Disney Extortion!

[Madison]

[quote]Originally posted by Perseus

Although my team is burdened by this, i am sure for some smaller, less sponsered teams, this 75 dollars a day is a killer. Trying to come up with the other fees must be near impossible and then to habe to pay 75 dollars a day or 400 a day to stay at a Disney hotel is outrageous

Just to clarify this - the fee of $75 is assessed on a per student basis, rather than a per day basis. So, it's actually ~$16 day, assuming a four night stay.

Again, by choosing an option outside of the offered package, you are *NOT* being assessed any penalty as such! You are simply being asked to pay for your fair share of the costs of the event village.

If, for whatever reason, your team cannot afford to stay on Disney property, and cannot afford the additional $75 per person, you cannot afford to go to Nationals. It's that simple. You're not being cheated, or swindled, or otherwise treated unfairly.

We would've liked to attend one more regional, but we couldn't afford it. Are the hotels ripping us off because we don't have the money to pay them? Not really.