As a former cast member and current travel agent, I’m highly disappointed with the direction Disney is going. We were also informed that the dining plan will NOT come back this year. They keep taking but not giving..
Eventually something is gonna give, and it's gonna be a bad day in the Exec offices when it does. Someone always ends up with the hot potato in the end.
@@chuckoneill2023 fucking x to doubt. If I’m paying £5000 to go to Disney I expect food included if not I will slam a Torah in your hand and call you what you are for asking me for more
Rich people can do other things. They aren’t going to go enough. They can afford much better vacations. It’s very odd they don’t realize this. Repeat guests are where the money is at and they won’t go after a while.
I thought the same thing. Rich people can go anywhere in the world. Why would they want to spend their vacation stuffed into shitty parks and planning everything on their phones the whole time. Disney is making huge mistakes left and right.
@@Pissgremlin5964 absolutely. Making the parks worse all the time they aren’t even going to enjoy it enough to keep come even if money isn’t the reason
I wanna bring up a personal experience of mine working at retail: So a lot of people who came an looked wealthy were always cheapskates, always wanted something "extra" because they made "large" purchases, they always had their credit cards almost at their limit and their general vibe was of wealthy beggars. Of course a lot of them also were making purchases with someone else's card because they themselves had theirs cancelled. At this same store, credit was given to people of a more moderate income, the common rabble if you will. One day comes this old lady, very humble and soft spoken, a very pleasant lady. She comes to me and asks for my assistance so i provide assistance. This woman went through the store buying a fuck load of things and when i checked her client history in the store's computer, her credit capacity was monstrous and not only that, this wasn't her first time doing it. This humble old woman had a small business, but that was not the reason she had such large credit capacity, it was because she commit to pay and she had a desire to consume and all she needed was the chance to do it and this store gave her that chance. Disney thinks the wealthy people will just shit money on top of Mickey's mouth, when the reality is that the middle class folk are the ones who keep those business alive.
I live in Orlando and I can tell you that Disney wants to take away every advantage that locals have had. I can’t count how many people I know who won’t renew there AP’s because it’s just not fun anymore.
@@D0NU75 You're not. It's a mixed bag. I don't want to see their employees out of a job but by the token some I'd like to see Disney in a position where the walls come crumbling down. They'd come crawling back to the various people they've screwed over; customers and employees alike.
too much people, not enough park. That is all. There is a need for new parks right now. Epcot is getting renovated. That should help. the price will not come down unless there is new offerings in Florida. either you do a 6 flag and you put them in like sardines to wait for hours. You start to do a reservation system or a ticket raffle for opportunities to go in... or you charge more... If the quality of life in the park is going down AND they charge more.. that would be bad!
I've heard that's part of the goal. Aps take up space and don't buy as much as the tourists they're trying to attract. If they can get the locals to go less or use less of the park, then they can gouge the tourists more (hence the genie+ being per day purchase vs permanent add on). So they either price people out or find a way to reduce their impact (getting then stuck in stand by).
I have come to terms with the fact that I will never return to Disney World again. I always wanted to go to Disney Land, but that's never going to happen. It is a terrible value.
@@mmecharlotte Yes, and the Desert Botanical Garden! With Disney, I've come to terms I'll never visit Disneyworld. I had a chance when I was 15, but no one else wanted to go, so we went somewhere else instead; and now the prices are just too high. Been to Universal though, and that was awesome!
Disneyland is very small. It's a park that seems bigger because it takes so much time in lines and crowds to get to each ride it can fool you into thinking this is some huge park. I went there for grad night in high school. There were not many people there and we did the ENTIRE park and all the rides in less than 2 hours. RIP-OFF. It's also mostly old ass rides made in the 60s using olden style "tricks" like the haunted hotel. The dark rides are slow and lame like taking a slow ride through a chuck e cheese show. The "good" roller coasters are low level thrill kid coasters at other parks. The "main street" is a short crowded walk. Most of the park space is storefronts. Space Mountain is outdated and SUPER LAME and splash mountain is LAME. You cannot go into the castle. Only through it and take pictures in front of it. I was in the peter pan ride and had to smell farts and dirty diapers for an hour. It's a small world is outdated and creepy. Maybe California Adventure is better? I don't know never been and I never heard anyone "excited" about California Adventure. No one has ever said "yay California Adventure!" No one is missing anything fun from Disneyland unless you are interested in going into a time capsule park from the 60s.
WDC/Disney -- "OMG. Look At Us! We just had a record-breaking fiscal year! We made so much money! We're doing great!" Also WDC/Disney: - Borrows more money from banks. - Gives multiple lavish financial bonuses to the CEO and other executives. - Builds new private country-club summer home communities for the ultra-rich ($2.5 Mil starting price). - Builds a new expensive space-themed LARPing hotel and restaurant for the ultra-rich. - Adds expensive new VIP exclusive add-ons, perks, and experiences for the ultra-rich. - Adds new engagement and wedding packages for the ultra-rich ($500k starting price). - Raises the cost of Disney+ streaming service. - Raises the cost of all theme park tickets. - Raises the cost of all food items while also reducing the overall portion sizes of their food. - Raises the cost of all merchandise and goods while reducing the quality and detail of those merchandise and goods. - Gets rid of free Fast Passes and implements a Pay-to-Win Genie+ System. - Gets rid of free parking at resorts and free transportation to/from the airport, hotel, and theme park. - Cuts back on entertainment quality, availability, and frequency. - Cuts back on the overall quality and quantity of decorations and theming for their theme parks, park rides, hotels, and transportation. - Cuts back on the art, animation, and marketing budgets for film and television. - Cuts back on the number of cast members as well as cast member pay. - Cuts back on vacation special deals and offers. - Bleeds money from poor live-action adaptation box-office and Disney+ views/sales. - Publicly shames and berates their fans and customers on social media. #WDC #WaltDisneyWorld #Disney #BobCheapek #ClownFishTV
Back in 2014-15 season I visited wdw for the first time in about 10 years. Tell you the truth it was a bit of a let down. It seems there was a lot of ride malfunctions. And the whole thing just didn't have the spirit that I remember from past years. When I heard about the Star wars land and Avatar and all of that being added on I had a little bit of enthusiasm that I might go back in the next year or two which would have been the past two years. But after saying the crap they've done to Star wars and the other trash in general. Yeah I'm going to universal next year for the first time ever. Universal still seems to give a crap about a good experience.
I’ve always wanted to go but I’m not about to spend $1,000 or more for what boils down to an hour of fun after all the walking and waiting. In no world can I justify that.
I last went in 2004 and am NEVER going back again. Even in 2004, it was showing signs of where it is today: attractions breaking down all the time, not enough employees to do maintenance, constant construction of new attractions while letting other popular attractions suffer from neglect. I'm glad I saw the warning signs early and gave Disney the boot. Even back in 2010, I would not have recommended them.
I can see that. My family has a ticket from Disneyworld, when it first opened up, that my Uncle kept on him before he died. $1 U.S.D. that's it. Back then (1970's) $1 did take you a bit further then now, but still.....$1 was all you needed to enter. Universal is expensive, but I'd rather waste my money there, plus, their one water park and two more parks away from fully competing with Disney.
I did the same with my mother. We went around Thanksgiving 2020 (I think), but it was honestly the best time. No huge lines, no fast pass, and there was actual walking space with plenty of room. Though to be honest, Universal was still better because we both like rollercoasters more and Universal let you into the good parts of the park without needing to schedule ahead of time.
Here is an easy excuse they may try to pull Include a bunch of woke nonsense and then when no one comes say that its cause they are ist phobes Then they escape responsiblity with minority meat shields like these lefties like to do Disney:"Hmm PoC meat shields tasty 😋"
Just recently I found an old conversation from 2002 I had with a friend who had gone to disneyland and I asked her how much tickets cost and my reaction at the time was $40 was a lot.
Now $40 won't even get a couple a hot dog with fries and drink in their silly theme parks... They're going down, they just sit around and deny, deny, deny.
Daily dose of dismal Disney is becoming my favorite part of the day. Disney is pricing people out of the parks, pissing them off, and they're going to learn one day that pissing the small guy off isn't a smart thing to do
My family makes enough to go to Disney. Disney no longer sees any of our dollars. We're going to Florida in a few weeks, and visiting a bunch of other places. 5 years ago, it would have been a 90% Disney trip.
I was pricing out a Disney trip 3 years ago. I gritted my teeth at the prices&managed to make the budget squeeze in under 4k. Disney upped the prices. 5.5k over night. So I started looking at other theme parks in Florida. I was floored at the experience we could have for fractions of the price. Most don't even charge admission! The more I looked, the less time we would end up spending in Disney parks, until I just said to hell with Disney entirely. We would vacation like royalty, see a dozen parks,buy everything in sight and have so much more than was even on offer at the mouse house. Then covid hit.
