Ticket Increase imminent

[disneysteve]

I haven't read all of the speculation articles but this just sounds like a huge mess. If they do seasonal pricing, that would be okay. If, however, they actually break it down to the day - Saturday costs more than Tuesday - I can't imagine the logistical nightmare that will create. We don't plan our trips in advance. We don't know which days of our visit we will be in which parks, or any park at all. If we go for 2 weeks, we buy a 5-day pass but couldn't tell you upfront which 5 days we will use it. If they put in place a new system that actually requires us to plan out every day of our visit in advance in order to know which ticket to purchase, I think that would be the breaking point that keeps us away. I certainly hope that isn't what happens.

 

[EricInPA]

Tiered ticket pricing works for places like Universal Hollywood and Shanghai because they're one, maybe 2 day parks.
Shanghai costs $x amount based on the day you'll go, and you get a % discount off adding a second day.
Places outside of WDW/Universal do this. Waterbom park in Bali, Indonesia does this type of pricing (except its the same price for your first day regardless of the date)

Feel the need to second this.

Disney moving to a "tiered" pricing structure for walk-ups/single day tickets makes sense and is easy to execute/understand. Every theme park I visit some kind of tiering (Weekday Only, Any Day, Holiday, After 4pm, etc) if you want to call it that.

Fitting advance-purchase, multi-day tickets, into a seasonal structure will be very convoluted if it ever happens for all the reasons stated in this thread.

I guess we'll find out tomorrow!

 

[TheMaxRebo]

I haven't read all of the speculation articles but this just sounds like a huge mess. If they do seasonal pricing, that would be okay. If, however, they actually break it down to the day - Saturday costs more than Tuesday - I can't imagine the logistical nightmare that will create. We don't plan our trips in advance. We don't know which days of our visit we will be in which parks, or any park at all. If we go for 2 weeks, we buy a 5-day pass but couldn't tell you upfront which 5 days we will use it. If they put in place a new system that actually requires us to plan out every day of our visit in advance in order to know which ticket to purchase, I think that would be the breaking point that keeps us away. I certainly hope that isn't what happens.

I really don't see how they can work multi-day tickets with each day of the week being different tier, etc. Maybe seasonally (so like off peak, peak, and high peak) and perhaps have a few blackout days or something (like NYE, etc - the really crazy individual days) but beyond that it would be too complicated, etc.

 

[Alicenwonderment]

Does Disney usually announce price increases the day before? I remember last year the night before it was confirmed. Should have bought the no expiration tickets then.

 

[rteetz]

I haven't read all of the speculation articles but this just sounds like a huge mess. If they do seasonal pricing, that would be okay. If, however, they actually break it down to the day - Saturday costs more than Tuesday - I can't imagine the logistical nightmare that will create. We don't plan our trips in advance. We don't know which days of our visit we will be in which parks, or any park at all. If we go for 2 weeks, we buy a 5-day pass but couldn't tell you upfront which 5 days we will use it. If they put in place a new system that actually requires us to plan out every day of our visit in advance in order to know which ticket to purchase, I think that would be the breaking point that keeps us away. I certainly hope that isn't what happens.

It won't be as bad if they start it with one day tickets firsts that would be relatively easy to do in the current scheme of things.

 

[rteetz]

Does Disney usually announce price increases the day before? I remember last year the night before it was confirmed. Should have bought the no expiration tickets then.

Disney usually doesn't confirm them, they are usually leaked out though to websites.

 

[rteetz]

I really don't see how they can work multi-day tickets with each day of the week being different tier, etc. Maybe seasonally (so like off peak, peak, and high peak) and perhaps have a few blackout days or something (like NYE, etc - the really crazy individual days) but beyond that it would be too complicated, etc.

While it would be complicated to the guest Disney wants to charge as much as possible really. Just imagine if they eventually go to the limited experiences per day model.

 

[disneysteve]

Just imagine if they eventually go to the limited experiences per day model.

Well they could just go back to ticket books a la 1971. You pay for a certain number of experiences. If you want more, you have to buy more tickets.

 

[disneysteve]

It won't be as bad if they start it with one day tickets

Sure. Tiering a 1-day ticket is easy. You want to come in today? The price is XYZ. But on a multi-day ticket that you have 14 days to use (unless that changes), it could be far more difficult.

 

[SorcererHeidi]

And if they START with one-day tickets (or @ DL, or whatever - the operative word being START).....you KNOW where that eventually lead, no matter how long it takes.....just sayin'.....operative word again being START.......

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Well it's official and starting tomorrow- only impacting 1-day tickets:

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2016/02/disney-parks-adopt-seasonal-pricing-on-1-day-ticket/

 

[figmentfan423]

Looks like the rest of the tickets are going up 10%

 

[EricInPA]

Looks like the rest of the tickets are going up 10%

(Re post from over in TPAS)

The multi-day increases aren't yet live, but are reported to be from 6.5-9.5% (305->325 for a 4 day, 365-400 for a 10 day).

 

[figmentfan423]

(Re post from over in TPAS)

The multi-day increases aren't yet live, but are reported to be from 6.5-9.5% (305->325 for a 4 day, 365-400 for a 10 day).

That's still way too much since last October!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rteetz]

Well they could just go back to ticket books a la 1971. You pay for a certain number of experiences. If you want more, you have to buy more tickets.

That essentially what they are looking at doing.

 

[Princess Jes]

I read the article that the seasonal/tiered pricing would only effect 1-day tickets. Not that you can't buy multi-day tickets, just that they wouldn't vary based on season.

So a 5-day park hopper is the same price all the time but a 1-day will vary based on season .... Further motivates buying longer stays during peak seasons

My sincerest apologies!
I read this:

Looks like it will be one day tickets only for now...

As saying "you'll only be able to buy one day tickets"
Not "it will only apply to the one day tickets.
My bad guys, my bad

 

[Princess Jes]

I'm glad I bought my tickets on Friday (Orlando's Thursday)

 

[SorcererHeidi]

I'm glad I bought my tickets on Friday (Orlando's Thursday)

Thought of (and was glad for) you soon as I saw this!!

 

[Princess Jes]

Thought of (and was glad for) you soon as I saw this!!

I'm arriving late August and on a Tuesday, so as far as how peak that is, I wouldn't have thought it would be included in the peak summer pricing.
Either way, ticket prices won't have gone down, so it benefited me anyway.

Now what we will see is, in the earnings call in a few months, they'll quote that ticket sales will increase x% but attendance won't increase at the same rate.
And I think you'll see in park spending increase too, but also at a lower % than both attendance and ticket sales.

 

[disneysteve]

I'm arriving late August and on a Tuesday, so as far as how peak that is, I wouldn't have thought it would be included in the peak summer pricing.

Not that it matters since you already bought your package, but the Orlando Sentinel article said this:
Value tickets will be available during about a fifth of the year, including late August and almost all of September.