aggiemullins
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jun 9, 2004
Back from OKW in August and this is bugging me. When we joined DVC back in 2004, something I appreciated about Disney World was that while the "price of admission" (meaning park tickets and hotel) was high, everything else was halfway reasonable. I used to notice that the price of food, merchandise and even gasoline at the on site station were pretty consistent with real world prices. It was like they respected us enough to just charge the large up front price and not need to "make it up" on the back end, ala Carnival Cruise Ship style.
Fast forward to 2012 on our trip in August and I really felt pinched. It's not quite movie theater prices yet, but it's certainly 6 flags pricing. After our 1 week trip to the World, we went to a nice restaurant and I kid you not, my first thought was "oh my gosh, how can this place stay in business charging these insanely low prices?! Oh Wait, this isn't Disney World..."
If it wasn't bad enough, I just read they rolled out the new menu boards with raised prices last week. I yearn for the old days when the DDP paid your tips, you got an appetizer and they pretty much let you buy anything you wanted with your snack credit as long as it cost under $5. Then the Iger bean counters took over... I read somewhere during the quarterly conference call, he stated "we've been able to push prices within the parks nicely." This just burned me up.
I'm pretty frugal though and my DW accuses me of being too sensitive to this kind of stuff. I've also had three kids since 2004 with a LOT of price creep in my own house. Since my costs change for the higher every time we go because of aging children, it's too hard for me to tell how much an average trip goes up every time we go. Does anyone else with better fixed costs notice serious price creep or am I over reacting?
Now before anyone bashes me like my DW, let me just put out there that since 2004, a one day base has gone up 71% (or almost 8% a year) and the AP 56% (or almost 7% a year). Also a large soda has gone up almost 36% just in the last year. Don't even get me started on how much the DDP has gone up...
Fast forward to 2012 on our trip in August and I really felt pinched. It's not quite movie theater prices yet, but it's certainly 6 flags pricing. After our 1 week trip to the World, we went to a nice restaurant and I kid you not, my first thought was "oh my gosh, how can this place stay in business charging these insanely low prices?! Oh Wait, this isn't Disney World..."
If it wasn't bad enough, I just read they rolled out the new menu boards with raised prices last week. I yearn for the old days when the DDP paid your tips, you got an appetizer and they pretty much let you buy anything you wanted with your snack credit as long as it cost under $5. Then the Iger bean counters took over... I read somewhere during the quarterly conference call, he stated "we've been able to push prices within the parks nicely." This just burned me up.
I'm pretty frugal though and my DW accuses me of being too sensitive to this kind of stuff. I've also had three kids since 2004 with a LOT of price creep in my own house. Since my costs change for the higher every time we go because of aging children, it's too hard for me to tell how much an average trip goes up every time we go. Does anyone else with better fixed costs notice serious price creep or am I over reacting?
Now before anyone bashes me like my DW, let me just put out there that since 2004, a one day base has gone up 71% (or almost 8% a year) and the AP 56% (or almost 7% a year). Also a large soda has gone up almost 36% just in the last year. Don't even get me started on how much the DDP has gone up...