The DL Price 'Tipping Point'

Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

Witches, does Morva have a docking station for out of town spaceships?

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

Yeah, but it costs $80 a day in fees! Forget that!

; )

 

Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

Oh I don't know Toony... the payoff might be better than a day at Disneyland.

 

Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1

"I will be getting a premier pass in December. We already booked our Dec trip and are going to upgrade because we also have a WDW next June and another DL trip in Aug or Sept, so it will really be worth it. We usually stay at DL for 5-6 days (in the parks, not counting travel days) and we will be at WDW for 10 days. The $749 a person (there are 4 of us) would be less than Park hoppers for all of those days and when you factor in food and merchandise discounts it is a good deal."

THAT'S the spirit!

Instead of all the whinging and moaning, you have to start thinking and acting smart, like THIS! Play Disney at their OWN game!

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

True. It would be a memorable trip, that's for sure.

 

Originally Posted By crapshoot

Okay, so what if park admission was around $50 but the rides were accessed by a smart card of some sort with a starting price of around $30?

Take it back to the classic A-E value system of pay to play. Then revenue distribution would be back on an even keel, as it was originally. The attractions would, once again, be a revenue stream for the parks.

Park Entertainment, park maintenance and management would be the only ones suckling off of the gate.

I may just throw that one into the suggestion box. Except for, there is loose talk that that is already being considered.

 

Originally Posted By WestWind

Considering what you get for your admission, I think it is still a great deal. I have no objections to the price. Although many people will complain, I don't expect it will hurt attendance figures at all, and if that is true, the price is still acceptable - from a marketing/business point of view.

 

Originally Posted By alexbook

It was already too high for me. I'm hoping to go for the meets in July using some freebie passes I have left over from having worked at DLR. After I've used those up, I don't know if/when I'll ever go again.

 

Originally Posted By TP2000

If 80 bucks is too much for you, that's cool. The good news is that there are about a Billion other things to do in SoCal that are cheaper or absolutely free.

On the flip side, there are a lot of other entertainment options nearby in SoCal that cost a GREAT DEAL MORE than Disneyland. Ski lift passes, broadway shows, the Philharmonic, horseback riding lessons, deep sea fishing excursions, a Center Loge ticket to the Pageant of the Masters, an off-peak tee time at Pelican Hill, etc., etc. all cost a great deal more per person than a day or two at Disneyland ever will.

If you can't afford it, you just can't afford it and you will find something cheaper to entertain you.

I'm also not sure what the fact that there's a Recession on has to do with price hikes. As if Disney somehow owes cutsomers lower costs because the economy is weak? Disney clearly still has a product that a lot of consumers want to buy, and business costs have only increased in the last few years, so why wouldn't their product costs also increase? What does the fact that the country went through a Recession from December, 2007 to June, 2009 have anything to do with the cost of Disneyland tickets in 2011?

 

Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

I think the general logic is that Disney would keep prices low because people can't afford higher prices.

Single day admissions aside, the vast majority of people enter the parks at a discounted rate, and in recent years Disney has offered some pretty extensive discounts, which they've reigned in on in the past year. However, just this past March I received an email offering a 3-day Parkhopper for only $169.

 

Originally Posted By FerretAfros

Personally, I can say that the increase it too much for me. I've had a PAP for the last 5 years, but it just doesn't seem like it will be worth it for me this year (especially since I'm planning on moving about 5 months after I renew). Right now I'm looking into getting the SoCal pass, but I may just skip an AP all together. I'm sure that the prices will go up again in August, which is still before I renew, so I'll be looking at all sorts of options to save money this fall. We'll see how it works out.

 

Originally Posted By TomSawyer

If the higher price were accompanied by a less crowded park, then I'd welcome it. But I'm with Ursula - it's too expensive for a day in a crowded park. I'd pay $150 if I knew that there would only be 20,000 guests in the park that day.

But I have to travel to get there, and as I said in another thread the cost of the park hoppers, airfare, lodging and meals are now comparable to a trip to someplace like Kauai. Or skip two DL trips and go to Europe.

