to gain back 24$? Not only that I also mentioned in staying offsite we would be saving money, maybe enough money to give Universal a try for a couple of days on our next trip? I am not a business man or financial guru but this seems like a very bad decision.