DisneyPrincess1
Earning My Ears
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- Jan 3, 2021
OK....just heard the Disneyland Annual Passes were being ended to revise them for the future. What is everyone's thoughts on the same thing happening at Disney World?
They aren’t going anywhere. Disney already stated in an email to premier pass holders that we will have the opportunity to renew down to WDW only passes by the end of April.OK....just heard the Disneyland Annual Passes were being ended to revise them for the future. What is everyone's thoughts on the same thing happening at Disney World?
Magic Express is a free service that a lot fewer people use now than they did 10-15 years ago. While it upsets a lot of people in the community, the general population probably doesn’t even know when DME is.
CMs being let go has been a constant thing for decades. Mass layoffs, then mass hirings. The hirings will come. They weren’t going to lay off 31,000 CMs without covid.
FP+ is being replaced by Genie. This has been known. And even if it’s a paid FP system, I’m not sure how anyone could complain. Disney is the only theme park chain to offer a FP like system for free for YEARS.
The re working of DL APs were probably coming, but it’s coming faster because of Covid and the impossibility to satisfy 1,000,000+ people (not including non-APs) with 2 parks that will have a total capacity of no more than 50,000 people per day.
OK....just heard the Disneyland Annual Passes were being ended to revise them for the future. What is everyone's thoughts on the same thing happening at Disney World?
Imho if WDW changes it won’t be done the same way. DLR is closed to infinity for now so nobody is planning to arrive and use an AP in the next couple months. If WDW drastically changed their program (as DLR appears set to do) they would need to give a LOT more notice to current holders.OK....just heard the Disneyland Annual Passes were being ended to revise them for the future. What is everyone's thoughts on the same thing happening at Disney World?
Wdw is also allowing current pass holders to renew.Imho if WDW changes it won’t be done the same way. DLR is closed to infinity for now so nobody is planning to arrive and use an AP in the next couple months. If WDW drastically changed their program (as DLR appears set to do) they would need to give a LOT more notice to current holders.
Wdw is also allowing current pass holders to renew.
The point is, we can’t praise Universal because there’s going to come a time where they also increase prices, and as someone that loves most theme parks, there’s no way I’d ever pay 450 dollars for Universal Hollywood with or without Super Nintendo World.
we have the top tier universal passes and yes the price does increase every year but unlike the Disney passes the perks are not reduced every year yes they change depending on what Universal wants to market year to year. And valet parking has been suspended because of covid but another parking perk took its place.
the point being in universals world repeat customers are considered a good thing, In the Disney universe they are not.
What Disney forgets though is the repeat fan is who encourages many of the very profitable ‘one and done’ trips. But thats a symptom of the fact that Disney executives don’t visit the parks as a guest so they have no idea of the park experience.
I’ve heard that DL on an average day is around 80% AP. If they open at 25%, how would that work? Most likely they will have a reservation system similar to WDW. You would have a lot of unhappy AP’s, feeling they are paying for days they can’t use.
I could see a 5 or 10 day no expiration or a longer expiration where you would not feel you are paying for days you can’t use.
It doesn’t work, which is why this is happening right now. Hundreds of thousands of “non ticket paying” guests for ~30-50k guests per day (Total between both parks) is financially irresponsible to reopen a park after over a year of being closed. I think once this plan comes to fruition and DL parks are reopen, the competitors (Universal, Cedar Fair, Six Flags) May throw shade towards Disney, but I guarantee they will have all wished that they had done the same thing. When those parks have only passholders coming through the gates and they see very little in gate revenue, it’s going to kill them, which in turn will impact guest satisfaction down the line
Does anyone have a copy of this email? I’m a Premier and didn’t receive it, and I’m trying to figure out how my situation will be handled.
I have a WDW Platinum AP Renewal certificate sitting in my account. I wasn’t expecting that renewal certificate to get activated until DL reopened and my Premier Pass finally expired, given that my Premier Pass expiration has been extended throughout the pandemic.
Does anyone know how situations like mine will be handled? When they cancel our APs will the cancellation date be the date they cancel it or the date it originally expired, and will my renewal activate at that point? Do you think there’s any chance Disney will let me turn my renewal into a *new* certificate? I really don’t want my AP renewing now as due to Covid changing all of our plans we don’t expect to be even in WDW now until either Thanksgiving or Christmas time, and I bought renewal premised on the fact that it wouldn’t kick in till DL reopened and my Premier expired. And now they’ve cancelled the Premier...
I think it’s more likely that we will see some form of the flex pass, signature and signature plus return all with major price hikes. I think both so cal style passes are done as well as the deluxe pass.I could see a lot of blackout days for all AP unless you have a resort reservation.
I think it’s more likely that we will see some form of the flex pass, signature and signature plus return all with major price hikes. I think both so cal style passes are done as well as the deluxe pass.
Edit: I also think there will not be a monthly payment option.
It definitely is. They just needed to immediately deal with the issue of how they could possibly handle all of their AP holders whenever Disneyland and DCA reopen at reduced capacity. If they kept it the same way, you'd have a ton of ticked off AP holders because they wouldn't be able to use their AP as much as they would like.As a locals park, I see some form of AP coming back once they reopen.