 

Originally Posted By tashajilek

"OK, I now Universal Studios or Knott's is not Disneyland, BUT I just checked their admission prices and a one-day ticket is $74 plus you get a second day FREE if you purchase online"

See Universal only has litterally a handful of attractions which makes it a haqlf day park for me. $74 is high for what you get in comparison to DL. I wouldnt want the second day at Universal, just not enough to do. Yea Knotts is really cheap and i actually ended up buying a season pass. The only things we did at Knotts was Ghost rider, the flume and maybe one other coaster, After our 2 hr visit we would go back to DL.

 

Originally Posted By WestWind

<<But I have to travel to get there, and as I said in another thread the cost of the park hoppers, airfare, lodging and meals are now comparable to a trip to someplace like Kauai. Or skip two DL trips and go to Europe.>>

Yes I have to add all these costs up as well however if it was less expensive for my family to go to Kauai or Europe, I would still go to Disneyland. The park entry fees are just part of our vacation costs.

 

Originally Posted By CuriousConstance

I don't think I'd decide not to come because of outrage over the price of the ticket, but I still probably won't come because this just adds to the already too expensive trip I can't afford right now.

 

Originally Posted By EmmaJayne

Just wanted to chip in that I went to the theatre the other night, I saw Love Never Dies ( the sequel to Phantom of the Opera). Tickets were about $120 US and the show ran for about 3 hours.. I would much rather save $40 and have an entire day a DL which on the right day is open from 8 am until midnight.. In comparison and considering all the entertainment options provided at DL it still seems like good value to me.

 

Originally Posted By TP2000

Great example EmmaJayne! There's a thousand other examples out there of entertainment options that cost more than Disneyland and only offer a few hours of entertainment instead of 16 hours of play.

And regarding Post #33.... What the heck would you do at Universal Studios for two full days?!? I go there about once every 5 years and am ready to leave after about six hours. And then I don't need to go back for another five years. I can't imagine spending two full days within the same week at Universal Studios, much less own an AP to that place and return multiple times in the same year.

What do Universal AP's do exactly, ride Jurassic Park once a month to try and spot the newest tears in the dinosaurs skin?

 

Originally Posted By YumaJohn

Look, Disney will keep raising prices as long as there are people willing to pay it. Not only has the price skyrocketed (especially within the last fifteen years) but the crowds have been out of control. People are clearly willing to pay it. If I ran Disney I wouild not hesitate to keep raising prices. A LOT. Clearly the majority of theme park goers have no problem with this.

 

Originally Posted By Liberty Belle

>>By the time I pay for flights and accommodation, airport transfers and the like, I am lucky to remember what I paid for a ticket to the parks.. In my mind, you can't put a price on Disney happiness.<<

My perspective is similar (which is unsurprising, considering we live in the same country!) If you can get return flights from Australia to LA for $2000, you're doing pretty well. The price of a Disneyland ticket is really a pretty insignificant part of the whole trip.

 

Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

I think it is not price, but value that matters most, but according to this article I read today, I am in the minority:

<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13725050" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...13725050</a>

Now you see, at DLP, instead of increasing prices to pay the debts, they have cut the packaging. So you have the most beautiful MK style park in the world with the very best versions of the attractions (when they opened), but the park is open shorter hours than the US parks (more often than not, 10am to 8 pm), fireworks for 8 weeks of the year (and the hotels are double the cost nearly at that time of year), virtually no entertainment other than rubber heads (no dapper dans, no piano player, no live entertainment in Discoveryland or Frontierland), maintanence that has been shockingly poor that they are litterly having to rebuild parts of the park like the Pirate Ship, dormant geysers, a Big Thunder with few working effects (and a falling bolder put someone in the hospital last month). Less packaging.

for me, I do not mind if the prices go up so long as the value is there when I arrive. Rubberheads and film based attractions, it is too expensive already. But if there is live entertainment and innovative attractions coming our way, with top notch service and well maintained, then DL is a bargain (especially compared to the MK or DLP).