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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can go to London, stay in nicer accommodations, eat better food, not wait in lines, take your kids to large play places and slides, and see some real Norman castles for less money.  Or go take your kid hiking and lake swimming for far less.

Having grown up in Orlando I really did used to have a fondness for the parks.  But the magic just isn't there anymore.[/quote]

We do all three of these types of vacations, but these posts always irritate me.  The flights to Europe for a family are more than a Disney trip, if you need to travel over school breaks, and even more so if you're not willing to fly overnight in economy and let your kids sleep next to a stranger with no assigned seating.  Just out of curiousity, I just priced on American a r/t to London from IAD for winter break -- $935pp for basic economy (which probably doesn't include assigned seats) or $2225 pp for premium economy (which is still a pretty miserable experience). London hotels are also expensive.  Disney is only a 2 hour flight, making it so much more practical for a 3-4 day weekend, with no jet lag.  And when was the last time you rented a house at a lake like Deep Creek? We just did that and it was several thousand dollars for the week for a very basic house at a very basic lake, and that's before we rented a boat to be able to get around the lake, which was another couple thousand.  So that's not cheap either.  And neither of those experiences give you the experience of flying through the air on a different planet.  I just think that they aren't comparable vacations AND that people always underestimate the costs of those other trips.

Part of hte ever-increasing price is that Disney has been adding newer and fancier rides every year.  Back in the 80's, there were almost no upgrades/changes to the basic parks (obviously Epcot was new then).  They are adding a new high profile ride every year or more frequently now -- and if you compare the safety features, design elements and theming to someplace like Six Flags, it's clear that it requires more money to do it the way Disney does it.  It really doesn't surprise me that the parks are expensive, considering what they are putting into it.  [/quote]

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