@@vampsith My dad moved down there a couple years ago, so we have a bunch of stuff planned for our time, like swimming with manatees, Sun & Fun, Kennedy Space Center, Legoland and more.
Yes, my latest video shares the same thing. We just got back from Mexico. Fraction of the price. Incredible accommodations, food, service. Feel like a fool going to Disney the last 1-2 times fighting crowds, horrible food, dirty small rooms, virtual queues, insane prices.
I live in SoCal and I won't take my kids to Disney, despite being a lifelong star wars and marvel fan. The park just costs too much. I'm just going to do universal studios.
You're lucky. My wife is Disney's perfect customer. She always gets a case of the stupids when it involves disney. She just love Walt Disney and even though she knows he's been dead since the 1960s she still thinks that going to Disneyland is honoring his memory. Does not make sense his memory is being desecrated by people like chapek
I just feel Universal is catering more towards honoring brands....have you seen Happy Potter land??? And then you have Minions land, Simpsons land. Disney is milking every dollar they can out of people. The star cruiser cost is just laughable. $5-6k for a family for 4-4 days. No thanks.
I worked there for years building in their Parks and I can tell you.. If you don’t bring your own food. Expect to pay $30+ just for lunch on their property. Look at the Bottle Water Prices.. That’s all you need to know.🤦♂️
They aren't. It's a known fact people who have way too much money dont think they're actions through. Theres no risk for them and hence have no reason to thing about the cost. Would you care about the price if you had 'Fuck you' money? It's why you have rich people asking why poor people don't just make more money.
@@drooom2925 Actually you can't become a person with "way too much money" if you DON'T "think actions through". Its probably people who ABUSE THEIR CREDIT CARDS who are the REAL problem! I personally know a couple who are SERIOUS "Disney-phytes" who are damn near BROKE, but EVERY SPARE $$ goes to the house of mouse,,,,,
Just you wait universal will one day unveil a wizarding world of Harry Potter themed hotel and it'll be a nice 75% less and it'll be a thousand times more immersive. I'd be surprised if it isn't a part of the third expansion.
I have an uncle who worked for Disney in the 90s, and even then I was told "they're terrible people and a terrible company, don't try to work here, you will regret it" Edit: looked up balcony suite luxury cruise prices, and a week's cruise is 1/5th what Disney wants for the star cruiser. Dunno if that includes the taxes and add ons but still.
If you are a creative and want to have your own ip someday, do not work for Disney. If they can remotely tie your work to Disney properties, they will claim it all for themselves and leave you high and dry.
That's probably the per person price and usually a room has a 2 person minimum, then there is the optional but very cost effective if you plan well food and drink packages, excursions if you want activities when you dock, etc. Overall 5K is definitely possible but you'd probably WANT to plan to spend a little bit more if you want to make it a much more luxurious experience.
@@skeletor957 Oh yeah for sure. My point was more that for the same amount you could SPLURGE on a mid-range cruise and spend an entire week seeing multiple countries and doing whatever activities (heck they have cruises to Atlantis water park that probably run cheaper WITH Atlantis tickets included than Galactic Cruiser costs. Super lame Disney).
I'm Australian, I've only been to Tokyo and Paris Disneylands. Their food was sub-far. Doesn't matter the continent. The only time I got value was paying for crockery for the dessert it was served on.
I barely even remember eating at Paris Disneyland. I mostly remember queueing, and one rollercoaster that was not scary because the whole time your head was just flinging from side to side so you had no time to see anything. I am sure there was a castle with some shrubberies and water works too. Can't say I ever felt like Disneyland differed from a regular amusement park.
I’ve been to DW and Epcot back in 88. Epcot was better than DW. Food back then was subpar as well. It wasn’t bad, but it was overpriced. I remember having to hop restaurants because we saw the prices on the menu. (To be fair, if it wasn’t for my brother graduating Navy boot camp, we wouldn’t have been able to afford to go otherwise.) I won a trip to universal in 93 and it was leaps and bounds better. I’ve heard Tokyo Disney was overall better, but I didn’t go when I was in Japan.
@@linusgustafsson2629 The only meal I had that was decent was at a cowboy themed restaurant with live entertainment. Otherwise I recall overpriced basic hot chips and chicken nuggets. At least at Paris I got to go on most of the rides. Tokyo was prettier, but a nightmare for lines.
You gave yourself the answer. Think about it. If the parks are still crowded, why should they not rise the prices further. People pay it obviously. At this point, like in gaming paying for unfinished shite, too, the consumers still paying are the real problem.
My sister wanted to do the Starcruiser but we couldn't justify the price. We booked 8 night/8day ticket stay at Swan and Dolphin for 4 for less than the 2 night cruiser. We are just going to stalk and hang with the cruiser guests when we see them get off their box truck, lol.
@@BungieStudios lol, too funny ,we aren't going until November. My sister just had a kidney transplant and that is our celebration trip. She is a star wars fanatic. Honestly, if it were based on the original trilogy she would have paid the money. She is still livid that they killed Han!😂😆
It really makes me sad for the old Disney. I’m 54, and grew up in California. Went all the time with my folks. Even had Grad Nite there in 1986. I like some of the new movies but I’m partial to what everyone calls Vintage Disney. I saw a comment the other day that said spend the money on a vintage park with all the old rides. I would go there! But if their employees aren’t being treated and paid well why do they keep spending all this money on all this new stuff that no one cares about. This is what happens when a corporation is in charge of Walt’s dream 🤦🏼♀️
Unless Disney is going to build more theme parks around the country like six flags, It's time to realize that this is their trajectory. I think everyone who's old enough to remember when Disney wasn't as packed as it is today, remember it doesn't cost as much as it does today, but the problem is that it's so crowded that there's no other way to bring down the crowd numbers and also make the same amount of money, without increasing prices, then to price people out, unless you're going to kick them out.
Exactly. I've been saying this for years. Disney growing up was a ghost town when my family would go. Now it's busy everyday all year round. It's actually a good testament to our economy that more people can afford a Disney vacation. Unfortunately in the future if you make less than 50k a year you can't afford it but adjust for inflation and you'd say the same thing 20 years ago at 30k a year. I just went to Disney this year and couldn't believe the cost of a beer. I really didn't spend more than the last time I went 3 years ago but I didn't drink as much beer. People will still go and Disney knows it.
@@nikadgod5152 Exactly People will still go. Another problem that is causing all of this is that States and cities fight Disney every time they want to build a new park somewhere else. It's an interesting history that is shaping its future.
I also the fact they raise the tickets price more the longer you stay is their way to make more profit from souvenirs and other such products, as longer staying customers aren't n necessarily going to buy more, but more guests definitely will.
Hmm its almost like there's this thing called inflation. Expecting 2001 ticket prices in 2022 is unrealistic. Disney need to focus on building higher capacity ride to absorb crowds better, which it seems like they are doing, but at an absurdly slow pace
Disney's goal has always been clear: keep the overhead low (I.e. no innovative creative rides) and milk the IP's for all its worth. That regular people are still buying into this scam is beyond me.
So... wait... One of the biggest complaints about starcruiser crap was insanely high price... So their "fix" is to raise the price even more... Yep, Disney lost the last of their marbles it seems.
I doubt it will be for much longer the point of the "look where i am going" mentaliy is the place to enviable and not smth people loathe. Plus uniersal is getting the Nintendo characters and so it will be an easy choice.
@@Raximus3000 and along with Nintendo they are also getting how to train your dragon (which is still massively popular even after the movies conclusion years ago) and Pokémon (yes I know Pokémon is Nintendo, but the reason why I point out Pokémon is that Pokémon is one of the most popular things going on right now… especially after the release of Legend of arceus which pretty much not only revived the rather stale game but brought in a lot of new fans and such)
@@lespena3722 Pokemon in the top in total revenue and even if you do not play it you would still think it is fun. I have my doubts their rich fans will want to lower themselves to spend tens of thousands to a used up wore.
Disney employee 1: "People can't afford our product, what do we do?" Employee 2: "oh I know! Let's raise prices!" Employee 1: "amazing. Why didn't I think about that!"
This is how they think though. They won't drop prices for people in the economic class who are struggling. They see no profit there. They instead look at who has money and rebrand. They will raise prices to market at people in upper economic brackets who are not struggling, simply rebranding the same old basic product as a luxury product by adding some bells and whistles and some garbage marketing rhetoric. And it will to some extent, work.
The one lesson that Disney Corp has learned over the decades is that there is nothing on the planet more dedicated than a Disney Fan . The Parks are their lives which without they simply can't exist . So they may grumble at Disney's constant raising of prices . But they will continue to fill the Parks regardless of what it costs .
My wife and I went there in 2016, because she enjoyed it so much when she went with her family in 1994 and I'd never been there. But she was so terribly disappointed by how expensive everything had gotten and how low the quality had gone, and I barely enjoyed a single minute of it, apart from the German and French pavilions at EPCOT, because the food and beer was actually pretty damn' good. That was five years ago, so if it's only gotten worse since . . . YEESH!
