Who is cancelling Disney

[bell.of.the.ball]

Due to the cost of gas (and everything else that has gone up due it $4 a gallon) I wonder how many trips to the happy place will be cancelled?

 

[keylimepie]

Not us. Even with gas prices, its a drop in the bucket compared to how much we are spending on the resort, ddp, and tickets.

 

[Luv'sTink]

I am thinking about it. The trip is paid for and we are flying on frequent flyer miles. I am feeling like we should save that money for a rainy day. We have savings don't get me wrong but more couldn't hurt.

 

[Crisgw]

Not us, everything is totally paid for (air/resort/tickets) and we have the spending money set aside as well

 

[SnowWtch]

It's affected how often we go since we live a few hours away.

 

[Cindy's Mom]

This has me perplexed on why people would cancel a trip because of gas prices. Its not like you woke up one day and the prices were all of a sudden over $4 a gallon, its been a gradual increase.

For example for us to drive to WDW, I figured 2800 miles (20 mpg) round trip at $4 a gallon, that equals $560 for gas. So, when I planned the trip, say gas was $3 a gallon so that trip would be $420. You would cancel a family summer vacation for $140

I truly don't get it? If that were me I'd just budget my vacation and meals a little tighter. I think people are freaking out at the price per gallon (which is ridiculous BTW), and not actually figuring out that they really don't need to cancel their trips because of a sticker shock.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

Course you have to remember gas price is added nnot just to your trip to Disney. Thank goodness I do not travel much to and from work, but I am sure a lot of people are paying over $50bucks more a week than same time prior year. Week in and out that gotta hurt.

 

[choirfarm]

This has me perplexed on why people would cancel a trip because of gas prices. Its not like you woke up one day and the prices were all of a sudden over $4 a gallon, its been a gradual increase.

For example for us to drive to WDW, I figured 2800 miles (20 mpg) round trip at $4 a gallon, that equals $560 for gas. So, when I planned the trip, say gas was $3 a gallon so that trip would be $420. You would cancel a family summer vacation for $140

I truly don't get it? If that were me I'd just budget my vacation and meals a little tighter. I think people are freaking out at the price per gallon (which is ridiculous BTW), and not actually figuring out that they really don't need to cancel their trips because of a sticker shock.

I don't think it is the price of the increase of the vacation itself. It is the fact that now they are spending 500 dollars a month in gas instead of 300. Plus groceries have gone up so much now. I paid 2 dollars for a sale loaf of bread...ridiculous!!! Anyway their groceries have gone up and so their disposable income is going away. Does that make sense?? Plus some people are getting laid off, they can't afford their housing anymore and/or cannot sell their homes or gas guzzling cars (Boy, am I glad we got rid of our Suburban a little over a year ago!! I doubt we could sell it now.) Plus, plane tickets are getting out of sight around here and now you have to pay to check your first bag???!!! So I think it is the culmination of all of those factors that will cause a slowdown in Disney at least on the American side for the holidays and in the spring. Trips this summer and fall are probably already paid for, but farther out than that... Now overseas people may take care of the slack, but I'm betting the attendance will start dropping for Americans late in the fall.

Christine

Christine

 

[livie1205]

nope its paid for...I have to buy 1 tank on the way and 1 tank back and even at 5.00 a gallon it would be under 150.00/....we have the meal plan so we just need spending money..

 

[karibritt01]

This has me perplexed on why people would cancel a trip because of gas prices. Its not like you woke up one day and the prices were all of a sudden over $4 a gallon, its been a gradual increase.

It was a gradual increase for awhile, but has taken quite a jump in the last few months. My DH drives 29 miles each way to work, and spends about $25 more/week in gas. My groceries have increased by $20-$25 every 2 weeks. Due to prolonged drought, our water bill has gone up. It just all adds up. We are not cancelling our vacation this year as it is almost paid for, but we will stay closer to home for the next one.

 

[Disneycouple99]

Not us. Car gets 35 MPG, so I figure around $250 round trip(about 2160 miles). Compared to about 700 for airfare, that's not bad.

