Are Disney World Annual Passes Worth the Cost? Maybe Not...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 เม.ย. 2023
- Disney World just announced they are once again going to sell all tiers of Annual Pass, bringing back a long-awaited option for fans of the parks. But, with the cost of the annual pass, is purchasing one really worth it for you and your family? We're talking through the options, pros, cons, and a little bit of math to figure out if buying a Disney World Annual Pass is worth it for you.
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We are FL residents & we have the Pixie Dust Pass & we love it. It’s only $399 and you get the same discount as the higher tiered ones. We generally go after 2 so holding three park passes will be a non issue as of April 18th. During the block out times ( weekends/holidays) we wouldn’t want to be in the park because of the crowds. For our family it definitely works.
Nice 😊
Thanks for this. We live in Melbourne. Were thinking of going the Pixie Pass. And it's true if the parks are overcrowded we rather not go as well with a toddler and infant.
@@reyalexandro You bet.
We don't live in FL, but having AP's has made it possible for us to make trips every couple of months. Trips are much less stressful, and much more fun, now.
I went to Disney 17 times since July with my pixie pass so YES for me. We live 25 mins from the park (we don’t go open to close). I have 2 small children who love going
This is a comment for the algorithm. Well presented, and i can see you put the work in for this video.
It all depends on how you travel. Annual pass, + Frontier flight (very cheap flights) that saves you money on flights. Also you can do weekend trips, and don't always have to stay at a Disney resort.
Staying off property and flying cheaper saves a lot.
Hi Dan and Leslie!! As retired Tampa Bay, Florida residents, our Pixie Dust APs are so totally worth it for us!! We do only visit the parks on week days - would never go on weekends or Holidays and we take full advantage of AP hotel discounts as well as the discounts on dining and merch!! The best investment Hubby and I made when we relocated 2 years ago from New Jersey!! Thanks for another very informative video!!
I’m local, retired and love my Pixie Dust pass. I’m not ever going to go on weekends or holidays because why would anyone want to battle the biggest crowds when there is an option not to.
This was so incredibly helpful! We decided not to go for the AP after all. The blackout dates really mess up our plans. Thank you for doing this video!
By far the best video on annual passes I've seen so far. Fantastic job guys! Thank you so much!
if you get the pixie pass about 400 universal preferred pass 539 no blackouts sea World select silver 249, with no blackout dates for about 1200 you can have 3 parks and be in a park every day of the yr
Thanks for sharing the tats! And great financial comparisons on the APs!
Do u have tats too
Excellent informative video, despite the math confusion, (LOL),but perfectly said! :)
Enjoyed the video. As usual, it's not only entertaining (y'all crack me up), but it's also well done and extremely informational. I've had tons of clients contact me with this exact question. I am going to start sending each to this video, since the explanation and comparison is so well done. I was so looking forward to the AP coming back and came close to a knee jerk reaction, but even as a travel advisor who visits from out of state once a month, it isn't worth it financially (for me) for the incredi-pass.
Aw, thanks! Appreciate that. Agreed - the Incredi-Pass is crazy expensive
great info!!
Thanks for this information it’s so helpful hopefully in the future we will be in the position to purchase AP 💚
Yes, for $399, it’s less than 2 days with parking. A two day ticket is like $370 cause everyday is over $145 now with Park Hopping, plus free parking, definitely worth it.
The wife and I will be doing Universal Orlando annual passes, the top tier universal annual pass (premier pass) is $20 cheaper than the Sorcerer pass from Disney. Includes their water park (volcano bay), has no blackout dates, up to 35% off onsite hotels, Express pass (fast pass) after 4pm. Early Park admission on select dates, basically all of October through December you can get in an hour early, free valet parking and free parking if valet is full, plus discounts on merch and food. All in all, it's a way better deal. We love Disney, but we don't love the prices they are charging and the lack of benefits you get for them.
Yep, it’s pretty awesome
There is no chance this is worth it for me. We are dvc but still. The last AP we had was in 2019, and it was like $650 I think. With no blackouts. Now it’s $1400 and memory maker isn’t free and Fast passes are gone. And no ME so the prices have skyrocketed. Our daughter got married and moved to central Florida and they get park passes at their Air Force Basel if they don’t do that no parks for us
I have the pixie pass , works for me
Out of state non DVC season pass is like buying 5 park hopper passes on Christmas Day. You would have to visit Disney 4+ times if you average a 5 day ticket per visit to make it worth it.
