Disneyland Tickets Now Cost Over $100, Thanks to the New 'Star Wars' Theme Park
There are a few reasons to get excited about Disneyland's new Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge theme park, which opens this summer in California. It will have a cantina where you can argue with intergalactic smugglers and guzzle alcoholic beverages (or blue milk). The Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run ride looks to be a great way to channel Han Solo while arguing with your family over who gets what controls. The likelihood of you running into a fellow nerd eager to nitpick over Star Wars: Episode IX fan theories is high.
But all good things come with a price. In the case of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, that's an increase in the ticket cost to get into the entire Disneyland resort, the LA Times reports. At the start of 2019, ticket prices for different packages increased by as much as 25 percent, with even the cheapest tickets breaking the $100 mark. The cheapest daily ticket, available on low-demand days, rose from $97 to $104. Ticket prices on regular-demand days jumped from $117 to $129, and from $135 to $149 on peak-demand days. Ticket pass prices increases as much as 23 percent, and parking went up by 25 percent to $25 per day.
It isn't cheap to have fun.
Disneyland normally raises prices annually to control demand-last year, it raised ticket prices by up to 18 percent-but it doesn't deter the crowds, the LA Times notes. And knowing the enthusiasm verging on bull-headed persistence of many Star Wars fans, these prices won't do anything to shorten lines for a ride on the Millennium Falcon.
Disney World in Orlando is getting its own Star Wars experience, said to open in late fall. Ticket prices to the Florida park last rose in October, with the cheapest day pass already costing $109.
Is all this worth it for some blue milk and a new T-shirt?
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