Tiered ticket pricing

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(Sorry, I know, not helping!);)

Just talked to a previous DVC owner. They reluctantly sold their DVC interest and looked at going back this year for a trip. She almost laid a brick when she got the quote of $7K for the 4 of them, not including airfare.

Needless to say they aren't going back... Wishing they hadn't sold their DVC right about now, but I told them that when they were tossing around the idea.

How many years ago was it they were running those commercials where the mom and dad were on the computer and one of them says, "Yeah, we can do that" and the camera pans over to the computer screen with a vacation for 4 for $1500? I know it went up to $2000 during that commercial run, but I guess they won't be reusing that one anytime soon!

Wells;2481000 wrote: M-I-CCCCC
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Fixed it for ya...

Our park tickets alone for this trip are going to cost us over $2,200.00 for nine day hoppers and that's even with my wife's being deeply discounted since she's a Disney TA. True we have a family of six, but I mean yowza! $2,200.00 just to get in the door.

This trip is most likely going to cost us about $9,000.00 and we have three free nights in a 1BR DVC to use, too. We're very, very close to the tipping point where we just won't be able to afford to go anymore. If I'm going to drop 10 grand on a vacation it's not going to be in to Disney World.

Yeah $2,200+ seems like a awful lot for park admissions.
But on the other hand, it's nine days of park admissions for 6 people. Divide it out and that works out to about $40.75 per person, per day. Not too bad when you consider the daily cost. And since you have hoppers, if each person visits at least two parks per day, that lowers the cost to about $20 per park admission. Still worth it by anybody's standards.

I can't help you feel too much better about the costs of hotel, food and air fare, though. Ouch!

Ian;2481014 wrote: Our park tickets alone for this trip are going to cost us over $2,200.00 for nine day hoppers and that's even with my wife's being deeply discounted since she's a Disney TA. True we have a family of six, but I mean yowza! $2,200.00 just to get in the door.

This trip is most likely going to cost us about $9,000.00 and we have three free nights in a 1BR DVC to use, too. We're very, very close to the tipping point where we just won't be able to afford to go anymore. If I'm going to drop 10 grand on a vacation it's not going to be in to Disney World.

joonyer;2481015 wrote: Yeah $2,200+ seems like a awful lot for park admissions.
But on the other hand, it's nine days of park admissions for 6 people. Divide it out and that works out to about $40.75 per person, per day. Not too bad when you consider the daily cost. And since you have hoppers, if each person visits at least two parks per day, that lowers the cost to about $20 per park admission. Still worth it by anybody's standards.

I can't help you feel too much better about the costs of hotel, food and air fare, though. Ouch!

If we did not own DVC points, we would not be going every year. It amazes me what they charge for their hotel rooms. When each of our parents passed, we went for 3 nights at Disney after the funeral services to just relax in a place where we have wonderful family memories. When Dad died in 2010, we were able to book 3 nights at the Grand Floridian Sugar Loaf concierge for $1250, thanks to Magical Journeys helping me to snag an AP discount. Fast forward to 2015 when my sister and I tried to book the same trip after our Mom passed. It was almost 500 dollars more to book the same trip, as the AP discount was much lower last year. Cheryl and I decided to stay at Wilderness Lodge woods view room and the price with AP discount was almost the same as what we paid for GF Sugarloaf concierge 5 years earlier!