My husband and I went the same year As well! I haven't been there since 2000 and dissapointed was an understatement we wanted to leave the moment we got there most of the rides that day weren't working and are food was subpar at best just a crappy experience
@@stonerbaby895 Yeah, we had a lot of the rides not functioning throughout our visit, too. One (the Test Track) broke down while we were on it, and we sat waiting in the dark for about half an hour until a VERY surly teenager came to lead everyone out and snapped at us to put away our phones. Oh, and we were also stuck on a boat when a tornado warning came into effect for the area, which the park staff then lied about.
@@Beedo_Sookcool OMG! The tornado warning I would have been worried as hell about!! And I feel your pain on being stuck on a ride we got stuck on the Indiana Jones the doors wouldn't open so we have to sit there for 20 minutes they did finally get it working but stopped again right before u go under the boulder we had to walk the rest of the way and to top it all off we waited for the show Wonderful World of Color the water show and they canceled it the moment it was going to start so we waited for 3 hours for no reason! Never went back since
They already cranked their prices up beyond reasonable levels a year ago. The greedy idiots. Raising the prices only results in fewer customers and less revenue.
Going to Disney a decade or so ago was seen as a magical experience for friends and family to simply have fun and make memorable moments together in the various worlds of their animated films Going to Disney now seems more like a status symbol for either the very wealthy or their cult like devotees
2007, I went with my pals for the first and only time as a teenager. Absolute best era to go. It felt like we had freedom to enjoy ourselves. I've since been back as an adult and it's so claustrophobic for such insane prices. Nostalgia aside, I don't see the appeal of it anymore.
Good analysis. Unfortunately the rich have got richer during the pandemic. We've seen the biggest wealth transfer in human history happen in the past two years. The poorest have been screwed, the middle has been squeezed, inflation risen driven by idiot energy policies and the pandemic factor, and as a result we have a small but powerful class of people with money who have zero compunction in flinging it around in a tasteless manner, and a class of people who will do anything to emulate those values, and will go into debt to try to purchase status symbols that indicate to them they are a successful and worthwhile human (which they are not). It's insane what social media has done to drive the consumerist lifestyle into overdrive.
I have to think that even rich people would look at this at this and think "I can either A. Spend $6000 A NIGHT for a shit-tier experience, or I can B. Spend $2500 over a week to vacation overseas, stay in a top-tier hotel, eat at a 5 star restaurant, and experience a foreign culture." Which one do you think they would choose?
Honestly, how are they surprised by cancellations that coincide with rising ticket prices? They keep relying on quarterly earnings and are supremely arrogant nowadays, and this is going to seriously bite them back in the buttocks very, very soon.
So glad we went to the Magic Kingdom back in December 2012. We enjoyed it but they didn't have many good rides. It made us realize that we prefer thrill rides over theme parks so regardless of the mess that's going on, we probably won't go again anyways. We also went on a Disney cruise in 2019 and loved it. Disney is stupid to think that rich people will go again and again to their parks when they could go anywhere in the world. If I was a millionaire who loved Disney (I still love classic Disney movies and shows) I would go to the Maldives, St. Lucia (I heard that the island is beautiful and the resorts there are very expensive but have good service and good quality food and great amenities), Aruba, UAE, etc. Why go to an overcrowded park where you get less than what you pay for more than once when you can afford to go anywhere in the world and get way more, get delicious food and where there are no crowds? But that's just how I see it as a not rich person.
Not to mention the rich have access to high end premium parks like Atlantis, places with rides that put most of Disney's to shame. Heck even on the "budget" end you have Universal and Six Flags, both of whom have been building newer fancier rides and with Universal specifically nabbing some really tempting IP's in recent years. Disney is in trouble I think, and not just the theme parks. Disney has exhausted it's good will with the public and Disney movies are no longer "must-sees" for most Americans.
I think they are thinking that there will be new waves of rich people with no taste and young kids year on year. People with taste may go once or twice and drop a lot of money just for the kids who are fixated on Disney, the ones with no taste will return. The profit margins on teh overpriced luxury stuff will be big enough to make it worthwhile to deny the experience to people in normal socioeconomic brackets who don't enjoy debt. And we all know there are the cult member type Disney fans who will literally go into debt to get there.
People who have more money than imagination will still go, but Disneyland/world is turning into a vacation for the wealthy to post about on social media and has lost its appeal with most people. There are hundreds of more interesting vacations a person could take for the money it costs.
You know the age-old joke about corporations never actually paying taxes... any money they pay in taxes, they simply pass off to the public by raising prices?
I loved six flags. Havent been in a long time. Last time i went, i got a captain caveman hat and a smurfette-poo ice cream at smurf village. Unga-bunga.
With out of control inflation, high gas prices and the overall cost of living getting higher and higher people are still going to want to have fun and escape every now and then. With you are an entertainment provider you need to keep your prices during a times like this as low as you can. People are going to be looking for ways to escape but cheaply. you are not going to take the family to the movies if it cost $200.00 every time you take the family to the theater. Disney is going to milk people as much as they can. That is how business works, but the customer has control as well. That is we can choose not to go and not to pay these prices. Disney would then have to change to get people in the park. However, people continue to over pay for this. As long as they do Disney will not change and the customer becomes the problem. If we want change then we as the customers need to change.
Had plans to go back to WDW this March, with fast passes, prices, magic hours, all that they are taking away, we decided on an 8 day cruise, only 3000$.
I had been saving to take my kids to Disney for three years. Even with getting tickets through the navy it's not worth it. We're planning to take the kids to Lego Land instead it's SO much cheaper.
Since our son moved there, we’ve been several times, but this past January 24th (you know, previous years’ low crowd week), MK was the busiest we’ve ever seen it. It doesn’t take a genius to see the link between long waits and Genie+. But there were long waits for food too, if you could even find a place to eat! We decided we will not return. 😞
I have a family of 5 and from 2014 until 2019 I took my family almost every year and loved it. Now I can't afford it anymore. They have killed the magic
This is when Universal should do an Aldi. That's when you cut your price's but UP your game. They would wipe the floor with Disney. People will only put up with Mickeys mickle & diming them every step of the way for so long .
You have a good point. If you look at Aldi in the uk The quality is really good but much cheaper. The uk chains tried go 'exclusive' pay more get better. The thing is consumers eventually click that they are being hoodwinked, they deserted in high numbers to go to to Aldi. Disney, take note.
I can’t get past the $6k for a weekend in what looks like a room in steerage lol for that much, you could rent a beach house on Cape Cod for a week and have an authentic vacation
We need to start outpacing the price hikes. People who _can_ still afford to go need to make the decision not to so that they start losing more money than the price hikes would offset.
You know when Roy learned that the workers might not be able to eat when the company was going under, he forced Walt to give up his salary along with himself. I miss Roy.
Raising the ticket and hotel prices, by themselves, is something I can't really get angry about. Disney parks do have a supply and demand issue, where the demand (number of people who want to go to the parks) significantly exceeds the supply (how many people the parks can reasonable accommodate). So, raising ticket prices while working to added guest capacity to the parks is the natural course of action. What I can't excuse, however, is the constant nickel and diming of guests, which guts the experience and means that people who otherwise could afford to pay the higher prices are going to want to go somewhere else.
Well, you already gave the solution though....people are STILL paying the nickel and diming shit. If people STOPPED, Disney would stop nickle and diming. That includes Lightning Lane and other amenities that jumped up. People with cash to burn are still spending.
My biggest problem is with the upkeep or lack there of in the parks, trash cans overflowing, chipped paint, walls everywhere and attractions taking literally years longer to finish than they should. With the amount of money they are taking in the parks should be pristine shape.
I was taken to Disney World in 2005 when I was 9 years old (first and only time). We were a low income family and still had access to experience most of the park outside of the VIP stuff which at the time was pretty much just getting to skip lines. Nutty to see what it is now.
"Which of the following best describes how your Star Wars: Galactic Voyage has influenced you're March trip planning to Orlando/Central Florida?" Fascinating that they didn't have any negative options with that question 🤔
Disney was a once in a lifetime thing for us. We have no intention of going back. We did universal studios too and we are already planning another trip there. We had a blast staying at the hard rock and getting the fast pass just for staying there.
I'm curious, when did you go? I went to Universal in January 2020. It was a lot of fun and I'm glad I gave Disney the boot. I drank a lot of butterbeer. Oh, and Duff beer tastes great. Sorry, kids, don't try to fool them, they DO check IDs.
@@largol33t1 we went second week of January 2021. We had an amazing time. We are hoping to go back to universal next January. Hard rock was great and like a 5 minute walk to universal studios.
I used to go at least once a year. When the execs took a month pay suspension then gave themselves massive bonuses while firing cast members I was out. They will have to make massive changes for me to ever go back.
the one thing I love about bush garden is the food, not cheap but you do get enough to fill you up. Now granted bush garden has nothing compared to Disney or Universal, but they do have good food.
