TheMaxRebo
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2008
More and more, I feel out of step with Disney and their theme park products. What my family loves about WDW ... the rides, the ambiance, the music, live entertainment and the (formerly) easy, casual, nearly plan-less way of booking trips and touring the parks ... makes me feel like I'm a "bad customer".
The only consolation is that I think the bubble is about to burst and Disney will inevitably have to give up on the goofy, IT-driven, margin-boosting, hare-brained schemes like tiered admission days, tiered ride passes, tiered hours, tiered entertainment, tiered everything.
Disney is competing with nice, quiet, inclusive destinations such as beaches, national parks, quaint cultural locations and good old fashioned "staycations". Nobody is going to pull their hair out looking at a web site trying to figure out which day they can afford to visit a museum versus go to the beach, and whether there's a "meal plan" in old Charleston SC that allows them to have crab cake appetizers as well as dessert. Are they going to continue pulling their hair out for much longer worrying about how to get it at WDW while also somehow fitting in Slinky Dog and Millenium Falcon rides?
I wonder if I am the exception then in that we have been going since the early 80s but never saw Disney as a "easy or casual" or competing with a "quiet inclusive or staycation" - for us it was always about going for as short of a period of time that we felt we could cover everything and focus on the parks and activities and rides, etc. It was part of a larger Florida vacation where Disney would be a part of it, and we would focus heavily on it for those few days. Now we love some of the slower offerings, but it is still about doing "things" - so maybe I have just always been in sync with what they are moving more towards