It went to 100% Memorial Day weekend.
Not exactly. It went to "100% of what we can support at the current level of staffing."
It did not go back to 100% of the pre covid capacity. It's about 85% of what that used to be. Chapek confirmed that.
It went to 100% Memorial Day weekend.
Not sure why they couldn’t offer Fantasmic nightly though? I guess it’s a little loud, trough not like the fireworks.
Thanks!It went to 100% Memorial Day weekend.
I have had this conversation with many friends and family in recent months. Infrequent visitors (Disney lovers!) who went and had a miserable time and don't want to go back. It's so sad to me!Being a Dis- member and having done a number of trips to Disneyland (and a couple to WDW) I feel I know how to “do” Disneyland in a way that makes it successful...I knew how to stack fastpasses, do rope drop, get free stuff etc, but a lot of the people that save up to Disneyland do not, and that makes me sad. I know several families from here where I live (BC Canada) who have just been to DL in the last months and none of them had a good time, and all swore off DL. One had gone before and couldn’t believe it was the same place…the crowds, the lack of fast pass, many many rides down, the prices of everything…they couldn’t believe how different it was.
totally agree. Maxpass strategy especially made for great days. Genie+ can't be manipulated in the same way though, and rope drop only gets you so far. But yes, everyone I know who has gone and not been hyperaware of Disney strategy has come back miserable.Being a Dis- member and having done a number of trips to Disneyland (and a couple to WDW) I feel I know how to “do” Disneyland in a way that makes it successful...I knew how to stack fastpasses, do rope drop, get free stuff etc, but a lot of the people that save up to Disneyland do not, and that makes me sad. I know several families from here where I live (BC Canada) who have just been to DL in the last months and none of them had a good time, and all swore off DL. One had gone before and couldn’t believe it was the same place…the crowds, the lack of fast pass, many many rides down, the prices of everything…they couldn’t believe how different it was.
Yes! The Hyperion! It's been years since they opened back up, but this people eater sits empty. Why? Because that would cost DL money and they don't have any interest in improving the experience right now.The Hyperion Theater can seat nearly 2,000 guests and it used to run a show three or four times a day! Now it sits empty while people wander around DCA seeing ever longer lines.
The multi-day tickets have gone up 9-11%.I read online the ticket increases averaged at an 8% increase, and inflation is currently at 8.3% I believe. It was interesting to me because I couldn’t remember a time in recent years when the ticket increase was below inflation.
This is exactly where I am right now. I used to be able to fly high at DL. But it so confusing and always changing at the moment. It's impossible to keep up. I'll go next week feeling lie a rookie.Here I am 6 days out & I still don't feel I've wrapped my head around the best way to do things.
Hoping with all my learning & planning that once we get there it will be a blast & not a lesson in futility.
My argument is with F! on weekends only. We've all seen the show. The fireworks they have are not gunpowder launched, so they have minimal sound. You can barely hear the report from Downtown Disney during this show. I feel like I always have - they don't do it nightly because it saves them a ton and they can still charge us the same. Well, until tiered pricing came along.Everytime I read someone post this I get confused. Except for the 50th anniversary in 2004/2005, Disneyland has always held fireworks and Fantasmic! to weekends, and non-school periods. An agreement they hold with the City of Anaheim. In the 60s and early 70s, the 5 min firework show was only on Fri and Sat (not even Sundays.)
Yip, I'm there next week. But only because my oldest daughter is a senior and she specifically asked to go to DL for the week. That out of the options of Hawaii and Universal Orlando. I preferred the others because the value is better these days (if you VRBO in Hawaii, not the hotels). But she has nothing but childhood memories and wants our last family trip together to be DL. Can't blame her. But...after this trip, I'll be hard pressed spend this kind of currency again for the limited value.Great sentiment, OP.
But aren't you going to be at Disneyland next week? Didn't I see that in another post?
That's why Disney keeps doing this stuff. People come anyway. So why not?
Brother, you said it."You are not the first to pass this way, nor shall you be the last."
Can’t they just lower the park passes if it was truly about crowd control.Disney has been pretty upfront with :
Our solution to crowd control is higher prices. We will raise the cost of tickets till crowds get in line.
