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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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