And here's your first ticket price increase . . .

Sara_H · Mar 12, 2019

I've thought about going the UT route, but I'm not sure their tickets would work in January. When trying to buy tickets before today, the fine print always said that first use had to happen by December 31, 2019. Remember when tickets would never expire?? Or who remembers when multi-day tickets were automatically hoppers without having to pay extra to make them a hopper? (at least that is what I'm remembering about the multi-day tickets circa 2001)

SinCityMMAFan · Mar 12, 2019

Sara_H said:
I've thought about going the UT route, but I'm not sure their tickets would work in January. When trying to buy tickets before today, the fine print always said that first use had to happen by December 31, 2019. Remember when tickets would never expire?? Or who remembers when multi-day tickets were automatically hoppers without having to pay extra to make them a hopper? (at least that is what I'm remembering about the multi-day tickets circa 2001)

Yes the good ol' days indeed. I grew up in the Orlando area and had an AP every year back then. I remember the cost was maybe $250 for an annual pass.

philly_mcphillyface · Mar 12, 2019

I'm in the same boat- going in late January. Blurgh.

vicarrieous · Mar 12, 2019

Sara_H said:
I've thought about going the UT route, but I'm not sure their tickets would work in January. When trying to buy tickets before today, the fine print always said that first use had to happen by December 31, 2019. Remember when tickets would never expire?? Or who remembers when multi-day tickets were automatically hoppers without having to pay extra to make them a hopper? (at least that is what I'm remembering about the multi-day tickets circa 2001)

We are planning to go Jan 12-18 and had been looking at UT. I went to try and buy and the price would jump around. I reached out and they said that even though you can choose a date in the first two weeks of January on their site, it won't physically allow you to buy them because they won't be valid since Disney hasn't opened January dates. So yep, those tickets you can't even buy even though it shows like you may be able to on their site.

vicarrieous · Mar 12, 2019

philly_mcphillyface said:
I'm in the same boat- going in late January. Blurgh.

Bummed here too, we are middle January and can't buy anything in advance. Just cringe and watch the price rise.

Sara_H · Mar 12, 2019

vicarrieous said:
Bummed here too, we are middle January and can't buy anything in advance. Just cringe and watch the price rise.

Exactly - we are mid to late January and there's nothing we can do yet.

JoJoGirl · Mar 12, 2019

Yikes ... One more $50 increase for regular APs and they will be over $1000 including tax. :scared1:

Not sure if that makes me want to buy my next voucher now, or take a few years off.

SinCityMMAFan · Mar 12, 2019

JoJoGirl said:
Yikes ... One more $50 increase for regular APs and they will be over $1000 including tax.

Not sure if that makes me want to buy my next voucher now, or take a few years off.

I was thinking the same exact thing.

TammyLynn33 · Mar 12, 2019

Try adding a 34-38% exchange rate in top of that . Every 100 payment I made was around $72 it hurt

QUOTE="Peppeperoni, post: 60369027, member: 639766"]Yup. It’s insanity! With GE coming they know they can get away with it and it won’t stop anything. I’m paying off a trip for me and my mom for May and have only one more payment. Feels like i just paid off a car lol[/QUOTE]

randumb0 · Mar 12, 2019

ajfd said:
Only one more year until this claim is old enough to buy a beer...

Oh you better believe they will start charging for fast passes and you probably won't have to wait another year.

UnderCoverTourist · Mar 12, 2019

Hi There,

Our prices are still the old prices. If you are going this year we recommend buying your passes :thanks:

MikeandReneePlus5 · Mar 12, 2019

randumb0 said:
Oh you better believe they will start charging for fast passes and you probably won't have to wait another year.

they are a little bit already...with the 90 day pilot program.

Jcon · Mar 12, 2019

One thread has people complaining about the high ticket prices and the next people complaining about how busy it is at WDW. They're connected, folks.

runwad · Mar 12, 2019

Sara_H said:
I've thought about going the UT route, but I'm not sure their tickets would work in January. When trying to buy tickets before today, the fine print always said that first use had to happen by December 31, 2019. Remember when tickets would never expire?? Or who remembers when multi-day tickets were automatically hoppers without having to pay extra to make them a hopper? (at least that is what I'm remembering about the multi-day tickets circa 2001)

I remember and am still hoarding some! At this point I think I need to save them for future grandchildren as my kids probably won't be able to take their families like we could :sad1:

Tink_83 · Mar 12, 2019

Jcon said:
One thread has people complaining about the high ticket prices and the next people complaining about how busy it is at WDW. They're connected, folks.

True it doesn’t mean we have to be happy about it (crowds or pricing)... Disney could just build enough at WDW that prices can stay lower and accommodate more people (or better yet new rides with the capacity to handle the number of people that want to ride them - 6 hour waits for FOP is a fail on their part).

Tink_83 · Mar 12, 2019

runwad said:
I remember and am still hoarding some! At this point I think I need to save them for future grandchildren as my kids probably won't be able to take their families like we could

It’s like an investment at this point... actually it’s probably increased more then a lot of investments!

Rach3975 · Mar 12, 2019

Our 4-day hoppers for Nov 2-5 went up about $21, but we've already bought them since I was expecting increases before SW:GE opened. With GE opening, I think an increase is justified. It's all the other price increases--which come while decreasing park hours and increasing crowds mean we do less every day--that are more of an issue for me. We still love Disney, but we aren't willing to pay the highest prices and deal with the largest crowds (during school breaks) and can't take our kids out of school anymore because they miss too much at the high school level. So even without the increases, last year was our last family trip for a while and this year DH and I will do our only couple trip.

Jcon · Mar 12, 2019

Tink_83 said:
True it doesn’t mean we have to be happy about it (crowds or pricing)... Disney could just build enough at WDW that prices can stay lower and accommodate more people (or better yet new rides with the capacity to handle the number of people that want to ride them - 6 hour waits for FOP is a fail on their part).

I'm not saying you need to be happy. You have every right to complain.

But, it costs Disney more money to build. Why not raise prices under the existing infrastructure until you're no longer at capacity?

glocon · Mar 12, 2019

Just saved $110 on 2 five day tickets on UT vs the Disney website. I was holding off thinking there might be summer specials to get people in before GE opens, but I thought wrong. Went ahead and pulled the trigger to get our tickets before prices got any worse.
At least in about a week I can link them to our mde account

Tigerlulu · Mar 12, 2019

We were planning to combine rundisney princess weekend and Mardi Gras break next year for family trip and our run trip. Now I’m thinking we are back to just a couple trip for running and maybe one Park day. Stupid how much these tix cost. Will go back to our original plan of spring 2022 probably. Once most of the construction crap is over. If we are going to pay out the nose, we might as well wait and enjoy it all at once.

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