July 24 last year is when they went on sale to the general public. Tickets on halloween and the party before were $120 per person. (Do note that was a 20% hike from the 2016 prices for the highest cost dates which from what I can tell in itself was a 20% hike from 2015 prices so if you want to do the party and need to start budgeting now I would budget $145. Is that insane? To me, but to each their own. Maybe we see no price hike but they've hiked those tickets 20% for the last 2 years so it's not beyond the realm of probability and is something to be aware of.