When you are comparing, you can't exclude the price of AP's.
See, that's just it, when doing my comparison's or justifications, or rationalizations, or what ever anyone may want to call it I can include or exclude anything I want. I am not really advocating that anyone else use my comparisons. They are my way of thinking about it but don't need to be anyone else's. The bottom line in all this and basically is where I thought the discussion was leading is can certain folks afford Disney or not. I you can afford to go then go, if you have to go in debt or forgo other things that my be more necessary to make the trip, then don't go. Gosh knows I could afford to stay in much nicer resorts and spend way more on food and experiences, but choose not to because I have other things in life that I want to spend my money on. It goes back to my very first post in this thread that Middle Class is being defined in terms of income when in the end one should be more concerned with net worth and accumulated wealth as opposed to income solely. I know many high income people with no savings or much net worth and people with solid middle class income who are very wealthy.
Each family has to make the choice about what is right for them.