We cancelled our whole trip for the beginning of March. We could afford the trip due to planning, however, I felt nauseous at the thought of all that money being spent, when the quality just isn't there, and the thought of going makes me feel more stressed than going to work.
These Disney vloggers that keep trying to sell Disney’s magic to subscribers should be ashamed. There are much better vacations to go on beside Disney for the money. Do your kids a favor and show them the world and not the inside of a theme park. Can we just all boycott Disney and the vloggers for bankrolling on all these detrimental changes.
I guess I’ll just stick to being a universal park type of guy…. I’ll have to come to the realization that I’ll never afford to go to Disney parks again and my children will not get to experience a “once upon a time”American middle class venture 😔
Let Disney do it and sit back and watch as Disney looses target market after target market and one consumer demographic after the other!! If Disney are not careful they will end up with no one who can afford or could be bothered to spend on their overpriced products and experiences!! I once learned it is better to have a fair price that fills the store opposed to a high price that only a few can afford with an empty store!!
10 to 1 disney has a team diligently working to figure out a way to charge you for NOT using any of their services. If there is a way disney will find it.
This reminds me of the old Dilbert comic where the boss muses on the idea that if he cuts costs and raises prices enough he can get money without doing anything. He then wonders how they are able to put ink into pens
So glad I went to Disneyland in Japan years ago. It was a much more interesting experience and didn't cost me half of what they'd charge me in America now. This is absolutely absurd. I can't even imagine being a millionaire and wasting money on these abysmal experiences.
Disney is just not worth it anymore. They don’t want the Joe Shmoe with his family at their places anymore, and are just willing to give unimpressive “entertainment”. My wife and kid loves the Disneyland experience, and wanted to do the DW thing. But with prices what there were then and now, she just closes the book on that thought.
Don't forget "resort fees", which many hotels charge now, which includes things like the pool, gym, and Wi-Fi. You have to pay it, even if you don't use those "amenities". It's a scam so they can advertise a lower price.
Yeah, we're not renewing our annual passes. We can't even get a reservation for any of the parks for over a month. Ridiculous what we're paying to not be able to go to the parks, and even if we could, we can't ride anything because of the lines. We've been passholders ever since we moved to Florida 10 years ago, and sad to let the passes go, but Disney has made it obvious they don't care.
To be honest I think the Disney might be concerned about resellers and the Star Wars hotel since they release exclusive gear for the hotel online. I could see resellers booking buying all the merch then cancelling. Idk. Just my immediate thought when I heard about this poll.
6k.......You can take a plane to any country for around 2k round trip. Then get an a 2 bedroom apartment/townhouse for around 1k. Leaves you around 3k for transportation, food and other fun. Hell, it cost about 500 to get a personal driver for a 7 hour drive and visit every historical sites.
Disney needs to go back to Standby only Lines again. Those Q lines used to hold a large portion of the people in the parks and now they are just clogging up the walkways. I know Disney thinks they will go into shops and spend more and maybe that's true but it ruins the Park experience not being able to move.
We went last May and did not wait longer than 50 minutes during the busiest middle of the day without fast pass. Now without a Genie plus return time people are waiting so much longer , even first thing in the morning! Even worse is having to be on your phone all the time to try to book a genie plus selection if you choose to buy it!
I just cottoned on to something: The idea of "going _only_ after the whales" was the setup for "The Bank" casino in _Ocean's Thirteen..._ and it didn't really work out all that well there. Albeit there's no Danny Ocean and his crew to undermine it. Disney seems to be seeing themselves as Mafiosi in old Las Vegas and it's legal what they're doing. So sad. 😞
It’s simple supply and demand. They continually raise their prices because enough people will still pay. The prices won’t go flat so long as enough people are willing to pay. Maybe not you, maybe not me, but enough
Still holding a grudge on the premature cancellation of the rebooted Ducktales. 4 Seasons woulda been perfect, each session focusing on 1 of the kids. Instead we got a rushed 3rd season where it focused on both Huey and Webby which left each of them getting less screen time.
I remember going to Disneyland as a kid in a middle class family. It wasn't every year, but we were a couple hours away and we kids had fun. I don't think we'd be doing that now.
After the latest star wars, this is just the way of the world at the moment. I don't think this will hurt them in the slightest as the parks are packed all year round. The only way we will see a positive 180 is when and I hate to use this word but its true; when 70% of normies stop going and watching anything from Disney nothing will get better, no its not.
Well, In Germany we have something like Phantasialand... And I was never in a Disneyland and because I must make the Question. Why the Hell should anyone want to be 10 Days in Disneyland?
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As a former cast member and current travel agent, I’m highly disappointed with the direction Disney is going. We were also informed that the dining plan will NOT come back this year. They keep taking but not giving..
Eventually something is gonna give, and it's gonna be a bad day in the Exec offices when it does. Someone always ends up with the hot potato in the end.
Thanks for the comment. It’s always interesting and informative when people who have actual experience and knowledge leave comments.
The Dining Plan wasn't great for consumers. I think it generally had a bad effect on the restaurants.
@@chuckoneill2023 fucking x to doubt. If I’m paying £5000 to go to Disney I expect food included if not I will slam a Torah in your hand and call you what you are for asking me for more
I disagree, Disney is doing a lot of giving if you catch my drift
Rich people can do other things. They aren’t going to go enough. They can afford much better vacations. It’s very odd they don’t realize this. Repeat guests are where the money is at and they won’t go after a while.
I thought the same thing. Rich people can go anywhere in the world. Why would they want to spend their vacation stuffed into shitty parks and planning everything on their phones the whole time. Disney is making huge mistakes left and right.
@@Pissgremlin5964 absolutely. Making the parks worse all the time they aren’t even going to enjoy it enough to keep come even if money isn’t the reason
Their brains are fried. They need higher dosages of serotonine and dopamine. They are emotionally handicapped to realize.
I wanna bring up a personal experience of mine working at retail:
So a lot of people who came an looked wealthy were always cheapskates, always wanted something "extra" because they made "large" purchases, they always had their credit cards almost at their limit and their general vibe was of wealthy beggars. Of course a lot of them also were making purchases with someone else's card because they themselves had theirs cancelled.
At this same store, credit was given to people of a more moderate income, the common rabble if you will. One day comes this old lady, very humble and soft spoken, a very pleasant lady. She comes to me and asks for my assistance so i provide assistance. This woman went through the store buying a fuck load of things and when i checked her client history in the store's computer, her credit capacity was monstrous and not only that, this wasn't her first time doing it. This humble old woman had a small business, but that was not the reason she had such large credit capacity, it was because she commit to pay and she had a desire to consume and all she needed was the chance to do it and this store gave her that chance.
Disney thinks the wealthy people will just shit money on top of Mickey's mouth, when the reality is that the middle class folk are the ones who keep those business alive.
@@Pissgremlin5964 again no fast passes. Like rich people even want to wait in line with the "peasants" and their brats
I live in Orlando and I can tell you that Disney wants to take away every advantage that locals have had. I can’t count how many people I know who won’t renew there AP’s because it’s just not fun anymore.
call me a dick, but i hope to live long enough to see an official announcement of Disney going bankrupt.
@@D0NU75 You're not. It's a mixed bag. I don't want to see their employees out of a job but by the token some I'd like to see Disney in a position where the walls come crumbling down. They'd come crawling back to the various people they've screwed over; customers and employees alike.
too much people, not enough park. That is all.
There is a need for new parks right now.
Epcot is getting renovated. That should help.
the price will not come down unless there is new offerings in Florida.
either you do a 6 flag and you put them in like sardines to wait for hours. You start to do a reservation system or a ticket raffle for opportunities to go in... or you charge more...
If the quality of life in the park is going down AND they charge more.. that would be bad!
we renewed the day befor the new pass came out, we still have the Plat passes, we most likely won't be renewing next year
I've heard that's part of the goal. Aps take up space and don't buy as much as the tourists they're trying to attract. If they can get the locals to go less or use less of the park, then they can gouge the tourists more (hence the genie+ being per day purchase vs permanent add on). So they either price people out or find a way to reduce their impact (getting then stuck in stand by).
I have come to terms with the fact that I will never return to Disney World again. I always wanted to go to Disney Land, but that's never going to happen. It is a terrible value.
You aren't missing anything.
@@mmecharlotte What is there to do in Cali? I hate this state.
It's why I also broke up with Disney Parks on Valentine's Day: ruclips.net/video/uD3aPqVD7JY/видео.html
@@mmecharlotte Yes, and the Desert Botanical Garden!
With Disney, I've come to terms I'll never visit Disneyworld. I had a chance when I was 15, but no one else wanted to go, so we went somewhere else instead; and now the prices are just too high.
Been to Universal though, and that was awesome!
