DisneyWishes14
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- Nov 21, 2011
The issue, though, is that a person who is STAYING at the resort is already PAYING. A person who is VISITING the resort is getting to park there for free. It should be the other way around. A person who is just visiting should be paying a separate parking fee and the person who is paying to stay overnight at the resort should not since they are already paying to stay there.
I agree. Resort guests should park for free and Day guests (with ADR's) should be charged if they exceed their allotted three hours of parking at the resort. That day guest fee should be far more than the theme park parking fee, thereby cracking down on non-resort guests simply parking there all day long to go to the parks.
Sure there is - you get to walk into a deluxe resort. And, deluxe resorts are more premium locations (often with less parking) for those who choose to park at the resorts for the purposes of visiting the parks. Thus, by making deluxe $2 more than general parking at the parks, it discourages that even further.
Day guests don't pay for parking so adding an overnight parking fee for resort guests will not discourage day guests from continuing to park all day long at the resorts.
What’s bad is they could have easily raised the rates of all rooms $15-$45 per night (value-deluxe) and nobody would have noticed or probably cared as much. Disney would have made more money, getting this amount from all guests, not just those who drive, and would not be facing the negative feedback. I tend to keep up with cost of tickets, but for hotel costs, I always just use the reservation system to get a quote for the room, and it is what it is. If the goal is to get less traffic on the roads with the same amount of guests, I’m sure there is a better option.
You forget that if this was embedded in the cost of the room, Disney would have to pay commission on that room rate to TA's, wholesalers, etc. Room commission for TA's is 10% and then you have to have a bunch of people in accounting and billing making sure those commissions are calculated and paid. I'm sure one of the reason they chose a stand-along fee is so they do not have to pay commission on it to anyone.