I'm not going to renew my annual pass, how about you?

Doberge

Doberge

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TalkToEthan said:
Locals??

does that mean those in the general Orlando/Central Florida area?

is St Pete/Tampa local?

Miami/ Tallahassee and all of Florida local?
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Personally I'd say within two hours is pretty generous to define as local, so Central Florida population of 8.5ish million vs. Southern California with a population of about 24 million.

Adding Miami and Jacksonville and all of Florida gets up to 22 million. Miami is 4 hours away, and if we look 4 hours from Disneyland we start picking up southern parts of central California and Las Vegas. I wouldn't consider Miami local to WDW the same as not considering Vegas local to DL.
 
3WaltFans

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PaulZ

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We are probably not going to renew, but we don’t have an overall negative experience being described here currently. We bought them again when they came available last April. Overall, I have to say our experience this last year has been fine, but that’s I guess the issue. It’s fine compared to when we had them in 2020/2021/2022. It’s not fine when comparing it to before. And this weekend we were at HS and I don’t know if it’s this time of year now and how everything went to hell 4 years ago around now, the sadness of Covid and thinking about life pre-covid really came over me there. And that’s when I think about the years with no tram. No character meet and greets. No anything they thought they could get away with not having all while charging more for everything, implementing new add on costs for things, and making it more difficult to even go with the park reservation system.

I have told people that I want no reminder of 2020 pandemic life. Unfortunately the wrong people with the wrong vision were in charge during that time and put in place things that look like are never getting reversed. And that makes it difficult to enjoy when I have those moments and remember. So, maybe it’s time to give it up until all signs of it go away, until I can stop thinking about it, or permanently.

Look, again it’s better than it was and we’ve had a pretty good year going. But the memories make it hard to do so.
 
Nottamus

Nottamus

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We are DVC and go twice a year- second trip is sometimes 2 weeks. Just makes sense for us to renew AP every year

They’ll be a day when we can’t go, or get tired of going, or whatever, but that hasn’t happened yet
 
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Disneyworldpirate

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My annual passes expire in May. I thought long and hard about this. We are not going to renew. The main factor for us is that they started charging for using the lightning lanes. Why spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to wait in hour long lines? They should at least give us free lightning lanes or maybe a few per visit to use for us being annual passholders. We are going to get Universal annual passes for the first time. More bang for your buck. We are excited.
 
Chef Mickey

Chef Mickey

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Bound4Disney said:
The price isn’t an accident. Remember “undesirables”? It was dumb to say it and even dumber to say it out loud in a public forum, but that’s why annual passes are so expensive. They want to thin the herd.
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I don't think $1,500 is expensive relative to say a 5 day ticket.

I'd like them to make an annual pass something like $4,000 but we get unlimited ride reservation ability and other useful perks. I'd actually go if I were treated better than just a random guest - and I'd pay for that.
 
Chef Mickey

Chef Mickey

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BuddyThomas said:
Yes, I know. It’s an annual pass thread and you stated that you want a $4000 annual pass. We’re on subject.
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Let's reset then. What's wrong with a $4,000 pass with enhanced benefits? It's a very small segment and they could absolutely improve the product if they'd increase the price. The product in its current form isn't good enough based on hundreds of days at WDW.
 
JoeCamel

JoeCamel

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Chef Mickey said:
Let's reset then. What's wrong with a $4,000 pass with enhanced benefits? It's a very small segment and they could absolutely improve the product if they'd increase the price. The product in its current form isn't good enough based on hundreds of days at WDW.
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They could make it 5K but if all they offer is the same old things but you don't stand in lines what is the point. The point of the OP was the magic is gone and that is not just lines, it won't magically come back if there are less people in the parks and staying onsite
 
Tony the Tigger

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roj2323 said:
I'm not going to debate what will or will not work for ME. Ultimately it's MY money and MY opinion that matters, not yours. Besides your information is entirely wrong. https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/passes/calendar/disney-pixie-dust-pass/
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TalkToEthan said:
Entirely wrong?????

Try everything he wrote about the generalized blackout dates is accurate.

But the strangest part to this is you supplied the official Disney schedule which clearly shows Tony is right about the AP Pixie schedule
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3WaltFans said:
Tony is pretty accurate in his statement. Living in FL myself & having the pixie pass, I agree with him 100%
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Thank you both for saving me the trouble.

It’s literally one week around Thanksgiving, two weeks around Christmas, and 3-4 weeks for Spring Break through Easter. Plus all weekends and holiday Mondays.

We used to be blocked out from around June to the end of August as well (although the pass was half the price or so.)
 
JoeCamel

JoeCamel

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Chi84 said:
All the parks suck, but this is a Disney site. They’re performing a service by letting Disney know it better go back to how things were or it’s going to fail.
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I might amend that to "they are letting other Disney fans know"....
Bob isn't reading this board
 
Chef Mickey

Chef Mickey

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JoeCamel said:
They could make it 5K but if all they offer is the same old things but you don't stand in lines what is the point. The point of the OP was the magic is gone and that is not just lines, it won't magically come back if there are less people in the parks and staying onsite
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That’s why I said they have to give extra perks. I’ve always thought AP was relatively cheap, so no waiting is actually a huge perk.

I don’t need the people to make the magic. The magic is better when there are fewer people, more personalized service, less waiting, lower crowds, and better food.
 
Chi84

Chi84

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Chef Mickey said:
That’s why I said they have to give extra perks. I’ve always thought AP was relatively cheap, so no waiting is actually a huge perk.

I don’t need the people to make the magic. The magic is better when there are fewer people, more personalized service, less waiting, lower crowds, and better food.
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I doubt enough people would buy $4,000 annual passes for Disney to design a program with all those perks and better treatment.
 
DryerLintFan

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Chef Mickey said:
That’s why I said they have to give extra perks. I’ve always thought AP was relatively cheap, so no waiting is actually a huge perk.

I don’t need the people to make the magic. The magic is better when there are fewer people, more personalized service, less waiting, lower crowds, and better food.
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Honestly, better food would be a bigger perk imo than the others if the goal is to get me there a couple weeks a year. $16 for a soggy plate of cold egg’s and hard waffles is fine for a day, but not every day for a longer stay. Finding good food at Disney is hard, and that absolutely does factor into decisions like this for us.
 
Chef Mickey

Chef Mickey

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DryerLintFan said:
Honestly, better food would be a bigger perk imo than the others if the goal is to get me there a couple weeks a year. $16 for a soggy plate of cold egg’s and hard waffles is fine for a day, but not every day for a longer stay. Finding good food at Disney is hard, and that absolutely does factor into decisions like this for us.
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Disney does have some of the worst breakfast, no doubt. Literally, among the worst eggs ever.
 

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