You have the power to change it...WITHHOLD your business until the pricing flatlines or adjusts to the market.
The real problem...is that Disney knows full well (because they're good at research) that 99 out of 100 people can't or won't say no. Once they're in the right mindset...they're coming.
I also wonder exactly how accurate "can only go certain times a year" is. Not specifically in your case - it just gets thrown out a lot and in more and more frequency.
Other than teachers and seasonal businesses...how big is this demographic truly?
You'd be surprised at how very accurate it is. ALL employers have the legal right to dictate when a person takes their vacation time, and I think it's happening with increasing frequency. Where we live, in a fairly industrial area, they have designated shut down times, and that's that - THAT is your vacation. Around here, shut down is typically the two weeks of Christmas or two weeks in the summer. Too bad, so sad if you don't like it. So you have those people.
Then as you said there's the seasonal workers.
Then you have the places where vacation slots are chosen based on various methods - seniority, first come first serve, a pool, etc... So, you're left with what you get.
Then there's anyone that works in the school system (public, private, college, university etc), plus families who have children in upper grades where taking them out for a week or two is either a) not allowed or b) too disruptive to their education, or even families that just aren't allowed vacation in any grade as an excused absence. That is a
huge number right there, considering in the US alone, there's roughly 3,000,000 K-12 teachers, and over 17,000,000 high school students.
And of course, then there's the college and university students themselves.
