nickys
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Good question, I don’t know though.
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Brooklin Disney Dad
Active Member
What an emotional ride for guests. This feature should not fluctuate in price from day to day. I hope the new price stays stable and reflects the fact that Iger wants to bring guests back, removing price gauging efforts my Chepak. It should be a standard. The price of food and snacks doesn’t vary based on season demand highs and lows.
GhostHost1000
Premium Member
There shouldn’t be a price at all….
TrainsOfDisney
Well-Known Member
It actually has happened… I’m pretty sure buffets have had higher prices during peak days and I know some counter service would change the menu on busy days like New Years.
Purduevian
Well-Known Member
At the very least, G+ price should be available weeks if not months beforehand so people can budget. Yesterday costs a family of 4 $116+tax. Today it costs $68+ tax... that's an insane swing and worth a least 1 mickey bar
Jrb1979
Well-Known Member
It should cause it's not meant for everyone to have. It's how every other park does it
Brooklin Disney Dad
Active Member
100%!
This genie model was supposed to reduce overall wait times from the chatter a few years back and to be a better system than the free fast pass model.
However, if people support it by paying for it, it will never go away. Still waiting to see wait times for the less privileged guests to go down.
JoeCamel
Well-Known Member
Where is he going to put them? By accounts the parks are slammed.....
I think you assign too much manipulation to the CEO. More likely a bean counter that has a mandate to institute "data driven" pricing.
MrPromey
Well-Known Member
So here is my new response to anyone who still wants to argue that Disney is using price to limit capacity and increase guest satisfaction:
www.wdwmagic.com
If they were actually trying to use price to control guest behavior, they'd be making hefty changes to ticket prices on holidays - not doubling the price of Genie+.
Increasing admission by a crazy amount would discourage people from going and overcrowding.
Genie+ and ILL price hikes are just how they take advantage of people once they're in there and realize the place is overcrowded.
So this is the strongest evidence yet to support the idea that they don't want fewer people spending more - they want more people spending more.
Disney World's Genie+ pricing this week suggests new peak period price level is double that seen in 2021
The latest price increases to Genie+ drastically raise the cost of a day at Walt Disney World's theme parks.
www.wdwmagic.com
If they were actually trying to use price to control guest behavior, they'd be making hefty changes to ticket prices on holidays - not doubling the price of Genie+.
Increasing admission by a crazy amount would discourage people from going and overcrowding.
Genie+ and ILL price hikes are just how they take advantage of people once they're in there and realize the place is overcrowded.
So this is the strongest evidence yet to support the idea that they don't want fewer people spending more - they want more people spending more.
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mysto
Well-Known Member
Genie+ and Fastpass+ can only redistribute wait times. Aggregate wait times for all are exactly the same regardless of who goes first.
In order to reduce wait times by redistribution there would need to be unused capacity somewhere, no line. I don't think that would be happening even with no linecut system. If there were no wait somewhere they would reduce the number of trains running until a suitable line built up.
Brenthodge
Well-Known Member
WHAT - That right there is why I fight my wife all the time about another trip to Disney (land or world) she isn't on these boards and has NO IDEA how bad it has gotten. Tip boards? refresh every few minutes? what the hell does any of that even mean? Oh my God how convoluted have they made this place?
Purduevian
Well-Known Member
The system is pretty crazy... however using it to it's max I was able to skip lines for Soarin, SSE, Frozen, Navi, Safari, FotLK, MMRR, TOT, and RNRC in one day.
If you are spending over $150 per person per day to visit WDW I feel like it's worth ~30 minutes before your trip learning how to max out the system.
JoeCamel
Well-Known Member
Remember $9 Elon wishes he had that pricing power
At $17, you should at least be able to get a kiss from the CM of your choice.
JoeCamel
Well-Known Member
So for the $29 special........
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
How much can they reasonably charge for this?
This is why you have to pay up for Genie+ and ILL.........They have to subsidize all the losses in the other parts of the company.......Disney keeps making woke movies to a family based audience that doesn't want woke content..........Not that hard to figure out
variety.com
Disney’s ‘Strange World’ to Lose $100 Million in Theatrical Run
Disney's animated feature "Strange World" bombed over Thanksgiving, leaving the studio to mop up oceans, mountains and rocky terrains of red ink.
variety.com
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
I thought SW was pretty good. This issue was the god-awful marketing.This is why you have to pay up for Genie+ and ILL.........They have to subsidize all the losses in the other parts of the company.......Disney keeps making woke movies to a family based audience that doesn't want woke content..........Not that hard to figure out
Disney’s ‘Strange World’ to Lose $100 Million in Theatrical Run
Disney's animated feature "Strange World" bombed over Thanksgiving, leaving the studio to mop up oceans, mountains and rocky terrains of red ink.