Ticket Prices Increasing June 12th!

[mlittig]

That is awesome,

 

[pilferk]

MYW tickets are seeing a big increase. Each day beyond the 4th is $8/day, up from $5. PH and WPFM up $1 to $55. No Expiration up around $12 at the high end.

1-day base up $3 to $85.

http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/tickets-passes/

Through sheer unadulterated unplanned luck, we bought our tickets for our October trip on Friday morning, via Undercover Tourist. 10 day MYW Park Hoppers.

I haven't seen UT's new pricing (they're still selling under the old prices...or were when I checked an hour or so ago), but I figure we saved about $270 for our family of 5, between the price increase and the UT/Mousesavers discount vs Disney's new price.

That's a pretty big jump to make, IMHO.

 

[cybrkitn]

13 pages is a lot of pages to go through when trying to find an answer, so forgive me if this has been asked before.

Does anyone know if the new prices will be reflected on the WDW site when tyring to get a price for a package deal?

We're going the first week of December and I already have some saved vacation packages so we know how much it will cost us when we are ready to book. Does Disney's site already include the new ticket prices or do I need to go back in, delete my saved vacations and start from scratch?

 

[pilferk]

Yes, in certain situations there is a limit to the number of payment methods per transaction. This is actually quite common in retail.

There IS another way...but it involves visiting a Disney store. Given the time constraints on the increase....maybe not practical.

You can take all those gift cards to a Disney store and "buy" one gift card for the full amount. We've done it with our kids, prior to trips down to WDW, so they're each carrying ONE card.

 

[pilferk]

So I have skimmed the thread but don't see what is on my mind...maybe cause we don't know the answers.....Anyway, here's my question.

If they raise the price now, will they do so again on tickets in Aug or just possibly raise the room rates?

We are back from our first trip and decided on Day 5 we were booking again for 2012. Planning to write a short trip report soon!!

Nobody knows for sure, but I'd be SHOCKED if they increased ticket prices AGAIN in August.

Maybe in December/January.

 

[NancyIL]

Nobody knows for sure, but I'd be SHOCKED if they increased ticket prices AGAIN in August.

Maybe in December/January.

I think this price increase was 2 months early so Disney could start booking 2012 resort packages that much sooner. I don't expect to see another price increase until June 2012.

 

[pilferk]

I think this price increase was 2 months early so Disney could start booking 2012 resort packages that much sooner. I don't expect to see another price increase until June 2012.

That's my expectation, too, actually. I don't mean to make it sound like a December/January price increase is certain, or even likely. This increase was probably the "annual" increase, earlier than in years past, and we probably won't see another til next June.

HOWEVER, IF Disney was going to increase prices twice in a year, I'd be shocked if they did it in August. IF they were going to do it, I'd expect that increase would take place in December/January...NOT August.

 

[rt2dz]

Ugh! I hate decisions. I am trying to decide if I want to purchase UT tickets (assuming a 7 day PH, no expiration) and then upgrade those to an AP in Feb. when we go or I can just wait until my current AP expires and renew in Sept. with the renewal price. It looks like I would only save about $30 over renewing in Sept (since you get a renewal discount of nearly $50) but then Disney has my money and I have no plans of going from Sept to Feb. (* I think, but I do hear the Halloween parade calling ).

What to do, what to do...anyone in my boat?

It never makes sense to renew an AP if you won't be back to Disney within 1 month of expiration, right? A renewal price is the total price divided by 12 times 11. One month free.

If it is more than 30 days from expiration to your next trip, you might as well buy a new AP because you've lost the discount and then will get a new expiration date x amount of days out.

 

[rt2dz]

that is a great suggestion and one i have practiced.


but, i can't find that photocopy of the passes with the barcodes.....


i'm so blonde at times i kill myself.

I always email it to myself so I have access for the rest of my life no matter where I am.

ETA: That's what I get for not reading the thread all the way through before replying.

 

[pilferk]

I, personally, have just never seen it. Whenever I run it for not only our family, but for friends, for people I know on DIS boards and other Disney fan site, it has never, not ONCE, come out as a better deal. .

Just to play devil's advocate, then:

DVC member (not financed, more or less paid cash), 3 kids (over 3, under 10), 2 adults.

TS every day, CS every day, snack for breakfast some days, occasional mickey bar, with the left overs used for car snacks on the way back home.

We like to eat on property (though we have a car, on many trips, and could eat off property...the commute isn't worth it, for us).

We buy our tickets through UT with the mousesavers discount.

We pay for our dining (it's not free), but don't have to pay for it/add it til about 2 weeks prior to our trip.

