Escalating Prices at Disneyland

Let’s do the math. Disneyland raises its price of admission $2. On an average week, let’s say, they get 100,000 “guests.” That is $200,000 in extra revenue weekly to “pay for their added expenses.”

The day before election day they have the nerve to do this as we, the people, scrutinize every candidate and proposition on the ballot to be sure that our taxes are spent properly and or not raised too much.

I have a family of five and cannot afford nor justify $43 per person, or $215, just to get in the park, and this doesn’t even include parking and gas to get there. Once inside the park, you have to spend more money on overpriced sodas and mediocre food, not to mention maybe one or two souvenirs for the kids.

By the end of the day, one could spend an entire week’s hard-earned wages. In a time when a box of cereal costs $5, I don’t think the average family can afford these extravagant prices to take our families to “The Happiest Place On Earth.”

What happened to affordable entertainment? Does a multibillion-dollar corporation really need another $2 per person to pay for their extra expenditures? Wouldn’t it be great if you could go up to your boss and ask for a $2-an-hour raise so that you could add on to your house or take an extravagant vacation?

Well, they just priced themselves out of my budget. I think they should just change the name of one of their more popular rides to “The Pirates Of Anaheim.”

MARC MARINO

Garden Grove