[Trayderjoe]

My wife's best friend told her that Disney was raising their Platinum annual pass by $200. I went out to check out the Florida resident rate and what I found was:

Platinum Plus (with water parks): $999.00
Platinum (no blackout dates): $899.00
Gold (blackout dates): $699.00
Silver (blackout dates): $519.00
Weekday Select Pass (no weekends and blackout dates): $349.00

I presume these are the recently updated prices, but either way, it was "sticker shock" to me. I haven't had an annual pass in the past year, and I realize the daily rate went up (day rate varies on the date and the park), but it is amazing that they still fill the parks. We thought about getting a date restricted pass as the dates are not an issue to miss, but the Gold pass is currently $50.46 per month and the Silver is $34.48 per month each after down payments and with different blackout dates. I suppose if you go at least 5 days per year, you begin to break even, but WOW. I am not sure that I am enough of a Disney fan to pay those rates, including the day rates. I realize that they run $55 per night specials, but that still works out to $220.00 plus tax, does NOT include "park hopper" and is good only for a very limited time.