 

[Cindy's Mom]

I don't think it is the price of the increase of the vacation itself. It is the fact that now they are spending 500 dollars a month in gas instead of 300. Plus groceries have gone up so much now. I paid 2 dollars for a sale loaf of bread...ridiculous!!! Anyway their groceries have gone up and so their disposable income is going away. Does that make sense?? Plus some people are getting laid off, they can't afford their housing anymore and/or cannot sell their homes or gas guzzling cars (Boy, am I glad we got rid of our Suburban a little over a year ago!! I doubt we could sell it now.) Plus, plane tickets are getting out of sight around here and now you have to pay to check your first bag???!!! So I think it is the culmination of all of those factors that will cause a slowdown in Disney at least on the American side for the holidays and in the spring. Trips this summer and fall are probably already paid for, but farther out than that... Now overseas people may take care of the slack, but I'm betting the attendance will start dropping for Americans late in the fall.

Christine

Christine

This makes perfect sense, when you put in all in perspective. Please know that I wasn't being argumentative. I take public tranport to work each day, and I guess I don't realize it. I can do $20 of gas for 10 days.

 

[kids1617]

Not cancelling, just cut back on other things. Everything paid for already!

 

[Mamalisa58]

I was concerned that gas would be $4.00 per gallon and figured it would cost around $500+ plus for gas and we get a room each way. A few weeks ago I decided to really look hard for airfare to match/beat the cost of driving down. I was able to get a pretty good rate on NW, we will now have to rent a car since DD is playing volleyball @ WDW & the convention center, but I feel good about making the change.
We will miss our stops @ Sonic and Chik a Fil tho. We love both and there aren't any of either in Michigan.

 

[DLBDS]

I'm figuring it'll cost $450 ($4.50 per gallon) round trip when we go in Sept. I have entertained the thought of canceling but I seriously doubt I will. Ours is NOT paid for. With the Disney Visa and free dining I have 6 months to pay for it and that's what I've chosen to do. It's only $1500 so I'm not really concerned. Just worried about what will happen in the future and how bad things will get.

The price of gas freaks me out. (I know a lot of people think it's much ado about nothing.) I feel it's the precursor to the fall of civilization as we know it. Does that make me a pessimist?

 

[jlewisinsyr]

I think increasing gas prices are a great thing. We have been getting by on really inexpensive fuel for a long time. This cost will inspire new jobs in new fields of engineering and science.

For us, we're not changing our plans. We were actually fortunate (or unfortunate if you consider the circumstances) to need a new car in December and we moved to a nice Volvo that gets about 30% better gas mileage then our previous car (we were in a major car accident). So we now don't need to fill up as much and in turn, we've actually seen our gas bill go down or stay close to the same month to month compared to last year.

As we basically live on just one person salary (the other salary is basically just saved) we really don't think we'll see much of an impact of gas prices anytime in the near future.

 

[RFrank9504]

It's affected how often we go since we live a few hours away.

us too. we were gonna drive up this weekend-but we decided the beach and bbq would be better. we're gonna save the money and use it for our upcoming family reunion.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

Not us. I've worked hard to save up the money to go so I'll just save more for the extra cost of gas.
And we drive 7 hours to get there too.

 

[tripodjw]

If you think $4 a gallon is bad, try driving here in the UK. Average gas price is currently just shy of $10 a gallon (about £4.80 GB pounds).

Admittedly our cars have generally better mileage than US cars but not double!

 

[KayLuvsMickey]

I was concerned that gas would be $4.00 per gallon and figured it would cost around $500+ plus for gas and we get a room each way. A few weeks ago I decided to really look hard for airfare to match/beat the cost of driving down. I was able to get a pretty good rate on NW, we will now have to rent a car since DD is playing volleyball @ WDW & the convention center, but I feel good about making the change.
We will miss our stops @ Sonic and Chik a Fil tho. We love both and there aren't any of either in Michigan.

Chick-Fil-A ?? LOL Sorry, I just thought that was cute