Reports accompanying Disney's 2nd Quarter financial statement showed that the theme parks business continues to be strong, despite the economic pressures due to higher oil commodities prices. It appears that this is certainly true till the end of the year. I am planning on being at WDW for a week during the early part of December. A phone call to the DVC members services revealed that Saratoga Springs is almost fully booked, especially for the Studio units. We tried to get Animal Kingdom Lodge as our first choice - no dice. A search of ther DVC resorts revealed almost the same problem. We could not get a contiguous dates at a particular resort during that early part of December! And this is supposed to be one of their slower times of the year before the mad holiday season!
We finally ended up getting a 2-bedroom villa (there will be 4 of us on this trip) at SSR for the dates that we wanted. If this is any indication, it looks like people are still going to WDW even during the economic slowdown. Disney certainly has made itself almost immune to such economic pressures, but for how long?
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