But, the moderates do tend to have significantly more rooms than the deluxe resorts: CBR has 2112 rooms, CSR 1967 rooms, Port Orleans a total of just over 3000 rooms. This is a total of more than 7000 rooms. The three All Stars taken together have 5760 rooms, as will Pop Century when it is built out, so there's little question that the number of value-priced rooms has really increased. Of the newer deluxes (the ones built after the CR, Poly, and WL), AKL has about 1300 rooms or so, the YC has 630, the BC has 583, the BWI has 378, and the GF has about 900 rooms. So they've built about 3800 deluxe rooms in 4 or 5 resorts (depending on how you count YC and BC) over about the same period of time as around 7000 rooms in moderates, again in 3 or 4 resorts (depending on how you count the two parts of PO).
I suspect the number of rooms being built in these various price points reflects the marketplace demand. How often do visitors who want to stay at a moderate have to book deluxe or value instead? Doesn't Disney sometimes offer moderately-priced (no pun intended) upgrades to those calling to book value resorts?
Ralph
