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The four nights of lodging inside the theme park cost them another $3,780, they said, and once inside the park, they spent another $300 on Genie Plus passes - which let them skip the line at some rides - and $950 on sit-down meals.
They said they spent $200 for private transportation to the park since the shuttle from the airport is gone, and they spent $2,550 for Park Hopper tickets for five days.
'Disney has said publicly, but very apparently privately made the decision that it wants to court guests that spend more per day than guests used to spend,' Cochran previously told FOX Business.Īnd as a result, middle-class American families are feeling priced out of the magic, with one family of four from New Jersey telling FOX News Digital that they were sticker-shocked after taking a recent trip to Disney World. Now, though, it seems to be courting a higher-class clientele. 'Disney wants to dominate its competition.'Ī limited-edition gold-plated Mickey ears sold at the park for $1,000 last year 'Disney does not like to lose - not just lose, Disney doesn't even like to compete,' Robert Niles, founder of Theme Park Insider, told Insider.
When accounting for inflation, that would amount to just $24.98 for adults today, and $7.14 for children - about $100 less than an adult ticket costs today, or a more than 3,000 percent increase.Īt the time, Jason Cochran, editor-in-chief of, explained: 'They weren't quite sure they were going to get people to travel to Florida at all, so general admission was quite low.'Īnd, he said, Walt Disney wanted it to be like Disneyland in California, where 'he wanted everyone to be able to come in, no matter what income level you were at, and so everything was priced accordingly.'īut by the 2010s, The Wall Street Journal reports, Disney World started increasing its ticket prices at roughly double the rate of inflation as it tried to compete with Universal Studios, which opened its Wizarding World of Harry Potter in 2016. When Magic Kingdom first opened in 1971, the cost to enter was $3.50 for adults and $1 for children, according to Market Watch. Disney's exorbitant prices are nothing new, though.
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