Thankfully we are DVC and I was able to get us Sorcerer's passes in Fall 2021 when they went on sale. I'm afraid to let them expire now even though Disney said they'd be available to DVC members more often.
As a DVC owner using your DVC points one time at WDW then the next time using your points to go Vero Beach, Hilton Head or somewhere else with your points, then again an AP maybe not a good purchase 🤔 It's so hard to make a decision when you are trying to figure out is it a good value, when Disney is limiting the time frame for a AP purchase. Thanks for sharing 🤗
Definitely a lot to consider
Great video and exactly what I was thinking with the breakdown. We are the type that comes down 3 times a year just for the weekend. So for us it is still cheaper to pay out of pocket for those trips than to buy the annual pass. I would also like to move to Florida in the next 2 years and that $2800+ for our passes could be put towards the move! 😂
True
Not everybody stays on property we went to Disney World the end of February 2024 three days was just under $500. No park hopping saved $90 in parking with the AP are very expensive dinners were discounted Jeffries was discounted. I haven’t seen in the past year, a park ticket for less than $140 a day
My husband and I went in April 2021 and we are coming this April, we got 4 day tickets, but we don't get the hopper, it's not necessary to get it, one park per day and can see almost everything.
We will be there on the 19th with a 9 day ticket and 2 other trips planned - do you think they are letting you convert tickets to the annual pass at the ticket counters? We will be at Epcot on the morning of the 20th
Yes you should be able to if there is availability when you get to the front of the line. No clue how fast these things will sell out.
Great info. I am wondering if you can upgrade your current AP to a different one?
You can if the one you want is available
@@AddictedtotheMouse Oh great to hear! Thank you so much for that information. Looking forward to your next video.
Great video as always. Also not worth it if military we did math for salute and magic your way ticket still cheaper than annual pass.
Good point, although there’s a limit on the number of salute tix you can have in a year
My wife and I are from Pennsylvania and have a unique situation that definitely make our annual passes worth the money. First of all we have worked at the same company for 20+ years so we have 5 weeks of vacation. So we can easily come to Disney 3 times a year and still have vacation time for other trips. Secondly , we usually stay on property or good neighbor hotels so that takes care of the park pass limitation. Thirdly we are retired military and take advantage of the many discounts Disney offer us. Finally my wife has a handicap parking placard so the free parking perk basically equates to free preferred parking. The discounts on dining and merchandise are an added bonus. I realize every ones situation is different, but annual passes definitely work for us. Can't wait for retirement so we can come more often! Thanks for the videos, always looking for more ways to enjoy Disney and central Florida.
That’s awesome! Quick question though - with being retired military, can’t you get six salute tickets per year. Would that not cover your three trips for you and your wife? You could take advantage of the ADA parking permit whether you have AP or get free parking from staying in a Disney resort, so that wouldn’t be factored in. Glad you love your AP, just thinking with the military salute tix, those would far outweigh the $3k for incredi-pass 🤷♂️
@@AddictedtotheMouse You are correct about the salute to service tickets being a better deal, but we are planning to retire in 2 to 3 three years and becoming snow birds and with the recent questionable availability of Annual passes we are reluctant to give them up! We also like the flexibility to come down for a long weekend for special events. Just want to add, we love your dining reviews, videos and podcast. I have learned so much that make my visits more enjoyable. P.S. You guys are living my best life, so jealous!
@@rtrox24 gotcha! Lol, thank you!! Hope you get to live that dream soon!
A fabulous and informative production especially for those such as myself who lives in the U.K. It is disappointing but somewhat understandable that we can only purchase the Incredi Pass. However with a WDW 14 day Magical pass including memory maker and waterparks retailing in the U.K for £547 ($444.71) we would need to visit a lot of times to make the annual pass financially viable.
Yeeeeeaah, UK residents can get some pretty amazing deals
Do annual pass park pass reservations (looking at the 5 days for Sorcerer pass) open up as you attend? If I made a park reservation next month for 3 days, do the 3 reservation open back up after we attend? Are the 5 reservations limited to 5 days, or 5 visits and you can do multiple days with each reservation? I really appreciate the help!
As soon as you use one, that slot opens back up for another one
Love the video. International DVC member here love the fact the annual pass is back . However my beef with the annual pass is this . If the parks are so busy why give out annual passes at all. Sorry FL residents but it doesn’t make sense to give the cheapest annual pass to the people who live the closest to the parks and then say well the parks are so busy
True, but I think Disney is seeing much softer sales this summer than in the past, judging on the discounts they’ve released. So I think they’re trying to get ahead of not being so busy by selling the annual passes now.
