The "Sunrise Safari Breakfast" includes "fresh pastries, exotic fruit & chia parfaits, glazed pork belly bacon, pan-seared sausage and roasted gold potato & onion hash." But, as with most of Disney's upcharge events, the experience includes more than just the food. After the meal, diners will get to take a turn on the mic as they skipper one of the Jungle Cruise boats before the park opens to the public. Diners also get a keepsake Tribal Mask, some of which likely will end up on eBay as diners attempt to recoup part of the cost of the experience.
The event starts Sept. 21 and runs for a few selected days between then and early December.
Walt Disney World has been adding a variety of upcharge experiences in recent years, usually in the form of dessert parties. But the Disneyland Jungle Cruise breakfast sets a new standard for pricing, at $300 a head. (Insert your favorite Trader Sam joke here.) Will the locals who make up the majority of Disneyland visitors (especially at this time of year) be as willing to pay for an upcharge experience as the typically more free-spending, out-of-market Walt Disney World visitors have been?
Update: $300 for breakfast too much? Then how about $150 for dinner... during the upcharge Mickey's Halloween Party? The new Mystical Spirits of the Blue Bayou Halloween Dining Experience includes a three-course meal at the Blue Bayou and reserved seating for the Halloween Screams Fireworks Spectacular, as well as live entertainment in the Bayou, hosted by Dr. Facilier, who will present you with a lithograph of original artwork by Disney Animator Eric Goldberg.
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Wait, drop the 2.
Chop it by half, and I'm satisfied.
For that kind of money, you should get to take a boatload of your friends on the ride during operating hours and get to do the whole spiel from a script.
If they were forcing this package down our throats, then I'd be outraged, but no one ever said you absolutely had to buy the package. It's just something nice to do if you have the extra money. You can still enjoy the park whether or not you buy it. Besides, is it any worse than UO making you pay for both parks just to experience all of Harry Potter?
If Disney can sucker people into paying $300 to eat pancakes amongst a herd of animatronic gazelle, then good for them. There's a very finite amount of people who can do that, and its not something most people would be interested in doing, anyway.
If you want to go to Universal instead of Disney on your next vacation, I can't disagree - that's my next Florida vacation plan too (and will be until Avatar's open and the Studios are a functioning park again). But going to Universal instead of Disney because you don't like the concept of upgrade payments is like those people who said they were leaving the USA to go to Canada if socialized medicine were to be put in place.
B. Goodwin...you took the words right out of my mouth. There is nothing wrong with these businesses making money when the opportunities there. That's why they're able to drop a billion on these massive new park expansions that we all love.
The widening income gap is not a theme park problem, it's a social political problem.
Just admit that you've always to be able to walk around in the jungle cruise sets and you're jealous someone else will be able to
Why all the hate?
This is the free market at work, and Disney is actually being a good corporate entity for once by offering services like this that make some people very happy without degrading the time in the park for the rest of us.
It would do very well. I'd pay it just to say we actually went on some rides at Disney World... most of your day is spent waiting in lines.
Just because it's not my choice for $800 for the two of us with admission doesn't make it wrong. And as a stockholder in my IRA, I really like it - we could use some help this month...
GG
In curious to know how those who are against this breakfast feel about Disney's room rates. Both WDW and Disneyland routinely charge $400+/night at some of their resorts. Does that upset you, too?
Why would they stop at $300 person? There is no limit to how much they can charge. It sounds like sour grapes to suggest the Jungle Cruise breakfast is a bad idea and there's a better idea of what to charge for. If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
Heh, it may just be that, for me at least, it's a lot easier to envision spending extra money for dinner vs. breakfast.....
The best part....
"At the end of your adventure, you’ll be escorted out of the park."
I think they should do breakfast lunch and dinner and make it part of the ride for everyone else. Just think of all of the jokes the boat skippers can come up with as their driving past the people eating on the shores. I also love the idea of the Haunted Mansion walk through and the Blue Bayou Haunted Halloween Dinner.
No sour grapes here.
Answer to your question:
Because people are making their own sacrifices despite the raising prices to visit Disney. Ask around how people afford their constant trips, and they'll tell you how they skrimped and saved this and that, which I think is absurd to live off of ramen noodles for 2 years just so you can spend a couple more days with the mouse. Disney is like a drug that most people are obliviously hooked on, and need more and more of. They'll do what it takes for their next visit. As for me, I don't see any increased value with the price hikes, and will be taking my hard earned money elsewhere. I had a good run at Disney, but I don't see value in what they're offering.
Sadly, I think they can!
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