Disney World 2015 Price Seasons are Now Out

Disney World released 2015 resort prices Wednesday, and the updated 2015 resort price seasons are here.

There were only three differences between my projections and actuals:

• The January value season begins two days later than I’d projected, on January 4
• The August value season at the moderate and value resorts begins two weeks later, on 8/16/15
• At the deluxes, there’s a change to how later December unfolds.  After the fall season ends on 12/10/15, instead of a week of peak followed by two weeks of holiday pricing, 2015 sees a week of regular season pricing starting 12/11, a week of peak starting 12/18, then holiday pricing starting 12/25

The latter two are the big changes.

The shift to later August value pricing at the values and moderates is a reversion to how Disney did this just a few years ago.  Just as the switch to early August was a surprise a couple of years ago, so is this switch to mid-August.

The December switch is a bit of a backing off on Disney’s new (higher) approach to mid-December pricing that also started a couple of years ago.  I suspect that too much peak pricing so early was dropping demand for the highest-priced deluxe properties, and hence the slowdown in increasing deluxe prices that we’ll see in 2015.

I’ll publish a detailed analysis of price changes in a bit–right now I’m focusing on updating the 2015 crowd calendar, which I’ll have complete within a week!!

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