The price of a Disneyland Resort ticket is going up. Except that it also is going down through a new promotion. So what the heck is going on at Walt’s first theme park? It turns out that Disney may be banking on a little sugar making their “medicine” go down with California residents.
First, let’s talk about the discount coming your way. Here’s what we have from a Disney statement:
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For a limited time in early 2025, children ages 3 through 9 can visit a Disneyland Resort theme park for as low as $50 per child with this 1-Day, 1-Park ticket. These specially priced tickets go on sale Oct. 22, 2024, for visits Jan. 7-March 20, 2025. Offering a variety of options and flexibility, you’ll be able to choose from 1-Day, 2-Day or 3-Day park tickets, with options available to upgrade to Park Hopper tickets and to add on Lightning Lane Multi Pass.
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In addition to the kids’ ticket offer, don’t forget to check the theme park reservation calendar for select days priced at $104 per day, so the adults in the group can save on their visit too.
And guess what, Disney+ subscribers? Later this fall, Disney+ will introduce a specially priced, multi-day Disneyland Resort ticket offer available for subscribers in the U.S. and Canada on select days through the 2024 holiday season. Additional details will be shared at a later date.
Now that you know how to save, let’s get to the fun: planning all the things you can do with your family.
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Meanwhile, Disney is also raising the non-discounted price of a ticket into Disneyland, which will almost certainly be the price point summer travelers pay for getting into the original Magic Kingdom.
On Disneyland’s busiest days, the price for a daily admission will now be $206… whereas it was previously $196. More worrisome, Disneyland (and Disney World) ticket inflation continues to outstrip historical inflation throughout the rest of the economy in a quite dramatic fashion. As we’ve been concerned in the past, it may be that the domestic Disney Parks are being squeezed by the rest of the company to subsidize a large amount of under-publicized failures throughout other departments.
According to an analysis by MickeyVisit.com, the Disneyland price hike increased tickets by as much as $61 per ticket, and over the past decade, tickets at the Anaheim, California, resort have increased up to 114%. — Fox Business
Disney World has also announced ticket price increases going into effect in 2025. It all adds up to what some are beginning to call the “costliest place on Earth”. So look out, Monaco… Mickey has his eyes set on lux vacation prices. Unless you get that discount, of course.
Sleeping Beauty Castle in 2019 after refurbishment. Photo Credit: CrispyCream27, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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