News Walt Disney World to resume sales of Annual Passes (New sales resume April 20, 2023)

[SirLink]

Coming soon: The Winnie the Pooh Rumbly Tumbly Pass to replace the Dining Plan!

Nah: Heimlich Credit, Pooh Credit and Remy Credit

 

[disneygeek90]

I’ve talked with two different cast members who both assured me that I won’t lose my park reservations when I upgrade.

I will be two days into my trip when this becomes available.

Why would I wait until the last day of my trip to upgrade?

I want to get my dining discount.

Unless you're booking Oct 1 weekend I don't think you should have any trouble just re-booking if it does indeed drop the reservations.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Any DVC owner or only those with a Blue Card can buy a Sorcerer pass? A question many of us white card holders are wondering.

Only Blue Card, confirmed now on the DVC website.

 

[Trauma]

Unless you're booking Oct 1 weekend I don't think you should have any trouble just re-booking if it does indeed drop the reservations.

Yes plus I’ll be on site so I’ll make them fix whatever they screw up.

I have photos of all my reservations and I’ll review the reservations with the cast member before they upgrade the tickets.

 

[Tom Morrow]

I love how every time they roll something crappy out - they say it's in response to guest feedback.

I'd really like to find those "people" who told them they'd like to pay more to get less and have the pass names changed to something stupid.

What they really mean is, "We hate our fans so we always do the opposite of their feedback because our main goal is now to nickel and dime the newcomers."

Nah: Heimlich Credit, Pooh Credit and Remy Credit

Oh god it's going to be this isn't it. Remy credits for table service, Heimlich credits for quick service, Pooh credits for snacks/desserts.

 

[pdude81]

They raised the platinum pricing so much that I am surprised we don't see a Florida and DVC discount on the Incredipass. That AP discount is a pretty useful part of the sales pitch when trying to convince people not to buy resale. I wonder if they "clarify" this in the next few days after some outrage or stick to their guns

 

[MrPromey]

Oh god it's going to be this isn't it. Remy credits for table service, Heimlich credits for quick service, Pooh credits for snacks/desserts.

If they're accurately describing some of their fast-service offerings, they'll call it "poo" credits...

 

[Chip Chipperson]

What they really mean is, "We hate our fans so we always do the opposite of their feedback because our main goal is now to nickel and dime the newcomers."



Oh god it's going to be this isn't it. Remy credits for table service, Heimlich credits for quick service, Pooh credits for snacks/desserts.

Pooh credits will be for bathroom access.

 

[tagoofy]

Those are percentage increases with Photopass included. The percentage increases are smaller without photopass.

Here are the purchasing increase percentages

• Sorcerer: $899 over $719, or 25% increase
• Pirate: $699 over $539, or 30% increase
• Pixie Dust: $399 over $369, or 8% increase

Here are the renewal increase percentages

• Sorcerer: $764 over $719, or 6% increase
• Pirate: $594 over $539, or 10% increase
• Pixie Dust: $339 over $369, 8% decrease

So, assume you don't have to get PP for every member of your party (Probably a safe assumption, but would not put it pass them to erase anyone in a pic in your party that did not pay for PP), you are still not counting on the loss of FP+ and the cost to add it back.

They have effectively just up prices twice (Genie+ and ticket price) for AP holder just in the last month or so.

 

[Indy_UK]

Chapek obviously thinks you AP holders have has it easy for too long

 

[SugarMagnolia75]

Those are percentage increases with Photopass included. The percentage increases are smaller without photopass.

Here are the purchasing increase percentages

• Sorcerer: $899 over $719, or 25% increase
• Pirate: $699 over $539, or 30% increase
• Pixie Dust: $399 over $369, or 8% increase

Here are the renewal increase percentages

• Sorcerer: $764 over $719, or 6% increase
• Pirate: $594 over $539, or 10% increase
• Pixie Dust: $339 over $369, 8% decrease

Why are you comparing the renewal rates to the cost of a new pass? Wouldn't it be more accurate to do an "apples to apples" comparison of renewal rates?

 

[JohnD]

Why are you comparing the renewal rates to the cost of a new pass? Wouldn't it be more accurate to do an "apples to apples" comparison of renewal rates?

To show what the percentages would be for renewal vs letting it lapse.

 

[SirLink]

What they really mean is, "We hate our fans so we always do the opposite of their feedback because our main goal is now to nickel and dime the newcomers."



Oh god it's going to be this isn't it. Remy credits for table service, Heimlich credits for quick service, Pooh credits for snacks/desserts.

I was thinking Heimlich for Snacks and Pooh for QS.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Judging from the response, I don’t think we have to worry about these selling out…

 

[MrPromey]

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

Others were already offering it and when they finally started, the APs exploded.

Tons of people who couldn't come up with a couple thousand dollars to AP their family suddenly had access.

As a long-time AP holder, I certainly noticed the difference. They used to do more special stuff for us and then when this happened, everything was suddenly always full. They started doing the crappy first-come-first-serve by email offerings like once every other year and I always got my email announcement with special link a few days after it was already full.

Yes, if they were really looking to limit APs, they'd go back to not doing the payment plan in FL but this way, they can have all those extra people continuing to pay monthly where the price hike is spread out and stings less in a low-wage state.

This isn't meant to limit - it's meant to make it easier for some people who really can't afford to go, to keep paying - kind of like a rent-to-buy store's business model.

 

[MrPromey]

But "The magic is calling" you can't put a price on that.

Is that who all these "unlisted" calls I keep getting are from?

 

[SirLink]

But "The magic is calling" you can't put a price on that.

Thats fine I'll let it go straight to voicemail.

 

[HauntedPirate]

The top AP (the Platinum AP until September 7, 2021) at the start of 2015, pre-$lappie: $634
The Incredi-Pass AP on September 8: $1299.

6 years, and more than double the price. More timeless, more relevant, more family, more Disney!

 

[Indy_UK]

Same point as I put in the Genie+ thread, is the AP price increases really going to stop anyone from going?

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

They took away our purchase discount for the equivalent pass. So not only is TWDC on passholders in general, they are really dumping on Florida residents and blue card DVC members.

You know what the line there is: buy allowing DVC to purchase the passes…it’s a discount.

but you bring up a point about the blues. After spending 5 years separating us into patricians and plebs…they kinda undo it here.

who they REALLY are dumping on are the put of staters that resist DVC. Ya screwed there