We did an annual pass once when we knew we had 2 trips planned to WDW in one year.
I am more upset they got rid of the non expiring option. We would purchase the 10 day passes and were able to get a few trips on one pass!
Ahh, the good old days
You can still get the no expiration add-on - you just have to ask for it since it's not advertised. It's still a shit load of money but it's so nice to be able to buy the large passes to drop the price per day down to something that's a little more tolerable.
(at least I'm 95% sure this is still an option - I haven't looked at tickets since the spring so something may have changed)
Eta: now I remember..... You have to buy them through Mouse Savers.
You can still get the no expiration add-on - you just have to ask for it since it's not advertised. It's still a shit load of money but it's so nice to be able to buy the large passes to drop the price per day down to something that's a little more tolerable.
(at least I'm 95% sure this is still an option - I haven't looked at tickets since the spring so something may have changed)
Eta: now I remember..... You have to buy them through Mouse Savers.
MouseSavers only has kids left I think. Â
Walt would not be happy about these rising costs!
Damn. We didn't pull the trigger last year and now I'm kicking myself b
Just looking at Disneyland, it doesn't seem like that much of an increase (up 9-10%, aside from the SoCal passes which they seem like they're trying to phase out at an 18% increase). Or is it just that they keep increasing the prices?
"The new price for a Deluxe pass, with some Saturday and peak-holiday-period blackouts, went up $50, to $599. Southern California passes, which are only available for renewals, increased to $459 from $389. The cheapest pass – Southern California Select – went to $329 from $299."
This is the second price increase this year I believe
I hope this loses Disney a ton of money and it will be ground into the dust once and for all.
This basically what they are hoping for! They are over crowded and trying to decrease crowds, especially during the holidays when they sometimes have to close the gates because they reach max capacity
this will not keep us from renewing. the signature pass is sufficient - we don't go to the parks during the holidays anyway, so all it does is raise the price by like $50 a year and adds digital downloads of photos. works for me.
This is what we'll likely do as well. Also, it used to be that if you decided you wanted to upgrade your pass at any point, like say you wanted to go into the park on a blackout day of your current pass, you could pay the difference and get that higher level pass for the rest of the year. So easy enough if you decide you absolutely must go to the park during the two weeks of blackout dates.
I hope this loses Disney a ton of money and it will be ground into the dust once and for all.
It was well know when I worked there a decade ago that Disney doesn't make their money off of the tickets, and certainly not their passes. It's all the overpriced crap and food inside the parks that makes them the dollar dollar bills yo.
this will not keep us from renewing. the signature pass is sufficient - we don't go to the parks during the holidays anyway, so all it does is raise the price by like $50 a year and adds digital downloads of photos. works for me.
So did I understand the article correctly, you would no longer pay for the pics?
not for digital downloads. you still pay for printed pics, but i guess you could just print them yourself for super cheap.
We also live about 10-15 min away. We just got passes 2 weeks ago. If we hadn't I'm not sure we would have gone with passes. we probably would have just used our family member for sign ins occasionally.
I hope this loses Disney a ton of money and it will be ground into the dust once and for all.
It was well know when I worked there a decade ago that Disney doesn't make their money off of the tickets, and certainly not their passes. It's all the overpriced crap and food inside the parks that makes them the dollar dollar bills yo.Â
I believe it. We took our son to Disney last week and we bought him an $8 balloon. Thankfully he's only 2, so he wasn't asking for tons of souvenirs, but I was pretty shocked at an $8 balloon!
I hope this loses Disney a ton of money and it will be ground into the dust once and for all.
They are getting ready to trial making summer cost more/off season cost less because they are getting too crowded (which is part of why they raised these prices) don't think his is going to happen.
They are getting ready to trial making summer cost more/off season cost less because they are getting too crowded (which is part of why they raised these prices) don't think his is going to happen.
I agree. Pricing some people out is their goal in this, I think. It's not that they want Disney to be only for the wealthiest, but they have to manage crowds. There are too many people in the parks, lines are too long, and they occasionally have to close the gates because they are sold out for the day. They actually need the demand to go down, and they're doing that by raising prices. Some people will decide it's not worth it.
I think a lot of this could be solved by people having to purchase tickets for specific dates. I know it'd be a logistical nightmare at first, and lots of people would complain, but something has to be done to manage attendance at the park. It's better than planning a vacation around a trip to the park, then arriving and finding the park sold out for the day!
Just looking at Disneyland, it doesn't seem like that much of an increase (up 9-10%, aside from the SoCal passes which they seem like they're trying to phase out at an 18% increase). Or is it just that they keep increasing the prices?
