Shocked!

[Moorlandman]

Originally Posted by Pinchy

WDW has always been and still is a cheap holiday. I do wonder if some of those who complain about prices ever try travelling elsewhere on the globe where it's really expensive.

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Is this real?

[salmim]

Originally Posted by Nimbus

Just thought I'd post a few graphs that I've shown over the years showing the price changes. Here's one from around August/September 2016:

The 2017 Disney tickets had shot up in price to £419. The Universal tickets had also shot up.

The thing with that graph is that it just shows the prices at a specific point in time. At the very end of 2016, Disney had a 25% discount on it's 14-day tickets. Together with the usual "14-day for the price of 7" deal, the price of the 2017 ticket dropped to £300 by December 2016. Here's the graph from Feb 2017:

Surprisingly, at that point, the price of a 2017 ticket was the same as it had been for the 2015 ticket.

Once the 25% discount ended, the price increased somewhat again. Here's what the ticket prices were doing around April 2017:

And so on...

Disney ticket prices do fluctuate quite a bit over the course of the 22 months that they're on sale. Usually when the tickets first go on sale they are high. A couple of months later they add the "14 for 7" deal reducing the price by about £20. Then they remove the deal and prices go back up. Then in December they discount the tickets by around £50 (or by almost £120 as they did at the end of 2016). Then the price goes up again in March. Then the tickets reduce in price a bit towards the end of the year before the tickets are no longer on sale. There are also other fluctuations due to changes in exchange rate and Disney UK wanting to promote more sales (I suspect).

It can make a reasonable difference if you buy tickets at a different point in the cycle. It also makes it a pain to track ticket prices and determine what the price was in the past. However, on average, over the last 8 years tickets has risen by around 9% a year. Or thereabouts.

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Wow very detailed ...with graphs..you are like my BIL who loves a spreadsheet and graph! 😁

It's really useful info thanks

I think we are pretty good at finding best prices for tickets and I echo what you say about timing it right.

Dollar to Sterling has made a big difference.

We also break down the 14 day into how many times we go to the parks, bobbing in and out, and it works out good value for us

Not cheap but good value

[Nimbus]

Originally Posted by salmim

Wow very detailed ...with graphs..you are like my BIL who loves a spreadsheet and graph! 😁

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I like graphs too. But not project management dashboard graphs. Ergh!

I used to take more interest in ticket prices, even keeping a record of the prices on different ticket websites, but I gave that up because it was too much effort. I still have a graph of how the 1-day ticket prices have changed over the years since WDW opened. I must have been bored the day I did that.

[hilz22]

I last did disney in 2013, shoot me lol but it wasn’t really our thing. Back in 2013 we paid just over £2000 for disney, universal and discovery cove. Star wars is a huge thing in our lifes. So they boys are really wanting to go next year. I was astounded by the price, but then i remember 2013 will be 7 years ago by the time we go. (If we go)

[chmurf]

Originally Posted by toonmadlad

I think the big price increase kicked in when Memory Maker was included in the ultimate tickets, before that MM was optional.

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Originally Posted by Nimbus

Disney started offering Memory Maker with the Ultimate tickets back in 2015, about a year before the big price increase. It is possible that some of the price of MM has been factored into the price of the tickets.

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Memory Maker was introduced and bundled with the Ultimate Ticket at the time when the Ultimate tickets lost their free access to Disney Quest

So, you can see MMM as a replacement for the loss of one "park" (let's not discuss if DQ was a park, or something else)
MM was an additionnal perk compensating the loss of another perk
I'm sure Disney found a way to still make us pay more for that, but let's not forget the loss/gain, or content for money ratio

[Pinchy]

Originally Posted by Princess Alison

Yes, our holiday to California and Hawaii was cheaper!

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Really? Like for like?

The WDW parks are only about £20 a day for a longer stay and they offer a lot for that.

[Princess Alison]

Originally Posted by Pinchy

Really? Like for like?

The WDW parks are only about £20 a day for a longer stay and they offer a lot for that.

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Sorry I was being a bit tongue in cheek. However the cost this year - with 6 adults and two kids wasn’t far off actually. Perhaps given the dollar / pound since a few years ago. We also spent more on trips such as rocket launch and manatees

[Nimbus]

Originally Posted by chmurf

Memory Maker was introduced and bundled with the Ultimate Ticket at the time when the Ultimate tickets lost their free access to Disney Quest

So, you can see MMM as a replacement for the loss of one "park" (let's not discuss if DQ was a park, or something else)
MM was an additionnal perk compensating the loss of another perk
I'm sure Disney found a way to still make us pay more for that, but let's not forget the loss/gain, or content for money ratio

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I forgot about DisneyQuest! I did think there was something that MM replaced in the tickets but couldn't remember what. Thanks for reminding me.