tagoofy
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Count me in on that.
Not counting bonus rental $$ for special times like this, I can rent my points for 6K+/year. Time to start using that $$ to plan other vacations.
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News Walt Disney World to resume sales of Annual Passes (New sales resume April 20, 2023)
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Not counting bonus rental $$ for special times like this, I can rent my points for 6K+/year. Time to start using that $$ to plan other vacations.
CJR
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You'd come out ahead, undercut Disney's insane base prices, give people free parking, and possibly give that money to Disney's competition (not just talking about Universal, since that's often what people think of, but anything that competes for vacations).
Parker in NYC
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Sure puts a new spin on Martin Niemoeller!Yep, but sadly it seems I'm part of the riffraff.
doctornick
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While I get that, it would be nice if the new names had some sense of hierarchy. For example, just make them all Pirate themed and do something like scallawag, crewman, captain, admiral (these are just off the top of my head; someone could surely do better). These names they chose are completely irrelevant to the value of each pass which makes them more confusing.
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matt9112
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They care....enough. APs are great for filling in slower times of the year. Making some money is better than maling no money. The thing is they want to be able to push APs put of the say when its busy and the hotels are full. The way the lower tier passes are set up reflect that imho. If you want to just show up whenever you want you need to pay for it. Otherwise you need to work around the mouses schedule.
doctornick
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I doubt this changes anything much. Those were already relatively soft times for DVC usage - the trend is for DVC highest demand to be when points are lowest (i.e. the off season to the extent that it is like early December, Feb, late August). While certainly there are DVC owners who will go during those busy times, I’m not sure there are all that many that were dependent on Gold Passes to make it work (and there’s still a Platinum equivalent out there if needed).
ToTBellHop
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To be fair, that happens when they temporarily cancel noodles.
doctornick
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They offer so many passes to Florida residents to maintain good relations with the state government. It’s a way to show they “care” about the residents in the state to try to get as good treatment as possible.
that said, I do agree that I don’t know why they have a payment plan. Why not get all the money up front? It always seemed odd to me that such a thing even existed
runnsally
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wag the noodle
SirLink
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They are they based on how many muscles a thing has. Superheroes always have more muscles, its just a fact.
For me, the calculus isn't the cost of old APs v. new APs.
That's because I'm out of state and had been going to WDW several times a year. I only got an AP because it was cheaper than the cost of the day-tickets for those trips.
And the cost of day-tickets have gone up, just like for the AP.
So, both in the old calculus v. the new calculus; it is the same: Once I go to WDW for more than 12-14 days (depending if I get the AP renewal discount), then the AP is cheaper than buying the day-tickets.
This doesn't change anything for me, except that WDW is more expensive, no matter what ticketing scheme I use.
That's because I'm out of state and had been going to WDW several times a year. I only got an AP because it was cheaper than the cost of the day-tickets for those trips.
And the cost of day-tickets have gone up, just like for the AP.
So, both in the old calculus v. the new calculus; it is the same: Once I go to WDW for more than 12-14 days (depending if I get the AP renewal discount), then the AP is cheaper than buying the day-tickets.
This doesn't change anything for me, except that WDW is more expensive, no matter what ticketing scheme I use.
ToTBellHop
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How much does Mickey bench press?
Granted, doing this daily would give him mad cut deltoids.
FantasiaMickey2000
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Yup, the cost savings from then to now are almost $600 after taxes. With all the changes at WDW since mid 2019, I don’t know if we will be back for a while once the pass expires in September 2022. And we used to go once a year, every year.
SirLink
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None but Yensid can bench press a castle, superheroes can bench press two skyscrapers. Well known fact.
Kevin_W
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Good points, @MisterPenguin . That's the calculus of WDW vs. other vacations. (Or other Disney parks. It's a 15-hr flight instead of a 2.5 hour flight, but even including the plane cost I think visiting Tokyo Disney is cheaper than WDW.)
We have had AP''s twice before. If we did two week-long trips in a year (we went end of summer, then beginning of summer the next year) it made the math work vs. regular tickets. Now it's close and with dining discounts probably gets there, but otherwise not quite.
(Of course, both times we had AP's we also ended up making quite trips at Halloween or Christmas, which is the type of extra $$ WDW can earn by having AP's.)
TalkingHead
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No mention of free parking, right? Are they going to charge for every level of AP? That would be a dealbreaker for some locals.
disneygeek90
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DisneyCane
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The link I went to from the email they sent me said that all passes get free standard parking. I'm just trying to translate what my current Gold pass would be in the new naming scheme.
It looks like they got rid of the photopass being included from all of the passes and made it a $99 add on.
Edit: @disneygeek90 beat me to the parking by a few seconds.