I've run numbers up one side and down the other and, for us, we save a decent amount of money. We're not going to get a room discount, and we can get discounted tickets. Once our kids break the "adult" barrier....we probably WON'T save money (seems to be pretty close to break even), so will abandon the DDP. But right now....

"Free" dining doesn't appear to be a GREAT deal, usually.

The DDP can be, for some families.

 

[doconeill]

It never makes sense to renew an AP if you won't be back to Disney within 1 month of expiration, right? A renewal price is the total price divided by 12 times 11. One month free.

If it is more than 30 days from expiration to your next trip, you might as well buy a new AP because you've lost the discount and then will get a new expiration date x amount of days out.

Not quite...it can still make sense if I'm still making the necessary trips within the remaining time of the renewal, regardless of how long it will be after I renew...say I need to renew in January. I don't have a trip planned until June, but I also have trips in September and December - and not again until at least after the following June. In that case, the renewal still makes sense.

If I had an additional trip the following year but before the expiration of a new AP I would have bought in June if I went that route, then it would make more sense to get a new one in June.

 

[pilferk]

That's our boat. Will have to buy at new prices. DH gets a big bonus in July and that is what is paying for our Disney trip this year. I thought I was going to come in under the gun and miss the price increase in August. Not so, I guess . I REFUSE to finance on a credit card, even if just for 2 months. $2500+ adds up to a lot of interest that it won't save me anything in the long run v. waiting.

If you pay for the purchase within 28 (sometimes 30) days...you shouldn't accrue interest.

Depending on your interest rate, you'd probably still save money by buying now (assuming a 29% interest rate...which is VERY high...you'd pay about $61 in interest for that 30 day period if you carried the balance).

 

[doconeill]

Just to play devil's advocate, then:

DVC member (not financed, more or less paid cash), 3 kids (over 3, under 10), 2 adults.

TS every day, CS every day, snack for breakfast some days, occasional mickey bar, with the left overs used for car snacks on the way back home.

We like to eat on property (though we have a car, on many trips, and could eat off property...the commute isn't worth it, for us).

We buy our tickets through UT with the mousesavers discount.

We pay for our dining (it's not free), but don't have to pay for it/add it til about 2 weeks prior to our trip.

I've run numbers up one side and down the other and, for us, we save a decent amount of money. We're not going to get a room discount, and we can get discounted tickets. Once our kids break the "adult" barrier....we probably WON'T save money (seems to be pretty close to break even), so will abandon the DDP. But right now....

I agree that it CAN work. I did a lot of math for our last trip. Same situation - DVC members, but with 2 children, one a "Disney Adult", but we also had my in-laws, so that's 5 adults, 1 child. I could make the standard DDP work - but only if we committed to enough table service meals. We don't normally eat that many in the course of a long trip. And we wouldn't save ANYTHING by having the 2BR with the kitchen (something I'm trying to focus on more on our trips).

One thing I found to make the DDP worth it - avoid buffets. They are typically priced lower than a menu meal.

 

[pilferk]

I agree that it CAN work. I did a lot of math for our last trip. Same situation - DVC members, but with 2 children, one a "Disney Adult", but we also had my in-laws, so that's 5 adults, 1 child. I could make the standard DDP work - but only if we committed to enough table service meals. We don't normally eat that many in the course of a long trip. And we wouldn't save ANYTHING by having the 2BR with the kitchen (something I'm trying to focus on more on our trips).

We take the 2BR for space, not the kitchen (though it's nice for snacks, breakfasts not in the parks, etc). We cook probably 6 nights out of 7 at home...sometimes 7 out of 7...so we wouldn't cook (beyond toasting a bagel) on vacation, ever.

The kids are the tipping point, for us. As soon as DD hits 10...it's no longer a value. But we can't feed the kids a TS/CS/breakfast (or snack) for $12 a day.

WE (DW and I) could probably eat for right around $44.95 a day, and be quite happy. Maybe a bit more with that snack/breakfast thrown in. I figured it out for this trip and we save something like $30 per adult over our 9 night trip. We save something like $70 PER kid for that 9 nights.

For us, right now, well worth it.

One thing I found to make the DDP worth it - avoid buffets. They are typically priced lower than a menu meal.

For the adults, for sure. For the kids, hit an miss. The character buffets are pretty good deals.

 

[NancyIL]

Not quite...it can still make sense if I'm still making the necessary trips within the remaining time of the renewal, regardless of how long it will be after I renew...say I need to renew in January. I don't have a trip planned until June, but I also have trips in September and December - and not again until at least after the following June. In that case, the renewal still makes sense.

If I had an additional trip the following year but before the expiration of a new AP I would have bought in June if I went that route, then it would make more sense to get a new one in June.

