Just a rumor, but...

[Doogan]

I'm sure this is just a rumor.
but since the price of oil has got to be on everybody's mind it's kind of interesting to speculate on how it might affect Disney, too.

So far everything I've read has been saying that bookings at WDW were still strong, mainly because they have so many more value and moderate resorts now as opposed to the last time there was a downturn in the economy. Also the extremely weak dollar is making it attractive to foreign travelers. I suppose if oil prices keep increasing, that may not hold up though. Still, it may mean more incentives from Disney if you can afford to get there.

I wouldn't mind if they extended free dining into the fall or early Christmas season (as the article suggests they may be looking at), but closing DHS or DAK one day a week seems like it would just increase the crowds at the other parks. Actually, I'd probably prefer that to shorter operating hours at all the parks, though. One of the things I dislike about going in the off-off season is that they close the parks so early. Even with lower crowds I feel like we get cheated when we don't get those late nights at the parks.

It's an interesting read not sure how much fact there is, but I'm interested in what the DIS community thinks...

 

[belleatheart]

Well I would be sad if I went in the off season and had to plan my days around that DAK or DHS is shut down certain days, I like being able to do whatever i feel like and the fam feels like. I was just down there and found the crowds to be super low considering, at times busier than what we find when we go in Oct. but not that much worse and sometimes even less. It was way odd! just assuming the economy is keeping people away. People may be staying at the value and moderate but what about deluxe? we are always at BW and we found the resort to be pretty quiet for May, in our kind of pod area we discovered out of the 4 rooms there we were the only people in that pod are for the 10 days we were there, never have found that before even in Oct.