While looking for something else, I found an old WDW confirmation from 2012.
Vacation Package: $3,511 for 5 nights at GF and two adult 6 day park tix with hoppers.
Those were the days!
As an aside, this was the first time I took my then-girlfriend to WDW. Despite her not falling for WDW the way I had hoped on that trip, she fell for me instead and has been DW now for over 11 years.
It’s tough to look back on those prices in retrospect, but I have to remind myself how much more has been added to Disney! So many cool rides that I center my trips around today didn’t exist in 2012.
I have a picture of a text from my TA when I booked our December 14-20, 2019 trip. Trip was booked in Sept 2108 as a bounceback with free dining. We upgraded to the 1 QS, 1 TS plan. We were there nine days after Rise of the Resistance opened. Galaxy’s Edge had been open a few months.
The grand total for 4 Disney Adults (kids were 12 and 16), 6 nights at Pop, 6 day park hopper tickets, with free QS dining that we paid to upgrade to the TS plan (that included 2 snacks a day and alcohol) was…$3757.65.
Yep! We stayed 6 nights at Riverside with 5 Disney Adults with “free” dining plan. I can’t recall if I upgraded to Disney Dining from the QS or not but we had the TS and QS per day. This was around 2009 or 2010? It was over 4k. 6 or 7 day single park tickets.
This post brings back wonderful memories. The very 1st time we ever stayed onsite with the kids at WDW was in '95. I remember paying $250 a night to stay at the Poly and thought it was “highway robbery” at the time. Patted myself on the back cause I found on offsite Days Inn motel for $40 for our last night’s stay in Orlando. But cost is relative. Memories from that trip are priceless. So much so that I’d gladly pay today’s prices, and then some, if I could go back in time and enjoy WDW again the way it was back then. I mean seriously … the pic below shows how Disney let our kids enjoy Seven Seas Lagoon in those days.
This doesn’t surprise me. The travelling homeschoolers tickets have doubled since 2019 and don’t include the after hours party and educational activity.
She’s actually said she doesn’t know if she’ll do the group tickets after this years trips are done. Her price is still less than rack rate, but her target audience can’t afford the increase and it’s a lot of work for fewer people.
I googled “Disney Inflation” to see some stats and found this one that not only looks at ticket prices, but popular food items as well. I suspect the lodging percentage increase is similar.
First thing that really stood out to be was the flat end to the “Park Ticket-Low End” category. Disney used that metric for years to show that the price of tickets on the low side was not increasing even though the number of days that a ticket that could be purchased at that price was decreasing. I think they finally have bumped that low-end ticket up for 2025 by $5-$10.
I would like the chart to show ticket pricing averaged over the whole year. The low end seasons and tix seems to be decreasing in frequency over the year.
This older post goes through 2022. 1982 is really the only starting year that counts since that is the year that one price got you through the gate and access to all rides and shows.
My first trip to WDW was in 2012. I think I paid around $700 - $750 for 3 adult (Disney adult) 6 day, one park per day tickets. The absolute cheapest 6 day ticket now is $90/day, so it would be at least double today.
This is interesting. One thing that jumped out at me. WDW’s biggest expansion of attractions occurred between '89 and '99, but that era had one of the lowest ticket price increases over 10 years.
The 2019 ROTR opening comment made me curious, so I hunted back in my records. I stayed Dec. 11-14, 2019 at PO Riverside on a trip with my youngest DS. It was the week after ROTR had opened, though we didn’t know that when we made these plans. . . it was before my full Disney addiction. Anyway, I still had the receipt in my email. I paid $235 for weeknight rooms (Garden View, 5th sleeper), $276 for the Friday night (before taxes and fees). I don’t recall if I got any discount offers on the room. I actually think that price aligns generally with what I might expect to pay for that room now.
I’m guessing Garden View is the same as Woods View now. The prices without discounts are $428 weekdays, $477 weekends and the 12-14th would be $515. Standard 5th sleeper is $425
weekdays, $465 weekends and the 12-14th would be $505. They often have good discounts for Riverside though. I wouldn’t pay those prices!