Ah, like clockwork. The summer increase. You know they're proud of it because it gets announced on a Saturday afternoon, hoping no one reports on it come Monday.
I guess it means I need to stupidly call and renew my AP, which expires later this month, before it jumps and I have to bring letters to guest relations to get the money rebated.
As to folks who will view this as Disney saying 'the MK is worth more' what the reality is is that the market and most non-Disney nuts will view it as 'the other parks are worth less' ... And it is a very BAD precedent for Disney.
I'm not going to get into the debate on whether Disney is worth what they charge. I am sure the next 176 pages will discuss that.
A few things also seem clear like Disney absolutely doesn't want active ticket media out there floating around. They want you to use your tickets and leave and come back in a year and buy more, hence the premiums on media with no expiration. People forget that before Georgie K helped birth MAGIC Your Way Tickets in 2004 that there never were fuses on ticket media prior. From 1971-2004, your admission media was essentially good forever or as long as the place existed.
Not matching UNI on a one-day is showing tremendous weakness in their product, or that is how the analysts will see it. Leaping over UNI on one park just doesn't matter to them as much as it does fanbois.
Raising the price of the Premiere AP to $979 isn't a sign of anything more than they want to eliminate Bobs little bone for fanboys at the shareholder meetings a few years back. People have told me they have VERY few of them and many are the lifestyle bloggers and whores who use it to fly back and forth as often as they can. That price is getting to the level where many of them will have to beg, borrow and steal to buy, but it doesn't matter as they are the ones getting graft from Disney anyway and that includes free tickets whenever they are invited to either resort.
