YesterDark
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- Aug 4, 2017
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First, it isn't $5,600 more for a family of four, because you don't need as many days at the park to do everything you want. My family of 3 would be dropping from 7 days at the park to 4. You are saving money staying off site and eating meals outside of the WDW bubble. You are saving money on the number of days you are buying tickets to WDW parks.
Orlando becomes the vacation destination and not WDW. When you have to spend less days at WDW parks and less hours at the parks while getting more done, it opens up what you can do on a 7 night trip. You stay off site, you rent a car, you go to OU a couple of days, you drive to the beach one day or drive to Kennedy Center one day. For me as a vacationer it is great, but for WDW it is bad. I am now spending money I would have spent at WDW all over the area instead.
I don't think they will do anything like this, but it would be great for me if they did. Disney has far more information about their guests than I am operating with and maybe they believe most of their guest wouldn't act like me if they went one of these types of systems. I just doubt that is the case because WDW now has multiple generations of guests trained to be super planners that look for any advantage to exploit for their benefit.
For our family personally, we love spending time in the parks most days. We don't go into the parks just to do rides on a checklist and call it a day. The whole place is an experience. So we certainly wouldn't drop days in the park.