Disneyland is very small. It's a park that seems bigger because it takes so much time in lines and crowds to get to each ride it can fool you into thinking this is some huge park. I went there for grad night in high school. There were not many people there and we did the ENTIRE park and all the rides in less than 2 hours. RIP-OFF.
It's also mostly old ass rides made in the 60s using olden style "tricks" like the haunted hotel. The dark rides are slow and lame like taking a slow ride through a chuck e cheese show. The "good" roller coasters are low level thrill kid coasters at other parks. The "main street" is a short crowded walk. Most of the park space is storefronts.
Space Mountain is outdated and SUPER LAME and splash mountain is LAME.
You cannot go into the castle. Only through it and take pictures in front of it. I was in the peter pan ride and had to smell farts and dirty diapers for an hour. It's a small world is outdated and creepy.
Maybe California Adventure is better? I don't know never been and I never heard anyone "excited" about California Adventure. No one has ever said "yay California Adventure!"
No one is missing anything fun from Disneyland unless you are interested in going into a time capsule park from the 60s.
Disney lost me when they made you have reservations. You can't just wake your kids up and take them to Disney World anymore.
WDC/Disney -- "OMG. Look At Us! We just had a record-breaking fiscal year! We made so much money! We're doing great!"
Also WDC/Disney:
- Borrows more money from banks.
- Gives multiple lavish financial bonuses to the CEO and other executives.
- Builds new private country-club summer home communities for the ultra-rich ($2.5 Mil starting price).
- Builds a new expensive space-themed LARPing hotel and restaurant for the ultra-rich.
- Adds expensive new VIP exclusive add-ons, perks, and experiences for the ultra-rich.
- Adds new engagement and wedding packages for the ultra-rich ($500k starting price).
- Raises the cost of Disney+ streaming service.
- Raises the cost of all theme park tickets.
- Raises the cost of all food items while also reducing the overall portion sizes of their food.
- Raises the cost of all merchandise and goods while reducing the quality and detail of those merchandise and goods.
- Gets rid of free Fast Passes and implements a Pay-to-Win Genie+ System.
- Gets rid of free parking at resorts and free transportation to/from the airport, hotel, and theme park.
- Cuts back on entertainment quality, availability, and frequency.
- Cuts back on the overall quality and quantity of decorations and theming for their theme parks, park rides, hotels, and transportation.
- Cuts back on the art, animation, and marketing budgets for film and television.
- Cuts back on the number of cast members as well as cast member pay.
- Cuts back on vacation special deals and offers.
- Bleeds money from poor live-action adaptation box-office and Disney+ views/sales.
- Publicly shames and berates their fans and customers on social media.
#WDC #WaltDisneyWorld #Disney #BobCheapek #ClownFishTV
Hey, they have box truck rides for 6 grand! Let's go watch some broken animatronic puppets and on barely functioning rides, magical! 😂
and the workers likely haven't gotten a raise in fifty years or so
I didn't realize it was this bad. Thanks for the enlightenment.
My parents took me to Disney back in 2007. After seeing this, I am so glad they did because there is no way I'm going now.
Back in 2014-15 season I visited wdw for the first time in about 10 years. Tell you the truth it was a bit of a let down. It seems there was a lot of ride malfunctions. And the whole thing just didn't have the spirit that I remember from past years. When I heard about the Star wars land and Avatar and all of that being added on I had a little bit of enthusiasm that I might go back in the next year or two which would have been the past two years. But after saying the crap they've done to Star wars and the other trash in general. Yeah I'm going to universal next year for the first time ever. Universal still seems to give a crap about a good experience.
I’ve always wanted to go but I’m not about to spend $1,000 or more for what boils down to an hour of fun after all the walking and waiting. In no world can I justify that.
@@TheBestEverEverEver i completely understand. years after, i asked my dad how much he spent during that week(theres 5 of us) and he said over $10k.
I last went in 2004 and am NEVER going back again. Even in 2004, it was showing signs of where it is today: attractions breaking down all the time, not enough employees to do maintenance, constant construction of new attractions while letting other popular attractions suffer from neglect. I'm glad I saw the warning signs early and gave Disney the boot. Even back in 2010, I would not have recommended them.
I imagine someday the "one day ticket" will be removed and you have to pay for a "two day ticket" even if you can only go for one day.
That’s pretty much how the SoCal discount tickets are now. You can only buy them in 2 and 3-day bundles.
Surely their next move is the No Day Ticket, you know thanks for your money, hope you enjoyed buying a ticket. Please rate the ticket buying ride.
Don't give them any ideas. 🤣
I can see that.
My family has a ticket from Disneyworld, when it first opened up, that my Uncle kept on him before he died.
$1 U.S.D. that's it. Back then (1970's) $1 did take you a bit further then now, but still.....$1 was all you needed to enter.
Universal is expensive, but I'd rather waste my money there, plus, their one water park and two more parks away from fully competing with Disney.
@@johngray3449 An NFT of a Disney pass, not valid to enter the parks with.
So glad I got my families disney trip outta the way last april when the parks were 33% capacity and no genie+ or fast pass.
Disney really seems to hate your family and millions of other families.
I did the same with my mother. We went around Thanksgiving 2020 (I think), but it was honestly the best time.
No huge lines, no fast pass, and there was actual walking space with plenty of room.
Though to be honest, Universal was still better because we both like rollercoasters more and Universal let you into the good parts of the park without needing to schedule ahead of time.
Same. Went last year in April and thank god we did.
We may have passed each other. What week were you there? We went the last week of April.
Here is an easy excuse they may try to pull
Include a bunch of woke nonsense and then when no one comes say that its cause they are ist phobes
Then they escape responsiblity with minority meat shields like these lefties like to do
Disney:"Hmm PoC meat shields tasty 😋"
Just recently I found an old conversation from 2002 I had with a friend who had gone to disneyland and I asked her how much tickets cost and my reaction at the time was $40 was a lot.
Now $40 won't even get a couple a hot dog with fries and drink in their silly theme parks... They're going down, they just sit around and deny, deny, deny.
Daily dose of dismal Disney is becoming my favorite part of the day. Disney is pricing people out of the parks, pissing them off, and they're going to learn one day that pissing the small guy off isn't a smart thing to do
They haven't had a problem yet. So as long as patrons keep paying, Disney isn't doing anything wrong.
People are now beginning to notice all the bad disney is doing but it's very slow.
@@GrillPiece63 True. The may also be starting to notice that Disney isn't even trying to give a good value.
@@carlflaherty2215 or any value
They aren't hurting. Pricing people out controls crowds and they're still near full capacity.
My family makes enough to go to Disney.
Disney no longer sees any of our dollars. We're going to Florida in a few weeks, and visiting a bunch of other places. 5 years ago, it would have been a 90% Disney trip.
There is SO MUCH MORE to do in our state than Disney, even theme park wise. When you get here, ask some of the locals about Florida on a tank full
I was pricing out a Disney trip 3 years ago.
I gritted my teeth at the prices&managed to make the budget squeeze in under 4k.
Disney upped the prices. 5.5k over night.
So I started looking at other theme parks in Florida. I was floored at the experience we could have for fractions of the price. Most don't even charge admission!
The more I looked, the less time we would end up spending in Disney parks, until I just said to hell with Disney entirely. We would vacation like royalty, see a dozen parks,buy everything in sight and have so much more than was even on offer at the mouse house. Then covid hit.
@@vampsith My dad moved down there a couple years ago, so we have a bunch of stuff planned for our time, like swimming with manatees, Sun & Fun, Kennedy Space Center, Legoland and more.
Universal is just far more cost effective these days. I just hope they don't raise prices when they open all their new stuff in a couple years or so.
Yes, my latest video shares the same thing. We just got back from Mexico. Fraction of the price. Incredible accommodations, food, service. Feel like a fool going to Disney the last 1-2 times fighting crowds, horrible food, dirty small rooms, virtual queues, insane prices.
I live in SoCal and I won't take my kids to Disney, despite being a lifelong star wars and marvel fan. The park just costs too much.
I'm just going to do universal studios.
You're lucky. My wife is Disney's perfect customer. She always gets a case of the stupids when it involves disney. She just love Walt Disney and even though she knows he's been dead since the 1960s she still thinks that going to Disneyland is honoring his memory. Does not make sense his memory is being desecrated by people like chapek
I just feel Universal is catering more towards honoring brands....have you seen Happy Potter land??? And then you have Minions land, Simpsons land.
Disney is milking every dollar they can out of people. The star cruiser cost is just laughable. $5-6k for a family for 4-4 days. No thanks.
I worked there for years building in their Parks and I can tell you.. If you don’t bring your own food. Expect to pay $30+ just for lunch on their property.
Look at the Bottle Water Prices.. That’s all you need to know.🤦♂️
When are people going to realize, it is just a theme park? It way too much money for the experience.
They aren't. It's a known fact people who have way too much money dont think they're actions through. Theres no risk for them and hence have no reason to thing about the cost. Would you care about the price if you had 'Fuck you' money?
