Disneyland Ticket Price Increases:

[LavenderPeach]

I live an hour away...I dont consider myself a local but we do have AP's and have already spent 17 days in the parks on this AP and have many more ahead. That being said each time we eat ALL of our meals in the parks. If you figure an average of 35 dollars a meal for us, well...we have spent more than most out of towners on food this year. (17*105=1785 dollars!) And if you figure in our gift purchases, hats, snacks etc...that number only gets bigger. So while you assume that us ''locals'' dont spend money and only crowd the park...you are wrong. I may not spend the night in a hotel but when I am at the parks I spend money.

Yes I hope they figure our their blackout day issues but I bet if you asked the locals on this board which AP they have you will not see the cheaper ones as their answers. Thanks...jmo.

In light of all this recent discussion about APs here, DH and I were just saying the other day that we spend more at DLR as AP holders than if we weren't. If we didn't have APs then we may or may not visit DLR that year. If we did visit it would probably only be for 1 day and we wouldn't be staying in a hotel and we would only buy 2 meals at the park (eating breakfast at home). I don't know how many times we've gone this year so far but we've probably gone at least twice a month and have made 2 mini vacation trips where we stayed for 2 nights each and even if we're going just for a few hours we buy at least one meal there. Disney is getting way more money out of us with our APs than they were the years we didn't have one.

 

[nunzia]

I think that's how a lot of us are feeling right now.

I was literally on the verge of joining D23 this weekend. Suffice it to say, I'm rethinking that since I feel more like the corporation views me as a dollar sign to pad the bottom line.

I will still join the Walt Disney Museum though. Right now I especially feel it's important to keep Walt's legacy alive. If it can recreate what I feel in the parks, watch out.

I'm also considering joining this and I'm a real Walt fan. I don't know that I'll be able to get there anytime in the next several years, but I'd sure like to one day. I tell you, I just about cried at Walt's barn..I'm such a sap..I joined D23 and have no regrets there
I also will still get my DAP for next year, but we'll see after that.
Have the PH gone up too??

 

[Sherry E]

I'm also considering joining this and I'm a real Walt fan. I don't know that I'll be able to get there anytime in the next several years, but I'd sure like to one day. I tell you, I just about cried at Walt's barn..I'm such a sap..I joined D23 and have no regrets there
I also will still get my DAP for next year, but we'll see after that.
Have the PH gone up too??

The prices I see on the DLR website for all levels of Park Hopper are:

I-day/1-park ticket - $72

1-day PH - $97

2-day PH - $143

3-day PH - $199 (if ordered online, it is $179)

4-day PH - $224 (if ordered online, it is $194)

5-day PH - $244 (if ordered online, it is $204)

6-day PH - $249 (if ordered online, it is $209)


You can still get the 5 days for the price of 3 Hopper if you order online for $179.

And you can still get the 6 days for the price of 4 Hopper if you order online for $194.

 

[azdisneylover]

Rats! I read in our paper a few days ago, Disney made a profit, not as high as they projected. A big part was with the movie, ESPN,side, the parks in other countries (not USA parks). To hear Disney is raising rates when it is so hard to scrape together a vacation in these times as it is, will force many to cut back or to change the venue (Knotts, Six Flaggs, etc). Hopefully, Disney will give better discounts for hotel rates, etc.
I don't know if we will get APs now. If we can squeeze and make up the $100.00 we might.

 

[merrrydeath]

Rats! I read in our paper a few days ago, Disney made a profit, not as high as they projected. A big part was with the movie, ESPN,side, the parks in other countries (not USA parks). To hear Disney is raising rates when it is so hard to scrape together a vacation in these times as it is, will force many to cut back or to change the venue (Knotts, Six Flaggs, etc). Hopefully, Disney will give better discounts for hotel rates, etc.
I don't know if we will get APs now. If we can squeeze and make up the $100.00 we might.

Make up the money by staying offsite! There are a lot of great hotels in the area at very affordable prices. Some are even closer to the entrance than the Disneyland Hotels. I think if Disneyland is really where you want to go for vacation then some sacrifices are worth making.

 

[azdisneylover]

Thanks, Merrydeath,
We will have to do that if we decide to go! The cost of the hotels is so far out of reach for us. We will be able to plan with one of the hotels across the street .

 

[merrrydeath]

Thanks, Merrydeath,
We will have to do that if we decide to go! The cost of the hotels is so far out of reach for us. We will be able to plan with one of the hotels across the street .

Here's the link to the hotels in the area. A really great tool with links to each individual hotel website.
http://www.geocities.com/ashpsyche/DisneylandLinkMap.html

Alright sorry for going off topic

 

[3Minnies1Mickey]

Make up the money by staying offsite! There are a lot of great hotels in the area at very affordable prices. Some are even closer to the entrance than the Disneyland Hotels. I think if Disneyland is really where you want to go for vacation then some sacrifices are worth making.