"The new price for a Deluxe pass, with some Saturday and peak-holiday-period blackouts, went up $50, to $599. Southern California passes, which are only available for renewals, increased to $459 from $389. The cheapest pass – Southern California Select – went to $329 from $299."
This is the second price increase this year I believe
We had passes in 2011-2012 when my DD was free. Our passes were $329 and we mostly when on Sundays and avoided the holidays anyway. Financially, this made a ton of sense. She was under 2 so she was free and we only had to pay for 2 passes.
But now? We'd have to pay for 4 passes and we wouldn't use it enough to justify the cost.
We were talking about planning a trip next year because DS has never been but even forking out $400 in one day for tickets seems outrageous we likely wont.
We live about 50 miles north of Anaheim and have done a three-day park hopper each year since we've lived here. H is military so it is a great deal - $129 per person for 3-day park hopper - and they can be used any time and broken up into three different trips. More than three days at Disneyland or CA Adventure just sounds like hell to me. MAYBE if it were in our back yard we would consider season passes, but the black out dates are excessive now and I don't think any of it is a very good deal. Full disclosure, I am definitely not in the "Disney is so magical" camp. It's a well-done amusement park to me.
I would agree this is a total crowd management move. Sadly, it will impact the less fortunate much more severely. I wish they would just sell tickets for specific dates and sell out if necessary.
I thought that was for a family! I'm going to have a heart attack!
Ha, yeah, well when a one day one park ticket is $99, there's no way that any of those passes would be family passes. Insane but we spend as much or more on our season tickets to the local performing arts center and we go more often in a year to DLand. heh
I thought that was for a family! I'm going to have a heart attack!
Right?! Disney folk are crazy folk. LOL.
My brother-in-law and sister-in-law really really really love Disney. They had a 600-person wedding at Disneyland, and they spent two days out of just seven days in Tokyo at Disney parks. They have framed Disney movie animation cells all over their house.
I thought that was for a family! I'm going to have a heart attack!
Right?! Disney folk are crazy folk. LOL.
My brother-in-law and sister-in-law really really really love Disney. They had a 600-person wedding at Disneyland, and they spent two days out of just seven days in Tokyo at Disney parks. They have framed Disney movie animation cells all over their house.
I can't think of a better gift to give them.
Yes, well, anyone who thinks you are an asshole just needs to read this post. What a generous gift!
I thought that was for a family! I'm going to have a heart attack!
Right?! Disney folk are crazy folk. LOL.
My brother-in-law and sister-in-law really really really love Disney. They had a 600-person wedding at Disneyland, and they spent two days out of just seven days in Tokyo at Disney parks. They have framed Disney movie animation cells all over their house.
I can't think of a better gift to give them.
You can have a wedding at Disneyland? I mean, I guess I should've figured as much, but never really thought about it.
My brother-in-law and sister-in-law really really really love Disney. They had a 600-person wedding at Disneyland, and they spent two days out of just seven days in Tokyo at Disney parks. They have framed Disney movie animation cells all over their house.
I can't think of a better gift to give them.
You can have a wedding at Disneyland? I mean, I guess I should've figured as much, but never really thought about it.
Yep, it's a whole thing with package options, and disney wedding planners, and so on. (did not do this just came across it when planning our WDW trip)
I... just don't understand this. That is so very much money.
I think that's the point. I think with the overcrowding during the busy season they've been having they did some market testing and they make more from people there on 'vacation' then those with a pass so they are intentionally pricing people out of season passes to try to reduce the numbers. I think they are getting worried about the closing days increasing and the increase in high crowd days and how that will affect them long term and are thinking it's better to reduce demand. It's not fair but it's likely a good business decision since the demand is clearly there.
They need to eliminate the 12 months, no interest payments on the passes. I know that makes me an asshole, but they're already trying to price people out anyway.
You're not an asshole. I entirely agree with you. Instead of making them more expensive, they should take away the option to pay off the pass for 12 months. I imagine fewer people would buy them then. And if that didn't help much they should raise the prices.
If they wanted to reduce crowds, they just need to sell a set number of tickets each day. Period. Jacking up the price to reduce crowds just means they're eliminating the poor, which is fucking horrible.
they offered that option in the one asking about tier pricing for high vs. low season (would you rather pay more for tickets during high visitor times - or less for low visitor times or buy a ticket with an assigned date). I think they should've just done it BUT my guess is they listened to their cutomers and the customers rejected that idea. Disney people REALLY don't like having to tie down their dates to parks apparently it was a big complaint on the FP+ system.