Hi I am going to WDW from the 10th July - 21st July. I have been to WDW for the last three summers. Does anyone know if WDW has been busier this summer compared to last summer or has it just been the same?
-
Welcome to the WDWMAGIC.COM Forums!
Please take a look around, and feel free to sign up and join the community.
Attendance
- Thread starter disneyrocks27
- Start date
Clever Name
Well-Known Member
Attendance at WDW has been down once again for the second year in a row as evidenced by two key factors. WDW (and Disneyland) raised their ticket prices effective June 12, 2011. This was a rather obvious move by the company to help boost sagging profits in the forth quarter. At WDW a larger chunk of presale rooms have been off loaded to the major travel agencies to help ease the downturn in advance bookings.
It’s highly unlikely you’ll notice the decline since the parks will still be very busy during your stay. :wave:
It’s highly unlikely you’ll notice the decline since the parks will still be very busy during your stay. :wave:
Lucky
Well-Known Member
When attendance drops they raise prices?
JIMINYCR
Well-Known Member
I'm going from July 23rd to the 30th. Let me know how you found it to be when you get back please.:wave:
boufa
Well-Known Member
Yes, its a short term thing. You are not driving customers away who have plans, but not reservations, in the near term. Any significant change of plans due to the price increase won't be noticable until 3 - 4 months out ... At least. The sudden increase and the early increase could be a way to tack a couple of % onto revenues in the near term. Those who failed to plan are the ones who will pay the price.
How many people who were going to go in late July and august do you think actually cancelled their plans due to the increase? Some, sure but not many.
Korfar
Active Member
I have a feeling my late August trip will be busier than past trips in August. They were not offering the free dining in this last round the week I will be there. That is an indication to me that the bookings are where they wanted them to be for that week. Hopefully I am wrong.
Clever Name
Well-Known Member
The price increase was not a surprise. The surprise was that this year they decided to raise the ticket prices to cash in on the busy summer travel season and effective June 12th prices went up. People with advance bookings (package deals) won’t get stuck with the price increases because their ticket prices are already locked in at the old rate. At WDW, the advance bookings were running low so Disney decided to take advantage of the situation and make all those last minute guests pay the higher price.
They’ve done this before. They raised ticket prices in March, 2004 and June, 2003 when advance bookings were down for the summer season. Some might say that this is Disney’s way of punishing guests that fail to book at least 90 days in advance. In any event this will boost profits for WDW in the forth quarter. WDW has raised ticket prices by 45% during the last ten years and I don’t think we can expect them to stop anytime soon. :wave:
boufa
Well-Known Member
Stop me if i am wrong, you dont pay the increased ticket price if you book a package the rest of this year. Tickets associated with any package that begins before Dec 31 pay the 2011 rates. The increase is built into next years package rates. We manually calculate the value of the tickets in the package but Disney sees them as a package and not a seprate charge. So if I pick up the phone right now and reserved a room in November with a package, then it would be the same cost as it would have been before the ticket increase.
In my case I added a day on to my package associated tickets. I was not sure if I was going to use it, but it was cheaper to add it to the package than to add it at the parks.
In my case I added a day on to my package associated tickets. I was not sure if I was going to use it, but it was cheaper to add it to the package than to add it at the parks.