Ticket opinion

[cyb]

I hear ticket prices are increasing soon so I wanted opinions about purchasing a weekday select ticket for when my 5 days of nonexpiration tickets expire, I go about 1 or 2 times a year so I wouldn't use the ticket until 2019 but with tickets increasing at least 3 times before I use it for the first time I would save a little money but when I get it I will need to go more than twice a year to make it worth buying, how many of you would buy the ticket?

 

[Hootch]

If you have the cash and know you are going in the future, there is nothing wrong with pre purchasing tickets. Disney ticket prices are going up faster than inflation. Add to that the rumors about seasonal pricing and I's not a bad idea.

 

[Ninja Mom]

I'm betting that if this tiered pricing comes into play, that all tickets purchased prior to this upcoming rate hike/tier system will be locked into this year's price. That would mean that if you planned to enter the park with an older ticket that it would only have a set value (probably the lowest in this new system) and you would have to pay the difference based on the price for admission on the day that you wished to use it.

God help us if there were some way to determine what the actual purchase price was when you purchased that ticket. Then the difference would be larger, which Disney would then want you to pay.

Again all this is just speculation until we hear the new rules and recover from the shock of the massive price increases continually coming our way. IMHO Disney is focusing on PRICING and MARKETING trips to "Once in a life time", affluent families. The middle class consumers be damned and screw the fans and the local residents.

It's simply a money grab at this point supported by empty promises, cutbacks and endless, chronically delayed, construction.

~NM

 

[epcotty]

If tiered pricing does come into play there's no reason to believe that previously bought tickets would not be good on any day as they are, typically previously bought tickets have been honored as they were

 

[JimmyV]

I'm betting that if this tiered pricing comes into play, that all tickets purchased prior to this upcoming rate hike/tier system will be locked into this year's price. That would mean that if you planned to enter the park with an older ticket that it would only have a set value (probably the lowest in this new system) and you would have to pay the difference based on the price for admission on the day that you wished to use it.

While they certainly could do that, I doubt they will. Don't forget that dynamic pricing doesn't necessarily mean that today's prices are the baseline and everything will go up from there. It could be that today's prices (or, more aptly, today's prices after the next increase), are the highest, and dynamic pricing will result in a reduction for the slower weeks of the year. If the purpose is to get more people to come in the slower times, the way to do that is to lower the price by a few bucks for a few weeks rather than raise the price for 45 weeks a year.

 

[soniam]

While they certainly could do that, I doubt they will. Don't forget that dynamic pricing doesn't necessarily mean that today's prices are the baseline and everything will go up from there. It could be that today's prices (or, more aptly, today's prices after the next increase), are the highest, and dynamic pricing will result in a reduction for the slower weeks of the year. If the purpose is to get more people to come in the slower times, the way to do that is to lower the price by a few bucks for a few weeks rather than raise the price for 45 weeks a year.

Wow! An optimist. You don't see those very often around here