The new "Magic Pass" poll

[Richyams]

The new "Magic Pass" basically offer a five day hopper plus some extras for four of the next five years. It costs about $750 for an adult or child. Will you take advantage of it?

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs", Karl Marx,This has failed every time it has been tried, why do we still have liberals?

 

[Richyams]

Lets bump this up to the top and see if we can get some support for the "Magic Pass"

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs", Karl Marx,This has failed every time it has been tried, why do we still have liberals?

 

[Fenceman]

Being a HHHO (Happy Hilton Head Owner) we only plan on going to WDW every other year. The pass would be useless to us.

 

[Stinson]

I've never heard of this. Can you tell me where I can find more information about the "Magic Pass". Thanks.

 

[Werner Weiss]

I appreciate that Disney tried to develop a pass that reflects the unique needs of DVC members who might be likely to visit for a week or so every year, but might skip one year in five to visit another destination. But the problem with the Magical Years Pass is that the savings are minimal in relation to the highly restrictive rules.

Buying three 7-day Hopper Plus Passes appears to be a much better deal because they offer so much more flexibility than one Magical Years Pass. 7-day Hopper Plus Passes don't expire. And if you want to use 4 admissions one year and 6 the next, there's no problem. If you decide to visit another destination two years out of five, there's no problem -- whereas with a Magical Years Pass you'd lose a year's usage.

Unless someone's plans for the next five years exactly match the Magical Years Pass rules, the discount just doesn't seem to be enough to justify the lack of flexibility. It would be too easy to lose days or not to have days available when you want an extra day or two some years.

The Magical Years Pass either needs much more flexible rules or a very substantial price reduction before I would consider purchasing it.

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Werner Weiss, Curator of Yesterland, featuring discontinued Disneyland attractions

 

[pluto109]

that ticket is an insult

 

[diskat]

The magic pass is only a 5 day pass. Any time we go we like to have more than the 5 days to visit the parks.

 

[Richyams]

I didn't want to put my comments in till we had some votes.

I hope someone at Disney sees this poll and realizes just how useless this crappy pass is.

The real funny part is how dumb they are. I know, they make zillions and have been running this for years, they all have to be the smartest people ever to draw breath in our world...but...when we had "The Golden Handcuffs", we spent virtually every day at a park spending money.

An annual five day pass means that people who take seven or more day vacations actually are encouraged to spend time at Universal or somewhere else when they aren't trapped by the "Golden Handcuffs"

Everyone having an AP would be a resurection of the "Golden Handcuffs". It would have the added benefit of it no longer being a choice between hoppers or an AP. I think 10% is too small. I think they should have a 25% discount an APs of all types and that would be the best thing for them and us. As it is now, they are giving people incentive to spend time and money off WDW property.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs", Karl Marx,This has failed every time it has been tried, why do we still have liberals?

 

[wdwnut]

rich: as usual, i truly enjoy reading your posts. crappy pass, indeed! we've been ap holders for about 10 years. for the one ap, we can get 2-3 one week vacations in before the year is up. do you think if we all e-mail ms requesting a significant or even a crummy 10% discount on aps it will help? dee

 

[mickey7861]

This pass would be useless to my family. We only go to WDW once a year but we stay for 2-3 weeks. With our AP's we stay in August one year then in July the next so we get 4-6 weeks out of each AP. Definitly a better buy than the Magic Pass.

 

[DisneyHumbug]

Maybe Disney should give all DVCers a free membership in the Disney Club, then we could use that for a discount.

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[Cricket2]

I would burn up too many days just going to EPCOT to eat and watch fireworks.

Give me half off, and THEN POSSIBLY I'd buy 2.


JC

 

[Richyams]

Mr Cricket brings up another great point.

I can't even count how many times my only visit to a park was to eat a meal. Would I burn a day on a pass to simply eat a meal or pick up something in an EPCOT shop that my wife and I had viewed and were discussing? Of course not.

They have some myopic pecil pusher looking at one little column and whining about discounts not being a good idea. If they were to step back and look at the big picture, they would see that DVCers with APs are their best bet for profit.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs", Karl Marx,This has failed every time it has been tried, why do we still have liberals?

 

[Cricket2]

Can't you get into a park on a shoppers pass or something like that?

Why don't they give a eaters pass?

I know, I know........ stay on topic.

JC

 

[PamOKW]

Here's the rough info on the pass.

For DVC members and family only. $749 per person (adult or child).

For four of the next five years, five days per year admission to MK, Epcot, MGM & AK with park hopping. Choice of 2 options per year from PI, any of the water parks, or Disney's WWofS. There are also some smaller discounts for miniature golf, etc.

I think many DVC'ers spend 2+ weeks per year at the parks, so this pass isn't very helpful.

 

[DebbieB]

We go twice a year and get 3 trips out of 1 AP by scheduling the trip the next year one week earlier, right before the AP expires. We usually use about 20 park days with each AP. The AP's we just bought in December were $309. So for 20 park days I'm going to pay $750 with this pass? I wonder how many of these passes they have sold? The vote is now 53/0!

I think they should have a flat percentage off all types of passes, that way whatever your vacation style is, you would benefit. Disney Club is only 5%.

 

[drusba]

At time of this post it is 55 to 0. The question was a little skewed because you had to answer that it was really good for you to vote yes, but even so getting no votes yet is truly a thumbs down. Rich, you left a little out of your comments. Doesn't having just a 5 day pass encourage people to go only Sun to Fri and avoid those weekends, thus overloading demand for for weekdays? I would like to know what their sales of that pass have been? (Have they made up the cost of promoting it yet?) Posters ask why don't they just get us the same discount as Disney Club gets. I have a more basic question. Why have they never bothered to even try to get us that kind of discount?

 

[Peggy Sue]

When I found out how this new pass was set up I immediately thought it was a "crappy" pass...

Most of us do visit WDW more than 5 days a year. I like the flexibility of an AP to be able to hop in and out of parks to have dinner, catch a show or just to visit one attraction. We no longer visit in "commando" mode. Like Rich states..we've never left a park without parting with some of our cash.. With a 5 day hopper I would have to go back into the mode of making sure I maximized every day I used..and we don't want to vacation that way anymore. I really enjoy coming back to the resort with "happy feet" instead of dragging myself back after a 12 hour day in the parks.

I would like to see WDW off DVC members a good discount off of ALL passes available, so each member can make a choice that fits their individual vacation style!

Have a wonderful day!

 

[john23tc]

It is useless to us too. We just back from a 2 week trip to WDW and were there for a week in November. Out of those 21 days we were in a Disney park for 19 of them. We did decide to go to U/IOA for the other two days, because my 10 & 21 year old insisted this time.

 

[SueOKW]

Even for people like me who only go one week a year it stinks! I have learned not buy into anything that has a time limit like that - even if it is 5 years away! (40 years - another story altogether!!!)

Before I joined DVC I bought a package - and I hated it. UMP - I felt like we had to go to the parks every day, or I was getting ripped off.

Right or wrong - I feel this ticket would have the same effect on me. So - I'll stick with buying my 5 day plus passes, and only using whatever i need, and carrying them over to the next trip. Ultimately - I want to get so that our usual trip is where we only go into the parks 2 or 3 days out of 7!!!! (Unless they bribe me with some kind of Golden Handcuffs as Rich calls them.) But these passes? Pathetic.
Sue

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