Big Disney Resort Price Increases For U.K. Visitors In 2010
Reader Chris W. sent in word that Disney’s UK website has 2010 hotel rates posted, and from the looks of them U.K. visitors can expect price increases of 11 to 47% during summer 2010. The following table represents sample resort rates for four adults, room only, from 12 through 26 July in 2009 and 2010:
| 2009 | 2010 | Pct Increase | |
| All-Star Music | £728 | £924 | 26.9% |
| Pop Century | £826 | £924 | 11.9% |
| All-Star Movies | £1,022 | £1,134 | 11.0% |
| Port Orleans French Quarter | £1,162 | £1,400 | 20.5% |
| Port Orleans Riverside | £1,162 | £1,400 | 20.5% |
| Caribbean Beach | £1,442 | £1,722 | 19.4% |
| Animal Kingdom Lodge | £1,918 | £2,618 | 36.5% |
| Wilderness Lodge | £2,296 | £2,618 | 14.0% |
| Fort Wilderness | £2,352 | £2,884 | 22.6% |
| Beach Club | £2,366 | £3,472 | 46.7% |
| Boardwalk Inn | £2,912 | £3,472 | 19.2% |
| Polynesian | £3,094 | £3,766 | 21.7% |
| Grand Floridian | £3,444 | £4,102 | 19.1% |
Update: All Things Disney has some further thoughts here.
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I doubt this will work for long if it even does through to final booking but I just quoted for Dec 2010 to compare to my trip this year at Riverside. They only quote free dining to Nov 2010 but however it says
Disney Quick (Counter) Service Dining Plan: £18.99 per adult, £5.99 per child Total: £531.72†
Upgrade To Disney Dining Plan: £5.00 per adult, £1.00 per child, per day Upgrade for just £140.00 more!†
However when you go to the final screen (if you choose DDP) and it only adds the £140 (not £531.72 + 140)
Incidentally am I right in thinking it still looks like DDP is a good bet for UK visitors £23.99 per person per day at the moment = $35.99
Free dining for Brits booking next fall? Wow what a great deal. Too bad Disney doesn’t give Americans that much notice of a great deal to come in 2010.
Why 4 adults? Doesn’t this skew the pricing due to the extra adult charges?
Can you provide a link to the price chart?
Joe,
The room charges appear to be the same after the first 2 adults up to room occupancy.
There isn’t a chart that I found per say, but you can go to the Disney UK portal and price from there. That’s where all the rates show up.
Michael
By the way, the more interesting thing to me is this little blurb down the side of the website:
Did you know that for stays between 1st August and 18th November 2010 select Disney resorts offer FREE dining?
How about them potatoes??? Len, does that qualify as ‘slap your grandma good?’
Depends on the grandma, doesn’t it? 😉
I agree with Brian, and if you look you’ll also notice that they’ve cut down on the number of ‘tiers’ in the pricing. In 2009 only 2 resorts had the same pricing. In 2010 there are a lot more hotels with same size pricing.
I’d be hard pressed to fathom why some of them are different though… All-Star Movies more than Pop and Music???? There has to be something going on there more than just a standard room.
BTW, at current exchange rates 1134 pounds sterling is only $1,373, which is a very respectable $98 an night for 4 adults on a 14 day holiday… over a YEAR away. (£1400 for a moderate works out to about $148 a night, still not bad for a peak season stay).
Will be interesting to see if that means Disney will be holding room rates relatively flat for domestic bookings as well.
Not entirely surprising, assuming Disney sets fixed rates in the Pound rather than simply denoting the rates in Dollars and letting the cost in GBP fluctuate with the conversion rate. GBP has taken a beating vs. USD over the past year. It’s gone from about 1:2 to 2:3 (or worse) over the past year.
http://www.exchange-rates.org/history/USD/GBP/G/360
I agree it is almost certainly the exchange rate. Will be interesting to see what Disney sets the domestic rates at.