1 day ticket cost

[Sanderspooh]

We are suddenly going to Disney in September, but will only have 1 day at a Park. We have decided on Hollywood Studios - even though Galaxies Edge may have it super crowded. I am wondering if ticket prices at the gate are the same each day? Or do they change depending on the day of the week and if it is a Holiday? I saw on My Disney Experience that the prices were different for a one day pass depending on the day. Thank you for your expertise and extreme knowledge of all things Disney!

 

[holden]

Ticket prices are date-based. Go on the website and pretend to purchase a ticket to see the price.

 

[Master Fastpasser]

Prices are based on date and which park you choose.
Buy ahead so you can make FP selections.

 

[CastAStone]

We are suddenly going to Disney in September, but will only have 1 day at a Park. We have decided on Hollywood Studios - even though Galaxies Edge may have it super crowded. I am wondering if ticket prices at the gate are the same each day? Or do they change depending on the day of the week and if it is a Holiday? I saw on My Disney Experience that the prices were different for a one day pass depending on the day. Thank you for your expertise and extreme knowledge of all things Disney!

EDIT: removed bad info.

 

[SteveMouse]

There are not usually discounts on one day tickets- they are sometimes more expensive from third party vendors than from Disney itself.

 

[Robo]

Also Don’t buy your tickets from Disney, buy them from a reputable 3rd party site and save meaningful money.

There are not usually discounts on one day tickets- they are sometimes more expensive from third party vendors than from Disney itself.

Correct.

No discounts are offered on 1-day and 2-day tickets.

 

[Master Fastpasser]

Yep as Pop's have said no discounts for one day tickets. I suggest buying directly from Disney.

 

[epcotty]

I miss the days of everyday being the same price. Alas, that ended 3 years ago corporate greed striking again

 

[Master Fastpasser]

I miss the days of everyday being the same price. Alas, that ended 3 years ago corporate greed striking again

Didn't date based only go into effect last year? A few years ago they
Implemented expiration dates hut tickets were not priced base on date at that point.

 

[epcotty]

Didn't date based only go into effect last year? A few years ago they
Implemented expiration dates hut tickets were not priced base on date at that point.

Well the 1 day tickets started being date based 3 years ago

 

[Master Fastpasser]

Well the 1 day tickets started being date based 3 years ago

Gotcha. I'm sure I probably knew that at some point and just forgot.
I haven't purchaseed a 1 day ticket since 2015 when I went for a 43 hour get away lol.

 

[godisney14]

I miss the days of everyday being the same price. Alas, that ended 3 years ago corporate greed striking again

I'm sure they have data analysts tracking all visitors and ticket purchases to find out how best to maximize ticket revenue. There's a reason why the marginal cost of adding another day becomes almost negligible after the first few days.

 

[epcotty]

I'm sure they have data analysts tracking all visitors and ticket purchases to find out how best to maximize ticket revenue. There's a reason why the marginal cost of adding another day becomes almost negligible after the first few days.

I know the reason they changed the 1 day pass was to get people to buy the multiple day passes. However with them now changing the multiple day passes to being date based, what is their goal? Make everyone buy an AP?

 

[suemom2kay]

When are you going again after September? An AP may make sense if you will have enough days throughout the year. I don’t know how many days are the break even point with the new AP prices.

If you are definitely buying one day tickets, I suggest you purchase sooner rather than later. IIRC, there was NO notice for the AP price increase. They could easily do the same for park tickets.

 

[fla4fun]

Well the 1 day tickets started being date based 3 years ago

I think two different things are being discussed here. The one day tickets went to different priced seasons a few years ago. There were value tickets, regular tickets and peak tickets. Multi day tickets were not part of the seasonal pricing.

Last year, they decided to get more specific. Now there aren’t priced seasons. Every day can be a different price. They also extended it to multi day tickets at this time, and changed the validity period on them from a flat 14 days from first use to basing the validity period on how many days you purchased.

So until you pick your date, you don’t know what it will cost. I thought they had some sort of price estimator online. Was that just when they first made the change? I have an AP so I don’t shop for tickets very often.

 

[epcotty]

Yeah we don't get regular however many days tickets anymore either. We're using fl resident 4 day passes that can be used in a 6 month time frame now and when that's over we'll start our silver passes

 

[_19disnA]

Selling tickets by day makes sense if they are trying to manage how many are at the parks each day. This gives Disney some sense of how many plan to be in attendance (and perhaps help with staffing plans), but they still won't know how many with annual passes will just decide to show up some weekend.

 

[Sanderspooh]

I think two different things are being discussed here. The one day tickets went to different priced seasons a few years ago. There were value tickets, regular tickets and peak tickets. Multi day tickets were not part of the seasonal pricing.

Last year, they decided to get more specific. Now there aren’t priced seasons. Every day can be a different price. They also extended it to multi day tickets at this time, and changed the validity period on them from a flat 14 days from first use to basing the validity period on how many days you purchased.

So until you pick your date, you don’t know what it will cost. I thought they had some sort of price estimator online. Was that just when they first made the change? I have an AP so I don’t shop for tickets very often.

Thank you fla4fun - for clarifying. This helped. I was wondering about the different day pricing - I had seen online each day was different pricing - so I was wondering if at the Parks it changed daily for a 1 day ticket also. Sounds like it does, so online and at the gate pricing would be the same. We have a bigger trip planned for next year, wish we could make more than 1 day this year, but that's life sometimes.