Originally Posted By Westsider Thought some locals would be interested in the news I heard the other day from a girl I know who works in Guest Services. Once the 2Fer deal ends on Thursday, the ticket booths will begin selling a one day park hopper ticket for locals only that is 10 dollars more than the regular day ticket price. So, for an extra 10 bucks, you can park hop over to DCA whenever you want. They plan on offering this ticket through the summer, and to locals only under the same rules that the 2Fer tickets were sold for; certain zip codes in SoCal or Baja.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Well, this isn't as good as the current specials. A Two-Day ParkHopper was $79, or $20 more than a single day ticket. This is basically a $10 discount, and I doubt that it will become a big seller.
Originally Posted By woody I can't understand the reasoning behind the one-day park hopper ticket. There is no way to enjoy two parks in one day even if you tried. As an AP holder, park hopping is based on going on specific rides, then hopping to another park for other rides. There is no attempt at seeing the whole park. Avoid it.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< I can't understand the reasoning behind the one-day park hopper ticket. >>> I think it's pretty obvious - they want to be able to get an extra incremental amount out of the casual single-day visitors to DL in the hopes that they'll spring for it to check out some of what DCA has to offer even though they may have come to the resort to visit DL. For the past few months, they've been effectively offering this as a $20 add-on to a DL ticket ($59 for single-park ticket, or $79 for single-day park hopper), but apparently they must feel that locals think that $20 is too much to pay for a single day DCA add-on (since if enough people were already taking advantage of the $20 offer, there'd be no reason to offer a discount). They could be very successful with such an offer: maybe a lot of people that come to the resort for a day at DL will pay $10 more to check out the new Monsters Inc attraction (which is heavily promoted between the parking garage and the ticket booths) and perhaps ride Soarin' again. This is exactly the type of ticketing promotion and changes to DCA that may allow them to work their way out of their current situation. It seems to me that a great deal of thought has been put into this, and I think it's paid off.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<I can't understand the reasoning behind the one-day park hopper ticket. There is no way to enjoy two parks in one day even if you tried.>> Who said anyone is trying to do that? <<As an AP holder, park hopping is based on going on specific rides, then hopping to another park for other rides. There is no attempt at seeing the whole park.>> Which is what the people who buy these tickets will do.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer This special is designed for two types of people, the impulse folks who drove to Disneyland for the day, and will be asked do they went to spend $10 more. Since Disneyland is more than a full day worth at the lower price, and all the 50th stuff going on, I doubt that many locals we pay the extra money, and decide to just go to Disneyland instead. The other reason is for advertising locally, $10 off a one day ParkHopper. While they won't quote the actual price, that is still $69 a day, and a lot of folks will have sticker shock, and either go home, or opt for the lower Disneyland only ticket. Other theme parks will be advertising specials in the area. Six Flags is trying to raise its price, and will feature the new Tatsu, but Universal will more than likely advertise their new Tour featuring Whoopi and the new Fast and Furious segment, and should offer a discount coupon attached to a SoCal location (Grocery or Restaurant). Knott's will continue promoting they are the "Real Deal" and that you will find Adult admissions around $30 with discount. I doubt that many SoCal folks will be driven by the discount. More than likely, you will see more folks look at the AP program, or specials like what is offered at Costco in the Play4Days tickets, which will more than likely have guests use 3 days at DL, and one at DCA. So I think the discount is just to have a discount, and try and get a few more bucks out of some folks, and won't be a big driver of attendance.
Originally Posted By woody >>While they won't quote the actual price, that is still $69 a day, and a lot of folks will have sticker shock, and either go home, or opt for the lower Disneyland only ticket.<< This is the main reason for people to refuse the offer. I just think the price is too high. >>They could be very successful with such an offer: maybe a lot of people that come to the resort for a day at DL will pay $10 more to check out the new Monsters Inc attraction (which is heavily promoted between the parking garage and the ticket booths) and perhaps ride Soarin' again.<< There is absolutely no reason for people to think there is added value in the park hopper if they think the cumulative price is extremely high. There needs to be another incentive. People may think the park hopping wastes time especially if they only have one day to experience the whole thing. The 2Fer is great because people get two parks in two days for the price of one. There needs to be an similar incentive for the add-on price. How about you get an one day park hopper for $10 more with free 50th Anniversary souvenir program.
Originally Posted By berol I'd do the $10 parkhopper if I wanted to get my Tower/soarin fix or eat somewhere over there. "or specials like what is offered at Costco in the Play4Days tickets, which will more than likely have guests use 3 days at DL, and one at DCA." That's my plan and then see if I'm allowed to upgrade it to a same-price socal select AP. If not, then I'll add parking.
Originally Posted By fkurucz ^^The only group of people that I could think of who might buy this are out of towners who only budgeted 1 day for DLR. I am thinking of people who are visiting relatives and who want to visit DLR, but just for 1 day. Not a very large demographic either.
Originally Posted By berol People that live a distance away where they could daytrip it, but would only want to twice a year at most could be into it (Oxnard to Paso Robles, southern San Joaquin Valley, high desert, Imperial County) or locals that only go occasionally.
Originally Posted By berol "People that live a distance away where they could daytrip it" I mean, the drive is long enough that they can't just pop over on a whim, but not so distant that they'd have to spend the night.
Originally Posted By ploeb909 About that COSCO deal. The price is something like $129.00. Anyhow, I called to ask if I could get it upgraded to a $149.00 pass and the anwer is NO. You must upgrade to the $200 and something one.
Originally Posted By alexbook Just guessing, but I'm betting they've had a fair number of locals buying a single-day ticket and then getting upset because it's $20 more per person to ride Monsters, Inc. Lots of people think that "Californialand" is a part of DL, just like Adventureland and Tomorrowland.
