Tiered ticketing at Walt Disney World

["El Gran Magnifico"]

They've been talking about this for a while. It is no different than the tiered structure they have on resorts defining value, moderate, and peak seasons. They have in a way tiered the AP whereby there is an option to enjoy the parks without block-outs (year round) for a premium cost and another tier of passes that that block out Christmas and Spring Break and yet another that blocks out Christmas, Spring Break and middle of summer. Eventually this will carry over to regular ticket prices but when is anybody's guess.

 

[Goofnut1980]

I wish you could select your park tickets and or hoppers for only the parks you're going to visit. Then at the gate when you touch your band, it allows you in if you've chosen it and paid for it, and it doesn't if you didn't. Could pay to add on the other park(s). I'm surprised they haven't done this? I guess they don't need to because they charge a flat rate for tickets and then if you don't go to one of the parks, oh well for you.

Plus not to sounds mean but people can be quite dumb at the park entrance... Uhhh yea I got park tickets... but did you get the park hopper?? well, I think so. Uh no sir, you didn't... you can only go to the one park a day. '

Personally we just need a flat fee without all of the add-ons, Just make it a cost and if you visit all in one day, who cares. It would make it easier for the novice Disney-goer that's for sure!

 

[Goofyernmost]

Plus not to sounds mean but people can be quite dumb at the park entrance... Uhhh yea I got park tickets... but did you get the park hopper?? well, I think so. Uh no sir, you didn't... you can only go to the one park a day. '

Personally we just need a flat fee without all of the add-ons, Just make it a cost and if you visit all in one day, who cares. It would make it easier for the novice Disney-goer that's for sure!

And that is the way it was for many years. One ticket all parks and they never expired. I don't see that coming back unless the concept of Magic Your Way, is abolished.

 

[Goofnut1980]

And that is the way it was for many years. One ticket all parks and they never expired. I don't see that coming back unless the concept of Magic Your Way, is abolished.

Touche! We found tickets at my moms house in our photo albums from 1989 or something like that. And bam, used em! it was great! The whole expiration thing is sort of stupid. If you paid for a day, you paid for a day.

 

[Brad Bishop]

Personally we just need a flat fee without all of the add-ons, Just make it a cost and if you visit all in one day, who cares. It would make it easier for the novice Disney-goer that's for sure!

I know what you're saying.. If they do this right then, in a weird way, the options need to be limited.

It's like buying the old land-line phone service or cable TV, they make the process so complicated that it just becomes confusing.

Mobile phones are better but they're inching up there.

For those of you who are young and don't know, when you went to get a land line you'd start off with kind of stupid options:
- $15 for a phone line
- $5 fee for touch-tone service
- enumerated services and fees for things like voice mail, caller ID, caller ID with name, an service so that an indicator on your phone would light up if you had voice mail (not included with voice mail), call waiting, call forwarding, return call, etc.

Then you had packages with names like "Select Service", "Complete", and "Premier"..

The problem was that as you started adding it up for the services you wanted you were basically getting into one of the packages that included more than you wanted. The whole idea is to sell you services you'll never use - not a whole lot different than mobile service, today, but it's at least simpler, for now.

Eventually, with the land-line service, I'd just say, "Just give me the complete package" (with everything) because it was such a hassle to sort.

You shouldn't need a spreadsheet to figure out what you're buying.

I could see someone looking at Disney park prices and getting confused for the same reasons:
- one day is far more expensive than multiple days (cost per day)
- park-hopper add-on
- water parks?
- Disney Quest? (going away)
- No expiration (gone)
- Did you want to stay after the Sun sets? If so, we need to sell you another ticket (MNSSHP / MVMCP)
- Oh, you're going to the party! Fantastic! Did you want to meet any characters because we need to sell you another ticket.

Add into that: "Oh, which days will you be visiting because our price changes based on volume..."

I do like the idea of tiered pricing but I don't want to have to make a spreadsheet to figure out what I'm buying.

Things are already complicated enough with the current system and dining reservations.

 

[Goofnut1980]

I know what you're saying.. If they do this right then, in a weird way, the options need to be limited.

It's like buying the old land-line phone service or cable TV, they make the process so complicated that it just becomes confusing.

Mobile phones are better but they're inching up there.

For those of you who are young and don't know, when you went to get a land line you'd start off with kind of stupid options:
- $15 for a phone line
- $5 fee for touch-tone service
- enumerated services and fees for things like voice mail, caller ID, caller ID with name, an service so that an indicator on your phone would light up if you had voice mail (not included with voice mail), call waiting, call forwarding, return call, etc.

Then you had packages with names like "Select Service", "Complete", and "Premier"..

The problem was that as you started adding it up for the services you wanted you were basically getting into one of the packages that included more than you wanted. The whole idea is to sell you services you'll never use - not a whole lot different than mobile service, today, but it's at least simpler, for now.

Eventually, with the land-line service, I'd just say, "Just give me the complete package" (with everything) because it was such a hassle to sort.

You shouldn't need a spreadsheet to figure out what you're buying.

I could see someone looking at Disney park prices and getting confused for the same reasons:
- one day is far more expensive than multiple days (cost per day)
- park-hopper add-on
- water parks?
- Disney Quest? (going away)
- No expiration (gone)
- Did you want to stay after the Sun sets? If so, we need to sell you another ticket (MNSSHP / MVMCP)
- Oh, you're going to the party! Fantastic! Did you want to meet any characters because we need to sell you another ticket.

Add into that: "Oh, which days will you be visiting because our price changes based on volume..."

I do like the idea of tiered pricing but I don't want to have to make a spreadsheet to figure out what I'm buying.

Things are already complicated enough with the current system and dining reservations.

Oh I know its nuts... Funny you said landline. I used to work for AT&T and that is totally how it happened when we talked to customers. lol...

I couldn't believe the cost for Disneyland tickets. We are going Saturday and it was $550 for 2 people for 3 day/park hopper. I mean holy crap. We only pay $1100 for our WDW DVC AP's. I was in sticker shock. Because in 2012 it was a fraction of the cost I thought. But fortunately DL doesn't have 32 add-on options.. lol

 

[dizda]

if you visit all in one day, who cares. It would make it easier for the novice Disney-goer that's for sure![/QUOTE]