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News Florida Residents Can Visit Walt Disney World for $60 Per Day with 2025 Ticket Offer
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BrianLo
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The former. Booking trends already indicate the back half of this year is much stronger, they were already reporting that data back in November.
I expect we'll see 2025 WDW up 5% attendance YoY and Universal around 35% (which will be about 15% from their prior 2022 peaks).
PuertoRekinSam
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They have run the Florida residents “discover Disney” offer every year since at least 2013 (except for 2021 due to obvious reasons).
Prior to that they had the same type of thing with a different name. 2011 and 12 it was the “wild for 3 and 4 day offer”
And here is a link to this very site talking about the 2010 discount January ticket.
WDW: FLA residents $25 a day!
Don't know if this has been posted as it's not hot off the presses news, BUT WDW (you know, the company that's not going to be discounting so massively according to The Weatherman) has an incredible ticket offer for FLA residents right now. Four days: $99. Or roughly $25 a day. That's one...
This is business as usual.
GhostHost1000
Premium Member
You think people will flock to MK instead of Epic because of a new parade vs an entire new theme park?
TTA94
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Of course not but it’s silly to think some people won’t want to also go to MK to see the new parade. If it was a daytime parade I’d say the draw would be very low but a nighttime parade with lights I think will spark more interest.
Passholder.Chris
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Actually I am. I've been a solid passholder for Universal since 2018, Busch Gardens since 2016, Seaworld off and on since 2008, WDW since 2024 after using the deal twice, they switched our 4-day tickets to passes because it was the same amount and the zoo.So you’re “not”
Passholder Chris then?
Discover Disney Tickets Now Available: Florida Resident Discounts for Early 2025
Discover Disney Tickets Now Available: Florida Resident Discounts for Early 2025
Discover Disney Tickets Now Available: Florida Resident Discounts for Early 2025
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Andrew25
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Yup - about what I expect. Universal has seen 2 years of attendance decreases (but on par with Pre-Covid #'s), but they should get a significant boost.
WDW overall I'm expecting to benefit, specifically MK & EP. I'd have to imagine DAK will stop the bleed a bit attendance-wise, and DHS might stay flat.
Jrb1979
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I'm not so sure. They say booking trends to be much stronger in 2025 but their actions say a different story. Looking at all the discounts and the free dining tells me bookings are down for the summer.
BrianLo
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The back half of 2025 is what they said was stronger, front is weaker but they essentially implied it was flat as we are year over year on already suppressed attendance from 2024.
lentesta
Premium Member
If I've read the AECOM reports correctly, WDW's hit 5% YoY growth once in the last (non-pandemic) decade. So you're thinking this is a "rising tide lifts all boats" scenario?
Squishy
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GhostHost1000
Premium Member
plenty of vloggers and maybe some locals will check it out early but I doubt many are saying they must book a vacation this summer because of it.It won't but executives are hoping it will at least put a dent on the graph.
MrPromey
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And that seems to be the cycle we're stuck in with WDW with guests seemingly backing it up. If it's not something they think people will plan a trip around, they don't see it as an addition/update worth doing in most cases.
The attractions they build to fit this scenario cost half a billion dollars and take years to complete once construction actually starts so combined with their D23 moneymaker requiring early announcements, they take forever to get started with pretty much anything.
Once finally complete, these new attractions are mobbed for years*, now with ILL upcharges for anyone who fell for the marketing and did plan a trip around these new additions.
Rinse and repeat.
Seems like mobbed E-tickets of varying quality are mostly all we're going to get from here on out unless they need to attach a C-ticket so they have justification for a bunch of retail sprawl they can then call a new "land" when it should have just been an attraction with maybe, a gift shop at the exit.
I blame Universal for giving them this idea with the success of their Simpsons "land".
*While whatever's nolonger brand new in need of maintenance/updates/plusing to stay relevant and in full working order go neglected. Case in point, how are those canons on ROTR doing these days?.. and that one's only a few years old but they seem to have already moved on while being happy to charge a premium for the attraction with broken/disabled effects.
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Nubs70
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So WDW will be picking up sloppy seconds?
bmr1591
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Some of y'all act like if Disney had planned ahead and had Tropical Americas opening in May that it would compete with Epic Universe. Disney knows nothing they could do (short of a 5th gate, which isn't happening anytime soon) would compete for headlines with Epic. Invest in entertainment, and when the hype cools off, they'll have Tropical Americas, Monstropolis, New Frontireland all coming online, with Villiansland work already commenced.
BrianLo
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Correct, though my 5% guess fair enough may be a couple points generous and WDW seems to have better ability to moderate on the upside and downside than the 10% decline Universal have seen.
I think on both ends the wait for Epic has been suppressing ‘some’ attendance in the market. In a very minor way in the grand scheme of WDW but a major way for Universal. It’s not so much sloppy seconds as gaining the guest trip deferrals back.
The true sloppy seconds of this scenario are IOA/USO due to the forced multi day ticketing decisions to attempt to preserve those parks further declines.
From BlogMickey.com:
--"Regarding Epic, we did model that into our expectations for the Experiences outlook. As mentioned earlier, the early bookings that we have next summer are actually positive, so that’s certainly a positive indicator. We also looked at the history of other attractions and other parks opening up in Florida, and it’s been beneficial for us. That is very much captured in the guide we provided." (Hugh Johnston, Disney CFO)
The model guidance that Johnston was referring to was “6% to 8% segment operating income growth compared to fiscal 2024”. The model suggests that that growth will come “in the second half of the year”, which means next summer into early fall.--
--"Regarding Epic, we did model that into our expectations for the Experiences outlook. As mentioned earlier, the early bookings that we have next summer are actually positive, so that’s certainly a positive indicator. We also looked at the history of other attractions and other parks opening up in Florida, and it’s been beneficial for us. That is very much captured in the guide we provided." (Hugh Johnston, Disney CFO)
The model guidance that Johnston was referring to was “6% to 8% segment operating income growth compared to fiscal 2024”. The model suggests that that growth will come “in the second half of the year”, which means next summer into early fall.--