Please don’t take this the wrong way, but my wife and I had a conversation about that very thought yesterday. For the first time in forever I got a text-like notification yesterday on my cell phone from Disney Destinations promoting their year long 50th anniversary activities. My first thought was … is this spam, how’d they get my phone number? Then I realized that this was in addition to 5 other emails I’ve received from Disney Destinations in just the last 2 weeks promoting their cruises, the Aulani resort, the new Special Offers and a PIN code. My wife also commented that she has started seeing more and more Disney advertisements on national TV. For us going to WDW is a 16 hour car ride. I share all that because we just cancelled a reservation at the CS Tower in February for two reasons, primarily covid but honestly, also cost. Silly me just couldn’t get past the realization that we’d spend darn near the same this year (all costs included) at the CS resort as we spent last April at the GF. Out of frustration I rationalized our decision not to go on Disney management manipulation. Disney is still getting beat up badly by financial analyst. One just downgraded the company yesterday due to perceived poor profit growth in part, at its park business. I worked with executive leadership before I retired. For me so much of what I see and hear Chapek do is dejavu. No wonder they are pulling out all the financial stops on everything they control to increase revenue and profits. Unfortunately for us out of towners the value just isn’t there anymore. We don’t get the same ticket and room offers that lucky locals do, and I fully understand that. As everyone who posts here knows, ticket prices aren’t the only thing going crazy these days. For us however, it seems that the “deals” have been replaced by marketing hype.
In fairness to Disney, here is where we stayed last April and how they treated us. Boy did we get spoiled. See post #21. GF Room Upgrade