And The Beat Goes On!

[Evoga]

What would also be annoying about paying a resort fee would be that the general public not paying it can come to the resort and use the facilities apart from the pool.

You can watch the movies or make smores etc. And what about car parking problems at the monorail and Epcot resorts where you have paid a resort fee.

The fee stinks in my eyes.

 

[mom2rtk]

I'm sure Disney thinks they have everyone over a barrel right now with the new Frozen stuff and ROL coming online soon. 60 day advance access will make the difference in being able to do those things for many. But seriously...... I'm just not going to play. I don't need 60 day access if I just stay home.

 

[wdw71]

I detest resort fees. This leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. I wish they would just increase the price.

I'm sure they will do that too.

 

[DisDadDVC]

I detest resort fees. This leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. I wish they would just increase the price.

See, Disney isn't lying. People actually ARE asking for increased prices!!

 

[wdw71]

I'm sure Disney thinks they have everyone over a barrel right now with the new Frozen stuff and ROL coming online soon. 60 day advance access will make the difference in being able to do those things for many. But seriously...... I'm just not going to play. I don't need 60 day access if I just stay home.

So true but even if we can afford to continue to go we have been so much that the 60 day access doesn't matter to us anymore. We've seen it all. If we do it we do it if we don't we don't. I'm over it!

 

[lugnut33]

And once you have a car, don't those more reasonably prices offsite restaurants start looking appealing? And if you have a car, why not try out a couple days at that other theme park down the road.......

This past weekend I purchased 3 day tickets to Universal for some future trip. What I noticed right away is the tickets were over $600 cheaper for us four. That's a big savings.

 

[Lisann]

I am in 100% agreement with what so many of you have stated. At some point, the greed just grates on my nerves. A Disney Vacation is fast becoming on par with costs for vacationing in Tahiti.

 

[mom2rtk]

So true but even if we can afford to continue to go we have been so much that the 60 day access doesn't matter to us anymore. We've seen it all. If we do it we do it if we don't we don't. I'm over it!

It might not matter for you. But it will likely matter to a lot of other people when the new things come online. It will be quite the feeding frenzy for a while.

 

[LENNON500]

If they start charging for resort fee, Magical Express, Children's activity's, then we will start staying off site. It just blows my mind that everyday, they remove a perk or attraction, and now want me to pay even more money. At some point, people are going to say enough is enough!

I think it's pretty obvious that is not a case of "IF, but "WHEN"......they don't often test things and then not put them into play, particularly if it's yet another way to generate revenue and add to shareholder value.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

when you stay at Disney resorts, you are staying there for proximity. That is ALL you stay there for, not resort amenities. They may be changing their pricing structure (maybe) but they will not change this. Apparently they are trying to figure out what kind of customers would still pay for the proximity over resort amenities, when they could just go to a similarly priced offsite for more traditional hotel amenities.

 

[wdw71]

What would also be annoying about paying a resort fee would be that the general public not paying it can come to the resort and use the facilities apart from the pool.

You can watch the movies or make smores etc. And what about car parking problems at the monorail and Epcot resorts where you have paid a resort fee.

The fee stinks in my eyes.

OMG I never thought of all that. That puts a whole new stink on the whole thing.

 

[DisDadDVC]

when you stay at Disney resorts, you are staying there for proximity. That is ALL you stay there for, not resort amenities. They may be changing their pricing structure (maybe) but they will not change this. Apparently they are trying to figure out what kind of customers would still pay for the proximity.

Well, that's not really true. I enjoy the pools at the Deluxes. And the onsite restaurants.

 

[DebbieB]

If the price is going up $15 per night, what difference does it make if it's in the base rate or tacked on at the end? I don't understand the difference.

Ultimately, this is supply and demand pricing. Disney will continue to raise rates and find creative ways to raise them, until the demand goes down. It's up to us, really.

I was just reading some comments on Facebook and someone mentioned that they don't pay travel agent commission on the resort fee. So that's where the difference is.

 

[prestoncaldwell]

A picture of the question from the survey showed up on Twitter. It asks how we feel about $15 per day for "extras" such as Magical Express, MagicBands (I assume new ones), Priority FP+ planning (60 days prior to arrival), Resort entertainment and children's activities, Wi-Fi, Extra Magic Hours, and parking at the resorts and parks.

Odd. I thought you already pay a ridiculous room rate for those amenities.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

you can get similar pools and restaurants at offsite hotels. But you can't walk to MK or Epcot or take a monorail or boat or even a bus that takes you right to any park.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

by "children's activites" if they mean the CM on the microphone at EVERY major pool at EVERY resort for hours and hours a day, I'd like to defund that.

 

[wdw71]

It might not matter for you. But it will likely matter to a lot of other people when the new things come online. It will be quite the feeding frenzy for a while.

I can't speak for anyone but myself in this matter. For my family we are not willing to pay an extra $15 per night on top of already hefty nightly rates even at value level just to get 60 days out access to FP+. To US it is not worth it. We can stay off site still pay parking fees at Disney and saving hundreds of dollars. We will still get Fastpasses at 30 days out. If disney changes the FP+ to benefit resorts guests even more so be it. I can go without FP+ or I can not go at all. We will have to decide for ourselves next time the choice to go comes up.

 

[jbharr1]

Currently in Vegas, where they instituted these fees just 4 years ago at $15/night, they just raised them to $35/night.

and resort fees in Vegas are not comped. rooms are but the resort fee stays. I don't like them but it is the future of hotel pricing. Caesars resorts held out and marketed that they had no resort fees but gave that up a couple of years ago.

It's similar to the checked bag fee when flying. When oil prices shot up they added this 'fee' to help cover the sudden increased cost, right? Oil prices have fallen but the fee remains.

And someone mentioned you don't know your cost until trip is over...just not true unless you can't do math. I just went to orbitz and picked the MGM grand and it says excludes 33.60 daily resort fee under the avg room rate. Maybe at one time they are hidden but not anymore.

 

[Jcon]

I was just reading some comments on Facebook and someone mentioned that they don't pay travel agent commission on the resort fee. So that's where the difference is.

So the difference would be to the travel agent's commission? Disney would be cutting them out? That would be an unfortunate change for them. Also, they would take grief from their customers for having to pay this at the end of their stay. All the complaints, none of the benefits. Interesting.

 

[Dis703]

I have to agree - we've changed our the day of several times and been able to get decent options.

We booked a trip one week out and had no issues getting what we wanted. That included TSM, 7DMT and Peter Pan. None of them were available the day we booked but we checked back a few times and over the span of a few days got all of them. The extra 30 days to get your FP isn't that great of a perk IMO.