Theme park inflation

[drnp]

I feel the yearly inflation is quite steep, especially for the non-theme park ticket items. Hotel rates, food, DCL, even photopass have yearly increases much more than inflation. I feel the spikes in the "premium" experiences are some of the highest increases. In 2012, a premium tour for WDW was $300/hr for 6 hrs. It was $400/hr in 2015, and the rate is even more now with higher minimum number of hours. DCL concierge yearly increases are similar. In 2014, 7 night cat V on Fantasy was about $11K for 4, its over $16K for same room same ship, same week for 2018. The pricing power for the "experience" items is strong.

 

[kydisneyfans]

Honestly the cost increase we are finding in the Disney vacations is transportation. The days of $150-175 flights RT on SW are gone. Now we are lucky to find under $250 on any airline. Driving is becoming more of an option going forward.

Hotel costs have skyrocketed. We are looking at Seattle for a 5 day trip in June. Flights(1600) and hotel(1400) are nearly 3K alone. Add in rental, food, tickets, etc and 5 days is 5K. It's cheaper to fly to Ireland for a trip. $300 a night beachfront in a hotel anywhere along the Atlantic coast is common in the summer anymore-we used to get condos for $1000 a week.

Ticket costs at Disney have increased, but playing the 2 trip in a 12 month period and DVC discounts make that game a little easier on the wallet. I haven't seen food costs at Disney increase as fast as some of the other costs.

 

[LSUmiss]

I honestly haven’t seen an obvious yearly increase. We always book through discounts with the travel agent & haven’t noticed a huge difference year to year. Looking back years ago, trips were much cheaper, but we also do things now that cost more so it’s hard to make a direct comparison.

 

[Patience]

We stayed at the Royal Pacific. That is one of the deluxe ones, I think. It was nice, but I didn’t find it to be special. It was also nearly $500 a night (quite a bit more than we are paying for the Poly) The rooms were quite small for 5 people; smaller than the Poly. I see they’ve remodeled them since we went 2 years ago. They look nicer now.

Citywalk was nice and we spent one day in Legoland. It was a nice trip but not really a lot less than Disney, though it was a shorter trip.

Wow is right. We stayed at Royal Pacific December 16-20, 2017 and paid $199 per night using an AP rate!

 

[tams0375]

Just griping right now, but just had to give up on a dream trip staying at the Contemporary. Frustrating and disappointing, but what can you do if you can't afford it?