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I wonder if people who complain about the cost of meals at Disney are paying their own airfare and room costs? That's such a small part of the total cost of the trip. Meals are expensive at Disney but they are expensive at most places you could go. At UTC we were paying $2.50 for a slice of really bad pizza. If you go to a basketball, football, baseball, what ever game the food is going to be as bad as Disney and will not taste as good. So food is really a small piece of the pot.
Airfare is huge and the air fare to central Florida is very cheap compared to other places. The Disney hotels cost more than hotels outside the park but still compare fairly well with hotels in other parts of the country. Especially for what you get. If you put a group the size of FIRST in a lot of those other places than hotel prices would go up because of supply and demand. Plus the transportation between hotels and the venue would add additional costs.
I get the impression that we are going to Disney at a slower time of year. If you look at the park opening schedules you will see that the parks stay open longer the weeks BEFORE we get there. Open hours increase as the crowds do. A few weeks earlier and we'd be in prime spring break time. A few weeks later and we'd be hitting summer vacations. I'm not sure we have too many better windows. The fall is out. No one has time to get organized in the fall. Experienced teams might be ok but rookies would get killed.
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