We also want to change to the experience at the parks.
Agree! I am retired, too, and have the time to research for our upcoming DW trip and my head is spinning trying to plan. And don't get me started on the cost of Genie +.OMG--I was EXACTLY thinking this yesterday!!
We did WDW 4x from 2007-2018.
It took a lot of learning to to it right.
Now been trying to plan ONE day in DL...my head is spinning.
And I retired in May so I HAVE the time to do the research!!
Here I am 6 days out & I still don't feel I've wrapped my head around the best way to do things.
I think I understand G+, trying to decide if I need to buck up another $43 to get those 2 ILL tickets...when I already have spent $214 for park hopper w/ G+ for 1 day. (so almost $260??!!)
Hoping with all my learning & planning that once we get there it will be a blast & not a lesson in futility.
Dear Disneyland,
Today, we were informed that you would be increasing your ticket prices to enter your parks. As a long-time business owner and director, as well as a free-market adherent, I completely understand the need to increase revenue in order to cover rising expenses and meet projected profit margins. Especially during this time of rapid inflation, we all are doing what we can to balance the books. That said, as a long-time mega-DisneyParks fan, I do feel I need to address some issues.
First, it seems that most of your ticket prices went up at a higher proportion to inflation, which we all know has been your calling card for the last decade. The price hikes have always been out of proportion with the national economy. We've put up with it for quite some time, though I feel our patience is wearing thin. The fact that you took away a free service, FastPass, and replaced it with a pay-to-play daily fee called Genie+ actually felt like a ticket price increase. You either pay the extra money to have the same thing that was free two years ago, or you lose value in the park by spending so much more time in lines. In essence, my ticket price went up with Genie+ in order to keep the same "product." And with a family of five, that went up $100/day just to stay in the same place we were before.
Second, the aforementioned Genie+ has now gone up in price along with the ticket increases. Not only did you raise the price on multi-day tickets by 9%, you raised the price even more by adding yet another $5/day for Genie+. And as if you hadn't gouged consumers enough, Individual Lightening Lane prices increased, and there's information that Genie+ may go up by even more than $5/daily on certain busy days. Is it me, or do these price increases seem out of control?
Third, you have increased prices, but the experience of visiting Disneyland has lost value. With crowds soaring, the constant breakdown of rides and attractions, an awful dining reservation system that has no written rules, the crashing of the Genie+ app, and the lack of adequate (in number and training) cast members, it seems odd that you would ask your customers to pay even more for an increasingly disappointing product.
Finally, if you're raising prices, where are the extra entertainment options that should come with those increases? I'm not talking rides. Where is "Mickey and the Magical Map"? Where is a daytime parade? Where is "Paint the Night"? And for the prices we pay for tickets, Genie+, and the way over-priced dining packages, why isn't Fantasmic! played every night, especially with the large crowds you're letting in during the month of October? The fact that NONE of these things are happening is a slap in the face to all guests who have faithfully made you their annual choice in vacations year after year. Quit hiding behind "it's the Virus thing slowing us down". Everyone else has moved back to normal, but not Disneyland?
As someone who's made trips to Disneyland all my 47 years, and even taken half-a-dozen trips to Walt Disney World, I feel like I understand your product well enough to say this: you are currently doing a terrible job and a great disservice to the Disney brand and reputation. I believe I speak for the majority of your theme park customers that we know you are capable of doing so much better.
So...do it.
Sincerely,
THE DisneyGator
Yup. I agree absolutely with every point made by the OP. I especially hate that they created a problem by eliminating FPs/most single-rider lines... and then sold us a solution. They're damaging their brand and there's only so much nonsense that old-school fans like us will tolerate.Dear Disneyland,
...The fact that you took away a free service, FastPass, and replaced it with a pay-to-play daily fee called Genie+ actually felt like a ticket price increase. You either pay the extra money to have the same thing that was free two years ago, or you lose value in the park by spending so much more time in lines. In essence, my ticket price went up with Genie+ in order to keep the same "product." And with a family of five, that went up $100/day just to stay in the same place we were before.