New ticket system coming to WDW - Begins October 16th

[Tink's Pixieduster]

Even with the mess with MDX, the data was still intact and recovered - most guests didn’t even know there was a problem and the system reset itself.

I have comp tickets (6) which are etickets linked to MDX and they remained intact throughout the glitching process. I always link the comps to MDX even though I’ll use the tickets at DLR...it just stores them for me.

Thank you for your reassurances, hiroMYhero.

 

[cutigerlady]

Dumb question, but I'm used to having an AP. We are planning a big trip next December (2019). Assuming that will probably be peak holiday/Star Wars season, can I go ahead and buy a multi day park hopper ticket to use next December? I read the terms and conditions and it said "must be used by December 31st 2019," but could that change even after I buy the ticket?

I bought tickets through Disney two weeks ago and the expiration date was 1/15/20. I wanted 2 day tickets and you can’t buy those through a reseller.

I’m glad we decided to limit our park days and spend more time at the resort for the next trip!

 

[DisneyStarWisher]

My FP day is the first week of October. I AM glad it's before MDE inevitably has another magical enhancement when they flip the switch to make this go live.

Oh no! Just realized my FP window opens on October 16!!!

 

[Searc]

I really think there's only so much of this stuff people will stand, and if this is what I think it is with all tickets being based on dates, then this will really drive a lot more people to the competition

It won’t drive me to the competition because Uni hold no interest for me, but it will drive me away from Disney.

 

[StacyStrong]

Oh no! Just realized my FP window opens on October 16!!!

Oh boy! Hopefully it goes smoothly for you and the last big mde glitch readied the system for the 16th!

 

[epcotty]

Just watched the video. This is exactly what all of us on the boards feared 2 years ago. Tiered pricing across the board. This is truly the worst, greediest money grubbing thing ever. And charging you $100 more just to have the options you currently have without an extra fee. Iger and his cronies are truly ruining the parks with their excessive greed and cutbacks. They truly feel they can do anything. There are limits to what they can do without losing guests. They will lose a lot of people by doing this. Any new guests they pick up won't have the loyalty of the old ones and it'll be diminishing returns with gradually less and less people in the parks. Either this is what they want or they're just thinking in terms of short term profits. As for us, I think once we've used up the tickets we currently have we'll be done

 

[disneymagicgirl]

This is an excellent point...I completely missed that, LOL! I guess if you can afford a WDW and Cruise combined trip...Disney figures $50 more per person to structure it that way is palatable. And that's probably a fair statement (although I don't like it personally, lol).

That would be $300 for my family for something we have been doing for free all along. Um, no Disney.

 

[thelegacy27]

Ok so I'm a Dis newbie and planned my first trip for early MAY 2019. If I understand correctly, just buy 5d tickets now to avoid any potential increase in ticket prices. I feel like I need a cliffnotes version of this in order to understand it all

 

[hiroMYhero]

Ok so I'm a Dis newbie and planned my first trip for early MAY 2019. If I understand correctly, just buy 5d tickets now to avoid any potential increase in ticket prices. I feel like I need a cliffnotes version of this in order to understand it all

If you “Buy Now,” you won’t have to deal with the new ticket system or this thread.

 

[SaintsManiac]

Just watched the video. This is exactly what all of us on the boards feared 2 years ago. Tiered pricing across the board. This is truly the worst, greediest money grubbing thing ever. And charging you $100 more just to have the options you currently have without an extra fee. Iger and his cronies are truly ruining the parks with their excessive greed and cutbacks. They truly feel they can do anything. There are limits to what they can do without losing guests. They will lose a lot of people by doing this. Any new guests they pick up won't have the loyalty of the old ones and it'll be diminishing returns with gradually less and less people in the parks. Either this is what they want or they're just thinking in terms of short term profits. As for us, I think once we've used up the tickets we currently have we'll be done

If you’re feeling this angry then I don’t blame you for ending your visits. I just think this type of post isn’t helpful. Every time they increase prices there are reactions like this. With all of the new experiences happening did you really not see this coming?

 

[disneymagicgirl]

I’ve read through this thread and my head is swimming. Here’s my scenario:

My split-stay reservations have been made for very early March. I’ll be at the first resort for the first three of the six days and plan on a 6-day PH ticket.

When I move to the second resort, I’ll be joined for the last three days by my adult son who will need a 3-day PH.

I saw upthread that the expiration date on etickets through UCT should be fine. But I was planning on visiting our local AAA office for discount tickets, which I believe are probably hard tickets. The discount is only off the UCT price by a couple of dollars and I initially felt better knowing I would have hard PH tickets in hand. Now, I’m not so sure. Is there any indication hard tickets purchased before Oct. 16 will lose their value before our visit in March?

