...For every one person who stops going, there are 10 who will gladly pay the fees. Crowd sizes go down...profits for stock holders stay up. Seems like a win win to me.
Of course, it's fine you are happy to pay Disney more and you're not alone in desiring lower crowd levels.
If there are, potentially, ten gladly paying for every one who won't, that's, either, still quite a percentage drop for Disney in resort bookings, or, if you happen to think it's a small percentage, not much of a potential change in terms of current crowd levels. On its own, I, also, can't see this new move much affecting profits either way.
Unless, you mean the ten are waiting in the wings, but, then, people numbers would, at the very least, remain the same.
Also, since this is about the resorts and not the parks directly, do you actually mean crowds at
resorts will go down? iIf most unhappy people stay off-site rather than on-, they'll still be at the parks.
In the broader context, for me and, I think, others, this isn't just about money. This storm of responses is also in reply to the impact of Disney's general direction of quality down, prices up in recent years. ...Which doesn't seem to have reduced crowds.
Perhaps, they're seeing how far they can push this to get the result they want? Perhaps, they've lost site of true, long-term value? I don't know, but if they keep going and the bad feeling keeps rippling out, as it tends to do, the tide could well turn against them and, by then, be hard to stop.
This seems to be more about goodwill going down and I can't see the benefit of that in the long-term.
I spent 10 days in England in very nice hotels ( most business class lounges ) and kept it under 4,000 with airfare which I could never book 10 days on property with dining for that !