Absolutely, I had a huge yard/baby sale to get rid of all my baby stuff that my littlest ones have outgrown and made over $300. That'll almost pay for the upgrade from our PH to APs on our Sept. trip (plus we'll have 2 bday fun cards and $20 gc from Costco travel). We want to stay onsite next year, but are happy to stay close by for now.

 

[callmeblissful]

Had I known the prices would go up so much, I probably could have convinced my family to upgrade from $99 Park Hoppers to then-$269 Deluxe Annual Passes. Now, I'm not so sure. We live a little over an hour away, but are not the "local" type that seems to be resented in these parts. When we go, we only go for one or two days, but with seven to ten people, depending how many of us in my immediate family go, it's still a LOT of money. I have a Deluxe Annual Pass and I save up money to spend on souvenirs every time I go. I am unsure of whether I will renew as I go off to college next year (my pass expires in April), but I know the prices will not keep me from buying tickets or passes in the future. A company's gotta do what it's gotta do to survive, and whatever keeps the parks open and expanding is something I will learn to work around.

 

[Tikiroom1963]

The price increase just plain SUCKS !!!! We PAP holders are getting the shaft. I guess the Disney suits need to get us back for the higher discounts we get on stuff. Maybe I will rethink this thing all together.

 

[goofyfordisney]

Wish I had just bought my AP's online instead of buying the $179 5 days for 3 tickets from AAA...I wanted to have a MM on my second day and was going to upgrade the tickets to AP's.

I am re-thinking my upgrade to an AP now...oh well, its only money!

 

[fairykin]

Last year I bought 6 premium annual passes for our family.
We live in texas and travel far away to visit the park.
We've gone every month but one to the park this year. This brings in revenues to resturants, hotels and shopping.

We never use the a.p. discounts at hotels as the senior discount is better, ( thanks mom )
We never use the parking pass because we take A.R.T.
Not one person in our family recieved any mail from the A.P. throughout the year. Even though we registered our A.P.s at the online Disneyland site. Come on, Disney, You've got a captive audience who spends money on Your product in a recession, do some In House Marketing.

I innocently thought that we would save money with the premium annual passports. Yet in all truth, we have spent wayyyyy more than we have in any of the 23 years we've been visiting the Disney Parks. Why? Because we've been more often.

Now it's time for renewal.
I see the price increases... and yet I wonder.. why is it that there is not a list of Increased Benefits for Premium Annual Passport Holders?

SleeplessKnight made some very good points. I do not think staff members will be seeing a raise from this. Disney really needs some help with marketing. They went about this all wrong.

Disneyland is great... but Disney needs to wake up because we can fly to the hotel Atlantis and stay in a excellent resort for what it costs when we stay at the Grand.

Also.... Why doesn't Disney have a Hotel Reward Stay Program? I'm staying onsite 14 days in the next 4 months. I shake my head when I think about how many reward points or nights that would be at the hotel we stay at when we travel. But with Disney..... NOTHING.

Once again, that comes back to Poor Marketing to their base of clients.

I am going to seriously reflect on Disney's lack of attention to their premium passholders. We won't be purchasing 6 PAP this year. And when upcoming travel is done with stays at the Grand.. I really don't know if i will be booking there in the future.

In our business, we reward loyalty, i wish Disney did.

 

[zeitzeuge]

Make up the money by staying offsite! There are a lot of great hotels in the area at very affordable prices. Some are even closer to the entrance than the Disneyland Hotels. I think if Disneyland is really where you want to go for vacation then some sacrifices are worth making.

This is one thing we do too. Our first onsite stay is in September. Sure, we got the 5 days for the cost of 3, but wow it's so much more then we're use too. When we go, we go cheap.

We go to DL twice and sometimes 3 times a year (live in Dallas) and we were thinking of getting AP's to save money, but with this increase we'll nix that idea. Not cost effective for us anymore. Does it suck? Sure. Doesn't surprise me though. Most entertainment around here in Dallas such as Six Flags, The Aquarium, etc have all gone up in prices. We just have to figure out ways of saving money elsewhere to be able to go. Maybe cutting back our pin addiction.

Despite the increases, nothing is going to keep me from going to Disneyland. Universal Studios and Knotts are fun and all, but it's not the same. I end up comparing it to DL the entire time. If I can only afford to go to DL once a year now, so be it. I'll still go. To go more then once, we'll just have to make concessions on other costs.

Nothing will keep me out of the parks. Don't get me wrong, if I had a family of 5-6 to pay for, my feelings would be totally different.

 

[pinkblush]

Will this make the gift card for your birthday $72 or will it stay $69? I know those of you with AP's are not happy, it sucks that they have to raise prices in the economy that we're in!!

Ds's bday was 8/5 and he got a $62 gift card instead of $59. Hth!

