What is your price threshold? POLL

[Accident]

What a strange way to do this survey...

If I want to go, I'm going to go but I don't really know what I can or can't afford until it's time to pay for it. Depends what else in life is throwing curve balls at me.

 

[ArwenMarie]

I would probably pay up to $125 a day for MK and only $50 a day for the other three parks right now. I guess that averages out to something in terms of a 5 day pass. My point is the value per park is so out of whack right now I can't even think about what 5 day passes are worth to me.

 

[btk2333]

I'm sorry I'm not smart enough to figure out the poll- I will stop going when I stop seeing the value no sooner no later

 

[soniam]

I think total vacation price (at least the prepaid stuff like tickets, hotel, and airfare) is what most of us understand, or at least me I didn't even know what we paid for 6 day hoppers for 3 adults. I had to go look at the email to compare to your poll choices. I don't really think I can answer it easily based only upon ticket price. I know what we paid for the hotel and the airfare, but the ticket price kind of falls in the noise. Sort of like the things you buy while at the park instead of prepaying, like food and gifts. I bet Disney is hoping that's what happens for most families. At some point, if tickets got too high, I would just get an AP, assuming they are a good value. Sorry I didn't answer, but it's hard to think of it in terms of tickets.

 

[Planogirl]

I almost always buy passes separately but how much I'm willing to pay still depends on other costs. For example I think that the cost of flying is way out of hand and now we drive even though it takes a long time. If we had to pay to fly then I'd be less willing to pay as much for passes. This is just simply how much we can afford.

How much value I find varies depending on park and my mood.

 

[TXAKDisneyFan]

I agree with others that tickets are only one piece of the puzzle. How much any of us can afford, or are willing to pay, is highly dependent on our personal finances, and everyone's situation is different.

I think whatever the current ticket prices are is a good indicator of what the market will currently bear. (Obviously prices will go up next year and the year after that...) Disney doesn't pull their ticket prices out of thin air - they do a lot of research into what people are willing to pay.

 

[momof2n2]

I just spent a little over $2500 to purchase tickets for our family of eight for next May. That is 5 day basic tix.

We more or less choked when we saw the cost. But it was this year, or who knows when. So we're making it work.

 

[wisblue]

I would also consider the whole picture and not just ticket prices. For one thing, I don't have to pay for a family of 5 any more because our daughters are all adults who pay for their own tickets. Also, we will get AP's if we think we can get more than one trip in a full year period.

If we can take a trip at a time when airfares are lower and the cost of lodging using DVC points is low, the price of tickets isn't going to affect me as much.

For example, I am taking a short Monday-Friday trip next week with my wife and one daughter, mainly to get a break from winter. The airfare on SW was less than $200 round trip and we were able to use reward points for them. Plus, we are using DVC points at SSR and my daughter and I have AP's to use for park admission. So, even paying $300 plus for a 3 day hopper for my wife, the overall out of pocket cost is pretty low. I might be more reluctant to pay that much in a vaccum.

 

[dashofsunshine]

Myself and my husband are the only ones in our little family right now. I'm a teacher and he is a software developer. We don't have particularly high income (I guess about normal, most of that coming from his job, lol), and we like to go lots of places as opposed to spending thousands upon thousands at just Disney. So, we do short (4 day) trips every other year, no dining package, stay offsite, etc. With all the price increases, we are just going to do Disney less often, I suppose. Once every 3-4 years instead of every 1-2. It's quite sad for me in a way, though. I know they need to make money, but unless something changes career-wise for myself, when we have children we will most likely be unable to afford to take them to Disney.

 

[AJA]

I'll play. I have a family of 3 and need 4-5 day passes. $1500 for the three tickets is my threshold.

I do agree with the pp's that ticket cost is just a part of our vacation. But Disney hotels are always expensive compared to off site, and for now, a big part of our vacation is staying onsite.

