FFS when did boats become soooo expensive!

[suke]

The tribute to the Mouse is insane as well. The other Orlando parks are just as bad.

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Went to Disney in Oct and dropped $9k easy. Ugh! That would have been a decent down payment on a new truck.

 

[drewkaree]

I was surfing the local buy/sell/trade and came upon this. Maybe I’m out of touch with prices these days but how could a 26’ boat be this much. My mind is officially blown.



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You're in WI, stop pointing out boats, or @WiskyDan is gonna get the itchy upgrade fever again! ??

 

[Beachcampin]

Went to Disney in Oct and dropped $9k easy. Ugh! That would have been a decent down payment on a new truck.

That is a huge nut. That’s also a very nice cruise in a great cabin. We get a break being FL resident and once every few (or several) years get the cheapest annual pass. Stay at the campground, eat in the camper some, and then each trip’s marginal cost is less and less. By the end of the year, everyone has seen everything multiple times, has had enough of the mouse and I’m off the hook for a while.
It’s still one of the nicest campgrounds in the country, but its cost is insane now too, over 200/night. Seems that some people were booking campground sites to take advantage of getting perks only available if you stayed onsite, but then never showed up and stayed offsite at other hotels or with family. Prices raised to discourage this. But that could also just be BS and they are testing the upper limit of the campground.

 

[suke]

That is a huge nut. That’s also a very nice cruise in a great cabin. We get a break being FL resident and once every few (or several) years get the cheapest annual pass. Stay at the campground, eat in the camper some, and then each trip’s marginal cost is less and less. By the end of the year, everyone has seen everything multiple times, has had enough of the mouse and I’m off the hook for a while.
It’s still one of the nicest campgrounds in the country, but its cost is insane now too, over 200/night. Seems that some people were booking campground sites to take advantage of getting perks only available if you stayed onsite, but then never showed up and stayed offsite at other hotels or with family. Prices raised to discourage this. But that could also just be BS and they are testing the upper limit of the campground.

We're doing a Disney cruise in 2025 and it'll likely cost roughly the same. We stayed at Beach Club which is pretty pricey, and we did 5 days in the park(s). We haven't been since 2020 right before the pandemic and that was just a short trip which cost ~$2500 back then. We could have shaved off some of that by staying at one of the budget resorts and of course decreasing our days in the parks, but since we go only every couple of years we want to do all the parks. Then of course you have all the extras now with genie + and lightning lane, which added yet another $700 or so to our trip. It's expensive AF now a days. I know people are just going in massive debt trying to pay for these Disney trips. If we couldn't afford it we just wouldn't do it, but there's a lot better things I could think to do with $9k than Disney.