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Por favor mantengan se alejado de las puertas
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- Oct 21, 1999
I've (woefully unsuccesfully) tried to make this argument in the past. Still, (as evidenced by the thread on single day ticket prices going up) there are folks here that believe AK was presented as a $50 a day park. I'd love to have access on hard data showing the percentage of ticket buys that are single day. I propose that it was presented as an incentive to buy a 5 day instead of a 4 day hopper with the idea that the after-5 pm hours would be spent elsewhere.So its almost like the parks are more lands in the whole resort. You've paid for the DAY not the park.
Given the notion of "additional lands in the whole resort" I have been more complimentary of AK than not. True, we spend the least amount of time there v. the other parks. But, there are several offerings that make it worth the trip over there. Our enjoyment of AK will grow as it does.
While single day tickets are one extreme, we are the other. Annual passholders that will hop to a park just to see a particular show, parade or attraction then hop onto something else.
More and more, you have WDW travellers engineering their vacations that way. "We'll hit AK in the morning, hop over to Epcot and finish at the Studios for Fantasmic." I know of at least one person on this board that really doesn't like that concept. In fact, he doesn't like the fact that Fantasmic draws guests to the park for it only. I won't name names, though.