Annual passes have increased by 7%
When will the insanity end?

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Wenham

Annual passes have increased by 7%
When will the insanity end?

When renewals and attendance drops off.

Higher prices -> lower attendance -> shorter lines -> less complaining, all while collecting more profit. Seems like a big win for Disney.

The time will come when they add one too many straws and attendance collapses. Unfortunately, that may be several more price increases away.

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by Wenham

Annual passes have increased by 7%
When will the insanity end?

On the bright side, it may mean fewer obnoxious rugrats on those flights to and from Minneapolis.

[Stu from NYC]

Remarkably they are still able to fill their parks

[MrFlorida]

Don't matter what they charge, people will still come .

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Wenham

Annual passes have increased by 7%
When will the insanity end?

Dollar or 5000 makes no difference to me.

[Two Bills]

Originally Posted by Wenham

Annual passes have increased by 7%
When will the insanity end?

During my working life, I found that when my income dropped through costs and overheads, raising my rates kept the business solvent.
Worked for us, and most others.

Price gouging is something they are notorious for but why do it to residents?

[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by Wenham

Price gouging is something they are notorious for but why do it to residents?

Define: Price gouging is when a seller increases the price of goods or services to an unreasonable or unfair level, often during a time of crisis. It's also known as excessive pricing.

Unreasonable??
Unfair??
Don't think so, 50,000,000 visited last year.

Crisis???
Don't think so............it's a luxury, not a necessity.

[Davonu]

Yeah. We all know prices never go up.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Wenham

Price gouging is something they are notorious for but why do it to residents?

Because they can

[Kenswing]

As long as people keep showing up they’ll keep raising the prices. What’s sad are the people that have little fiscal discipline and go thousands of dollars in debt to spend a week there.

[asianthree]

Our 2 pass holders Pixie renewal 10/19 with photo pass on 10/19 $822. Less $500 from Disney rewards points. Less Amex rewards points $200.
Total cash $122. Out of pocket

Have never paid more than $150 for any pass holder for Disney, or Universal (renewal $ $135).

[4$ALE]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Because they can

You Sir are correct. My wife and I were season pass holders for a number of years. The way we used WDW was to go 6 to 8 times a year and stay for 3 days and 2 nights on property. The 1st. time they tried to charge us for parking at the hotel, I asked why were they doing this after so many years of free parking at hotels as well as free parking we still got at the parks? The nice guy checking us in said "I'll tell you..... when we were at a meeting and this was being explained to us I asked the same question. The BIG SHOT giving the talk said to the entire room of employees "BECAUSE WE CAN!" He then said to me "I'm sorry" and "Walt is probably rolling in his grave." (I don't think he was buried.) I lived with it til they got "Woke" and I decided that I had enough. Good bye WDW.

[kkingston57]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

When renewals and attendance drops off.

Higher prices -> lower attendance -> shorter lines -> less complaining, all while collecting more profit. Seems like a big win for Disney.

The time will come when they add one too many straws and attendance collapses. Unfortunately, that may be several more price increases away.

Well said.