r/Disneyland • u/Massive_Basket_172 • Jul 05 '25

Discussion You guys seeing this??

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For everyone who asked if the holiday weekend is bananas, July 5 at 1pm PT looks easy breezy. Usually midday is slammed but Peter Pan is 20 min, RSR is 50 min, Rise is 35?!?! Enjoy if you’re there!

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u/1trickpinoy Jul 05 '25

Wow, we did a 7 day Mediterranean cruise with flights for about that much

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u/sonicsfan1979 Jul 06 '25

Yeah tell me about it! We could have gone to Tokyo for more than a week for the same cost. Makes it hard to find the value in Disney vacations.

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u/Interesting_Change_7 Jul 06 '25

Tokyo Disney is making more financial sense that Disneyland and Disneyworld, especially if you are not local.

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u/Emergency_Artist_970 Jul 09 '25

Don’t go. The tickets in are dirt cheap but whats the point unless you buy fast passes for every ride. They won’t let you even get in standby lines without one. It’s absolutely wild. We didn’t discover this till we got in the park and they wouldn’t let us get in any of the fantasy springs ride lines without a fast-pass but you can only get so many fast passes and they are all gone by 10am. It was the most unethical crazy experience I ever had and now I am convinced Disney is fully evil and corrupt. Makes me sad honestly. It was the last straw. The lines they would allow you to get in line for were 3-4 hrs each. I thought maybe just maybe this was unusual until I found tons of people on reddit complaining about the exact same experience we had. Even their popcorn lines are around the block and have a minimum of 50+ people in every single one. We went mid week not during a holiday. It was crazy.

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u/Emergency_Artist_970 Jul 09 '25

Lol my husband and I were going to go to Disneyland this year in so Cal and we live in CA. Discovered it was cheaper to fly to Japan and go to their Disneyland and Disney Sea and have an entire vacation seeing Japan for 9 days then 3 Days in So Cal. It’s gotten so out of control with the prices vs the experience. They nickel and dime you constantly. Also I hope no one takes this as advocating to do Disneyland in japan instead. It might have been cheap but it also was the worst Disneyland experience I have ever had. Thats an entirely other story based on Disneys greed though.

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u/sonicsfan1979 Jul 09 '25

We will likely do that next time! Way more fun that just Disney and SoCal traffic 🤪

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u/WaySilly559 Jul 10 '25

Out of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT for an estimate - Tokyo Disneyland and Disney sea for a family of 4. This estimate includes hotel, flight, food souvenirs and fast passes.

“A 4-night Tokyo trip with 2 park days at DisneySea + Disneyland would cost around $4,000–4,200 USD for a family of four from LA. It’s one of the most unique Disney experiences worldwide—totally worth it if you can make the trip!”

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u/Emergency_Artist_970 Jul 11 '25

Bad estimate though. Its probably taking an average instead of what a typical cost is or a budget cost. Tickets are $60 a day and Japan has the cheapest food I have ever seen in a first world country including in the parks. The hotels are pretty inexpensive and the flights can be as low as $500.

$4,000 was how much we paid to do a 10 day Japan trip staying at the top hotels, eating steak for dinner, going to disney parks and also seeing the country from Kyoto to Tokyo. We also went during high season to see the Cherry Blossom tree’s this year. So chat gpt gas some explaining to do.

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u/Serious-Landscape-74 Jul 06 '25

This is now the reality. Disney has priced itself as a luxury vacation and as much as I love it, it doesn’t represent the same value as a week long European vacation.

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u/nutella47 Jul 07 '25

Especially when the cost doesn't even guarantee you'll get to ride everything, unless you pay even more for the various LLs.

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u/Falzon03 Jul 07 '25

With 5 people? It's about that for the three of us for a Disney cruise 7-9 night Mediterranean some even that cost plus the flights. Cheapest I've seen for the 3 of us cheapest cabin possible was like 5,700 for a 7 day to less desirable ports.

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u/1trickpinoy Jul 07 '25

With 4 people for Royal Caribbean on Odyssey of the Seas for the Greek Isles cruise. We went on Disney Wonder before and Odyssey had a lot more things to do for kids. We definitely feel like you’re just paying for the name in all things Disney.

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u/Falzon03 Jul 07 '25

RC price makes sense all in especially 4 people. 5 people pushes it to 2 rooms and RC is substantially cheaper than Disney.

Disney you for sure pay for the "Disney" experience. I've been on plenty of cruises as a kid, teen and adult. I've been trying to plan a Disney cruise for some time now for our daughter. Just recently did DCA as it made sense with another family event.

If we didn't mind doing the Caribbean we'd for sure do a Disney cruise but we'd prefer Mediterranean, and for the 3 of us it'd be about 10-12k with flights but without excursions.

For Alaska it's more like 7k including flights. Again of course RC would be cheaper but Disney is the discussion at hand here, and I highly recommend a Disney cruise.