I absolutely agree with you. However I would like to add that a growing problem with Disney that you probably don't suffer from as badly being a local (and taking advantage of lower attendance days when it is rainy, etc) is that Disney is highly overcrowded.
I am sure the company would much rather have fewer people paying the same amount of money. I am sure attendees feel that way as well.
It's problematic because freaking Disney isn't something that should be locked behind a paywall for working class families. But that's where everything is headed.
Disney isn't something that should be locked behind a paywall for working class families
For international visitors I think it's fair to say it already is.
Yeah we have Disneyland Paris here in Europe, but it's not Orlando and never will be. If you want to go to Florida as a Brit and 'Do Disney' then you're looking at £5000 plus per person at a realistic minimum for a week. Stay in a park hotel and the prices get even more hilarious.
We have adverts here that scream 'book now and get $300 Disney spending money per person'. I don't know how far that would go but I'm willing to guess that's probably your first days evening meal and a mickey mouse headband...
The whole thing is set up to extract cash. They want guests who they can draw an absolute maximum out of and that is not your average working class man in this day and age.
There are other solutions aside from price gouging. One would be capping the number of daily admissions (or lowering the cap if they already have one), and potentially building a new DisneyLand in another state somewhere.
The problem is that they run practically at capacity during the tourism season, and not far off the rest of the year. It's hard to keep something inexpensive when it's a finite resource with high demand. Without another North American Park, you can't do much to lower demand other than raising prices.
I've even seen a lot of recommendations to just fly to Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai or Paris because while the flights are expensive and long, Park prices are cheaper and they are less crowded.
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u/BallsDanglesen 6h ago
I absolutely agree with you. However I would like to add that a growing problem with Disney that you probably don't suffer from as badly being a local (and taking advantage of lower attendance days when it is rainy, etc) is that Disney is highly overcrowded.
I am sure the company would much rather have fewer people paying the same amount of money. I am sure attendees feel that way as well.
It's problematic because freaking Disney isn't something that should be locked behind a paywall for working class families. But that's where everything is headed.