So if all you care about is dollar value off the special Disney amenities, a non-Disney hotel theoretically has to cost at least $36 less than a Disney hotel for you to break even.
I think the article, in general, stated that it is cheaper, on average, when comparing similar type of resort, to stay at a non-Disney resort.
The question here is whether other resorts have the same range of period as Disney on when they consider their cheaper season versus more expensive season. If they are not in synch, then it is not a fair comparison for either of them. Disney's expensive season might not coincide with other resorts, and since the comparison was done for a specific date and month, one doesn't know who is having what.
The other thing here is that Disney tends to offer vacation packages. So if you include the room and tickets as part of the whole thing, then is this more expensive than a package that one gets at an off-Disney resort when one factors in the ticket prices for that length of stay? I'm guessing that many, if not most, Disney resort guests don't pay "rack" prices.
Zz.
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There's also the perks that come with resort stays that are a bit of "value-add" that is actually hard to put a price on. The free meals deals they throw in during the off-season (particularly September I'd go then if I didn't have weekend performance work back here), the faster transport (usually), and the big plus Extra Magic Hours which for us was an essential part of actually getting to do what we wanted to do, since we were throwing in some backstage tours that took out large chunks of the day.
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