News Limited Time Buy 2 Days and Get 1 Free Day at Disneyland Resort for Disney+ Subscribers

[DCBaker]

Details from Disneyland Resort:

Make special holiday memories visiting Disneyland Park or Disney California Adventure Park during the most magical time of the year! Ride favorite attractions, watch dazzling nighttime spectaculars and more.

Disney+ subscribers—get tickets now to take advantage of this special limited-time offer! Then, visit 3 days from November 18 through December 27, 2024. Park reservations are required and subject to availability.

Disneyland Holiday Ticket Offer for Disney+ Subscribers at a Glance

(Ages 3+)
3-Day Ticket with Admission to 1-Park Per Day – $330

• Tickets are valid November 18 through December 27, 2024, subject to restrictions and park reservation availability.
• This ticket is valid for 13 days after first use or on December 27, 2024, whichever comes first.

Park Hopper ticket upgrade and Lightning Lane Multi Pass can be added for additional fees.

Before buying your tickets, be sure reservations are available for the dates you want to visit. Check available dates, using our park reservation page. Park reservation availability can change until the park reservation selection is finalized.

Full offer details available at this link: https://disneyland.disney.go.com/offers-discounts/disneyland-holiday-ticket-offer-2024/details/

 

[mickEblu]

These feel like they re aimed at Imagine and Enchant passes who are heavily blacked out during the holidays. Would be really dumb to buy as you may have well as just purchased the Key tier above at that point and had more/ better access all year long.

 

[CaptinEO]

Holiday ticket offer? Kids ticket offer in jan-march? Is the mouse doing OK?

A ticket for one park during the last two weeks of December is 206. For 330 you can now visit 3 times.

You'd think they'd just accurately adjust their ticket pricing to meet demand but some higher up doesn't want their ego bruised.

 

[mickEblu]

Holiday ticket offer? Is the mouse doing OK?

I’m thinking this might have been the strategy behind the aggressive holiday blackouts for Imagine and Enchant Keys. Is the casual guest going to want to buy a three day ticket they have to use within 40 days and within two weeks of using the first day? And have to take one or more days off of work in a short time period? I think that demo is fine with 1 day at the park during the holidays. Then it makes no sense for Enchant or Imagine Keys to buy it either as the ticket cost is basically the difference of upgrading to the next MK tier. But it’s the holidays and they re hoping for some spontaneous purchases from blocked out key holders with FOMO. Or I guess it works for a family looking for a spontaneous 3 day trip to Disneyland over the holidays.

 

[CaptinEO]

I’m thinking this might have been the strategy behind the aggressive holiday blackouts for Imagine and Enchant Keys. Is the casual guest going to want to buy a three day ticket they have to use within 40 days and within two weeks of using the first day? And have to take one or more days off of work in a short time period? I think that demo is fine with 1 day at the park during the holidays. Then it makes no sense for Enchant or Imagine Keys to buy it either as the ticket cost is basically the difference of upgrading to the next MK tier. But it’s the holidays and they re hoping for some spontaneous purchases from blocked out key holders with FOMO. Or I guess it works for a family looking for a spontaneous 3 day trip to Disneyland over the holidays.

I get what you are saying and can see your point.

In past few years they did just fine without any holiday deals though. They keep increasing the highest tier ticket prices and they've done summer deals to account for this for a while now. (They've clearly priced people out in the summer).

A winter deal though is so odd because it's the busiest time of the year for Disney, especially the last 2 weeks of December. The 206 dollars a day I assumed was reflective of the demand for this time, but it appears attendance projections aren't looking good so they are using different tools to fill in the gaps (discounts, magic keys going back on sale).

Maybe they can take this time to adjust pricing for future years.

 

[PiratesMansion]

I get what you are saying and can see your point.

In past few years they did just fine without any holiday deals though. They keep increasing the highest tier ticket prices and they've done summer deals to account for this for a while now. (They've clearly priced people out in the summer).

A winter deal though is so odd because it's the busiest time of the year for Disney, especially the last 2 weeks of December. The 206 dollars a day I assumed was reflective of the demand for this time, but it appears attendance projections aren't looking good so they are using different tools to fill in the gaps (discounts, magic keys going back on sale).

Maybe they can take this time to adjust pricing for future years.

I do wonder if the AP blackouts have worked a little too well for Disney.

Part of the reason I decided to go during the hell weeks around Christmas and New Years this year was because, in watching wait times on the app from home last year, most wait times didn't really seem all that different from what I'm used to dealing with in the summer. Looking at the WDW app, there was a pronounced, and highly negative, difference in wait times, and it very much lived up to everything I'd heard about those two holiday weeks. Disneyland, by comparison, looked almost like any other day of the year. Nothing obviously pointed to it being those two weeks other than the overlays and entertainment offerings.

