Disney Park Passes - Day & Night?

[mattm55]

Has anyone else heard that Disney World is considering park passes for Day and a separate pass for night? or the combo Day/Night add-on? Not referring to the special limited events but as a regular daily way to maximize a "day" pass cost. A day pass (9am-6pm) and a night pass (6pm-?). If you want to see fireworks, shows, parades a night pass would be needed. Seems to me it's running already as a pilot for more of these special events going on as the test?? I hope this is just a "bad" rumor!

 

[fatmanatee]

Nope, haven't heard anything about this, sounds like a joke someone would make about Chapek.

 

[Karin1984]

Disneyland Tokyo has had this for a long time, a pass just for late afernoon/evening.
So I wouldn't be surprised if this is on the list of things you can do.

Last year, due to Covid and trying to spread guests, two themeparks in the Netherlands (where I live) tried this. It didn't really work.

 

[jade1]

If a day/night AP was $1,200, or a day AP was $600, or a night AP was $600 they might get some takers.

Much less any AP of course.

Like wise a day/night being $120, and a day or night being $60.

But how do you force folks to leave at 3 or whatever?

 

[Marionnette]

Has anyone else heard that Disney World is considering park passes for Day and a separate pass for night? or the combo Day/Night add-on? Not referring to the special limited events but as a regular daily way to maximize a "day" pass cost. A day pass (9am-6pm) and a night pass (6pm-?). If you want to see fireworks, shows, parades a night pass would be needed. Seems to me it's running already as a pilot for more of these special events going on as the test?? I hope this is just a "bad" rumor!

I'd like to know where you've seen/heard this? It sounds incredibly short-sighted as it pretty much eliminates any incentive to purchase park hopping with your ticket. And it would require a dedicated group of CMs to round up day-time guests and boot them out of the park after 6 PM (a prime dinner time).

But I could envision an "after 4 PM" ticket similar to what they offer to convention guests.

 

[OKW Lover]

Just a bad rumor.

 

[SealedSeven]

Night passes make sense to have, day tickets do not. Trying to get people out of the park at certain time each day will not work.

 

[randumb0]

Nope unless you are thinking about the Epcot After 4 pass

 

[SL6827]

Disney would love such and I imagine they will come up with a way at some point.

 

[seashoreCM]

How did they clear the parks out before Very Merry Christmas party or whatever? Use the same method to end the "day" and begin the "night." Heck, they could start the "night" at 4 PM before they start clearing out the "day" guests as they used to do pre-Covid.

 

[HopperFan]

If a day/night AP was $1,200, or a day AP was $600, or a night AP was $600 they might get some takers.

Much less any AP of course.

Like wise a day/night being $120, and a day or night being $60.

But how do you force folks to leave at 3 or whatever?

It would be an ongoing nightmare of a challenge. I get they have to chase some out for the After Hours etc but do they really want to do that on a daily basis? I don't think so.

Universal has done just fine with shorter set hours every night all year round with minimal variation. Disney does have to take into account buses capacity when closing parks but I wouldn't be surprised if there are very set closing times of at dark, do the night show as soon as possible, then closed. They actually could eliminate any night show at AK and DHS. They can keep After Hours during the busier times of year for that "second" ticket at MK. Closing earlier also helps Disney Springs, they can provide buses direct to DS from park closing hours.

 

[seashoreCM]

Stagger the hour of day/night changeover for each park (will need to have different end of night for the night ticket) so all parks do not need peak bus service at the same changeover time.