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Re: Disney Extortion!

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Originally posted by K2unit
This is the first year Disney mandates to the teams that if they do not stay at a Disney hotel they have to pay Disney $75.00 per person.

This year according to the rules set forth by Disney with F.I.R.S.T.’s full approval we will be required to send Disney a check for $7,500.00 NOT to stay in one of their hotels.

Disney has been VERY supportive of FIRST in the past, but requiring teams to pay Disney NOT to stay in one of their hotels is crossing the line of common sense! The difference in staying at Disney and Best Western (at $59/night) is almost $28,000.00. What were they thinking??!!!!!!!!
This is a topic that has been brought up repeatedly here in the past, so I'm only going to touch on it...You say that the $75 per person event fee is "extortion." Out of curiousity, what would you call it if FIRST eliminated this event fee, but you then had to explain to team B that they had to pay $100 extra per person in their Disney package over what you were paying in your non-Disney package, to cover your team's use of the event site, admittance to the team party, etc? This is what they are preventing with this event fee. The FIRST/Disney packages cost more than a normal Disney package because they help to cover the cost of the event "village," team party, non-package team use of busses provided to Good Neighbor hotels included in the Disney package, etc. I agree with FIRST's statement in making this change in costs, saying that some teams should not subsizide portions of the costs of the Championship event for other teams.
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