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I'm glad enough people have chimed in on this hogwash. Just another cherry picked example with a bunch of posters taking it at face value and piling on. Must be tough having that much pent up anger over politics to twist things into anything that serves your narrative.
Just looked it up and found dozens of flights for less than $500.
Inflation is bad but we don't need to make things up or pretend outliers are common.
Disney is not for median families any more. I went in 2016 and it was 800 bucks for the day all in. And I stayed at my parents house so no hotel. I warned my kids this was their one time one and done. Disney World is fun but its like a slow motion mugging.
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Southwest - family of 4 - week of 4/24 - airline - $1997.00
Disney - no Allstar resorts available only Wilderness Lodge with 5 day ticket and hopper - 2 adults and 2 kids - over $5000.
I always wanted to go to Disney - even at 64 yrs old but the price and the wokeness - I crossed it off my bucket list.
I'm all for calling people out when they are mistaken but if there is a certain airline they always travel - that's what they'll go to first - even the cheapest flights on Frontier would cost a family of 4 $1000 - so due to availability - cheapest Disney vacation for a family of 4 from Buffalo to Orlando is $6000
By the way, OP also said round trip tickets were 5 grand. Uhhh, ok?
The pic you have are late in the night flights (least optimal for families) on Frontier (budget airline/bags and everything is extra). I believe the OP is trolling but maybe used F class fares on the most peak days, optimal times, with all the options.
The fares seem higher than usual at the same time (let's say 2019)
But we have a. high gas prices b. pent up demand.
I was able to get a Southwest PHL-MCO jearly evening one way nonstop for $72 but I had to use their low fare calendar to fly out on a Tuesday. I'd expect BOS-MCO to be more expensive though but not like west coast-MCO fares.
Why would anyone want to go to Disney anymore? Disney blows.
How about going to a National Park, hiking, and seeing nature? Visiting National Parks is cheap and more memorable than the garbage at Disney.
You could go to Acadia National Park or go hiking in the White Mountains in NH. There are great oceanside inns in Maine that are pretty cool; you can drive to all those places.
Or....................... go halfway there to Charleston SC and go to the beaches at Kiawah or Island of the Palms. A lot more fun than standing in line at Disney and eating crappy food. You can go crabbing with the kids, fishing, or dolphin watching and charter a boat to go to a deserted barrier island and boil up a barrel of blue crabs on the beach.
Or.............................. going to Asheville NC and hiking in Linville Gorge, Grandfather mountain, Mt. Mitchell and Roan Mt. Take in some whitewater rafting and see some weird music at the Carter family fold. Stay out of Smokey Mt. National Park- too crowded. If driving on the way down go through the Cumberland Gap and go to the park in western Virginia where the wild ponies roam the mountains.
Fuel costs, pent up demand, etc. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Neither is this the first time in history that airfare has jumped up significantly in pricing.
If I had enough money for a family vacation to Disneyworld, the last place I'm going is Disneyworld.
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