My struggle is figuring out at what point is it worth it since we can use military discounts.
Im thinking about moving to Orlando area end of year or next yr. Do u think they will offer full AP 1399.00 quarterly ?
Are you asking if we think they will open up new sales for the incredi-pass every three months? No, it will be based on availability and to a lesser extent, when they need to make more sales. It won’t be driven by a calendar cycle
In your out of state business example you didn’t mention that you must stay on site or else you’re paying $25/day to park when you’re in the theme parks. If you’re in the 4 day example you’re paying an extra $100 each time if you’re offsite and for the 10 day example you’re paying additional $250. That doesn’t include the 20% off merchandise and 10% off table service dining that also contributes to your savings. So that $200 difference for the two 4-day trips is easily made up of you’re offsite, and pretty close of you’re onsite and buy merch and eat at table service restaurants.
Very true, however we also didn’t calculate any discounts from packages given by Disney for booking both a Disney resort and tickets, which would also include free parking. That would make it even less worth the cost of an annual pass, even given the merch and food discounts. There’s just too many variables to cover all of them in one video. But thanks so much for watching!
To me, the AP is extremely worth it! I’m a DVC member who lives in NY who usually makes the trip to WDW 4 times a year for my “ giraffe therapy”. I use the pass an average of 28 days each year. With buying airfare and usually renting a car, I wouldn’t be able to afford these trips without my AP! Also, the discount on parking, merchandise and sometimes food really helps the cost. I also use the resort discounts when I run out of points and need to stay a night or 2 somewhere besides my beloved AKL.
I agree, for you it definitely seems worth it
If the break even cost is close, don’t forget about the discounts. That can be the difference between yes and no.
True, but discounts run both ways. You get discounts for AP but also you get discounts for buying tix with a room package. Which ones are better?
I have the Pirate Pass and living about an hour away from the parks, this one works perfectly for me! The Pirate Pass is the equivalent of the old “Silver” pass but it’s better because the Silver pass used to be blocked out all summer and the Pirate pass is blocked out pretty much only around the holidays - and I do not want to be in the parks then!
One issue, as you’re doing your calculations for the incredipass, and whether it’s worth it, I agree it will take at least a couple trips to really make it worthwhile, however, you’re not taking into account the 20% that they are going to save if across-the-board on food drinks, nonalcoholic, of course, and parking discounts as well as discounts on all the merchandise that they’re likely to spend money on. It does add up significantly and quickly, but you do have really good point and I appreciate the video. Edited to fix Siri’s mistakes
True, but we’re also not factoring in discounts on packages when combining tix with rooms and deals that Disney releases. It’s really not possible to factor in discounts either way in a short video, but we figure they offset for the most part
@@AddictedtotheMouse quite true, as y’all pointed out essentially . “Is it worth it? Maybe, depends on you and your families needs and personal needs/circumstances/finances”
We live in Jacksonville currently but are loving down this summer is the goal we’re working towards, so once we’re down there we will do the Pixie Dust passes for a year then upgrade. Have to put the $ towards the move first. Thanks for the great content
We have the Pixie Dust and so far we are very happy.
Disney World needs a better annual pass for non Florida residents. Universal is flat-out on the right path with these non resident annual passes. Give people options. Why lock non residents to the highest tier pass.
Probably to reduce the crowds. Disney gets mad crowded more than the other parks.
Yes they r worth it even though most of the attractions r broken down and need major refurbishment.
Lol, ok??
@@AddictedtotheMouse the everyday Floridian wants to see fireworks lol
Went to Amare at the swan based on your advice. The sea bass was indeed a great dish. They had a smoked old fashion as a special that night that topped it off just perfect
That sounds amazing!
This was a great video. I really like the ap break down. Me being from canada i cant get there more than once per year. I am wondering if i were to spend winters in florida as a snowbird would that be considered a florida resident..
Would you have a permanent Florida address?
@@AddictedtotheMouse it is not a permanant address as it is a retirement village were we would be leasing a place for 6 months of the year.
@@mikearsenault6485 you would have to ask Disney. If you can get a FL driver license, then I’m pretty sure it would qualify, but if not 🤷♂️
@@AddictedtotheMouse i will ask disney, thanx.
@@AddictedtotheMouse You would need to show a Florida driver's license in order to purchase an Annual Pass.