10-25% Increase in Party Prices
By Dave Shute
The prices for the 2016 Mickey’s Not-So Scary Halloween Party and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party came out last week, and these parties are now available for booking.
While new 2016 complexity makes price comparisons to 2015 a little complicated (the link also includes exact prices by date), especially for the Halloween Party, by comparing like months (e.g all parties in September 2016 vs. all parties in September 2015), I get the following:
- September MNSSHP: up around 10%
- October MNSSHP except Halloween night: up around 10%
- Halloween night MNSSHP: up around 20%
- November MVMCP: up around 20%
- December MVMCP: up around 25%
(All these are calculated by comparing the weighted average prices for all parties during the period in 2016 vs all parties in the same period in 2015. I did the math for both adult and child tickets, and for each of advance purchase and day of event tickets. The price increases by month across all four of these categories were about the same.)
These Halloween and Christmas party price increases continue the trend of very aggressive price increases that began with the release of 2016 resort prices last summer.
In my itineraries, I’ve viewed the Halloween party as optional and the Christmas party as essential.
The price increase reinforces my Halloween take, and makes me a little skeptical about the Christmas party. I’ll be rebuilding my basic December itineraries in the next few weeks (after Disney publishes its operating schedule for then).
I will be testing the practicality of sending people to the cheapest dates, and also have an idea or two about reducing other costs (no lighty hats for you!) to help with affordability. I’ll go through all that and will make the final call in a couple of weeks. …
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