Purchasing Tickets Before October 16

[mort1331]

So what about tickets we purchased years ago. Do they keep their 14 day use period with no additional cost and no expire. And our very old non expire ticets tjat we can use 1 day at a time. Are these affected. They have always grandfathered in the old hope that stays

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

So what about tickets we purchased years ago. Do they keep their 14 day use period with no additional cost and no expire. And our very old non expire ticets tjat we can use 1 day at a time. Are these affected. They have always grandfathered in the old hope that stays

Nothing should be changing with them.

 

[SherylLC]

Did prices already go up for multiday passes? I was looking at a five day for January and I could have sworn PH, no water parks was $420/person but today they're $470. I hope it's my faulty memory!

 

[erionm]

Did prices already go up for multiday passes? I was looking at a five day for January and I could have sworn PH, no water parks was $420/person but today they're $470. I hope it's my faulty memory!

Prices have not changed since the last increase back in February.

 

[BillPA]

UT has 5 day hoppers for $458.33

 

[Henwen88]

We do not know what the actual price of tickets are going to be when Disney rolls out the new date-based ticket prices. I would be willing to bet that overall it works out as higher than they are now in majority of cases. I have a rather long memory and none of it can identify any time when Disney rolled out new prices that were on average less than the existing ones, outside of special short-term promo prices that it sometimes created (like it has done on occassion with DVC AP's).

What concerns me the most is that the info revealed thus far indicates it is eliminating multple-day ticket prices, i.e., where the price per day of the ticket progressively lowers for each additional day resulting in tickets with 5 days costing only $15 more than 4 days and only $10 more per day for the sixth or seventh day. The way the info reads now is that the price of a multiple-day ticket will be the addition of the prices for each single day of the ticket. For example, if you can actually see the price and price calculation shown in that Disney video, it shows an $85 one-day price for a start date in Nov and $334.13 for a four day ticket, which means you will be paying close to $85 for each day. That could mean that for the same period a 7-day non-hopper ticket could cost close to $595, which is $180 more than it costs now. In other words, what you may find if the daily price for each single date you will be there is less than it is now, such as that $85 per day shown in the video, the multiple-day ticket may be less than now for a ticket that is four days or fewer, but will be much higher for 5 days or more. Moreover, it sounds like that if you buy the tickets and then change your dates, you may have to exchange what you have and pay more if the new time you are going is more than the date-based daily prices of the original ticket. Also, you might no longer be able to buy a ticket just before prices go up in the years ahead and then use it for a trip after the prices go up, without paying any increase in prices.

Finally, though AP's have not been mentioned, we have a risk of a huge increase in price in mid-Oct or in early 2019 because Disney usually keeps the AP price for a new AP, starting with the Gold, at an amount that is significantly more than a 9-day hopper ticket, and with an $85 daily price and the extra cost for the hopper, the hopper price for 9 days could be close to $$820.

Geez... then I foresee lots of resort days and Poly beach or TOWL fireworks viewing in my future after these APs expire. Maybe a day here or there as the new stuff pops up, but we've got some non-expiring tickets for that (although Disney did do their very best to use those instead of APs for 2 years in a row). Guess they will find out a way to monetize out of park firework viewing soon too lol.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Geez... then I foresee lots of resort days and Poly beach or TOWL fireworks viewing in my future after these APs expire. Maybe a day here or there as the new stuff pops up, but we've got some non-expiring tickets for that (although Disney did do their very best to use those instead of APs for 2 years in a row). Guess they will find out a way to monetize out of park firework viewing soon too lol.

Thing is these new tickets appear to be coming with very short time frame for usage. So if you stay a week but only plan 2 park days? You may have only 4 days from first use to use that ticket.

 

[CMNJ]

Thing is these new tickets appear to be coming with very short time frame for usage. So if you stay a week but only plan 2 park days? You may have only 4 days from first use to use that ticket.

I saw something in the main ticket change thread that supposedly Disney was going to extend the ticket’s expiration dates for on site stays. So if off site a 2 day ticket might expire in 4 days but with a 7 day on-site stay it would be good for 7 days. Interesting if this is truly the case.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

I saw something in the main ticket change thread that supposedly Disney was going to extend the ticket’s expiration dates for on site stays. So if off site a 2 day ticket might expire in 4 days but with a 7 day on-site stay it would be good for 7 days. Interesting if this is truly the case.

I think that was what was reported for packages. That would be nice if they are going to do it for room only bookings too.