Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt ^^^OMG!! they have sea shell bra's & everything!! My mother will HATE them!!
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey I also priced it without the dining plan and it came up to roughly $970 a person for 9 days; about $110 a day for POR and an 8 day park hopper.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<For me it's just got to the point to where I feel gouged by the Mouse when I go to WDW. I can still afford to go, it's just that it's been losing the Magic with that feeling of pure greed coming from the Mouse House.>> Me too. But it's mostly on the food and beverage ... wonder if Tom Kelly's company is back in the Mouse's good graces on the consulting end. When you see them shrink soft serve ice cream and Dole Whips by at least a third and then raise the prices, you see how ravenous the nickel and diming is. When one person buying a QSR meal can run from $8-13, I'll grab something before or after the park. Room rates are another issue, although they are discounted constantly now. But do rates over $100 or $200 with substantial discounts sound good to you when you can use Priceline and snag a suite at the Hyatt Place for $35 a night ... or a deluxe level resort room at the DD Hilton for $60 ... or a very high end deluxe resort like Gaylord Palms for $80? Not to me. But the pixie dust on property can't blind me that much. And I would really like to stay at DAK Lodge again (maybe a villa) or try the new rooms at BW Inn and Coronado Springs. But times are tough and I need to be realistic too. I stayed off-property for 11 days in July and now I have the money to spend most of September in Paris and LA (including visiting both Disney resorts in said areas). In hindsight, I sure wouldn't trade my future trips for a WDW resort room in July.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<(don't throw shoes at me - my sister really wanted to try it because she's never used it before).>> I'd throw a refillable mug ... an old one, but they're packed away and not easy to get to!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^True, but you can go to places where a fountain drink is 99 cents and you can refill it as many times as you want with the meal. Or you can eat at a much less expensive full serve location and get your free refills that way.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 But do they have generic Disney stuff on them so you don't even know which hotel you stayed at? That bothered me, the one I got last year at the WL was the same one a friend got when she stayed at the All Stars. I'm a snob, I want a better one.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 Mugs are all the same now. Red with the 'Celebrate Today' theme. I only had one QSR meal at a Disney resort (Poly) and I bought a drink.
Originally Posted By dennis-in-ct <<But staying off property, you miss the perks like refillable mugs!!>> and the magic hours. When they close the parks so early you NEED to stay on property to get some TIME with the parks
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey Now that I'm a reformed Coke Zero addict (down from 5-7 a day to two a day - one at lunch and one at dinner) I don't know if it would make sense for me to get a refillable mug in February. I used to fill it up several times a day, but at most I might only fill it up twice a day.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt fill it with ice & drink water..or is the FLA H2O to nasty for your taste buds?
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub If Spirit stayed at the DDHilton he was eligible for the extra magic hours! SSpirit looking forward to your Paris Disney trip reports and DL's.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub I wonder if he will bring back souvenir DL Paris mugs for his LP friends.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<and the magic hours. When they close the parks so early you NEED to stay on property to get some TIME with the parks >> Let's just say there are ways to enjoy EMH without staying at a WDW resort. Swan/Dolphin/Hilton all give you that as well. And they aren't very particular when it comes to checking whether its a current key or one from last January! If someone has moral/ethical issues with such scandalous behavior (just in time for Nikki's comeback!) ... folks are free to stay and shop, eat or soak up the atmosphere as cards are only needed at attraction entrances. And I gotta tell ya a good 50% of the time, CMs had very little interest in checking.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<I wonder if he will bring back souvenir DL Paris mugs for his LP friends.>> I haven't seen them at DLP in the past when I have stayed on property. I won't be this time ... although I will be staying at the DLH at some point in the future. This is a Paris trip, not DLP per se. I will look to see if they have the mugs though. As an FYI as to how crazy DLP hotels are priced, I was quoted a rate of $180 a night at Newport Bay (wouldn't stay there again for free) and $625 at DLH ... yeah, you read that right ... and both were AFTER a 40% cast discount (but hey, they did include breakfast!)
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad Maybe they are raising the prices so that when they do their discounts they will actually be getting full price. this way anyone who pays the non discounted price is just icing on the cake.