 

[Sherry E]

...And just in case anyone has been keeping an eye on the AP hotel availability calendar to see if any AP rates (I mean the good ones we are used to, not the regular 10% AP discount) are coming out for October or November, you will know that there is nothing good showing at all. Still the same $221 per night (pre-tax and resort fee) for the PPH and higher than that for the other two hotels. The CM I spoke to in DLR Reservations a couple of weeks back did tell me that they didn't have any notice of AP rates (AP9, I guess it would be??) for October so far, so that would either mean that there were none coming at all this year, or that they might not appear until much closer to October than we would expect, or that they don't yet know if they will release any AP rates. And if they do, the rates might not be as low as what we have seen in the past.

Clearly, DLR is waiting as long as it can to see if it can get enough bookings at the 3 hotels at the regular rack rates before issuing any really good discounts. So that is yet another area where the AP holders are not benefiting as they have in the past. Last December, on the weekend before Christmas, no less, I got a great AP rate for the PPH. But for this coming October, I don't have anything booked because the rates are (so far) way too expensive for me. If they do suddenly release some great AP rates for October, it may be spur of the moment and too close to October for me to be able to plan.

So just like Zeitzeuge, I won't stay away from DLR altogether, but I am seriously looking into off-site hotel options now, whereas I have been a diehard onsite guest of the DLR hotels since maybe 1987 or so.

 

[Kayla's Mom]

Ds's bday was 8/5 and he got a $62 gift card instead of $59. Hth!

Cool! I was hoping that would be the case.

 

[pixiewings71]

Last year I bought 6 premium annual passes for our family.
We live in texas and travel far away to visit the park.
We've gone every month but one to the park this year. This brings in revenues to resturants, hotels and shopping.

We never use the a.p. discounts at hotels as the senior discount is better, ( thanks mom )
We never use the parking pass because we take A.R.T.
Not one person in our family recieved any mail from the A.P. throughout the year. Even though we registered our A.P.s at the online Disneyland site. Come on, Disney, You've got a captive audience who spends money on Your product in a recession, do some In House Marketing.

I innocently thought that we would save money with the premium annual passports. Yet in all truth, we have spent wayyyyy more than we have in any of the 23 years we've been visiting the Disney Parks. Why? Because we've been more often.

Now it's time for renewal.
I see the price increases... and yet I wonder.. why is it that there is not a list of Increased Benefits for Premium Annual Passport Holders?

SleeplessKnight made some very good points. I do not think staff members will be seeing a raise from this. Disney really needs some help with marketing. They went about this all wrong.

Disneyland is great... but Disney needs to wake up because we can fly to the hotel Atlantis and stay in a excellent resort for what it costs when we stay at the Grand.

Also.... Why doesn't Disney have a Hotel Reward Stay Program? I'm staying onsite 14 days in the next 4 months. I shake my head when I think about how many reward points or nights that would be at the hotel we stay at when we travel. But with Disney..... NOTHING.

Once again, that comes back to Poor Marketing to their base of clients.

I am going to seriously reflect on Disney's lack of attention to their premium passholders. We won't be purchasing 6 PAP this year. And when upcoming travel is done with stays at the Grand.. I really don't know if i will be booking there in the future.

In our business, we reward loyalty, i wish Disney did.

I just wanted to agree with EVERYthing you've said here. We are not close enough to get the So Cal APs (nor would we want them) so we are not close enough to go home every night, when we go to DL we spend money on hotels (on or off site, we've done both depending on rates), food in the parks, pins, we bought soooooo many of the new HM pins in June and July, we buy gifts for family, gifts for friends, things for the girls because they always want/need something. Even tho we don't have to buy park tickets and we do get discounts on just about everything we buy we still spend a LOT of money on our Disney vacations. Unfortunately with these price hikes we are considering letting the APs lapse and doing a few "other" family vacations....we can actually go to Cabo with the kids and spend LESS money than we do on a DL vacation......sad but true. Disney really does need to rethink their marketing......

 

[fairykin]

Zeitzeuge, i agree with you. We love disneyland, too. And i would highly recommend saving and saving ( like i did ) and going to the Napa Rose Cooking Class. It's high, but what a Experience!! It is one of the specialty things at Disneyland that was worth every penny. We will still go. Yet not stay onsite.

This year I recieved one email with a Pin from Disney..I called that same day to book with it..and oops no rooms.

Kerri... right! You can go to Cancun, or the Bahama's for less than what it costs to go to Disneyland sometimes.

 

[reynmagsmom]

I can confirm Birthday Gift Card did go up with the ticket prices mine was for $72 which I had alot of fun spending!!!

 

[pixiewings71]

I can confirm Birthday Gift Card did go up with the ticket prices mine was for $72 which I had alot of fun spending!!!

YAY!!!! DD will have a lot of fun spending that when we are there for her bday.