It's why you have rich people asking why poor people don't just make more money.
Their brains are fried. They need higher dosages of serotonine and dopamine. They are emotionally handicapped to realize.
@@drooom2925 yeah well because they don't think that's why alot end up losing said money
It's just a bunch of fiberglass. And you get smothered by your mask while looking at it.
@@drooom2925 Actually you can't become a person with "way too much money" if you DON'T "think actions through". Its probably people who ABUSE THEIR CREDIT CARDS who are the REAL problem! I personally know a couple who are SERIOUS "Disney-phytes" who are damn near BROKE, but EVERY SPARE $$ goes to the house of mouse,,,,,
Just you wait universal will one day unveil a wizarding world of Harry Potter themed hotel and it'll be a nice 75% less and it'll be a thousand times more immersive. I'd be surprised if it isn't a part of the third expansion.
Don’t forget the Nintendo world all of them are getting that will be the big Disney land killer
@@alexninten8818 serves them right
@@alexninten8818 I'm just gonna wait for the Hotel Mario hotel becomes a reality.
You know what they say all toasters toast toast
I have an uncle who worked for Disney in the 90s, and even then I was told "they're terrible people and a terrible company, don't try to work here, you will regret it"
Edit: looked up balcony suite luxury cruise prices, and a week's cruise is 1/5th what Disney wants for the star cruiser. Dunno if that includes the taxes and add ons but still.
If you are a creative and want to have your own ip someday, do not work for Disney. If they can remotely tie your work to Disney properties, they will claim it all for themselves and leave you high and dry.
I knew someone who said the same back in the 80s.
Ever since Eisner took control, it's employment of last resort.
That's probably the per person price and usually a room has a 2 person minimum, then there is the optional but very cost effective if you plan well food and drink packages, excursions if you want activities when you dock, etc. Overall 5K is definitely possible but you'd probably WANT to plan to spend a little bit more if you want to make it a much more luxurious experience.
@@BertoxolusThePuzzled still less than what Disney wants from 1.8 days
@@skeletor957 Oh yeah for sure. My point was more that for the same amount you could SPLURGE on a mid-range cruise and spend an entire week seeing multiple countries and doing whatever activities (heck they have cruises to Atlantis water park that probably run cheaper WITH Atlantis tickets included than Galactic Cruiser costs. Super lame Disney).
George made a mistake of a lifetime selling star wars to these people
Unless I am wrong I think George actually admitted that sometime ago.
@@lespena3722 Yup called Disney white slavers...
A billion dollar mistake in your favor, is not a bad thing.
Then you could afford to take your family to Disney.
@@rnettles6241 Disney is a corporation with no soul
They'll suck out any real spirit and joy from star wars for money
I'm Australian, I've only been to Tokyo and Paris Disneylands. Their food was sub-far. Doesn't matter the continent. The only time I got value was paying for crockery for the dessert it was served on.
I barely even remember eating at Paris Disneyland. I mostly remember queueing, and one rollercoaster that was not scary because the whole time your head was just flinging from side to side so you had no time to see anything. I am sure there was a castle with some shrubberies and water works too.
Can't say I ever felt like Disneyland differed from a regular amusement park.
I’ve been to DW and Epcot back in 88. Epcot was better than DW. Food back then was subpar as well. It wasn’t bad, but it was overpriced. I remember having to hop restaurants because we saw the prices on the menu. (To be fair, if it wasn’t for my brother graduating Navy boot camp, we wouldn’t have been able to afford to go otherwise.) I won a trip to universal in 93 and it was leaps and bounds better.
I’ve heard Tokyo Disney was overall better, but I didn’t go when I was in Japan.
@@linusgustafsson2629 The only meal I had that was decent was at a cowboy themed restaurant with live entertainment. Otherwise I recall overpriced basic hot chips and chicken nuggets. At least at Paris I got to go on most of the rides. Tokyo was prettier, but a nightmare for lines.
It's sub-far because it's recycled cast members...
Yep $650 for 2 day ticket for 2 people not a park-hopper ticket...ridiculous
Their brains are fried. They need higher dosages of serotonine and dopamine. They are emotionally handicapped to realize.
I just purchased a round trip, non-stop airline ticket to Zurich for less than that.
I have an old ticket that is a park hopper for three days. The price?
$112. I am not kidding.
PS: every so often, I look at the ticket and shake my head, wondering how it could cost barely $41 a day...
They raised prices but seem to be packing as many people in and it cheapens the whole experience
You gave yourself the answer. Think about it. If the parks are still crowded, why should they not rise the prices further. People pay it obviously. At this point, like in gaming paying for unfinished shite, too, the consumers still paying are the real problem.
My sister wanted to do the Starcruiser but we couldn't justify the price. We booked 8 night/8day ticket stay at Swan and Dolphin for 4 for less than the 2 night cruiser. We are just going to stalk and hang with the cruiser guests when we see them get off their box truck, lol.
You can stalk me. I'll even get you into the bar.
#uwusenpailevijaegernanisan
@@BungieStudios lol, too funny ,we aren't going until November. My sister just had a kidney transplant and that is our celebration trip. She is a star wars fanatic. Honestly, if it were based on the original trilogy she would have paid the money. She is still livid that they killed Han!😂😆
It really makes me sad for the old Disney. I’m 54, and grew up in California. Went all the time with my folks. Even had Grad Nite there in 1986. I like some of the new movies but I’m partial to what everyone calls Vintage Disney. I saw a comment the other day that said spend the money on a vintage park with all the old rides. I would go there! But if their employees aren’t being treated and paid well why do they keep spending all this money on all this new stuff that no one cares about. This is what happens when a corporation is in charge of Walt’s dream 🤦🏼♀️
Unless Disney is going to build more theme parks around the country like six flags, It's time to realize that this is their trajectory. I think everyone who's old enough to remember when Disney wasn't as packed as it is today, remember it doesn't cost as much as it does today, but the problem is that it's so crowded that there's no other way to bring down the crowd numbers and also make the same amount of money, without increasing prices, then to price people out, unless you're going to kick them out.
Exactly. I've been saying this for years. Disney growing up was a ghost town when my family would go. Now it's busy everyday all year round. It's actually a good testament to our economy that more people can afford a Disney vacation. Unfortunately in the future if you make less than 50k a year you can't afford it but adjust for inflation and you'd say the same thing 20 years ago at 30k a year. I just went to Disney this year and couldn't believe the cost of a beer. I really didn't spend more than the last time I went 3 years ago but I didn't drink as much beer. People will still go and Disney knows it.
@@nikadgod5152 Exactly People will still go.
Another problem that is causing all of this is that States and cities fight Disney every time they want to build a new park somewhere else. It's an interesting history that is shaping its future.
I wonder if Disney is using the extra funds to give their employees a hike up in pay. 😐😐😐
I also the fact they raise the tickets price more the longer you stay is their way to make more profit from souvenirs and other such products, as longer staying customers aren't n necessarily going to buy more, but more guests definitely will.
Hmm its almost like there's this thing called inflation. Expecting 2001 ticket prices in 2022 is unrealistic. Disney need to focus on building higher capacity ride to absorb crowds better, which it seems like they are doing, but at an absurdly slow pace
Disney's goal has always been clear: keep the overhead low (I.e. no innovative creative rides) and milk the IP's for all its worth.
That regular people are still buying into this scam is beyond me.
It's why I broke up with Disney on Valentine's Day: ruclips.net/video/uD3aPqVD7JY/видео.html
Regular people are addicted to IPs like Star Wars and Marvel. Not only can't they get away from it, they always NEED the next new fix!
So... wait...
One of the biggest complaints about starcruiser crap was insanely high price...
So their "fix" is to raise the price even more... Yep, Disney lost the last of their marbles it seems.
How much longer are idiots willing to pay these ludicrous prices?
I doubt it will be for much longer the point of the "look where i am going" mentaliy is the place to enviable and not smth people loathe. Plus uniersal is getting the Nintendo characters and so it will be an easy choice.
@@Raximus3000 and along with Nintendo they are also getting how to train your dragon (which is still massively popular even after the movies conclusion years ago) and Pokémon (yes I know Pokémon is Nintendo, but the reason why I point out Pokémon is that Pokémon is one of the most popular things going on right now… especially after the release of Legend of arceus which pretty much not only revived the rather stale game but brought in a lot of new fans and such)
@@lespena3722
Pokemon in the top in total revenue and even if you do not play it you would still think it is fun. I have my doubts their rich fans will want to lower themselves to spend tens of thousands to a used up wore.
Disney employee 1: "People can't afford our product, what do we do?"
Employee 2: "oh I know! Let's raise prices!"
Employee 1: "amazing. Why didn't I think about that!"
There's a meme for this
Executive #1: Will be rewarded with $10M bonus.
Executive #2: Gets a coupon for 10% off holiday ham.
