Paying Full Price For Disney Theme Park Tickets Is For Suckers
We want them. Discounted Disneyland and Walt Disney World Tickets. Any way we can save a penny with Disney is a win. For the laster several years Disney has been raising their theme park prices and we continue to pay them. It's over $140 for just 1 day now! In 1955 that same day cost was $3.50 or about $27 in today's monies. They've come a long way.
The Disneyland Resort does have discounts for guests.
With Disney selling tickets like hotcakes despite the raise in prices every year they are willing to give up some of those profits for other companies to sell their tickets for less. It's a strange concept to grasp so we'll say it again: Disney needs no help selling their theme park tickets because millions of people are willing to buy from them each year. Despite this, Disney gives several companies the opportunity to not only sell their tickets and make a profit but under-cut their pricing as well by offering discounts. Mind blown.
One such company is Park Savers, a discounter of Disneyland and Walt Disney World Tickets. They offer all the same tickets Disney does for their theme parks but for less. Typical savings range from $2 to over $30 per ticket. When last browsing we noticed for Disneyland and Disney World they had certain tickets that included free days. We've never seen the words "Disney" and "Free" together on the same page before. It was a magical experience!
Walt Disney World Tickets are very competitive among resellers.
The Walt Disney World Resort gets more visitors a year than any other theme park resort in the world. The Magic Kingdom theme park alone receives around 20 million people. In looking for discounted tickets we noticed that the market amongst resellers was very competitive. Some ticket companies offered a savings of over $60 per ticket compared to gate pricing. That's a ton of money for a family to save vs buying directly from Disney.
Why does Disney allow other companies to sell their tickets?
Based on the number of visitors per year to the Disney theme parks, it's very clear that it's not hard for Disney to sell their own tickets. So why share the profits with others? We could answer that question in a few long paragraphs but after researching all of this we've come up with a better question that needs answering: why aren't more people buying their tickets through discounters? Disney still sells the majority of their own tickets through their website and at the parks themselves.
We've come to understand that at Disney World in Orlando, if you purchase your tickets at the parks you'll pay $20 more per ticket just for the in-person transaction vs buying online on the Disney World website. People still buy their tickets at the parks?! With discounters being so competitive, why aren't more people saving $30+ per ticket by using them? Mind blown again.
The time to save on tickets is now!
Discounters sell the same tickets as Disney, offer online transactions, free shipping or emailed tickets, and great personal customer service. We'll just mention one last time the savings on the tickets too.
With new lands opening soon at both Disney theme parks over the next several years you can bet that Disney is only going to raise their prices more and more. They do it because they can and we're willing to pay. So why not pay less for it with a discounter? This isn't food for thought. You need to be saving on your tickets.
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