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It's bad enough guests cannot switch parks until 2 PM (and also cannot reserve LL through Genie+ until they've entered their second park), but to now charge even more for that benefit puts it into the 'rip off' category. The increased cost for park hopping without a corresponding change to park hopping rules further devalues the benefit. By making this change, this allows Disney to profit from special days/events that are park specific (festival openings at EPCOT, Star Wars 'holidays' at DHS - Life Day, May the 4th, Earth Day at DAK, and opening days for specific attractions/overlays across all of WDW). It's easy now for companies to build in back-end algorithms to calculate the optimal pricing for each park/day to earn that extra revenue on days/parks that are in higher demand.

To me, this continues Disney's (and businesses overall) trying to profit from 'micro-transactions' on desirable goods and services. When Galaxy's Edge opened, the figurative playing field was leveled, so WDW dropped the increased cost for MK when admission prices were raised to visit all the parks. WDW had already tried this once when they increased the price to visit MK on a 1-day ticket a few years ago. To price other options for tickets to the Walt Disney World theme parks, please visit our international travel partner's Walt Disney World tickets page.įor more theme park news, please sign up for Theme Park Insider's weekly newsletter. The Pixie Dust Pass for Florida residents remains available and also remains $399. Walt Disney World also will be raising prices on its top three annual passes when sales for those passes resume. 'We are also making planning easier with new 1-day tickets that automatically include a guest's theme park reservation and continue to provide a wide range of options to visit throughout the year, including our lowest priced ticket of $109 which has not changed in more than four years.' 'We continue to focus on providing guests with the best, most memorable Disney experience, and we're doing that by growing our theme parks with incredible new attractions and offerings,' a Disney World spokesperson said.

The price to add the Park Hopper option to tickets also will vary by the date of your visit starting December 8.

Florida resident 2018 disney world magic kingdom tickets