Posted on 05/19/2014 5:32:59 AM PDT by C19fan
Just days ahead of Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of summer, Disneyland on Sunday quietly raised its ticket prices and suspended new sales of one of its popular annual passes. New prices posted to theme park’s website showed that a one-day, one-park ticket to Disneyland or California Adventures will now cost visitors ages 10 and up $96, an increase of $4. A one-day park hopper pass, which grants access to both Disneyland and California Adventures, costs $150, up $13 from the previous price.
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A family of four costs $600 for a one day pass and that doesn’t include food, drinks or souvenirs.
The Magic Kingdom — it makes your wallet disappear.
One would have to pay me a lot more than $96.00 to go to Disneyland!!
I think the plan is to raise prices until 10% of the people at the gate walk away saying it’s too much. At that point you’ve established the maximum return for your service.
I wonder if there will be a breaking point when families can’t afford to go. Although one reason Disney gets away with these price increases is foreign tourism. At Disney World in Orlando sometimes you feel like you are in South American with the Brazilian, Colombian and Venezuelian tourists.
good luck finding a water fountain in that dump
I was always amazed that, starting around 5:00, the park is full of mostly families that are tired, cranky kids, and exasperated parents. And they paid good money to go there!
The last two times I took my family we stayed at the Disneyland Hotel. A completely different experience and really not that much more expensive.
But that was in the mid-90’s. I have no reason to ever go back there again. And Disney world is just too big. We took the grandkids and all the kids there once but I’m so done with that kind of stuff. I no longer consider it good stewardship to spend the money to go there unless you are just oozing money.
They want people coming there that can afford it. Not just the tickets, but the extras and goodies inside. Concessions for food, souvenirs, etc. Trying to keep out the scrimpers and savers who bring their own snacks, spend nothing inside the park.
Same here. Went to Disneyland once. A colossal waste of time and money.
Not to mention the chance of going on a “gay day!”
I’m going to Universal studios.
One price all year.
Three years ago was our last trip to Fiesta Texas. Felt like we had cross the border and were in Mexico. Ice chests and trash everywhere, no place to sit, most of the people in the wave pool were attired in street clothes, food and music no different than when we used to go across the border to Matamoras. Our family wouldn’t go if it were free.
Never been there, never will go there at these prices. How can you justify paying $96 just to stand in line, get 3-4 rides if you’re lucky, and pay “airport like” prices for food and drink, much less take a family of 4?
LOL! I can see that. My Cuban wife and I went to the Miami SeaQuarium a few years ago. Felt like we were in Bogota, Colombia.
We’ll never go back.
Yeah, the ticket prices are high, but not that out of line when compared to something like a ticket to a professional sporting event. And I know that at least at Disney World (FL), the cost per day as you add days to that ticket goes down pretty quickly so that the per-day average is closer to $50 by the time you hit 5 days. Adding a “park hopper” option to go to multiple parks on the same day is a flat fee of about $55 (after tax), regardless of length of ticket - so that could be as little as $5.50/day on a (max length) 10-day ticket.
As for Disneyland, aren’t a fairly significant portion of the visitors locals on annual passes anyway? Especially on weekends?
Been there, done that, no reason to go back again.
I make decent money but those prices would be too much for me. It makes it a once in a lifetime event for people.
It would seem to me that they are reaching that breaking point.
The last time I was in amusement parks in the 80’s and 90’s. The kids are grown and I’m not going back.
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