This is how they think though. They won't drop prices for people in the economic class who are struggling. They see no profit there. They instead look at who has money and rebrand. They will raise prices to market at people in upper economic brackets who are not struggling, simply rebranding the same old basic product as a luxury product by adding some bells and whistles and some garbage marketing rhetoric. And it will to some extent, work.
The one lesson that Disney Corp has learned over the decades is that there is nothing on the planet more dedicated than a Disney Fan . The Parks are their lives which without they simply can't exist . So they may grumble at Disney's constant raising of prices . But they will continue to fill the Parks regardless of what it costs .
Why go on that Galactic thing when you can travel anywhere in the world for that amount it cost.
My wife and I went there in 2016, because she enjoyed it so much when she went with her family in 1994 and I'd never been there. But she was so terribly disappointed by how expensive everything had gotten and how low the quality had gone, and I barely enjoyed a single minute of it, apart from the German and French pavilions at EPCOT, because the food and beer was actually pretty damn' good. That was five years ago, so if it's only gotten worse since . . . YEESH!
My husband and I went the same year As well! I haven't been there since 2000 and dissapointed was an understatement we wanted to leave the moment we got there most of the rides that day weren't working and are food was subpar at best just a crappy experience
@@stonerbaby895 Yeah, we had a lot of the rides not functioning throughout our visit, too. One (the Test Track) broke down while we were on it, and we sat waiting in the dark for about half an hour until a VERY surly teenager came to lead everyone out and snapped at us to put away our phones.
Oh, and we were also stuck on a boat when a tornado warning came into effect for the area, which the park staff then lied about.
@@Beedo_Sookcool OMG! The tornado warning I would have been worried as hell about!! And I feel your pain on being stuck on a ride we got stuck on the Indiana Jones the doors wouldn't open so we have to sit there for 20 minutes they did finally get it working but stopped again right before u go under the boulder we had to walk the rest of the way and to top it all off we waited for the show Wonderful World of Color the water show and they canceled it the moment it was going to start so we waited for 3 hours for no reason! Never went back since
Cripes, I don't blame you.
They already cranked their prices up beyond reasonable levels a year ago. The greedy idiots. Raising the prices only results in fewer customers and less revenue.
Going to Disney a decade or so ago was seen as a magical experience for friends and family to simply have fun and make memorable moments together in the various worlds of their animated films
Going to Disney now seems more like a status symbol for either the very wealthy or their cult like devotees
“Instagram flex” culture
2007, I went with my pals for the first and only time as a teenager. Absolute best era to go. It felt like we had freedom to enjoy ourselves.
I've since been back as an adult and it's so claustrophobic for such insane prices. Nostalgia aside, I don't see the appeal of it anymore.
Good analysis. Unfortunately the rich have got richer during the pandemic. We've seen the biggest wealth transfer in human history happen in the past two years. The poorest have been screwed, the middle has been squeezed, inflation risen driven by idiot energy policies and the pandemic factor, and as a result we have a small but powerful class of people with money who have zero compunction in flinging it around in a tasteless manner, and a class of people who will do anything to emulate those values, and will go into debt to try to purchase status symbols that indicate to them they are a successful and worthwhile human (which they are not). It's insane what social media has done to drive the consumerist lifestyle into overdrive.
I have to think that even rich people would look at this at this and think "I can either A. Spend $6000 A NIGHT for a shit-tier experience, or I can B. Spend $2500 over a week to vacation overseas, stay in a top-tier hotel, eat at a 5 star restaurant, and experience a foreign culture." Which one do you think they would choose?
BUT!! I thought Disney had a great quarter, because they NEVER cook the books, and they didn't need to jack prices?
An overpriced PS5 on ebay is more of an investment than Disney parks.
Honestly, how are they surprised by cancellations that coincide with rising ticket prices?
They keep relying on quarterly earnings and are supremely arrogant nowadays, and this is going to seriously bite them back in the buttocks very, very soon.
The only thing the survey is missing is, "Are you willing to sacrifice your first son for a lightsaber?"
So glad we went to the Magic Kingdom back in December 2012. We enjoyed it but they didn't have many good rides. It made us realize that we prefer thrill rides over theme parks so regardless of the mess that's going on, we probably won't go again anyways. We also went on a Disney cruise in 2019 and loved it.
Disney is stupid to think that rich people will go again and again to their parks when they could go anywhere in the world. If I was a millionaire who loved Disney (I still love classic Disney movies and shows) I would go to the Maldives, St. Lucia (I heard that the island is beautiful and the resorts there are very expensive but have good service and good quality food and great amenities), Aruba, UAE, etc. Why go to an overcrowded park where you get less than what you pay for more than once when you can afford to go anywhere in the world and get way more, get delicious food and where there are no crowds? But that's just how I see it as a not rich person.
Idk... I'm not rich and I take my kids regularly. I just budget for it. Expensive but the fun and smiles is worth it.
Not to mention the rich have access to high end premium parks like Atlantis, places with rides that put most of Disney's to shame. Heck even on the "budget" end you have Universal and Six Flags, both of whom have been building newer fancier rides and with Universal specifically nabbing some really tempting IP's in recent years.
Disney is in trouble I think, and not just the theme parks. Disney has exhausted it's good will with the public and Disney movies are no longer "must-sees" for most Americans.
I think they are thinking that there will be new waves of rich people with no taste and young kids year on year. People with taste may go once or twice and drop a lot of money just for the kids who are fixated on Disney, the ones with no taste will return. The profit margins on teh overpriced luxury stuff will be big enough to make it worthwhile to deny the experience to people in normal socioeconomic brackets who don't enjoy debt. And we all know there are the cult member type Disney fans who will literally go into debt to get there.
People who have more money than imagination will still go, but Disneyland/world is turning into a vacation for the wealthy to post about on social media and has lost its appeal with most people. There are hundreds of more interesting vacations a person could take for the money it costs.
Geeky sparkles has the most pleasant voice. Especially when she says “hello” ❤️❤️❤️
You know the age-old joke about corporations never actually paying taxes... any money they pay in taxes, they simply pass off to the public by raising prices?
Or ‘donating to charity’. Or releasing crappy money loosing films.
Corporations not paying taxes isn't a joke, it's a fact.
It has been "getting ridiculous" for years now, it is time to state it *is* ridiculous.
They should add a checkbox for "would rather go to six flags"
I loved six flags. Havent been in a long time. Last time i went, i got a captain caveman hat and a smurfette-poo ice cream at smurf village. Unga-bunga.
With out of control inflation, high gas prices and the overall cost of living getting higher and higher people are still going to want to have fun and escape every now and then. With you are an entertainment provider you need to keep your prices during a times like this as low as you can. People are going to be looking for ways to escape but cheaply. you are not going to take the family to the movies if it cost $200.00 every time you take the family to the theater. Disney is going to milk people as much as they can. That is how business works, but the customer has control as well. That is we can choose not to go and not to pay these prices. Disney would then have to change to get people in the park. However, people continue to over pay for this. As long as they do Disney will not change and the customer becomes the problem. If we want change then we as the customers need to change.
If they are to change, it won't be any time soon most likely.
@@Dragon359 Things take time, but we cannot use that as an excuse to just keep throwing money at them.
Wow, my granddaughters got to go Disneyland once in 2019, we will probably never afford it again. 😥
Had plans to go back to WDW this March, with fast passes, prices, magic hours, all that they are taking away, we decided on an 8 day cruise, only 3000$.
I had been saving to take my kids to Disney for three years. Even with getting tickets through the navy it's not worth it. We're planning to take the kids to Lego Land instead it's SO much cheaper.
Legoland was great fun. I'll never go to Disney again. 🤮
Since our son moved there, we’ve been several times, but this past January 24th (you know, previous years’ low crowd week), MK was the busiest we’ve ever seen it. It doesn’t take a genius to see the link between long waits and Genie+. But there were long waits for food too, if you could even find a place to eat! We decided we will not return. 😞
I have a family of 5 and from 2014 until 2019 I took my family almost every year and loved it. Now I can't afford it anymore. They have killed the magic
This is when Universal should do an Aldi. That's when you cut your price's but UP your game. They would wipe the floor with Disney.
People will only put up with Mickeys mickle & diming them every step of the way for so long .
You have a good point. If you look at Aldi in the uk The quality is really good but much cheaper. The uk chains tried go 'exclusive' pay more get better. The thing is consumers eventually click that they are being hoodwinked, they deserted in high numbers to go to to Aldi. Disney, take note.
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I miss the old Disney back when Walt was running things !
Everyone does.
The bean counters don't care about vision or kids, as evidenced by the decade they employed child predators.
I can’t get past the $6k for a weekend in what looks like a room in steerage lol for that much, you could rent a beach house on Cape Cod for a week and have an authentic vacation
We need to start outpacing the price hikes. People who _can_ still afford to go need to make the decision not to so that they start losing more money than the price hikes would offset.
