Memory Lane: 1989 WDW park prices

a2grafix

a2grafix

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While searching through my box of WDW memorbillia, stumbled upon a flyer for 1989 park prices at WDW. It was just then Magic Kingdom, EPCOT Center, and MGM Studios.

Get this, considering the daily admission was just raised to $67 per person (adult) for one park (or is it for all four parks?). Anyway --

ONE-DAY ONE PARK TICKET:
Adult: $29 plus tax; child (under 10): $23 plus tax

FOUR-DAY ALL THREE PARKS PASSPORT:
Adult: $97 plus tax; child (under 10): $77 plus tax

FIVE -DAY ALL THREE PARKS PASSPORT:
Adult: $112 plus tax; child (under 10): $90 plus tax

These prices were effective, at the time, May 1, 1989
 
a2grafix

a2grafix

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Oh, and there are single day prices for the then-new water park Typhoon Lagoon and the good ol' fashinoned swimming hole, River County.

TYPHOON LAGOON ONE-DAY:
Adult: $17.50 plus tax; child (under 10): $14 plus tax

TYPHOON LAGOON TWO-DAY:
Adult: $29 plus tax; child (under 10): $23 plus tax

RIVER COUNTRY ONE-DAY:
Adult: $11.75 plus tax; child (under 10): $9.25 plus tax

RIVER COUNTRY TWO-DAY:
Adult: $15 plus tax; child (under 10): $11 plus tax
 
mhead

mhead

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If we had only thought ahead to stock up then!!!! Of course they wouldn't be good for Animal Kingdom but still... wow.
 
a2grafix

a2grafix

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For the longest time I had this fuzzy memory that not all of the park hopper passes I had were used up. Well, in searching for this thread, I found something.

I have this 5-day super park hopper pass from August 1990 that is, unfortuanately, is all used up. Well, on the other side is an UNUSED attached ticket for either Pleasure Island, Typhoon Lagoon, River Country or Discovery Island. Of course, River County and Discovery Island are closed.

Was wondering when the next time I heard to Lake Buena Vista, should I use it? Should I use it for free entry for Pleasure Island, Typhoon Lagoon or ask to see if I can use it for Blizzard Beach? Or since it says entry to Discovery Island, can I gain entry to Animal Kingdom?

Oh, the price of the 5-day super park hopper pass is priced at $135.
 
raven

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I had a friend who visited MK the first year it opened and they were offering a lifetime pass (called a Gold Pass) for $100. She was told that this would have be a pass for anything that was added to the WDW property. They thought $100 was too much to spend back in the early 1970's so they skipped it. :brick:
 
Enderikari

Enderikari

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a2grafix said:
For the longest time I had this fuzzy memory that not all of the park hopper passes I had were used up. Well, in searching for this thread, I found something.

I have this 5-day super park hopper pass from August 1990 that is, unfortuanately, is all used up. Well, on the other side is an UNUSED attached ticket for either Pleasure Island, Typhoon Lagoon, River Country or Discovery Island. Of course, River County and Discovery Island are closed.

Was wondering when the next time I heard to Lake Buena Vista, should I use it? Should I use it for free entry for Pleasure Island, Typhoon Lagoon or ask to see if I can use it for Blizzard Beach? Or since it says entry to Discovery Island, can I gain entry to Animal Kingdom?

Oh, the price of the 5-day super park hopper pass is priced at $135.
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Most likely not... Look on the back of your ticket, there most likely is a little note that says the "options" of going to Typhoon Lagoon, Pleasure Island, and River Country expire 7 days after you first use the ticket... Those options are most likely expired
 
Nemo14

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a2grafix said:
For the longest time I had this fuzzy memory that not all of the park hopper passes I had were used up. Well, in searching for this thread, I found something.

I have this 5-day super park hopper pass from August 1990 that is, unfortuanately, is all used up. Well, on the other side is an UNUSED attached ticket for either Pleasure Island, Typhoon Lagoon, River Country or Discovery Island. Of course, River County and Discovery Island are closed.

Was wondering when the next time I heard to Lake Buena Vista, should I use it? Should I use it for free entry for Pleasure Island, Typhoon Lagoon or ask to see if I can use it for Blizzard Beach? Or since it says entry to Discovery Island, can I gain entry to Animal Kingdom?

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Since that is not AK's Discovery Island, I would seriously doubt it! You probably could use it at TL though if it says no expiration.
 
LeeLee D

LeeLee D

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I remember when they went from tickets to an all day pass. They cost $20.00 and my mom had a fit because it was "so expensive".:hammer:
 
SallyShine

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LeeLee D said:
I remember when they went from tickets to an all day pass. They cost $20.00 and my mom had a fit because it was "so expensive".:hammer:
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I remember rationing my E tickets at DL. Does anyone remember what the ticket books looked like? Each catagory of ticket was a different color and the shorter tickets were on top and graduated to the longest on the bottom (so you could see all of them at the same time).
 
kcnole

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If given the option to go back and live in 1989 again, I'd do it in a hearbeat. It was such a better time than now is.
 
Enderikari

Enderikari

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kcnole said:
If given the option to go back and live in 1989 again, I'd do it in a hearbeat. It was such a better time than now is.
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Reminds me of a speech by Jimmy Carter (which I was first introduced in the rather excellent Walt Disney Production - Miracle-

"The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.

The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.

The confidence that we have always had as a people is not simply some romantic dream or a proverb in a dusty book that we read just on the Fourth of July.

It is the idea which founded our nation and has guided our development as a people. Confidence in the future has supported everything else -- public institutions and private enterprise, our own families, and the very Constitution of the United States. Confidence has defined our course and has served as a link between generations. We've always believed in something called progress. We've always had a faith that the days of our children would be better than our own.

Our people are losing that faith, not only in government itself but in the ability as citizens to serve as the ultimate rulers and shapers of our democracy. As a people we know our past and we are proud of it. Our progress has been part of the living history of America, even the world. We always believed that we were part of a great movement of humanity itself called democracy, involved in the search for freedom, and that belief has always strengthened us in our purpose. But just as we are losing our confidence in the future, we are also beginning to close the door on our past.

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. For the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years. Two-thirds of our people do not even vote. The productivity of American workers is actually dropping, and the willingness of Americans to save for the future has fallen below that of all other people in the Western world."

If you haven't seen Miracle, I highly suggest that you do so... It is perhaps one of the best sports movies of all time, and captured a moment in time much like our own.
 
a2grafix

a2grafix

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Enderikari said:
Most likely not... Look on the back of your ticket, there most likely is a little note that says the "options" of going to Typhoon Lagoon, Pleasure Island, and River Country expire 7 days after you first use the ticket... Those options are most likely expired
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I don't believe it says that on this certain ticket, but I will look.

Well, regardless, hopefully I can cash it in for entry at one of the side events like Pleasure Island or Typhoon Lagoon.

I'm itching to go again after all these years. Time to start planning -- and include the ticket from 1990.
 

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