My children and I have had season passes for GL for many years. I just am not understanding the logic of this upping and upping the price on these every so many weeks.
Does anyone know exactly how much higher they are going to push these puppies by opening day?
Being a single mom it takes me until Spring to save up for the passes and parking pass.
I feel like writing them and asking them what on Earth they are thinking. They are pricing them so high and so many of the people last year said they wouldn't pay more than 55.00 yet they keep going up. Are people buying them?
I thought they would at least wait until the following year to really up the price because they would be offering so much more as far as the waterpark area.
I guess I am just in shock. I read here that they could be upping the price to keep "a certain type of guest" out of there which I understand but they are also making it hard on decent folks like myself who actually do spend money in the park during the summer.
If the passes do not sell well at the higher prices will they adjust them the following year or possibly run a special on them this year?
I thought what they were asking at Halloween was high but figured I would be able to get them in the spring at that price because they couldn't possibly go higher. Oh how wrong I was.
Any advice or tips you could give me would be appreciated.
Thanks *** Edited 12/23/2004 2:55:55 AM UTC by poe***
They drive them up and up to try to encourage you to buy now instead of waiting and them not getting the money until spring. They are offering the new waterpark and you get all of the CF parks. They won't get lowered, I'm guessing the'll only go higher.
Do you know how well they are selling at this higher price?
I remember entering the gates last year and watching them survey passholders and the majority saying they would not accept a price increase of even 10.00
I don't mind paying a little bit more but if these are going to go into the 90.00 range I will have to really consider if it is worth it or not.
I know they dropped the gate price but it seems like they are trying to make up for it by tacking more onto us passholders.
We usually go up to CP and buy a package right before school lets out and then in the fall we go up and buy another when school starts back up. We basically just hit GL between those visits.
It will be really interesting to see if the passes sell well or not this year.
I really just am excited to see the other side of the park again. I am hoping they don't do away with that really nice landscaped area when you first come through the gate by the main gift shop.
It was so nice, clean and beautiful. We would just go sit there and drink a soda, get some munchies and enjoy the quiet for awhile. The kids would always say how pretty it was. Crossing my fingers it is still going to be there.
I'm pretty sure they're selling okay. But how well can you sell them with 700,000 people coming last year. I think with the higher prices, they're trying to recover some of the losses they got last year. And everyone in surveys will say they don't want price increases. THe real survey is weather or not people will buy them.
That is true. I think they would rather, if they could pull it off, do away with the season passes and just sell admission tickets (one or two-day).
Wouldn't that give them a better profit by doing away with passes since most of the holders use them all summer and eat in their cars and don't spend a dime?
Could they be trying to phase out the passes? They could never pull it off at CP but could they at GL?
I would imagine if they drove them up high enough they wouldn't sell many and could just tell the public it wasn't worth messing with anymore.
No I don't think they're trying to drive the public out, I think that they are just trying to get it to the point where they can get the most possible out of you. If it weren't for season passes I would go once, maybe twice. They make more off of me with the passes. They just want to try to make the most of me.
I think you and I are in the minority though as far as making money off of us.
The majority of the season passholders last year were obviously welfare recipients (am I allowed to say that? If not delete this) who dropped off their unruly rugrats while they were God knows where doing God knows what.
Those folks, from what I saw during the entire summer packed lunches, snacks and drinks and didn't spend a dime. GL lost money on most of those people last year as most of them went daily to where it averaged out to costing the passholder under a dollar per visit when you divide the price of the pass by how many times they used it.
You sound more like me, not afraid to spend the money on park food. Most of the time we ate in the park. Once in awhile we would eat dinner across the street at Ruby Tuesdays when we wanted a salad bar.
I don't mind spending money in the park on food and I know I don't like the price of the passes and would like to get them when they are the cheapest but with Christmas and everything coming up it isn't the best timing. I wish GL could understand that not everyone can just fork out a couple hundred bucks at the drop of a hat in Oct/Nov.
Have you bought yours for this year? If so, did you get them when they were at their lowest price?
I ordered mine Nov. 12 for $69 bucks a pop. In the spring whne I redeem my print at home, I will also get the CP add-on. You are right about the people dropping their kids off. There's a reason Uncle Walt priced his park so high. I didn't see as many last year, CF did a good job of kicking them out. However they were having a field day with SF and that park being so understaffed for its size. Most of sea world was pretty much without security. And Ruby Tuesdays, YUMMY! Except they are a bit too much concerned about my 5'5" 120 pound skinny body. *** Edited 12/23/2004 4:36:08 AM UTC by Fastball84***
"And Ruby Tuesdays, YUMMY! Except they are a bit too much concerned about my 5'5" 120 pound skinny body. *** Edited 12/23/2004 4:36:08 AM UTC by Fastball84***"
HUH?
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