National Best Friends Day and to honor it Disneyland resort announced summer ticket sale at 40%

[SteamboatJoe]

My thought on this and I may be (probably am) wrong. My family (11 people, 3 generations) purchased a 6 day vacation package the first of the year, and we planned for the week of June 20th just because there were no California APs allowed at that time. First thing that happened is the opening of Pixar Pier was announced for the weekend, then the Friday night extra cost event. Now allowing California APs in with the guise of cheap tickets. We paid a bunch to stay in the park and have decent summer access to the park. Now looks like it will be as crazy as the last time we were there (new years 2014) We probably should have tried to wait to mid summer, but that would have caused some of the family to not be able to come. As usual, it appears to me that guests that only come every few years and pay full price don't count.
Just my opinion, but as an every 5 years or so visitor (who always stays on park property) since 1974 that is what it appears to me.

Doug

I am in sort of the same boat but with less people. I live in Ohio so flying out to California is a significant investment that requires planning and saving to do it responsibly. My wife is a teacher so our choice is to go on spring break, burn all day of her personal days to go during the school year, or go in summer.

We originally scheduled option B in late April to avoid peak crowds during spring break and summer. Pixar Pier and it's associated refurbs along with the Pirates change messed everything up. In order to see what we want and work around my own employment schedule, we settled on June 20 - 25. We knew the crowds would be worse than late April but had banked on the AP blackouts during the weekdays before Pixar Pier reopens to really help us out. So much for that idea.