Disney Park Ticket prices go up TOMORROW!

Not much notice, I agree.

Disney actually announced this officially yesterday, quietly. I missed it 'til today.

All tickets are going up. We mostly sell Walt Disney World, and their ticket prices are going up approx 5% (an increase of between $2 and $22 per ticket depending on duration). This is for travel in the remainder of 2010 and onwards. Tickets ALREADY PURCHASED (including tickets purchased as part of a package) will be honored at the price originally paid. (No supplements will be charged.)

So if you are in the market for a Disney trip in 2010 and have been sitting on the fence - you'd best buy today and save a few dollars!

As package prices for 2011 have not been announced yet, there is no sneaky way to avoid the price increase for 2011 that I can think of.

In the last month I had quoted a few clients "guesstimated prices", based on an estimated 5% increase in price, which turns out to have been pretty accurate. Though I am wondering why a 5% increase when inflation in the USA is only just above 1% right now, and hasn't been above 3% since the end of 2008...

Anyway...

Here's the official Disney Blog announcement

and here is a chart showing the new Walt Disney World prices

"Basic Packages" are now available for 2011 travel to Walt Disney World...

Some of you will know that we have been waiting to get proper pricing for bookings for 2011 at Walt Disney World. "Packages" (tickets, meal plans etc) are not yet available (and will probably not be out til some time mid-August)...

Well, as of this past weekend we now are able to offer "basic packages" which, slightly confusingly, are almost like room-only bookings, but not quite.

• Up to this point any bookings made for 2011 - and I have made several already - have had fictional pricing, based on high-season room pricing.
• Now with the basic package, we can now offer correct room pricing (based, correctly, on the actual dates of the booking).
• We still can't price packages including meal plans and/or tickets. 

FYI: For my clients that were booked before this changeover, I do not plan to swap you all over to the basic package, seeing as I will swap you over to the full packages of your choice once they are available in August. There just is no need to do all the work twice more...