Are the aaa tickets on the website priced diff than the local stores?

 

[FastPasser.]

If you “Buy Now,” you won’t have to deal with the new ticket system or this thread.

Don't know if it was intentional, but this response cracked me up. One of your best.

 

[epcotty]

If you’re feeling this angry then I don’t blame you for ending your visits. I just think this type of post isn’t helpful. Every time they increase prices there are reactions like this. With all of the new experiences happening did you really not see this coming?

This is different than a price increase. This is them completely revising their entire system. I truly thought, as many did, that the 1 day tickets being tiered was their compromise from what they wanted to do (tier all of them) so they could please the customers and limit the amount of 1 day people, and that they would stick to that. Now absolutely nothing about buying tickets is anything like what it was even 3-4 years ago, back when there were many more options, you could get tickets that didn't expire, price for 1 day wasn't through the roof, it didn't matter when you went, etc. They've managed to suck all the fun out of it all by limiting everyone's options and finding all kinds of new ways to charge far more than the price should be when factoring in inflation from even 10 or so years ago. I truly think this will be the last straw for lots of people

 

[Amy11401]

I will say that launching this as part of a new planning website, etc. was a good way to put a positive spin on what will really amount to an increase in vacation cost for many people. It also explains all the additional glitches with MDE over the last few weeks. I'll reserve judgement till I see what the various prices will

We will be in Disney when this goes live...I am hoping it does not totally screw up MDE then.

 

[GillianP1301]

Can you post that blurb here so that it can be added to Post#2?

Here's the excerpt. The "described above" comment references the table already posted on validation length number if days ticket.

Date-based tickets purchased as part of a Walt Disney Travel Company room and ticket package will have one of the following valid use periods (whichever is longer): (i) the same valid use period described above, OR (ii) a valid use period beginning on the package resort arrival date and ending on the package resort check-out date.

For example, a Guest who purchases a Walt Disney Travel Company package with a 3-Day base ticket and a resort length of stay of 6 nights with an arrival date of Nov. 1; ticket is valid any 3 days from Nov, 1 – Nov. 7.

 

[GillianP1301]

But how would this affect those of us who stay on site but do not purchase a package? We are DVC so always stay on site but we purchase tickets separately(when we don't have APs). Seems a little unfair to those of us who don't need to purchase a package.

Excellent question and one of the details I hope gets addressed with the full release on the 16th. It makes no sense that DVC would not get the same amount of days as an onsite package stay.

 

[hiroMYhero]

Here's the excerpt. The "described above" comment references the table already posted on validation length number if days ticket.

Date-based tickets purchased as part of a Walt Disney Travel Company room and ticket package will have one of the following valid use periods (whichever is longer): (i) the same valid use period described above, OR (ii) a valid use period beginning on the package resort arrival date and ending on the package resort check-out date.

For example, a Guest who purchases a Walt Disney Travel Company package with a 3-Day base ticket and a resort length of stay of 6 nights with an arrival date of Nov. 1; ticket is valid any 3 days from Nov, 1 – Nov. 7.

Thank you!! Will add it to Post#2.

 

[brockash]

I don't know if people are being sarcastic or if they really believe the Disney double talk.... Every change Disney does is to make more $$$$'s, nothing is going to benefit guests (unless they pay for that benefit).

Disney is opening it's nets as wide as they can for the upcoming predicted crowd draws, they aren't even trying to be discreet about it... be somewhat humorous if they turned people off too much and they get fed up before that happens.

ITA, but I do think there are a lot of ppl. who buy into whatever Disney's story happens to be at the moment. In their defense I think a lot of ppl. have a lot of emotion tied into Disney and "trust" them in a way that a lot of other businesses haven't mastered...but it's always about THEIR money and yes I think Disney has been getting a little too greedy and honestly almost just offensive in their handling of the business/customer relationship over the past few years especially.

 

[marcyleecorgan]

Add me as another person who is NOT happy about this change...

 

[g-dad66]

I must not be understanding something about how this will work.

Ticket prices at WDW website show current approximate base ticket prices:
3rd day: $96
4th day: $76
5th day: $15
6th day: $10
7th day: $ 8

With $85 as a sample price showing in the video, that would mean a gigantic price increase for days 5+.

If the ticket price is going to be something like $85 for every day of my trip, 3-4 days will definitely become our limit.

Hoping to learn that my understanding of this is completely off-kilter....