Parking at the resort itself for cash guests is $25 a night (may be $30, I’m not sure). That resort parking fee is not charged to DVC members or their guests/renters staying on points, and Disney’s justification for the $190 resort fee is that it covers resort parking as well as internet service.
I am here now. It's $25 at the parks. $50 for a better parking spot, since they are not running the parking lot trams, which is something I thought they were bringing back, but maybe we will no longer get parking lot trams. After all, we are walking about 5-6 miles a day at the parks and what's another 1/4 mile to the car.
We get free parking with our AP's, but I can see free parking going away for everyone. People seem willing to pay whatever it costs to get into those Lightning Lanes, which I feel is another cash grab. So Disney is really doing what they said, they are catering to a class of people who want to pay for the luxuries of being at Disney.
I have a friend who books resorts and tickets for clients, and she said people will put their $5-6,000 vacation on a credit card, sometimes multiple credit cards. They don't care about paying the interest on their credit cards to go to Disney. They book dining reservations at the expensive places, too. Either they are well off or do not care what it costs them in the longrun. She has talked people out of these trips.
I don't care what Disney charges me at check-in with an exchange, it's always a bargain, and I rent my 500 DVC points on Koala for $20 per point. I can pay a lot of $190 fees with that profit.
People here are trying to talk us out of exchanging into Disney. It's not going to work for me, but maybe some of you will buy their kool-aid.