GrumpyInPhilly
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Nov 1, 2014
Not everywhere, there isn't a single hotel in my immediate area that charges for parking, and there are a lot of hotels due to proximity to a large military base. Big cities, absolutely..I have paid for parking in Boston, LA, New Orleans. What all of these locations have in common is very little land and what there is it exceedingly expensive so they need to charge for parking to afford to buy and maintain parking areas. Disney already has all of the parking spaces and control of the surrounding land within the limits of rules for environmental concerns and zoning.
They don't need to charge for parking, they are choosing it, whether to increase their bottom line to make up for the fall in share prices for stockholders (of which I am one and I seriously doubt my stocks will increase in per share price even enough to park there for a single night) or to reduce the amount of traffic on their roads.
Not all guests fly in to the airport. There are several states, most of the southeast in fact, that live in a reasonable driving distance and prefer to drive. There are those who just hate flying and will drive for days to get there, and there are those who measure the time and realize driving will take them at most an hour or two more than flying when connecting flights and checking in 1.5-2 hours before flight time figured in. That calculation does not consider the time to get to the resort on DME, which means it is faster for me to drive there than to fly and take DME since my local airport does not fly directly to anywhere but Atlanta and the next nearest airport is a minimum of 1.5 hours away in no traffic, which never happens.
My DW. And she drives the entire 1100 miles each way herself!