Ticket Price Increases for Disneyland Announced

[milan15]

Blame John Carter

 

[ryleeranger]

Aww man, I was going to buy APs when we go in June but hadn't got around to it. The phrase "you snooze, you lose" comes to mind.

Does anyone know if there are any 3rd party vendors that sell APs and will sell them for yesterday's price or am I S.O.L?

 

[2boysmom1998]

I look at it this way. I can spend $2500 to take my family to SoCal for a week this year. The memories that my kids will take from DLR and especially the new Cars Land will be worth every penny. I am not going to let an additional $100 or $200 deter me from having a great time!

I agree. We went to DL last year and spent a week in SoCal, we are going again this year too! Flying to California is much easier than going to Florida for us and much cheaper. A week in SoCal w/ DL tickets and Universal tickets plus airfare are about $2700 for us a family of four. If we were to go to Florida for a week and spend four days at WDW and a day an Universal it would easily be close to $5500. Even with the increases I will go to DL and visit SoCal!

 

[FireflyJar]

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[cmwade77]

Personally, I thought last year's increase would have hit the point of diminishing returns for them. And I think they actually expected that as well.

My suspicion is that they truly want fewer passholders, as many do not spend much money in the parks.

I think a better scenario would be to raise the prices to what they have done, but then track how much each household spends throughout the year and give them a discount on renewals equal to something like 10% of what they spent throughout the year. This would encourage the passholders to spend more money and weed out the ones that don't.

Also, I know that parking is becoming more and more of an issue, so what I would say is that they should doe something like give an additional percentage off or a gift certificate to each person beyond one person in the car, at least those that have parking privileges to encourage carpooling.

Who knows, maybe someone at Disney is reading this and thinks these would be good ideas? It would be nice to see this happen, but I doubt it will, even though it would be in their best interest to do so.

 

[tinkermomma]

I'm not disappointed in Disney for raising AP and ticket prices. You can talk supply and demand all day long or say whatever you may think about them trying to manage crowd control. All are valid theories.

What I AM disappointed in them for raising the 3-10 range along with it. I mean to really wrap your head around an $81-119/day ticket for a 3 year old?!

I think Walt would truly be sad about how high the prices for kids are. Walt genuinely adored children and while his dream definitely included it being a park that parents could enjoy as well, it was truly designed with children as the focus I think TDA has clearly forgotten this. There should clearly be a larger gap between the two ticket prices.

I also think that this is one of the leading reasons people with children are not spending as much IN the parks, many just can't justify the souvenirs of the past when their kids ticket is only $5-10 less than theirs. Just a thought.

 

[kailuagirl]

Tinkermomma, I agree 100%

 

[tinkermomma]

Tinkermomma, I agree 100%

Aww Shucks

Thanks!

 

[todzwife]

So I just priced out a WDW trip VS DL w/ the new prices and I hate to say it but we may be trying WDW next time because the prices are about the same, they offer a value resort that is inexpensive and if you catch their free dining offer, it's an even cheaper vacation. There is a lot MORE there too.

This saddens me a great deal. I understand the price hike each year but this years is just insane. I do hope that this "thins the herd" though because the crowds have been getting unbearable sometimes.

 

[lalasmama]

(I'm hiding as I say this)

My corporate price for admission didn't change today.

 

[tinkermomma]

(I'm hiding as I say this)

My corporate price for admission didn't change today.

I have no clue how high that would be but I'm just going to go ahead and assume it's already quite a bit more and... well... Corporate relationships are an entirely different animal.

 

[sonjaandsue]

I think I owe ArchOwl a commission for this thread. If I understand it correctly, between the price increase & the d/c of the 6 day hopper, I saved around $150 per ticket yesterday. That's alot of corn dogs.

I feel badly for everyone negatively affected by the price increase.

 

[tinkermomma]

I think I owe ArchOwl a commission for this thread. If I understand it correctly, between the price increase & the d/c of the 6 day hopper, I saved around $150 per ticket yesterday. That's alot of corn dogs.

I feel badly for everyone negatively affected by the price increase.

This and That.

 

[lalasmama]

I have no clue how high that would be but I'm just going to go ahead and assume it's already quite a bit more and... well... Corporate relationships are an entirely different animal.

Yeah, I was shocked. Maybe they just haven't updated the page? I buy through Life Balance Program (which has always had the best prices I could find!) and it still lists the 3-day at $179.... which is what I paid for it last month too.

... just did some more digging/comparing. It looks like the page hasn't been updated to reflect any of the new prices. If I had the extra money in the account, I'd buy ticket and just take another long weekend!

 

[mrsxsparrow]

I'll admit I haven't read through this thread but... I live in Los Angeles and the prices for the AP's at my local grocery store were still the old prices today and they seemed to have plenty left, though I'm sure they'll be switched out soon. We missed the deadline yesterday on accident so thought it was lucky we found these.

Now just can't lose them before September...

In case anyone else forgot to get an AP voucher to use later, just thought you might wanna check your local store.

 

[ArchOwl]

I think I owe ArchOwl a commission for this thread. If I understand it correctly, between the price increase & the d/c of the 6 day hopper, I saved around $150 per ticket yesterday. That's alot of corn dogs.

I feel badly for everyone negatively affected by the price increase.

Hmmm...not a corn dog girl, but I will take a Mickey bar!

Seriously, someone else would have posted if I had not. But I am glad I was able to help a few people.

 

[ValpoCory]

(I'm hiding as I say this)

My corporate price for admission didn't change today.

My company's internal Club went down on Sunday and hasn't recovered.

My corporate price last week had great discounts (10% additional off the already discounted online disneyland.com price) on the 2012 tickets. However, I am going in 2013, so I am nervously awaiting the company consignment price list for 2013.

 

[jumpman23j]

Blame John Carter

I'm sure Avengers more than made up for that

 

[Mister]

They were talking about this here (Los Angeles) on the radio tonight and the running theory is that these increases are to make up for losses sustained due to California Adventure not being the hit it was planned on being. The addition of Disney Themed attractions and now the new Cars attraction are being done to try and draw the Disneyphiles over to CA. They have too much invested in CA to scrap it so they are trying to give it a facelift to draw more visitors. Unfortunately its an expensive facelift and we, the consumers, are apparently paying for poor decision making. I have 11 months left on my AP but SERIOUSLY doubt I will renew at the new price. Disney is digging themselves a hole...

 

[Tinkerbelle's Mom]

Wow... I am so glad I renewed our APs at the start of this month. I normally get dd and I the deluxe but this year after doing the math I decided to upgrade us both to the Premium. After adding the parking to my old deluxe price the premium was only a $1 more. This is not the case anymore.

Well, we are going to enjoy them because next year I will definately have to downgrade. There is no way I can afford $649 for each of our passes.