The main point of getting the race retreat isn't the food, character meet/greets, bag check, or some sort of status thing to separated from the other runners. At 3AM I don't care about getting my picture with a princess—I am too tired. Instead, it is mostly to simply have a chair to sit in that is not outside. It would be a sort of "Hey, instead of offering you some shelter from the cold/rain, let's just charge you $120 to stand in a "special area" and drink $10 worth of coffee and a bagel while you freeze, rather than over there where you can stand for free for pretty much the same thing. If they do this, the next thing will be that you will have to pay a $40 for a special pass to run through Cinderella's castle and all others will have to run around it! Joking aside, I would be surprised if they get rid of the race retreat. I suspect instead they are just going to lump it in with cheer squad packages as an effort to increase paying spectators, which I am not sure sells quite as well as the race retreat.