"Magic Your Way" Tickets

[disneycrazed139]

On an apples-to-apples basis, this is a pretty big price increase

apples to apples, yes it is. However, I personally always wished that we had the option of no park hopping for a less expensive ticket. I think it should be an extra that you pay for rather than something that you pay for even if you don't really need it. Same thing with the expiry option. 5 days that doesn't expire sounds nice but if you are taking a seven day trip you will probably use it all, which is what we always did when buying hoppers. I like the idea of saving on what we don't need and paying for what we do want. The fact that DQ is thrown into the extra options make it a much greater value for us. These tickets will actually save us money and may even be a better option than the AP with DVC discount.

 

[crisi]

Price decrease for us, of over $60 a ticket. We were UPHers - and we loose the "unlimited Pluses" of the UPH. But while the pluses are important to us, we only use two or so a trip.

Never expire has never been important to us - as anything I need to track for a year is a burden (today I've torn the house apart looking for Christmas decorations that are here "somewhere.") Happy that people who want that option will be able to purchase it.

What this appears to do for Disney from my point of view:

If you are only going to go to Florida once for a week, and you intend to split your time between Disney and other Florida attractions, you will pay through the nose for your time at Disney.

If you are only going to Florida for a week, but will return in a few years, you will be able to add "never expire" to your tickets. I'd guess that a certain percentage of those tickets never do get reused - for the people that use them, it will be a good deal. Disney will make their money on people like me who are less self-aware - the ticket loosers and the "I think we will come back" but never doers.

If you are going to go to Disney for seven to ten days, you will save money - unless your primary purpose is the "minor parks". You have the option of saving even more, by limiting your access to one park per day. This encourages people to treat Disney as their Florida destination. The "loyalty program" everyone has been requesting.