[C19fan]

The price of a single day ticket has gone up almost a third for the past 5 years when a ticket was $75. The wristband does offer some benefits from being able to pay for stuff easily and it replaces the FastPass but it does track your movements around the park and Cast Members can see personal information about you.

[brownsfan]

The Tragic Kingdom

[Tupelo]

BUT, unlike the government, any government no one is forced to pay Disney's price.
Unlike the IRS no one has ever been hauled into Disneyland and forced at gunpoint to pay their fees.

In my opinion, Disney can raise their prices as high as they want. Attendance will tell if their prices are too high or not.

[mmichaels1970]

My kids are almost grown and I could never afford to take them to Disney. I wonder if Walt would have let it get like this.

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[Doogle]

Odungocare strikes again

[Grams A]

Ouch! Just for grins looked back at a ticket stub from my grandson’s scrap book when we visited many, many years ago. Cost for THREE of us to attend was slightly less than $100. If we were to go now, afraid we would just head for the nearest beach.

[trisham]

That’s insane.

[kidd]

According to posts on Disboards.com, the $1.5 Billion MyMagic+ is a near-disaster.

- Disney now tracks your movements around the parks
- It implements a ride reservation system that eliminates a lot of spontenaiety and gives preferences to those who pay to stay in their way-overpriced and cramped resort rooms
- It implements a website and an iPhone app that has had almost all of the problems that the Obamacare website has had - it is loaded with so many bugs and is so slow, that it is at times, unusable.
- There are reports that during the Prsident’s day weekend, when crowds are typically larger, that waits for some rides (either with or without the reservation) were on the order of hours.

Many Disney park addicts are cancelling their plans to visit WDW.

[Alex Murphy]

The price of a single day ticket has gone up almost a third for the past 5 years when a ticket was $75. The wristband does offer some benefits from being able to pay for stuff easily and it replaces the FastPass but it does track your movements around the park and Cast Members can see personal information about you.

In the spirit of the new wristband, a new mascot will be walking around Disney parks:

[Mr. K]

This seems in line with the cost of living i am seeing everywhere else.

5 years ago i would go grocery shopping for my family of 4, and usually spent around $150 and rarely over $200

Now, for about the same items, I am lucky to get out of the store spending less than $300, and I HAVE spent over $400

[DManA]

I’m so glad my Disney years are over.

[bigbob]

So what?

[kevkrom]

Disney World has raised the one-day ticket price to the Magic Kingdom by $4 so that it now costs $99 before taxes for visitors over age 9.

Um... Universal Studios just down the road charges $120 for a 1-day ticket.

[ex-snook]

If they come, you will raise the prices.

[Conan the Librarian]

Whooo Hoo!

Hope this will keep out the riff-raff.

Our annual passes are only $400 and we get our money’s worth out of them. With the discounts on food and other things, it actually cost even less.

The first time I went, a ticket book was $4.00. I still have a few tickets.

[longtermmemmory]

The parks must be very crowded.

If demand is so high, prices can be raised.

If demand is low, prices must be lowered.

For private companies this is good.

[Political Junkie Too]

Here is an article from last November that details how Disney's "Nextgen" IT boondoggle affected its capital renovation program for the next few years.

How Problems with MyMagic+ Could Affect Other Projects.

-PJ

[ItsOurTimeNow]

I took the family last year and it was a bit of a blow to my wallet. I went when I was 11 and had a very memorable time - thought it would be the same, but it wasn’t. My kids (13 and 7) had a good time, but to me it just seemed to go by too fast...guess that’s part of the tragedy of growing up.

By the way - what is with the sadistic parents that dress their little daughters up in princess costumes? Those were the most miserable kids I’d ever seen in my life...sweltering heat, having to spend the day in a polyester gown...poor things just crying and dry-heaving from dehydration...lol