 

[gorkt]

To maximize value, I go less often and stay longer (8-9 nights). For the trip I am currently pricing out, the cost is about $1600 for 7 night hoppers for a family of 4. On a per day basis that is $57/pp. Considering that includes all the fireworks, parades, shows and rides, along with the ambiance, I am okay with that price for the quality of services rendered. I would say that I would get uncomfortable if it were more than $75/day though.

 

[china mom]

For me, the price of hotel room is currently the only factor. We buy Annual Passes and, as family if an airline employee, we fly free. We tend to bring a lot if our own food and eat QS.

Sadly, the days of the $89 rooms at Pop seem to be gone so we are slowly reaching our price point.

 

[Fabnsab]

I pay good money for "experiences." That could be shore excursions on a cruise, a tour of the pandas at San Diego zoo before the zoo opens, AND that includes magic kingdom. I'd continue to pay their prices as long as we still deem it a worthy experience.

That being said, we only do two park days in our week, one MK and the other changes. This year we are trying legoland.

 

[momimouse27]

Fortunately, my dad is retired military, so we have been able to use discounted military tickets the last couple of times we went, which saved us some. But I'd say they would price us out at about $500 for a 5 day pass, and that's pushing it. I believed for the first time this year we'd be able to buy AP's, but with the price hike they have priced us out. Until they finish the DHS rebuild and some stuff at Epcot, I don't think it will be worth it yet anyway.

 

[tlmadden73]

What others have said .. it's an odd survey question because I don't really factor in the price of the tickets on its own.
The ticke price is nothing ... its everything else that makes the price of the vacation expensive .. traveling, lodging, food.

For that $X/per person/per day .. you get a LOT of entertainment value, so as long as I feel I am getting my money's worth for my entertainment there .. there isn't a "too high" price point yet. My sister is going to Dollywood and I looked at ticket prices .. $65! I've never been there, but that seems really expensive for a family theme park in the middle of nowhere. You can go to Disney for 5 days for that (per day).

It's really the price of the whole vacation, but the Disney hotels are DARN expensive for a vacation where you plan on spending a lot of time IN the parks.
If the vacation is getting too expensive, go fewer days, stay offsite, pack lunches and bring them into the park, limit souvenir spending . there is tons to do to "offset" the high price of tickets.

I was pleasantly suprised when I was able to get $80/night rooms at Pop Century late last summer (with their 20% discount) .. that is cheaper than staying at most "non-budget" hotels you find off the freeway. I've had two affordable Disney vacations because I chose to only go for two park days (one off day) .. and one of the trips was offsite (renting a house with 2 other families).

 

[casperthegm]

Not sure what the exact number is for us but our family talks about it more and more each year. We still love Disney, but with Epcot and DHS having less to offer than ever before and ever-increasing prices we are wavering a bit. Especially when I see how quickly and how well Universal got HP built. I've seen it mentioned many times on the boards, but it's frustrating for us how long it takes Disney to first decide to do something and then actually begin, then complete a project.

 

[lugnut33]

It's quite obvious that the cost of a Disney vacation (or park tickets) is undervalued currently by simply looking at how crowded the parks are. They could raise prices dramatically and still be making record profits (from the parks side).

 

[Nancyg56]

I listed the prices per person underneath the options.

I know, but for me the tickets are only one component of a trip, and I rarely stay less than one week. Usually 8 to 10 days. Anyway, I figure the total package, decide if that amount is in my budget and then go from there. If I want to go to Disney, I go. I may need to compromise hoppers or resort, but I manage to come within my vacation budget every time. For instance, last trip the hoppers were a waste and I will not purchase them again because we simply did not need to use them enough for me to find them a valuable asset for our trip. Now I have additional money to place elsewhere in my trip budget.

I am planning a trip in December and was considering the hoppers and the party, but decided that I could save the money on both features of the trip and use it elsewhere. If you asked me the price of tickets for that trip,....I cannot tell you. I will have the breakdown once I firm my days and number of us going, but they will still only be one piece of the total package.