OVERVIEW: WALT DISNEY WORLD PRICES
This site recommends that you arrive in Disney World one of the first three Saturdays after Thanksgiving.
For those who cannot go to Walt Disney World then, the material that follows illuminates the different resort room prices you will face from going to Walt Disney World at different times of the year. For ticket prices, see this.
You can find 2015 price seasons here. Projected 2016 prices are here.
PAY MORE TO WAIT IN LINE LONGER
The major prices at Walt Disney World that vary by season are hotel room costs. (Disney also does seasonal increases in dining prices, but if you use the Dining Plan, this won’t affect you much. It does NOT change theme park ticket prices by season.)
“Season” does not mean anything as simple as fall or winter. Disney changes prices much more frequently than that.
It changes prices when it predicts a change in demand, or a change in willingness to pay.
The business intent of these changes is to extract maximum value from high demand/willingness to pay periods, and to attract families into lower demand periods by lowering the costs of attending during those times.
One of the upshots of this is that Walt Disney World charges more for the periods when most people want to be there–which is also when it is the most crowded.
As a result, in general, the more crowded the parks, the longer the lines, the more your hotel will cost.
There are a couple of exceptions to this.
- Very late February and very early March are expensive, but not crowded. (This is from the increased willingness to pay of northeasterners getting away from the snow.)
- Mid-July to mid-August is cheap at the deluxe resorts, but still crowded. These dates are priced this way because the deluxes are hard to fill these dates, even though the parks are crowded.
See the links below for exact price seasons for 2015, and forecasts for 2016. In addition, for even more detail on 2015 price seasons, see the material that starts on this page at MouseSavers.com.
MORE ON WHEN TO GO TO WALT DISNEY WORLD
- For when to go to Walt Disney World, see this
- For the best and worst times to visit, see this
- For forecasting crowds at Walt Disney World, see this
- For the 2015 Crowd Calendar, click here
- For the 2016 Crowd Calendar, click here
- For seasonal pricing at Walt Disney World, see this
- For 2015 price seasons, see this
- For projected 2016 price seasons, see this
- For weather at Walt Disney World, see this
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17 Comments on "Seasonal Pricing at Walt Disney World: Pay More to Wait in Line Longer!"
Hi Nancy!
Great question, but no, you don’t.
At Disney World, new tickets aren’t associated with a date when they are sold. Your tickets don’t have any sense of “when” until the first day you use them–and then a clock starts during which they work for 14 days.
Do you have to purchase theme park tickets well in advance if you are attending the week of Christmas- do they reserve until capacity only and then stop selling tickets?
Thanks