That's true, but you probably won't know at renewal time in January what trip opportunities might come up before June of the following year.

I had an AP that expired Jan. 28, 2010. My next trip was April 17, 2010, and normally I would've waited until April to get a new AP because I go almost every April. However, last year Disney added 3 months to the expiration date for AP renewals, so it was a no-brainer to renew in January. (My new expiration date was May 1, 2011, but don't ask me why I got an extra 3 days!) I also applied the Give A Day voucher to the renewal price.

When my AP expired this May, I didn't have any plans to return to WDW before December, so I didn't renew it. I was also planning my Dec. trip dates to get Dec. 2011, April 2012, and Dec. 2012 trips out of one AP. Since then I decided to go in October, so my October AP will also cover December, April 2012, and probably one last trip in October 2012 before it expires!

 

[rt2dz]

Not quite...it can still make sense if I'm still making the necessary trips within the remaining time of the renewal, regardless of how long it will be after I renew...say I need to renew in January. I don't have a trip planned until June, but I also have trips in September and December - and not again until at least after the following June. In that case, the renewal still makes sense.

If I had an additional trip the following year but before the expiration of a new AP I would have bought in June if I went that route, then it would make more sense to get a new one in June.

You're right. If you will be making several trips in the renewal period, but not for a while after what the new renewal period would be. And, if you don't take advantage of any discounts the AP gives you between those times.

I guess it would depend on when the next two years worth of trips would be, if you plan that far out.

 

[Disneychix]

Thanks for all the advice from those who posted in this thread. Just got my tix from UT and saved $140. We aren't going till Sept but I figured couldn't beat saving that amount of cash.

 

[2Pirates2Princesses]

I haven't read all the posts in this thread, but all I can say is wow!! For my family, once our 9 year old twins turn 10 and our 2 year old turns 3 it will cost us $530 for just a one day base ticket or over $1,500 for a four day base ticket I don't even want to know how much it would cost us to add the park hopper option. This is part of our strong motivation for wanting to do this trip this year while our kids are still at "child" prices and one is still considered a "baby". I can't speak for other people's situations, but when we crunch all the numbers these park tickets are the real big expense for us, not dining or the cost of lodging. I've read that Disney is trying to "wean" people off those popular discounts, but for our family if we ever get back down to WDW, the cost for dining or hotel rooms and any discounts associated with them aren't going to be a big factor for us, it's these park tickets. I could see us coming back to Orlando and working around these price hikes by renting a condo or vacation house, spending only a couple days at WDW parks, and maybe doing some of the other stuff Orlando has to offer.

 

[Squidgyness]

I haven't read all the posts in this thread, but all I can say is wow!! For my family, once our 9 year old twins turn 10 and our 2 year old turns 3 it will cost us $530 for just a one day base ticket or over $1,500 for a four day base ticket I don't even want to know how much it would cost us to add the park hopper option. This is part of our strong motivation for wanting to do this trip this year while our kids are still at "child" prices and one is still considered a "baby". I can't speak for other people's situations, but when we crunch all the numbers these park tickets are the real big expense for us, not dining or the cost of lodging. I've read that Disney is trying to "wean" people off those popular discounts, but for our family if we ever get back down to WDW, the cost for dining or hotel rooms and any discounts associated with them aren't going to be a big factor for us, it's these park tickets. I could see us coming back to Orlando and staying in timeshare or renting a vacation house and working around these price hikes by maybe spending only a couple days at WDW parks and maybe doing some of the other stuff Orlando has to offer.

I think that we all suffer from one degree or another. This is my (possibly unique I grant you ) situation:

I was planning a '12 trip, but had to stop as finances just weren't good in the family at the minute.

What with me being a student and our family consisting of 4 adults (Mum, Dad, me as 19yo son and 24yo sister) it just wouldn't be feasible, even with staying offsite and going for price-cutting options. Even cutting out a member of the family (which we don't want to do as we are pretty close) wouldn't help.

Being based in britain doesn't help either, as flights aren't cheap at all over here and so are another huge price concern, along with exchange rates.

I believe that in future a lot of people will have to either cancel or reconsider trips if prices keep increasing. I notice that in Britain it is an increasing trend to forgo the biennial or triennial trip to places like florida, australia and new zealand and go instead to closer destinations due to restricted budgets, such as my decision to use my student loan savings to go to Malta instead.

If disney don't want to lose the revenue from foreign travellers, they need to reign in on the increases in ticket prices.

 

[wdwlver]

Just went on Undercover Tourist and bought my tix.....price quoted from Disney was 1385......got same tix through ut for 1221!!!