The writing was on the wall for ticket price increases and today it happened at Disneyland Resort. Along with increases on prices of Magic Keys (annual passes) and Lightning Lanes, the price hike has taken place on day and multi-day tickets. While the overall news isn’t good, there are a couple of bright sides to take this time around. In this post, we’ll detail the news before adding our commentary.

While the price increase has happened, Undercover Tourist still has a few tickets at the old pricing scale. You can get those here! If you’re here to just find out how to get cheaper tickets and not have to deal with higher prices, then that’s all of the info you need.

Let’s get to more of a breakdown, starting with individual tickets. Shout out to the excellent reporter, Scott Gustin, for the information he gathered. Disneyland has continued with dynamic pricing, breaking down the days into 7 tiers. Amusingly, those tiers start with 0 and end with 6. Here are the increases.

• Tier 0: Old Price – $104, New Price – $104
• Tier 1: Old Price – $126, New Price – $129
• Tier 2: Old Price – $142, New Price – $149
• Tier 3: Old Price – $164, New Price – $169
• Tier 4: Old Price – $180, New Price – $184
• Tier 5: Old Price – $196, New Price – $199
• Tier 6: Old Price – $206, New Price – $224

Multi-Day Tickets have also seen a price increase:

• 2-Day, 1-Park – Old Price – $330, New Price – $335
• 3-Day, 1 Park – Old Price – $415, New Price – $425
• 4-Day, 1 Park – Old Price – $474, New Price – $480
• 5-Day, 1 Park – Old Price – $511, New Price – $520

Additionally, parking prices are up $5 across the board and Lightning Lane Multi Pass had an increase of $2. Finally, Magic Key Passes have seen an increase in price in the top 2 tiers.

• Imagine Key: Old Price – $599, New Price – $599
• Enchant Key: Old Price – $974, New Price – $974
• Believe Key: Old Price – $1,374, New Price – $1,474
• Inspire Key: Old Price – $1,749, New Price – $1,899

Moving to commentary, these are my least favorite posts to write every year. There’s only so many ways to say that price increases are bad. Each new fiscal year brings a price increase. You could probably set your clock to it. I could think of more enjoyable things to set your clock to though.

Once we’re past the sticker shock of some of these prices, there is relative good news among the price hikes. The tier zero tickets have stayed the same price and there’s been an increase in the amount of days that price point is being offered – 46 days from September to April as opposed to the 26 from last year in the same timeframe.

On top of that, most of the increases are below 3%. I don’t know if this is just a disappointed acceptance in the annual increases or if I’m somewhat encouraged by the strategy invoked here. Probably a little bit of both. I’d much rather that Disney keep the lower priced tickets at a minimal increase while raising the already high priced tickets than, say, a 5% increase across the board. Tier 6 tickets going up by 9% isn’t exactly ideal but there’s enough options to where people can avoid those dates if possible.

This strategy supports Disneyland Resort’s aggressive ticket discounts in the last few months. Even as the price increase was put into place this morning, Disneyland released another discount for Southern California residents. They are clearly trying to balance affordable deals with high prices during the busiest times of the year. That’s shown in the Magic Key increases, as well. That does help me give them the benefit of the doubt.

Granted, price increases are difficult for fans with less flexible schedules. If you can only travel during Christmas break then it’s going to cost way more than ever. There aren’t tier 0 days on school breaks so price increases do hurt the typical family more than those guests that can travel whenever they please.

Of course, many people traveling from out of state will be getting multi-day tickets and those increases are all $10 or less. Again, that’s not insignificant but I doubt anyone is balking at a vacation now that they pay $10 more for a 3 day ticket. In short, I’m glad the increases in 2024 and 2025 have been more marginal than 2023.

The biggest issue is when taking the pricing increases of the last decade in totality. Some folks will be hitting a breaking point if they haven’t already. When looking at the total price, it’s hard not to be a little put off. That’s true even on the cheaper days. Going to Disneyland is expensive! I don’t know what or if there is a breaking point, but the majority of fans haven’t hit it.

Inflation may be pointed to as reasoning for price increases but the real cause is demand. While there have been pockets of lower crowds throughout the year, Disney theme parks remain very busy. And when they aren’t, Disneyland just runs effective ticket specials! As long as that keeps happening we can expect ticket price increases about one week into October every year.

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