I'm a bit surprised by the repeated assumption here that if you plan a multiday trip and one day happens to be a silver or gold tier while the rest are bronze that it will automatically raise the entire cost to silver/gold for the entire package.
That seems like an incredibly shortsighted assumption. Folks would instead just book a trip for the bronze days and then book a separate one for the higher tier days. I mean, why would someone get forced to paying a higher price for every single day just because one day they are there is higher?
Disney is not run by idiots. They already have a system that calculates daily hotel rates and gives you the sum without rounding every single night up to the highest cost. WHy wouldn't they use a similar approach to the ticket system?
At the end of the day, the worst part of this is how it continues to push people into the slower times creating a scenario where it is becoming more and more difficult to plan your vacation at a time that isn't shoulder to shoulder crowded.
And while it is incredibly disappointing to see prices going up when arguably only one park is worth full admission, these price jumps aren't high enough to run a typical family off.
If the smiths want to go to Disney in the 3rd or 4th week of december, then the smiths aren't going to see that it costs an extra $100 per person for their 5 day trip ($20 difference between gold and bronze x 5 days) when they are already dropping several thousand for the rest of the trip. And honestly, it wouldn't even be $100 per person since the cost goes down on the multi-day tickets. But my point still stands. Your average person decides when they want to go before they start looking at costs or crowd trackers or any of this stuff. They type the dates into the website or call the vacation hotline, get a quote and for the most part continue from there. They aren't going to be pulling up tiered ticket calendars.
