Ticket Price Increases

[BradyBzLyn...Mo 2,023]

I haven't heard anything announced for Disney yet, but this year Universal broke the norm and announced their own ticket price increases first. Speculation is that Disney price increases will go into effect any day now.

This article reviews everything, but I've pulled out a few key excerpts below...

http://www.themeparktourist.com/news/20160211/31470/x-things-you-need-know-about-universal-orlando-resort-s-unprecedented-price

 

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A single park, single day ticket ...has gone up by nearly 3 percent, now costing $105, up from $102.

...a single day park-to-park ticket (which is just one tier above the single park $105 ticket described above) now costs $155, up 5.4% from $147. And even worse, a  2-day, park to park ticket is now over $200, costing a massive $219.99, up by double digits (nearly 13%!) from the previous $194.99 price point. And that’s not even the most egregious price hike. Based on percentage value increases, that honor goes to a 2-day one park per day ticket, which increased 13.3% from $149.99 to $169.99. 

...Florida residents don’t get a discount on single day tickets, 2-day park-to-park tickets are up nearly 14% to $189.99 from their previous $166.99 price point and 3-day park-to-park passes are up nearly 13% from $176.99 to $199.99.

...this ticket price hike comes just weeks after prices for merchandise, food, and beverage were raised right before the Harry Potter Celebration event. These price increases range from a few cents for soda refills to rounding up to the next dollar for Butterbeer. ... the parking fee went up to a whopping $20 late last year. 

...right now the only real good news is that annual passholders are not affected...yet. Unfortunately, that probably won't last for long, as Universal quietly raised passholder prices last fall, and chances are good they'll do the same thing again in 2016.

...Earlier this year Universal Studios Hollywood made history by becoming the first major theme park in the US to introduce variable pricing that offered discounts for guests that visit on non-peak days. ... it may have been easy to implement a variable pricing structure in Hollywood, it looks like Universal Orlando Resort will get another year with simple pricing.