News Park specific pricing will join date based pricing for single day Disney World park tickets

Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

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msteel said:
The automatic reservation thing seems like a good plan at least. Can you imagine buying a ticket and not getting a reservation?
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Event Party and After Hours tickets have been like this the whole time.

It was stupid for one-day daytime admission to have the extra step (and stress) of park reservations.
 
JAN J

JAN J

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"Magic Kingdom Park will be priced at or above our other theme parks due to the incredible demand as it remains the most-visited theme park in the world," Disney said in a statement.

Well, if they actually invested $$$ in increasing capacity with E-ticket must-do rides, proper maintenance, CM training and retention to keep everything running ... They would be able to better spread the crowds AND make more money through increased value to the customer.
But why do that right? Best to waste spend $71bn on content your customers are not looking for, $1.5bn in a crappy hard to explain "Magic" band system that is essentially a glorified RFID...

I wonder what will would happen if MK was is NOT the most visited park in a given year. Will they just say "as it remains the nth most-visited theme park in the world"?
 
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Purduevian

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matt9112 said:
Didn’t @marni1971

I don’t see how this helps….nobody is going to not visit the MK on there week long vacation. This really only affects people visiting for a day or two? I mean maybe some people skip HS and do AK instead? But lord how many people are making decisions like that? I don’t think this will meaningfully change attendance trends.
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This move isn't about improving guest experience or moving demand around. It's simply a price hike with some misdirection to attempt make it not look as bad.
 
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wutisgood

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The big thing with variable pricing is it allows the company to hide behind a "low" starting price vs the average price. They can now go a year or two raising the average price without raising the starting price and still claim prices have not gone up. This is what happened with the start of this system. Personally when my no expire tickets run out in the next decade I am prob not going back to Disney again in florida as the value will make no sense vs even other Disney parks. I just don't get it. The people I have talked to that have gone felt it was a terrible value at worst and at best a one time thing.

When looking at the numbers Disney pulls from the northeast from people who drive and the number of influencers going to Dollywood I could see their growth accelerating. The Tennessee market is arguably more accessible because of the relation to chicago for many of these people.
 
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World_Showcase_Lover007

World_Showcase_Lover007

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Next year they will keep the prices the same, but will simply make it the price for a half day admission. First group goes from 8am-3pm and Second group is there from 3pm-10pm at $189 a pop. Want to go all day? We’ll cut you a deal for an all day pass for only $299. That’s a 20% savings!
 
Tom P.

Tom P.

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JAN J said:
"Magic Kingdom Park will be priced at or above our other theme parks due to the incredible demand as it remains the most-visited theme park in the world," Disney said in a statement.

Well, if they actually invested $$$ in increasing capacity with E-ticket must-do rides, proper maintenance, CM training and retention to keep everything running ... They would be able to better spread the crowds AND make more money through increased value to the customer.
But why do that right? Best to waste spend $71bn on content your customers are not looking for, $1.5bn in a crappy hard to explain "Magic" band system that is essentially a glorified RFID...

I wonder what will would happen if MK was is NOT the most visited park in a given year. Will they just say "as it remains the nth most-visited theme park in the world"?
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I think you're basic point is correct, but it wouldn't matter if they dumped the GDP of Australia into Epcot, Hollywood Studios, or Animal Kingdom. Magic Kingdom would still be the park with the highest demand. Because to the average guest, that park *is* Walt Disney World. Disney could add 20 attractions to each of the other parks, they could build a fifth gate, they could cut the price of admission to the other parks in half... people will still want to go to Magic Kingdom first.
 
Mr Mindcrime

Mr Mindcrime

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World_Showcase_Lover007 said:
Next year they will keep the prices the same, but will simply make it the price for a half day admission. First group goes from 8am-3pm and Second group is there from 3pm-10pm at $189 a pop. Want to go all day? We’ll cut you a deal for an all day pass for only $299. That’s a 20% savings!
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That's kind of what has happened to food packaging. A half gallon of ice cream kept the same pricing for years ... except the container has slowly shrunk...the experience keeps shrinking.
 
Aries1975

Aries1975

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RobWDW1971 said:
If it shrunk then it would no longer be a half gallon.
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You are correct. If the container maintained it size, it would still be 64oz. However, currently, the next size ice cream container larger a “pint“ generally available is now 48oz. Note, “pint” is in quotes, because those containers now only contain 14oz of product.
 

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