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rodkenrich
03-26-2008, 07:18 AM
Disney Management is considering eliminating parking lot fees at its theme parks.

The price of parking will likely be folded into a ticket price increase--maybe three or four bucks a ticket.

Its a brilliant "shell game" on Disney's part. They get to advertise "free parking" while saving money eliminating all those parking lot money takers. Depending on the ticket price increase, they'll potentially make more money per carload of visitors than the current parking fee. Here's the kicker, hotel visitors and off-property shuttle bus riders would pay the increased ticket even though they aren't parking.
KYMickey
03-26-2008, 07:46 AM
Sounds like a brilliant move on Disney's part! Screw the customers to make a profit. On a specially liked the part where people who don't even drive end up paying more. What a deal for Disney, make more and spend less. I'm sure the stockholders and executives who will get a larger bonus love it! :thumbsup2
Golf4food
03-26-2008, 10:35 AM
It would certainly eliminate one of the incentives for staying on property - if an offsite hotel is $10 cheaper per day and I don't have to pay the $10 parking fees, then I might as well stay offsite if I'm not on the dining plan, which has already been stripped of much of its value anyway...
manning
03-26-2008, 12:53 PM
We own DVC.

A pattern has begun to develop with us.

Even though we stay at DVC the same amount of time we find ourselves going to the parks less and less.
wdw4us2
03-26-2008, 03:57 PM
Where did this information come from?

. . . and to the OP, you should work for Disney marketing with your thread title!

Didn't you know that nothing at Disney is "free"?
daber
03-26-2008, 04:06 PM
We own DVC.

A pattern has begun to develop with us.

Even though we stay at DVC the same amount of time we find ourselves going to the parks less and less.

Couldn't that pattern be more representative of nothing new to do at the parks? We don't own DVC, have an AP, and we can say the same thing.
rodkenrich
03-27-2008, 06:50 AM
Where did this information come from?

. . . and to the OP, you should work for Disney marketing with your thread title!

Didn't you know that nothing at Disney is "free"?Thanks for the insight.
The Brain
03-27-2008, 09:04 AM
It would certainly eliminate one of the incentives for staying on property - if an offsite hotel is $10 cheaper per day and I don't have to pay the $10 parking fees, then I might as well stay offsite if I'm not on the dining plan, which has already been stripped of much of its value anyway...for real. that's something always factored into staying onsite. I get a rental car yearly so the Disney transportation has never been a benefit to me, but the free parking was because it saved money. if I'm not saving money staying in one of their hotels, I can go offsite and make up the difference now added to the ticket price.
CanadianGuy
03-27-2008, 12:37 PM
Maybe the title of this thread should have the word "Maybe" or a question mark in it?? ;)

Knox
Colson39
03-27-2008, 01:03 PM
Yea, what is the source of this story???
paulh
03-27-2008, 01:11 PM
they subsidised ME with increses in room rates.
So if people think its free there suckerd into it
and all along there paying for it
I can see disney going for it
And as it hasnt appered on jHill media could be a posibility
Paulh
DisFlan
03-27-2008, 04:12 PM
Disney park tickets are expensive. I've always thought parking SHOULD be included in that cost. (We're DVC and have APs and we don't pay, but that's my thought, anyway.) About ticket prices increasing - they always go up, and folks keep paying for them. Either way, Disney makes money.

DisFlan
manning
03-27-2008, 04:13 PM
Couldn't that pattern be more representative of nothing new to do at the parks? We don't own DVC, have an AP, and we can say the same thing.

It's coming from the increase costs, which have been increasing far faster than inflation.
TheRustyScupper
03-27-2008, 05:27 PM
It's coming from the increase costs, which have been increasing far faster than inflation.

Cost Increases sure are not due to pay increases for hourly CM's.
mitros
03-27-2008, 07:12 PM
I surely do not want to see anyone loose their jobs, but those entrance gates can sure back up at times. I think some folks may not mind paying a little more for park tickets to zip through the front gates. IMHO
manning
03-27-2008, 09:40 PM
Cost Increases sure are not due to pay increases for hourly CM's.

Didn't say anything about pay increases. Said it was faster than inflation.
jekajekalynn
03-28-2008, 08:44 AM
OMG..If that's true , then does that mean that the free Disney Dining is NOT free??!!:lmao: j/k...

Although you KNOW ppl are going to thrilled about this and will boast about it to their acquaintances.

Them "Yup... Not only did I get FREE Dining, I got FREE parking!"

the other ppl "Well..how much did the tickets cost?"

Them *looking down and speaking in a muffled tone* "150 for a single one day ticket."

:rotfl2: