Should I buy tickets now?

[TravelandLeisure]

We are tentatively planning a trip for June 2022 (staying offsite for the first time). I wasn’t in any particular hurry to purchase tickets, however with the recent Disneyland increases, I’m wondering if I should go ahead and buy to try to beat the inevitable WDW ticket price increases. A couple of questions:
1. If I buy tickets from Undercover Tourist and need to change my dates later, do I have to go through them or can I do it in MDE? I haven’t purchased tickets since before the change to date-specific, so not really sure how this works.
I’m assuming you pay any difference if the price has gone up?

2. Historically, what month does WDW usually raise prices?

 

[Tom_E_D]

We are tentatively planning a trip for June 2022 (staying offsite for the first time). I wasn’t in any particular hurry to purchase tickets, however with the recent Disneyland increases, I’m wondering if I should go ahead and buy to try to beat the inevitable WDW ticket price increases. A couple of questions:
1. If I buy tickets from ****************** and need to change my dates later, do I have to go through them or can I do it in MDE? I haven’t purchased tickets since before the change to date-specific, so not really sure how this works.
I’m assuming you pay any difference if the price has gone up?

2. Historically, what month does WDW usually raise prices?

Here's when they've increased prices in the past: https://allears.net/walt-disney-world/wdw-planning/wdw-ticket-increase-guide/

 

[goofyernmost]

I don't believe it would do you much good because any tickets you buy right now have a "use by" date before they, like produce, become to old to use. You then will have to get new tickets which will charge you the difference between what you paid for the ones you have and the new price, if it should go up. Yea, like it won't go up again. Hopefully someone with more information about what they current policy on tickets is, valid times, etc., can jump in and give us details.

 

[Tom_E_D]

I don't believe it would do you much good because any tickets you buy right now have a "use by" date before they, like produce, become to old to use. You then will have to get new tickets which will charge you the difference between what you paid for the ones you have and the new price, if it should go up. Yea, like it won't go up again. Hopefully someone with more information about what they current policy on tickets is, valid times, etc., can jump in and give us details.

If you buy date-specific tickets for a trip next June, they will not expire before next June, at least not if you bought them from a reputable source. If you buy date-specific tickets and switch to other dates that are more expensive, you will need to change the dates and pay the additional cost. That's true whether the tickets have expired or not. Whether you would need to make the change through the reseller you bought the tickets from or directly through Disney, I'm not sure. I suspect that if the ticket numbers have been added to your MDE account, you will have to make the change through Disney, but that's just an educated guess.

 

[TravelandLeisure]

If you buy date-specific tickets for a trip next June, they will not expire before next June, at least not if you bought them from a reputable source. If you buy date-specific tickets and switch to other dates that are more expensive, you will need to change the dates and pay the additional cost. That's true whether the tickets have expired or not. Whether you would need to make the change through the reseller you bought the tickets from or directly through Disney, I'm not sure. I suspect that if the ticket numbers have been added to your MDE account, you will have to make the change through Disney, but that's just an educated guess.

Thanks for the info. I hate to part with the $ this early, but I will definitely be sad if they raise prices before I buy. WDW tickets are already crazy expensive to begin with.

 

[wiggy500]

I'd wait until January and buy then. I would expect prices to go up next in February.

 

[peabody58]

Once you load your tickets into your MDE, you can change them anytime and pay any difference regardless if you got the tics from a reseller. We recently did this with reseller tics for our Jan 22 trip. Fortunately the dates we changed them to were the same price. Don;t know if you'd get a refund for cheaper dates.

 

[Robo]

Once you load your tickets into your MDE, you can change them anytime and pay any difference regardless if you got the tics from a reseller. We recently did this with reseller tics for our Jan 22 trip. Fortunately the dates we changed them to were the same price.

Don;t know if you'd get a refund for cheaper dates.

You would not.

 

[Orsino]

I haven’t been paying too close attention, but with the date-based pricing, I thought the new MO was to raise the price of future dates on the calendar and not raise the price on a day that has already been published. I thought I read that for Disneyland the price “increase” is a result of specific 2023 days being in a higher tier than in 2022.
Has Disney raised the price on a day already published before?

 

[PaladinButters]

I'd wait until January and buy then. I would expect prices to go up next in February.

Here's when they've increased prices in the past: https://allears.net/walt-disney-world/wdw-planning/wdw-ticket-increase-guide/

Well that's too many 'no changes' at the end there on the chart, so I'm going to place my bets on increase this Friday and a Feb / Oct double for next year.

 

[VFL]

hmmmm. Makes me wonder if this is the reason they haven't released dates for early 2023 yet. I have been waiting to move a February 2022 trip to February 2023 trip to no avail. They are likely planning a price hike and waiting until that drops before release dates

 

[lfracas1]

Once you load your tickets into your MDE, you can change them anytime and pay any difference regardless if you got the tics from a reseller. We recently did this with reseller tics for our Jan 22 trip. Fortunately the dates we changed them to were the same price. Don;t know if you'd get a refund for cheaper dates.

We may have to cancel our Nov. trip. We are planning to go in April. Do we have to change our tickets before they expire?

 

[CarolynFH]

We may have to cancel our Nov. trip. We are planning to go in April. Do we have to change our tickets before they expire?

If you change your tickets before the dates of your November trip, you’ll be able to do it through MDE. If you wait until after your November trip dates, the tickets will disappear from your MDE account, and you’ll have to call Disney to change them. The cost would be the same either way.

 

[wiggy500]

We may have to cancel our Nov. trip. We are planning to go in April. Do we have to change our tickets before they expire?

Change it before the first day of your trip. It works as the previous poster described, but with the wait times are really long if you call.