I also imagine that for all but the park's biggest fans, $206 for a single day is a big ask. The highest tier one day ticket only jumped $14, but the psychological cost of crossing the two hundred dollar threshold is undoubtedly much higher. Who in their right mind would intentionally spend that much for one day during what is supposed to be the two busiest weeks of the year? Fewer than Disney had been imagining, clearly.

 

[chadwpalm]

l also imagine that for all but the park's biggest fans, $206 for a single day is a big ask. The highest tier one day ticket only jumped $14, but the psychological cost of crossing the two hundred dollar threshold is undoubtedly much higher. Who in their right mind would intentionally spend that much for one day during what is supposed to be the two busiest weeks of the year? Fewer than Disney had been imagining, clearly.

It doesn't seem like that long ago people were feeling this way when tickets crossed the $100 threshold.

 

[CaptinEO]

I do wonder if the AP blackouts have worked a little too well for Disney.

Part of the reason I decided to go during the hell weeks around Christmas and New Years this year was because, in watching wait times on the app from home last year, most wait times didn't really seem all that different from what I'm used to dealing with in the summer. Looking at the WDW app, there was a pronounced, and highly negative, difference in wait times, and it very much lived up to everything I'd heard about those two holiday weeks.

I will say that my first visit to Disney World was the week of Christmas and as a Disneyland regular the crowds seemed so light, probably because how spread out things are over there. We also rope drop so were able to do everything without issue.

Disneyland, by comparison, looked almost like any other day of the year. Nothing obviously pointed to it being those two weeks other than the overlays and entertainment offerings.

I also imagine that for all but the park's biggest fans, $206 for a single day is a big ask. The highest tier one day ticket only jumped $14, but the psychological cost of crossing the two hundred dollar threshold is undoubtedly much higher. Who in their right mind would intentionally spend that much for one day during what is supposed to be the two busiest weeks of the year? Fewer than Disney had been imagining, clearly.

Very well said. I was there yesterday (Friday) (day 1 of christmas and tiana) and it was light crowds. Space Mountain and Matterhorn were 30 minutes all day. Walkways were pleasant.

Meanwhile September and October were Nightmares on Fridays and Sundays and were so packed it was hard to walk around.

Before the demand based pricing the last two weeks of December were absolutely wild.

Seems that whatever Disney has done with passes and ticket tiers has turned so many crowds away that the once busy season requires them to use deals to get people back.

 

[PiratesMansion]

I will say that my first visit to Disney World was the week of Christmas and as a Disneyland regular the crowds seemed so light, probably because how spread out things are over there. We also rope drop so were able to do everything without issue.

I do love how WDW has plenty of room to move. Sometimes at Disneyland I just want to get away from people, and there's just nowhere to do that unless you go to TSI or SW:GE after 9 PM.

Very well said. I was there yesterday (Friday) (day 1 of christmas and tiana) and it was light crowds. Space Mountain and Matterhorn were 30 minutes all day. Walkways were pleasant.

Meanwhile September and October were Nightmares on Fridays and Sundays and were so packed it was hard to walk around.

Before the demand based pricing the last two weeks of December were absolutely wild.

Seems that whatever Disney has done with passes and ticket tiers has turned so many crowds away that the once busy season requires them to use deals to get people back.

Now they've put themselves in a weird situation where the people who *would* go can't because either a) they have an annual pass and are blocked out, or b) they are looking at the $206 price tag and are opting out.

They can't unblock the APs without creating complete chaos; but rational people simply are not going to spend $206 for one day at a theme park, even a great one. Especially if they're struggling to just make ends meet. OR if they know how those two weeks around Christmas historically have been. If the day tickets were cheaper to begin with, more people would impulse buy and fill up the parks. Alas, most people can't afford to impulse buy something that's over $200.

Given that everyone going around Christmas/New Years is buying day tickets, they're still going to make bank even if the park is less busy than usual. But at the same time, they've normalized there being approx. 2 billion people on the midways to such a degree that there's panic at the mere notion that there might not be. At some point, and I'd wager it's soon, they're going to have to do a nice, long look in the mirror and rethink some things. There is a ceiling, and I'd argue they're closer than ever to reaching it. Perhaps it would have been put off a bit if there were some new Christmas offerings at DL, which would undoubtedly juice the numbers a bit. But when most everything Christmas-related at DL park specifically is more than two decades old, when combined with the pricing structure that exists now, people are going to balk.

Heck, I'm tempted to balk at going to Disneyland looking at future ticket prices, and I'm the crazy person from Illinois who's made a habit of flying out to SoCal semiroutinely to get a DL fix, the one intentionally going over winter break, and who already has other sets of tickets purchased to go next year. I'd also say, compared to many people here, I still feel like they're doing more right overall than they are wrong. And if I'm tempted to stop giving them money, there's no way Joe Schmoe isn't.