The most expensive place on Earth? Disney World raises admission prices for second time in a year..

UK Daily Mail ^ | Feb 24, 2014 | Staff

[C19fan]

It might be the happiest place on earth, but your wallet won't be feeling any happier after splashing out even more to 'experience the magic' of Disney. The cost of going to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World just got more expensive. Although Disney won't specify the reasons behind the increase, the Florida parks are home to the company's new high-tech wristband-based ticketing and ride reservation system, called MyMagic+ which cost the company $1.5 billion.

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Disney World has raised the one-day ticket price to the Magic Kingdom by $4 so that it now costs $99 before taxes for visitors over age 9.

[C19fan]

The price of a single day ticket has gone up almost a third for the past 5 years when a ticket was $75. The wristband does offer some benefits from being able to pay for stuff easily and it replaces the FastPass but it does track your movements around the park and Cast Members can see personal information about you.

[brownsfan]

The Tragic Kingdom

[Tupelo]

BUT, unlike the government, any government no one is forced to pay Disney's price.
Unlike the IRS no one has ever been hauled into Disneyland and forced at gunpoint to pay their fees.

In my opinion, Disney can raise their prices as high as they want. Attendance will tell if their prices are too high or not.

[mmichaels1970]

My kids are almost grown and I could never afford to take them to Disney. I wonder if Walt would have let it get like this.

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[ArtDodger]

With Eisner's advent years ago, policies across the board were changed drastically, netting them billions. One such policy adopted was to raise the rates until 10% of the people coming to the gate refused to pay and walked away. Hasn't happened yet. Ol’ Walt is probably spinning in his cyronic container..

[Doogle]

Odungocare strikes again

[Grams A]

Ouch! Just for grins looked back at a ticket stub from my grandson’s scrap book when we visited many, many years ago. Cost for THREE of us to attend was slightly less than $100. If we were to go now, afraid we would just head for the nearest beach.

[trisham]

That’s insane.

[kidd]

According to posts on Disboards.com, the $1.5 Billion MyMagic+ is a near-disaster.

- Disney now tracks your movements around the parks
- It implements a ride reservation system that eliminates a lot of spontenaiety and gives preferences to those who pay to stay in their way-overpriced and cramped resort rooms
- It implements a website and an iPhone app that has had almost all of the problems that the Obamacare website has had - it is loaded with so many bugs and is so slow, that it is at times, unusable.
- There are reports that during the Prsident’s day weekend, when crowds are typically larger, that waits for some rides (either with or without the reservation) were on the order of hours.

Many Disney park addicts are cancelling their plans to visit WDW.

[CodeToad]

Dead on. Nothing makes us buy anything we don’t find affordable.

Frankly, we make good money but there is no way I would throw away the type of money it takes to go to Disney. There are far cheaper and better vacations.

[Alex Murphy]

The price of a single day ticket has gone up almost a third for the past 5 years when a ticket was $75. The wristband does offer some benefits from being able to pay for stuff easily and it replaces the FastPass but it does track your movements around the park and Cast Members can see personal information about you.

In the spirit of the new wristband, a new mascot will be walking around Disney parks:

[Mr. K]

This seems in line with the cost of living i am seeing everywhere else.

5 years ago i would go grocery shopping for my family of 4, and usually spent around $150 and rarely over $200

Now, for about the same items, I am lucky to get out of the store spending less than $300, and I HAVE spent over $400

[DManA]

I’m so glad my Disney years are over.

[bigbob]

So what?

[ErnBatavia]

Growing up in south Kalifornia, we used these 'ticket books' when Disneyland first opened...."A" was a dime, and "E" was fitty cent; admission thru the gates was free, IIRC.

[mmichaels1970]

Here's a pretty cool site with Disney ticket prices from the 1970's.

[C19fan]

My family was selected as guinea pigs for this system at Animal Kingdon. The main benefit is you can reserve three attractions at the beginning and plan your day accordingly although as you mention it does eliminate spontenaiety. From my experience the main issue is you have to spend ten minutes at a kiosk arranging this and if this goes live for everyone it would suck to be on another queue waiting for to make your choices.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"Ol’ Walt is probably spinning in his cyronic container"

There's a sci-fi movie that's just got to be made:

The zombified remains of Walt Disney arises from its frozen slumber to stalk and kill the executives that turned his "Magic Kingdom" into the $Cha$Ching$ Dom.

[angcat]

I take my kids to Bermuda never went to Disney and never will.