Disney raises ticket prices again.

[RitaZ.]

Aug 4, 2006 9:05 pm US/Eastern
Pay At the Gate: Disney Raises Prices Again
Second Price Increase This Year
Disney Offered No Explanation
Sea World Says It Has No Plans For Increases

(CBS4 News) ORLANDO Planning a Central Florida theme park vacation? Better save up a little longer for the trip. Not only will it cost more to drive there or fly there, Walt Disney World is raising the price of a one-day, one-park ticket to $67, the company announced Friday.

It’s the second time in eight months Disney has raised prices. A spokesman for the park declined to offer an explanation for the price hike.

The $4 increase, which includes entrance to all four theme parks, will go into effect Sunday. The new price will also effect the company's "Magic Your Way" flexible ticket plans, which allows guests to purchase cheaper packages if they stay longer or visit multiple parks.

When Disney raised its price from $59.75 to $63 plus tax in January, Universal Orlando and SeaWorld Orlando also raised their ticket prices. Price wars have become an annual rite between the three major theme parks.

In January, Universal raised its admission price to $63 and SeaWorld raised its price to $61.95.

A spokeswoman for SeaWorld said they had no plans to raise prices in response to Disney's announcement.

"Our pricing strategies are developed as part of our overall business plan and not as a response to our competitors," SeaWorld Orlando spokeswoman Becca Bides said.

Telephone messages left at Universal were not immediately returned Friday.

 

[Pop Daddy]

oh the nerve, they get or parents to give us this drug when we where kids, now where hooked as adults, and we work to pay more money for disney

 

[Planogirl]

Wow, one day prices are just plain shocking at all of the parks. It's a good thing that we never have to pay those.

 

[OhMari]

I think it stinks, because a lot of us are waiting for packages for 2007 and of course the first day to get the package is Sunday, August 6.

 

[momof3disneyholics]

You would be surprised how many people come to my concierge desk to buy tickets and I tell them the one day Disney ticket is 67.10 with tax. Alot of people just don't price the tickets before they come and then get sticker shock when they are ready to buy. That is one reason the timeshare promotions do so well around here. It knocks alot off of the price by doing one of those tours.

 

[NewJersey]

Disney is really outrageous with their pricing.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

not surprised! ph well it's not like i WON'T GO or anything

 

[Cool-Beans]

At least this time they aren't raising the prices and telling us they're making it cheaper.

 

[bicker]

Well, of course, they did make it cheaper for us, in 2005. This, though, is a straight price increase. I checked around this morning and it seems that income and disposable income has been increasing far faster than projected, so that's probably the reason for the price increase.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

3 things that are fact of life:

death
taxes
WDW price increases





just accept and move on

 

[disney junky]

I was at Six Flags GA this spring. $16 to park (and no site to stay on so no discount there) and $67 single admission. And the food was about 1.5 times what it was a WDW.

A broadway show. Upwards of $100 for 2.5 hours of entertainment.

Off broadway-blue man group for example. $60.

James Taylor last summer for a 3 hour concert. $78 plus parking

I thing WDW is a bargain for what you get.

 

[Charade]

Wow, one day prices are just plain shocking at all of the parks. It's a good thing that we never have to pay those.

When I met my dgf's sister and husband (and his brother and wife) at AK this past May, they bought a one day (no hopper) ticket. There are people that do that. They're

 

[Dana49]

Every time there's a price increase the complaints are similar. Unfortunately, price increases are becoming an everyday thing in life. Disney just got in line.

 

[chyam]

It's like everything else......groceries etc, probably due to increases in their supplies all due to gas, although with everything going up and up sooner or later Disney will feel the pinch, since airline tickets will increase and gas will be so high no one will drive, when they start seeing people not coming in droves like the past few years, they will offer deals, nothing like post 911 but everyone is going to start feeling the pinch will prices everywhere going up, it just all rolls down hill, Disney still is a relative bargain compared to Broadway shows or concerts where you only get 2 hours of entertainment.

 

[bicker]

Every time there's a price increase the complaints are similar. Unfortunately, price increases are becoming an everyday thing in life.

Price increases has been an "everyday thing in life" since most of us have been alive. And people complaining about price increases hasn't changed much either. People are just expressing their frustration. I think most everyone gets frustrated with the constant battle of life between what we want and what we can have. It is disheartening sometimes.

It's like everything else......groceries etc, probably due to increases in their supplies all due to gas, although with everything going up and up sooner or later Disney will feel the pinch

Are we really heading towards an economic recession? It seems like we're just poking our head out of the dust of the last one. In the 90s we had eight or nine great years. Can't we get even just one good year out of this decade?

 

[cgbsilver@hotmail.co]

3 things that are fact of life:

death
taxes
WDW price increases





just accept and move on

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