Posted on 08/04/2010 11:03:49 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
It's going to cost vacationers more to visit with Mickey Mouse starting Thursday, when Disney parks in California and Florida will raise ticket prices. Disney posted an announcement about the price hikes Tuesday on its Disney Parks blog. At Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, the base price for one-day, one-park passes will rise from $79 to $82 for ages 10 and up. Tickets for children ages 3 to 9 will go from $68 to $74. The additional fee for park-hopper tickets will jump by $2 for one-day access, to $54.
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I love the 3D ride called “Toy Story Mania” at California Adventure. The only ride I will wait in line for.<P.From my house to the parking structure is 29 miles. Takes 30 minutes to get there.
They should have a discount for illegal aliens.
They do.....they’re called employees.”
Made our last visit to Six Flags in San Antonio three years ago. Dirty, smelly, expensive and totally Hispanic.
Does this fee increase also apply on Homo and Transgender Day?
“If you wanted to declare and advertise “Free Republic Day” at Disney World and we all showed up then it means nothing to Disney, they would not advertise it but if we wanted to we could.”
Not true. Disney can stop the use of its name/logos for promotional purposes and has in the past.
“they lost me a long time ago with ‘Fag Day at Disneyland’..... “
That’s precisely when we made our final visit. Back in the very early ‘90s.
Yearly passes there are around $70.00.
My wife has lost count. And her parents are bigger fanatics than she is. We’re all going in November. Her parents are going again in December. Twice a year is not uncommon for them. And if my wife could get away with it, she’d be just fine with twice a year as well. I (and my wallet) are just fine with once a year at most, preferably every two or three years. There are other places I want to visit.
DisneyWorld lets you bring in your own snacks and water, which we always do. People who buy the fast food and souveniers and complain about the costs have themselves to blame
We fly low fare, stay on Disney value property for about $90 a night for the whole family, use the Magic Express and shuttles, and never pay for a rental car, airport taxi, parking etc.
A day at Disney World is less than the price of a ski ticket or a day on the golf course (actually 4 hours) so it’s all relative and the shows and parades and rides, the entire atmosphere of fantasy, is great fun. Four parks on each ticket, from 9AM to 10PM. (More parks if you do the water parks)
Key is to buy multi days and average the cost. Buy a 7 day nonexpiring ticket today and save the increase price!
Disney lost me a long time ago with their wishy-washy liberal pablum-filled movies.
And now that I'm a father, I look what the Disney Company has done with the Disney Channel and I'm appalled. Family friendly, my ass.
It's sad, as I have great childhood (and beyond) memories of their parks, films, and cartoons.
There is a little known program operated by Disney in which you can get adult park tickets at less than half price.
The Y.E.S. program (Youth Education Series) is a program that was formerly only open to homeschoolers. It is presently open to individuals with school age kids.
http://disneyyouthgroups.disney.go.com/wdyp/programs/programOverview?page=YESProgramOverviewPage
I took my kids to WDW last month under this program. They took a physics class in which the Magic Kingdom roller coasters were used to demonstrate potential/kinetic energy, pneumatics, centriputal force, inertia, velocity/acceleration, etc.
As part of the program, we got cheap tickets. It cost the six of us $1100 for five days in the parks and five days at the waterparks.
That works out to $18.33 per day per park.
And the longest we waited for anything was 30 minutes (one of the slides at one of the waterparks). Most attractions were less than a 5 minute wait, and everything was open. And Disney does let you bring your own food into the parks.
When Eisner took over it went downhill.
There is a little known program operated by Disney in which you can get adult park tickets at less than half price.
The Y.E.S. program (Youth Education Series) is a program that was formerly only open to homeschoolers. It is presently open to individuals with school age kids.
http://disneyyouthgroups.disney.go.com/wdyp/programs/programOverview?page=YESProgramOverviewPage
I took my kids to WDW last month under this program. They took a physics class in which the Magic Kingdom roller coasters were used to demonstrate potential/kinetic energy, pneumatics, centriputal force, inertia, velocity/acceleration, etc.
As part of the program, we got cheap tickets. It cost the six of us $1100 for five days in the parks and five days at the waterparks.
That works out to $18.33 per day per person for the Disney parks.
And the longest we waited for anything was 30 minutes (one of the slides at one of the waterparks). Most attractions were less than a 5 minute wait, and everything was open. And Disney does let you bring your own food into the parks.
Okay that is true, they can stop you from using it as a promotional purposes if you are somehow profiting from it.
They can’t stop you from advertising to meet there, or if Jim declared “August 19th is Free Republic Day at Disney World, see you there!”.
Now if he decided to sell tickets or arrange travel for a profit they can stop him, but not for just announcing it.
Gay Day has actually hurt the parks more than the increase in one day ticket sales by gays visiting that day I believe by people who are against supporting their agenda.
Disney walks a fine line between allowing something and taking a hit by being called discriminators for particular groups. They would never stop someone like Free Republic from advertising, they know it would hurt their bottom line to do so.
The American Pavillion is in need of a MAJOR politically incorrect refurbishment. They should have Beck and Limbaugh redo the America section.
Put in a real restaurant. Some real history.
Sell real tricorn hats...
It was $74 dollars to get into to Universal Studios in Florida back 06....Just to spend another $174 on food, drinks and souvenirs.
Or any football game, or baseball game, or nascar race, or ....
Sorry, but I don't let terrorists or fear of terrorists dictate where I go.
they don’t sanction it other than by giving special rates and having sex themed parties for those groups. (it is about a sex fetish after all)
A few years back when it was about wearing red on those days, the Disney Parks offered free non-red shirts to family guests. Disney also got grief over the fact that on those days the homosexuals would sexual inuendo shirts or would engage in making out in areas viewable by minors.
We have Annual Passes. With our DVC membership, we can, and do, go to WDW for almost a month a year.
I am sure that Disney knows what they are doing by raising the prices. My guess is that the Guest level is too big, so, they are raising prices.
I have one day left on a ticket from 2007. Going for three days in November. So I just went and bought a 10 day park hopper no expiration before the rate hike tomorrow. So I’ll have 8 days to use any time in the future at just a bit over $53 a day.
I knew it was coming, they usually hike rates in August or September. I’m just glad I saw this thread to let me know it was coming tomorrow!
“Free Republic Day” at Disney World.....
THAT would be the only reason to go!....I’m in also!...At least I could talk to freepers in those long lines.
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