If you aren’t able to book well in advance, then you need to be flexible on your park dates. This will make booking in advance more important. Disney World can use date-based ticket pricing to control crowd levels and charge more to people who are less sensitive to price. It will work like airline pricing, as the number of tickets purchased for a particular day increase, the price increases. If we were guessing, the ticket price will change.

Time of the year (is it peak time or non-peak).Things impacting the ticket price will include: How Will Disney World’s Date-Based Pricing Work? Setting Ticket Pricesĭisney’s new date-based ticket pricing will assign a specific ticket price to every day of the year. If you desperately want to go to Disney World at Christmas or New Years, you can be sure you are going to pay for it. They are also going to use it to increase prices to those who are less price sensitive. Disney is going to use date-based ticket pricing to move crowds around to some of the slower times of year. There are few incentives like the all mighty dollar (or euro, pound or whatever you might be spending). You want people to come at certain times of the year and not others. Why Move to Date-Based Ticket Pricing?Ī few words. There isn’t a new website location coming, rather it is just a redesign of the existing site. Anyone that thinks otherwise is being naïve or sticking their head in the ground.ĭisney went on to say that “the new online vacation-planning destination features park offering overviews, travel tips from Disney Parks Moms Panelists and customized suggestions based on each guest’s personal preferences – helping guests make more informed decisions.” More features probably a good thing assuming that Disney can get the technology aspects worked out. What this is ultimately going to do is drive ticket prices up. Disney positions it as what we would call a “quality of experience” change, which happens to “give guests an enhanced way to purchase theme park tickets”. They led with a story saying that effective October 16 th, guests will get a “new online vacation-planning destination”. A New Booking Portalĭisney sort of buried the lead when they issued their blog post announcing the change. We’ll cover what we know and speculate on some things Disney isn’t saying.

While there are still lots of things to be announced, the general parameters are now published.

At least as far as your wallet is concerned. This is a huge change that could be a good thing for some, or very bad for others. Today, Disney announced that Disney World is changing to date-based ticket pricing.

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