Magic Your Way Tickets

[DancingBear]

As I've been planning our September trip to WDW, some thoughts on the effect of the Magic Your Way passes:

--Our standard trip has been about 7 full days. In the past, I would schedule a couple of non-park days, which would save about $35/day per person on ticket costs. On these days, we would do things like play golf, go to the pool, go to a waterpark, go to Boma and then wander around AKL, play mini-golf, go shopping at Downtown Disney, etc. Now that the marginal cost of the 6th and 7th day is just $3 per day!!!! there is no reason NOT to buy the full 7 day pass. This gives us so much more flexibility on scheduling. If the only park visit we make one day is to see Wishes, hey, it only cost us $3 each to do so! For that matter, if we don't make it to the parks all 7 days, no big deal (which takes the sting out of losing "no expiration" on passes).

--One of these trips, we were going to make it up to Universal, or back to Sea World. Much harder to justify that now--$3 marginal cost for an extra day at WDW vs. one-day tickets to IOA?

--Similarly, however, I was planning to do Cirque de Soleil on one of our non-park days. It is harder to justify that additional expense when we'll have park admission paid for already that day. Will this have a negative affect on Cirque? How about Disney Quest?

 

[seashoreCM]

That's what Disney wants. Get you to skip the Sea World and Universal visits!

If you bought the plus pack to visit water parks, you can use some of the plusses to go to Disney QUest. I doubt that there would be that much of a negative effect on Cirque since that only uses a few hours.

You can even omit the hopping, save $37. per pass, and on a day when you mis-plan and can't/don't want to return to the same park, visit Downtown, resort pool, animals at AKL, etc. Or enjoy the golf and not feel bad about going into a park for just a few hours that evening.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/dispass.htm

 

[tderonne]

There are 10 day tickets too. They aren't listed everywhere but they exist, ticket guy reminded me of it last week. They are like $10 more than a seven day!

 

[Sarangel]

OK, DancingBear, we've given it our best shot. I'm going to move this over to the Theme Parks board, where you will get a much better response.

Sarangel

 

[colleen costello]

I think these passes will appeal to people for different reasons. My family has begun to enjoy having annual passes, and now that DVC members get a great discount on AP's, that is probably what we will buy. HOWEVER, the price for the new tix can be quite inexpensive when set up like OP has mentioned, and that is appealing for years where we won't (sob!) get to WDW more than once. It will be interesting to see how things pan out over the next few years. We could speculate that at reasonable rates, people won't feel as compelled to spend "a whole day" in the parks because each day isn't costing as much... That might HELP sales for Disney Quest and Cirque since you can do each of these after a half-day in one of the parks.