Disney Adventures

[yitbos96bb]

I saw that you can now get Disney Adventures with points. Was checking out the website and looks really cool... but YOWZA, that is expensive. Doing points is quite high as well. Anyone going to be trying these out?

http://abd.disney.go.com/abd/en_US/index

 

[erikthewise]

The itineraries and activities certainly are appealing.

At first I was ready to agree the prices were high. But then I realized that they didn't include airfare. Now I think they're absurd. For the Oahu-Hawaii tour it's $10K for a family of four (plus airfare) for 6 days. That means I can spend $1000 per day and still save enough for a 7-day cruise. Even in Hawaii $1000 a day can buy a very nice vacation, thank you!

Clearly Disney is marketing toward those for whom price is not an issue. I hope they are successful, but I'm afraid I can't help them out here.

A couple years ago I participated in a survey where they offered a hypothetical Hawaiian adventure that was even more ambitious than the one currenltly offered and cost $14K. So they have actually trimmed it back a little.

 

[yitbos96bb]

The itineraries and activities certainly are appealing.

At first I was ready to agree the prices were high. But then I realized that they didn't include airfare. Now I think they're absurd. For the Oahu-Hawaii tour it's $10K for a family of four (plus airfare) for 6 days. That means I can spend $1000 per day and still save enough for a 7-day cruise. Even in Hawaii $1000 a day can buy a very nice vacation, thank you!

Clearly Disney is marketing toward those for whom price is not an issue. I hope they are successful, but I'm afraid I can't help them out here.

A couple years ago I participated in a survey where they offered a hypothetical Hawaiian adventure that was even more ambitious than the one currenltly offered and cost $14K. So they have actually trimmed it back a little.

I would love to do it, but I have never spent that much on a vacation. Even our honeymoon, which I thought was high at $3500 for both of us at a Sandals resort for a week, was a lot cheaper than these. I might even consider the points route and just "waste" the points, but I don't even have enough points if I banked and borrowed for 2 people.

Oh well, maybe if I hit the powerball numbers!

 

[slk537]

The only way I can even imagine us ever doing this point or otherwise, is if we have world perks miles to burn and we are in a bank/borrowed or lose the points situation. And even then...I would think I'd prefer a cruise on the Magic and a stay on property.

We're checking out Hawaii for 2007 and this isn't even a considersation.

 

[cobbler]

For my family of 4 it would be about 10G. Thats a lot of cash for one week.