In October 2018 Walt Disney World started tiered pricing for their multi-day tickets based upon your travel dates.
This was an expected announcement and it follows the change to tiered pricing for single-day tickets way back in February 2016.
Beginning 16 October 2018 on DisneyWorld.com, guests began purchasing general public priced multi-day tickets priced by the first date of visit.
Many MDT readers asked how this affects Military Discounted Disney World Tickets.
Disney Armed Forces Salute Tickets Unaffected
The Disney Armed Forces Salute is a special deal for the military community, which offers highly discounted tickets at a set price for the period of that offer.
But these are not the only type of discounted WDW tickets available to the military community.
These special Salute tickets are available directly from Walt Disney World Ticket Booths and Base Ticket Offices including Shades of Green and the Orlando ITT.
What about the other military tickets? There is another kind of military Disney ticket: the Regular Military Discounted Magic Your Way Tickets.
From this point on it the post is purely my speculation (based upon prior history)
Regular Military Discounted Magic Your Way Tickets
Disney World switched single-day tickets to date based tiered pricing in February 2016.
This change did not make its way to the Regular Military Discounted Magic Your Way Tickets until February 2018.
And while Disney World’s general public 1-day tickets have a different price for every day of the year, the military versions of the 1-Day have 2 price periods: the 2 weeks around Christmas (most expensive) and the rest of the year.
The 2018 multi-day switch to tiered pricing never made it to military tickets!
MDT’s Standard TIP: When planning to use non-Salute tickets, always buy them before a price increase! Which has been in February the last few years.
I recommend buying these now if these tickets are what you plan/need to use for your upcoming trip!
You can read more about the Regular Military Discounted Magic Your Way Tickets and why you might need to use them here.
And you can read about Disney Ticket Price Increases here.
The Regular Military Discounted Magic Your Way Tickets are not offered by Disney, ONLY Base Ticket Offices including Shades of Green and the Orlando ITT.
Sooner is always better!
You avoid price increases this way.
For more intel also see: How Disney’s Price Changes Affect Military Tickets.
What do you think about the change to tiered pricing? Share your thoughts in the comment section below!
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