Couple of questions please

[kd5k]

We are DVC owners and heading to Disneyland next month.

I heard a rumor that ticket/passes prices are going up the beginning of Oct. I think she said they were going up $10.00. Does anyone know if this is true or not?

Also, can we purchase our passes (being DVC we get a discount) online and then have them validated when we get to Disneyland?

And lastly.....do the rental strollers there recline? I can't remember for the life of me!!

Thanks in advance!
Deb

 

[CrazyDuck]

Ticket prices have already gone up $10... What you see now is what you get for the next year!..

 

[pickles]

We are DVC owners and heading to Disneyland next month.


Also, can we purchase our passes (being DVC we get a discount) online and then have them validated when we get to Disneyland?

And lastly.....do the rental strollers there recline? I can't remember for the life of me!!

Thanks in advance!
Deb

I am dvc I don't recall this discount..this is for like reg hopper tickets at DL and how much?

 

[disneychrista]

Tickets purchases NOW are good through the end of the year (must be used by Jan 5th?), even if prices go up.

I do not think tickets for 2009 are available yet.

 

[SueTGGR]

If I remember correctly they do not recline. They are a kind of hard plastic. but they are free if you have a Disney Visa card. I don't think they have changed them in the last 6 years, have they??
Sue

 

[kd5k]

hmmmm, interesting. My niece thought they were going up the beginning of Oct? If they went up already, when did they go up?

Pickles, look on the DVC websit. You get a $20.00 discount. Not much..but hey that is a $120.00 savings for us. Just might buy us dinner!!

So, anyone know if I can buy them ahead of time and have them validated when we get there?

thanks again!

 

[CrazyDuck]

August 3!

http://ocresort.freedomblogging.com/2008/08/01/disney-raises-ticket-prices/

 

[tink2dw]

I searched google and Disney to raises ticket prices on Oct 1, this search just brings up the August price rise.

Perpap it has to due with DVC?

 

[Sherry E]

They usually raise the ticket prices once every year. Sometimes they have even skipped a year (though that is unlikely now). Seeing that they literally JUST raised them, they are not going to raise them again less than two months later. They will raise them again next year. What they offer online now are some special advanced order prices - for online orders only. So if you buy a 2-day Park Hopper online NOW, it will be $132, but the regular price at the gate is $143, and after that date in January, the online order price will be $143. And then, somewhere between August and October NEXT year, they will likely raise the overall ticket prices again.

 

[DTDkettleCORNfan]

While prices for tickets bought at the gate (and prices for 2009 tickets) did go up at the end of summer, tickets bought online for use in 2008 did not go up. We bought tickets from Disney's website just before the increase, and today they are still available at the same price. We did the print at home tickets....super easy.

 

[avalon451]

They are canvas joggers with a slight recline built into them, but they don't recline as such. They're not hard plastic. They have a folding canopy on the top and a medium-sized storage basket on the bottom.

 

[Sherry E]

While prices for tickets bought at the gate (and prices for 2009 tickets) did go up at the end of summer, tickets bought online for use in 2008 did not go up. We bought tickets from Disney's website just before the increase, and today they are still available at the same price. We did the print at home tickets....super easy.

Yeah, that is just the special online advanced purchase limited-time offer only, just like if you buy a special 3-day Hopper at Vons for $99 or so. It is not that ordering online is generally that much different than buying at the gate, unless you get a SoCal discount or so. It is just a special limited time offer, but the CM I spoke to in Guest Services just two weeks ago was VERY specific in telling me firmly that, for example, the 2-Day Hopper tickets ARE $143, and she doesn't want people to mistakenly think they are $132, I guess people have been showing up at the ticket booths trying to buy tickets at the prices advertised online, and the verbiage is not explicit enough online to make it clear to people that those lower prices are just a "special limited offer." I guess people see the January cut-off date and they tend to think that that means they have to USE the tickets by that date, rather than the price will return to its NORMAL rate (gate price) in January! So Disney maybe needs to be a little bit more specific on its site so that folks realize that prices only increase once a year, but that "special offers" for advance online purchases may be advertised for a limited time.

 

[disneyfaninaz]

I don't know how much clearer DL can be on the expiration of the tickets:

2 Day Hopper: "The first visit must occur on or before January 5, 2009. All Disneyland® Resort Park Hopper® Tickets expire 13 days after first use or on January 18, 2009, whichever occurs first."

The online prices say the savings are only for tickets purchased online. Very clear to me. If they go to the ticket booth expecting those prices, then they are sadly mistaken and will pay the full price.

There is no need to validate tickets purchased ahead of time. You just take them to the turnstile and put them through the card reader.

 

[Sherry E]

I don't know how much clearer DL can be on the expiration of the tickets:

2 Day Hopper: "The first visit must occur on or before January 5, 2009. All Disneyland® Resort Park Hopper® Tickets expire 13 days after first use or on January 18, 2009, whichever occurs first."

The online prices say the savings are only for tickets purchased online. Very clear to me. If they go to the ticket booth expecting those prices, then they are sadly mistaken and will pay the full price.

There is no need to validate tickets purchased ahead of time. You just take them to the turnstile and put them through the card reader.

Well it is clear to me, too, but then again, you and I are not the ones going to the ticket booths asking for the cheaper tickets! But some people are, because they see the lower prices at a quick glance online, and don't read any further (whereas I always read fine print, small print, footnotes, whatever), so they assume that the tickets expire or must be used by January but not that the special offer prices end in January, necessarily, or they don't realize that the low prices are only offered online and not at the gates, too. I called GS a couple of weeks ago about a separate ticket-related issue which then led to the discussion of ticket prices and I mentioned the online offer. The CM I was speaking to didn't know anything personally about the lower priced offers online but said that she had heard of some confusion at the ticket booths regarding lower prices that people thought they were getting. When I called back a week later to confirm what I had orginally called them about - a separate issue - the CM I got told me that, indeed, people were becoming confused about what was only online for a limited time as opposed to what the actual prices of tickets are at the gates, and said that she hoped the verbiage would be changed to be a little more specific.

Not everyone reads things and comprehends them the same way!

 

[tink2dw]

kd5k - Stop!! Disneyland works a million times different. You are applying WDW vet knowledge to a place that is foreign to you. Step back and try to learn the natives language. But 1st you will have to read ask question about the differences.