Rteetz
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Nope.
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News 2018 ticket price increases
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Locked in my AP renewal this afternoon just in case. Of course, I'm expecting them to go up.
aladdin2007
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yeah doing the same today or tomorrow
Mark P.
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Not terribly surprising. Weekend before President's Day and two before another runDisney weekend.
Feb 11 has been the surmised date of many here (myself included), since it's simply 1 year after the last price increase. 
They keep placing more and more terms and conditions on tickets. It's just ridiculous the lengths they are willing to do to in order to make sure you use these tickets NOW, instead of saving them for later... Seriously, how much revenue are they potentially losing by doing this? So now people will simply take fewer trips instead of spending more money now on park tickets to use later. Talk about overlooking a dollar to pick up a penny...
They keep placing more and more terms and conditions on tickets. It's just ridiculous the lengths they are willing to do to in order to make sure you use these tickets NOW, instead of saving them for later... Seriously, how much revenue are they potentially losing by doing this? So now people will simply take fewer trips instead of spending more money now on park tickets to use later. Talk about overlooking a dollar to pick up a penny...
anchorman314
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While I completely agree with you from a consumer standpoint, it may not be as simple as that. There are likely some accounting principles and practices that come into play here. I don't pretend to know the specifics, but I do recall that there are certain restrictions on how this type of "advance" revenue can be recognized. I'm not naive enough to think accounting is the sole reason for the 'use by' restrictions, but I'd wager that it does play a large role.Feb 11 has been the surmised date of many here (myself included), since it's simply 1 year after the last price increase.
They keep placing more and more terms and conditions on tickets. It's just ridiculous the lengths they are willing to do to in order to make sure you use these tickets NOW, instead of saving them for later... Seriously, how much revenue are they potentially losing by doing this? So now people will simply take fewer trips instead of spending more money now on park tickets to use later. Talk about overlooking a dollar to pick up a penny...
The_Jobu
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Feb 11 has been the surmised date of many here (myself included), since it's simply 1 year after the last price increase.
They keep placing more and more terms and conditions on tickets. It's just ridiculous the lengths they are willing to do to in order to make sure you use these tickets NOW, instead of saving them for later... Seriously, how much revenue are they potentially losing by doing this? So now people will simply take fewer trips instead of spending more money now on park tickets to use later. Talk about overlooking a dollar to pick up a penny...
I'm ready to buy a pile of tickets for me and my fam, but we don't know if we're going in Dec or Jan and thus can't buy any tickets.
Thanks ESPN.
smile
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did you already have that ready to go so you didn't need to read what was written?
MinnieWaffles
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Oh, how cute. They're so defensive when someone calls out a smug post.
smile
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reads like a canned response, is all; doesn't relate... no worries
disneyflush
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My company recently stopped Paid Time Off (PTO) rollover from one calendar year to the next. The official reason given was related to making sure everyone got the vacation they earned that year but the actual reason from Accounting employees was that the liability on the accrued/accruing balances was making forecasting and reporting much more difficult when the yearly report went to Wall Street and our stockholders. Some balances had been building for 20 years or more and if the company recognized the liability in 2000 at $17/hr but the employee used it in 2018 at $32/hr then it was becoming more challenging to account for the spread.
There are obvious differences in the scenarios but enough similarities to probably find truths. Disney also raises prices by 5-10% annually so purchasing years in advance would be a fantastic investment if there were no ticket restrictions on usage.
CaptainAmerica
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You accounting department are a bunch of liars. The easy solution to that is to implement a cap where you stop accruing. Rather than wiping it all out on December 31, you just cap everyone at a maximum of 2x their annual accrual. So someone who accrues three weeks per year can't have any more than six weeks accrued at any given time. If they hit that cap, they stop accruing.
- In the Parks
- Yes
This. I stop accruing at 300 hours where I work and it carries over year to year but once i hit 300 I'm done.
21stamps
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2 questions-
How much is a 1 Day Park to Park at Universal?
How many Fast Passes are included with that 1 Day Park to Park Pass?
kong1802
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To be fair, we paid $350 pp for our Uni AP's (no blackouts), and $800 for our WDW AP's (no blackouts)......
I’m paying $1,000 for my family of 4 to go to Universal for 2 days and to be able to ride the Hogwarts Express, not including the nearly $500 Universal hotel room and any food, drink or souvenirs. Sorry, but that is in no way a “FAR better value than WDW.”