My husband would be right on board with your line of thinking. He says we’ve been on all of these rides hundreds of times, except for the newer ones, but I don’t plan on riding MMRR again unless/until I go with young children at some point, and even RotR we’ve been on about 10 times. Of course, entertainment is his favorite thing about Disneyland, and there is so much less than there used to be
I definitely don't expect Disney to offer charity to their customers, they are still running a profit-maximizing/less guest oriented business which they have shown time and again the past two years.
We STILL talk about Billy Hill and the Hillbillies and the Sally May show in the Golden Horseshoe. It was such a bummer when they took out BH&HB, but at least they had some sort of entertainment in there with the various actors. We would go for 5-6 days and have lunch almost every single day in there just to see the show because they were hilarious. I was chosen as "Slewfoot Sue" and the bank teller girl in their various skits several times, even when we weren't sitting close to the front. It was so fun and the interactive nature of the show was incredible, people loved it.
Idk, I think some people are ride junkies and others just enjoy the parks as a whole and are not as focused on riding everything. In the old days of paper fast passes, we rode everything multiple times in a day. We are ride junkies. We get bummed out when we can’t ride everything we want. We also have a little wiggle room with funds and might consider the pass in the future. It’s ok to have options.My husband would be right on board with your line of thinking. He says we’ve been on all of these rides hundreds of times, except for the newer ones, but I don’t plan on riding MMRR again unless/until I go with young children at some point, and even RotR we’ve been on about 10 times. Of course, entertainment is his favorite thing about Disneyland, and there is so much less than there used to be
This exactly.
I think there are a decent number of people like you. Based on your other posts, it sounds like you will be trying off site hotels in the future. If so, that will save you a chunk of change and might add a little more wiggle room to your funds.
Yep, DH is married to a ride junkie and has two ride junkie kids (young adults now). While there are some rides we’re willing to give a pass, and some rides that don’t have to happen every trip, there are most definitely some rides that missing out on would completely bum us out. I won’t go to DL if Space Mountain isn’t running, and riding it only once per day is rather sad.
That’s it exactly. We just paid almost $900 a night at the DLH for a subpar experience. I think the Westin will be our next stay for half that. That leaves about $400 a night for three nights that can be parlayed into one day where we get to ride whatever, whenever. I’ll take that!
I absolutely love the express pass at Universal. Universal Florida will like be our next amusement park vacation.
Here's why I think comparing Disneyland to Universal Orlando is a fair comparison for this purpose. I think there is a great deal of similarity between these two parks and the passes. Both (Disneyland and Universal Orlando) are small and compact. (Until Epic Universe opens) both major parks (Disneyland and DCA/Universal Orlando and Islands of Adventures) are close together and it is incredibly easy to park hop. In both parks (Universal Orlando and Disneyland) the pass allows you to use go right into the fast line without reserving/booking/selecting a time. This is why I did the price comparison between Disneyland and Universal Orlando. I thought they parks were similar.
I agree with you. It's okay to make a profit. It's not okay to charge an outrageous sum because they can. Personally, I think this pass should have been priced somewhere $150-$250.
I'm in that boat too. We live in Florida and have been loyal Disney goers all our lives. This coming year our AP money is going to Universal. You get Express Pass free with hotel stays there. If only they had a DVC equivalent.
Have you looked at the Land of Dreams Tour?
OMG, I have so many of those same memories!
I know you're talking about DL, and I don't really know about it, but I do know lots of folks who work at WDW, and I know that post-Covid, WDW was running most rides and restaurants at half capacity. They're still not back to running everything at full capacity. That's why restaurant availability was/has been so bad, why lines were/are so long, and why it has just felt insanely crowded ever since, in spite of attendance being down some months / years since pre-2020. It sounds like a convenient excuse to say they're raising prices to control attendance. They still have the stupid reservation system in place which accomplishes that. What they really need is not less guests in the parks; they need to hire back the full amount of CMs and get everything up and running at full capacity again. They need more guests (or more accurately, more money), but they have nowhere to put them all. The price hikes, from this standpoint, reek of desperation. Can they really not afford to hire enough CMs to run all tracks on all rides? Do they really need all these blatant and obvious cash grabs just to run the parks at current understaffed levels? It looks that way...
Sure but Disney is an American company and hence it should be expected that it follows American customs. Our own government up sells you on our freeways by selling lightning lane access.
But why do you object to its existence?
