Disney parks doing well despite hard times

It seems that hard economic times are not affecting the Disney parks, yet. According to this article Disney park vacation bookings are better than last year.

"In late July, company officials said September bookings at Disney's U.S. resorts were on par with last year, and that bookings for the holiday season were slightly ahead."

Apparently, they do not attribute this to any additional promotions, either.

"... Mr. Iger said the company hadn't increased discounting, compared with the year earlier, and other officials said at the time that the average nightly rate at the company's hotels was 'at or above' what it was in 2007."

While I certainly don't want them to do poorly, I was kind of hoping that the slower economy might generate some good deals from Disney. At this point it looks like their business is doing well enough that they won't have to do that.

I guess we can always hope things get worse (just kidding).