dadddio said:
I tried to follow your logic, but I failed. Perhaps I was locked out. Please help me.
Let's say that my family's budget allows for a $5000 vacation. Pricing our vacation without free dining would cost $6000, so obviously we would choose not to go. Pricing it with free dining would cost $5000. You appear to be arguing that we still should not go on this vacation even though it's cost would now be within our acceptable vacation budget.
I see your point...and there's no right answer on this...but I'll tell you how I see it:
I reject the "we can afford 5,000 but not 6,000" argument for two reasons:
1. Cut down the stay...which is the right choice for a budget situation. Go 4,5,6 nights instead of 7 to accommodate the money.
This is how budget conscious traveled used to do it long before bad economy free dining hooks.
2. In just numbers terms...i
Can't have sympathy. If we're talking about $5000 vacations. Disney is not
"Affordable" nor ever stated to want to be. That is not the goal.
This is an old issue I have predating dining...the post 9/11 "heroes" 50% ticket and room discounts that were given out were heavily abused by some...to the tune of 3,4,5 visits in a year.
That was abuse and people take whatever they can swipe from you. Case in point. Some of the whininess about free dining tends to resemble that type of thing a lot.
And (this is not meant to be personal nor no offense whatsoever) but a few things stick out on these threads:
First, the people are already booked...which means they never had any attention of not going with or without free dining. So that's a pet peeve as I pay my $120.00+ dinner checks.
Second, some of the complaints seem
Logical on the surface - the cheaper it is the more options is gives. Except that doesn't make
Sense. I kinda don't care about extra money for side trips to universal, car rentals, or an upgrade from POP to port Orleans. Again, my opinion, but I don't like the idea of subsidizing this in any way. Because Disney is not footing the bill alone - all the customers pay in the end.
And third, there's no justification for pleading for free dining and staying at the Polynesian or that price category and you see that a lot as well. That doesn't jive...it's trying to eat the whole cake.
All my opinions...feel free to open fire on the messenger. Game on.