You know when Roy learned that the workers might not be able to eat when the company was going under, he forced Walt to give up his salary along with himself. I miss Roy.
Raising the ticket and hotel prices, by themselves, is something I can't really get angry about. Disney parks do have a supply and demand issue, where the demand (number of people who want to go to the parks) significantly exceeds the supply (how many people the parks can reasonable accommodate). So, raising ticket prices while working to added guest capacity to the parks is the natural course of action.
What I can't excuse, however, is the constant nickel and diming of guests, which guts the experience and means that people who otherwise could afford to pay the higher prices are going to want to go somewhere else.
Well, you already gave the solution though....people are STILL paying the nickel and diming shit. If people STOPPED, Disney would stop nickle and diming. That includes Lightning Lane and other amenities that jumped up. People with cash to burn are still spending.
My biggest problem is with the upkeep or lack there of in the parks, trash cans overflowing, chipped paint, walls everywhere and attractions taking literally years longer to finish than they should. With the amount of money they are taking in the parks should be pristine shape.
I was taken to Disney World in 2005 when I was 9 years old (first and only time). We were a low income family and still had access to experience most of the park outside of the VIP stuff which at the time was pretty much just getting to skip lines. Nutty to see what it is now.
"Which of the following best describes how your Star Wars: Galactic Voyage has influenced you're March trip planning to Orlando/Central Florida?"
Fascinating that they didn't have any negative options with that question 🤔
Disney was a once in a lifetime thing for us. We have no intention of going back. We did universal studios too and we are already planning another trip there. We had a blast staying at the hard rock and getting the fast pass just for staying there.
I'm curious, when did you go? I went to Universal in January 2020. It was a lot of fun and I'm glad I gave Disney the boot. I drank a lot of butterbeer. Oh, and Duff beer tastes great. Sorry, kids, don't try to fool them, they DO check IDs.
@@largol33t1 we went second week of January 2021. We had an amazing time. We are hoping to go back to universal next January. Hard rock was great and like a 5 minute walk to universal studios.
Raising their already grossly over-inflated prices during a recession. Not a good sign for their future prospects.
you know a good van, some drapes and cheap liquor can give you the effect of the galactic starcruiser
That’s not enough. You might need MJ as well to get the full effect.
@jdslyman I might not that tonight. I have moon and star themed curtains
@jdslyman Alcohol not included
I used to go at least once a year. When the execs took a month pay suspension then gave themselves massive bonuses while firing cast members I was out. They will have to make massive changes for me to ever go back.
the one thing I love about bush garden is the food, not cheap but you do get enough to fill you up. Now granted bush garden has nothing compared to Disney or Universal, but they do have good food.
We cancelled our whole trip for the beginning of March. We could afford the trip due to planning, however, I felt nauseous at the thought of all that money being spent, when the quality just isn't there, and the thought of going makes me feel more stressed than going to work.
These Disney vloggers that keep trying to sell Disney’s magic to subscribers should be ashamed. There are much better vacations to go on beside Disney for the money. Do your kids a favor and show them the world and not the inside of a theme park.
Can we just all boycott Disney and the vloggers for bankrolling on all these detrimental changes.
I guess I’ll just stick to being a universal park type of guy…. I’ll have to come to the realization that I’ll never afford to go to Disney parks again and my children will not get to experience a “once upon a time”American middle class venture 😔
Love you and geeky sparkles! Your channel rocks, do not stop!
Oh don't worry, I don't plan on going to Disneyland or Disneyworld. Never have since I was born, *NEVER* will contemplate it.
Starve.
Let Disney do it and sit back and watch as Disney looses target market after target market and one consumer demographic after the other!! If Disney are not careful they will end up with no one who can afford or could be bothered to spend on their overpriced products and experiences!! I once learned it is better to have a fair price that fills the store opposed to a high price that only a few can afford with an empty store!!
10 to 1 disney has a team diligently working to figure out a way to charge you for NOT using any of their services. If there is a way disney will find it.
This reminds me of the old Dilbert comic where the boss muses on the idea that if he cuts costs and raises prices enough he can get money without doing anything. He then wonders how they are able to put ink into pens
So glad I went to Disneyland in Japan years ago. It was a much more interesting experience and didn't cost me half of what they'd charge me in America now. This is absolutely absurd. I can't even imagine being a millionaire and wasting money on these abysmal experiences.
Same with me. Even if I won a million dollars, I wouldn't go to Disney. It would still somehow feel like a ripoff.
Disney is just not worth it anymore. They don’t want the Joe Shmoe with his family at their places anymore, and are just willing to give unimpressive “entertainment”. My wife and kid loves the Disneyland experience, and wanted to do the DW thing. But with prices what there were then and now, she just closes the book on that thought.
Don't forget "resort fees", which many hotels charge now, which includes things like the pool, gym, and Wi-Fi. You have to pay it, even if you don't use those "amenities". It's a scam so they can advertise a lower price.
Yeah, we're not renewing our annual passes. We can't even get a reservation for any of the parks for over a month. Ridiculous what we're paying to not be able to go to the parks, and even if we could, we can't ride anything because of the lines. We've been passholders ever since we moved to Florida 10 years ago, and sad to let the passes go, but Disney has made it obvious they don't care.
The Halcyon is the Titanic of starcruisers. Destined to be a wreck. 🤣
At least the titanic needed an iceberg to sink it. This starcruiser is being sunk with stupidity.
Even Admiral Ackbar could have seen the danger from a mile away.
Disney: shoots themselves in the foot.
Also Disney: why does my foot hurt?
To be honest I think the Disney might be concerned about resellers and the Star Wars hotel since they release exclusive gear for the hotel online. I could see resellers booking buying all the merch then cancelling. Idk. Just my immediate thought when I heard about this poll.
Disney is just asking to go out of business.
6k.......You can take a plane to any country for around 2k round trip. Then get an a 2 bedroom apartment/townhouse for around 1k. Leaves you around 3k for transportation, food and other fun. Hell, it cost about 500 to get a personal driver for a 7 hour drive and visit every historical sites.
Disney needs to go back to Standby only Lines again.
Those Q lines used to hold a large portion of the people in the parks and now they are just clogging up the walkways.
I know Disney thinks they will go into shops and spend more and maybe that's true but it ruins the Park experience not being able to move.
It’s getting to the point Disney would have to pay me to go to that hotel. $6,000 for that?! Hell no.
We went last May and did not wait longer than 50 minutes during the busiest middle of the day without fast pass. Now without a Genie plus return time people are waiting so much longer , even first thing in the morning! Even worse is having to be on your phone all the time to try to book a genie plus selection if you choose to buy it!
Consumers have long since forgotten that they control the price.
if you keep opening your valet then they will raise the price
I just cottoned on to something: The idea of "going _only_ after the whales" was the setup for "The Bank" casino in _Ocean's Thirteen..._ and it didn't really work out all that well there. Albeit there's no Danny Ocean and his crew to undermine it. Disney seems to be seeing themselves as Mafiosi in old Las Vegas and it's legal what they're doing. So sad. 😞
Worldwide there has been a squeeze on midlde classes. People have less free spend every year.
It’s simple supply and demand. They continually raise their prices because enough people will still pay. The prices won’t go flat so long as enough people are willing to pay. Maybe not you, maybe not me, but enough
They might as well make Disney parks for invite only.
Still holding a grudge on the premature cancellation of the rebooted Ducktales. 4 Seasons woulda been perfect, each session focusing on 1 of the kids. Instead we got a rushed 3rd season where it focused on both Huey and Webby which left each of them getting less screen time.
Disney "How can we get more people in the parks?"
Employees "Lower ticket prices and reinstate annual passes."
Disney "Got it raise ticket prices."
Disney Board: we need options to make $10,000.00
Acounting:
1. Charge 40 guests $250
2. Charge 1 guest $10,000
Disney Board: Lets go with option #2.
The greed is disturbing.
It seems Disney is trying to guilt people into keeping their reservations🤔
Nah, that is when they call you racist for cancelling.
I remember going to Disneyland as a kid in a middle class family. It wasn't every year, but we were a couple hours away and we kids had fun. I don't think we'd be doing that now.
As a child my dream vacation was to go to Disneyland but now there's no way in hell I'd be able to afford it any time soon.
Here for my daily dose of double D! It never ends. It's sad what's becoming of a once great legacy. Greed. It's a bad drug.
After the latest star wars, this is just the way of the world at the moment. I don't think this will hurt them in the slightest as the parks are packed all year round. The only way we will see a positive 180 is when and I hate to use this word but its true; when 70% of normies stop going and watching anything from Disney nothing will get better, no its not.
I never want to go back to Disney if they continue to act like this
Well, In Germany we have something like Phantasialand... And I was never in a Disneyland and because I must make the Question. Why the Hell should anyone want to be 10 Days in Disneyland?
"I missed the Part where that's My Problem"
-The United States' Hyperinflating economy