I know and maybe that's the case, I just know the thread discussing it on a disney board was VERY anti assigned dates but that may have been a poor sample.
but it's true Disney doesn't make it's money on the once in a lifetime trippers.
Their money comes from people like my friend who goes every December, stays at one of the big 4 hotels, does disney dining plan and sit down and character meals, etc.
It's why they are investing so much in DVC the people who come every year or every other year are their bread and butter and they know it.
It just sucks that so many are priced out of this experience, because omg, when I told people we didn't plan on doing Disney ever, you should have seen the responses. "But you HAVE to do DISNEY!!!!!"
It's such a pervasive thing in childhood, and it's miserable that so many can't do it.
OMG. So much this. Where I live - yeah, it's basically a given that every family will, at some point, go to Disney. And if you don't... OMG! The HORROR!!!!!!
Granted, I'm old, but it wasn't anywhere like this when I was a kid.
I guess Disney marketing did their thing over the past 30 years to now make Disney a "must do it" vacation.
I thought that was for a family! I'm going to have a heart attack!
Ha, yeah, well when a one day one park ticket is $99, there's no way that any of those passes would be family passes. Insane but we spend as much or more on our season tickets to the local performing arts center and we go more often in a year to DLand. heh
Yeah well, I spent $100 for my Universal pass and got the rest of the year free, so it sounds fucking insane to me. LOL.