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Disneyland Resort Increases Ticket Prices Before Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Opening

Disneyland Ticket Increase Disneyland has just announced an increase to ticket prices that has the internet all a buzz.

The increases to the single and multi day tickets are not unreasonable when you consider the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge this year. The largest price increases came to the annual passholders.

The premier pass is the one that offers access to both Disneyland and Walt Disney World, and has the biggest jump in price.

The law of supply and demand. There's no rent control on Disneyland tickets.
— ✨Willie the Giant✨ (@jumbo_willie) January 6, 2019

Lmao. I'll probably never go to Disneyland again. Unless the tickets are free. https://t.co/swcSI9Jag7
— JUDGE RATCHET (@Midwest_Wes) January 6, 2019

It happens every time there is an increase, fans are up in arms saying they’ll never visit again, but sometimes you have to put things in to perspective like this Twitter fan.

I saw that the prices of Disneyland’s Signature Plus APs went up to $1400. Doing the math, if I bought just single tickets this year based on the amount of my visits to the Parks last year, it will cost me $19,000.
— MAV3RICK (@RadioMaverick) January 6, 2019

It is clear that the increase is meant to curb the crowds they anticipate will visit for Galaxy’s Edge. The over zealous Star Wars fans will not be discouraged by a price increase, in fact I know many who would pay extra for the opportuity to visit with lower crowds – myself included. I suspect this increase is to encourage more locals to purchase the tickets with blackout dates – this way Disney can control the crowd levels to some extent.

What do you think of the increases? Will it deter you from visiting Disneyland?

Date-Based Tickets at Walt Disney World

How much are tickets to visit Walt Disney World? The answer now depends on the date you want to visit.

On October 16th, Walt Disney World will introduce a new pricing structure for park tickets where the cost is based on the dates you want to visit. Disney is rolling out this new model along with a new online portal that is meant to simplify these changes.

Disney has said the reason for the changes is to “better distribute attendance throughout the year so that we can continue to improve and deliver a great experience.”

The actual pricing has not yet been released, but it will be interesting to see how different the price is for different dates. The value of course will be in off peak times, and you will pay a premium to be there on New Years Eve I’m sure! I think the problem will be with guests trying to compare dates and pricing – there are now more variables to consider when booking your vacation. First you have to decide how many days, what parks, to hop or not? Now you have to also consider if you’re arriving on the peak day of the week in peak season? Should you arrive Sunday instead to get the better pricing than Tuesday? The resorts have always fluctuated in price for peak times and weekends, but now that tickets will as well – the packages could have a substantial difference depending on when you arrive.

The change has not been well received on social media:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Going to need an MBA to plan a Disney vacation soon.</p>— annie armes 🍦 (@anniearmes) <a href="https://twitter.com/anniearmes/status/1044257294949785600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Have your systems been upgraded to deal with this? Is the website going to work? MDE hasn't exactly been functioning properly for a while now. Will these new tickets be seamlessly integrated into the existing systems?</p>— Ydnam (@ydnam) <a href="https://twitter.com/ydnam/status/1044287404532789248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

With all of these changes, it highlights yet another reason to use a travel agent who specializes in Disney travel. I can’t imagine the big booking engines will be able to explain this one! It will also make the comparison shopping that much harder – how do you know you have ALL the same components?

Stay tuned for more updates as they are released, this currently only applies to Walt Disney World in Orlando.

What do you think of these changes?