Disney continues to keep peak attendance at 20 percent below pre-pandemic levels at Walt Disney World

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Posted: Friday February 10, 2023 12:19pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

During this week's quarterly earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger and CFO Christine McCarthy spoke briefly about Walt Disney World's attendance capacity caps that are still in place in the parks.

Disney executives continue to support the strategy of having less guests in the parks with those there spending more

According to Disney, attendance during peak holiday weeks is now kept at nearly 20% below pre-pandemic levels, which the company says improves the guest experience.

Notably, Disney seems to have settled on the concept of having fewer guests in the parks than pre-pandemic, but having those guests in the parks spend more than they used to. Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products revenues for the quarter increased 21% to $8.7 billion. Disney says that guest spending growth was due to an increase in average per capita ticket revenue driven by Genie+ and Lightning Lane.

Disney's Genie+ service can cost as much as $29 per person, per day at Walt Disney World

Elaborating further on improving the guest experience, Disney executives referred to increasing flexibility and value at the theme parks. Disney has pointed to the increased availability of lowest-priced tickets at Disneyland, more access for annual passholders and park hopper tickets, more complimentary digital photo downloads, and eliminating the Walt Disney World Resort hotel parking fees.

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DCBaker3 days ago

September 29 and October 1 have been added to the calendar as Annual Passholder good-to-go days.

DCBaker10 days ago

More Annual Passholder good-to-go days have been added: September 15, 24 and 26. Upcoming good-to-go days: September 10, 11, 12, 15, 17, 18, 24 and 26.

DCBaker15 days ago

September 17 and 18 have now been added to the calendar as Annual Passholder good-to-go days.

Sirwalterraleigh17 days ago

…good luck taking enough showers to get that funk off 😎

Splash4eva17 days ago

Btw Seaside made Disney seem cheap 😂😂😂

Sirwalterraleigh17 days ago

Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend… I see the stupidity of “good to go” days continues 🙄 Enjoy the bbq 🇺🇸

HauntedPirate17 days ago

Young marketing people who have been directed by management to “create a program” which “provides perceived value” and “makes the annual Passholder feel good”? Oops. There’s that phrase, “bad management”, rearing its ugly head again.

Fido Chuckwagon20 days ago

Right, so what is the use case? It’s frankly insulting that Disney thinks their AP holders are this stupid.

SingleRider20 days ago

The calendar is completely open as of now so you could get a reservation for anywhere day of.

Fido Chuckwagon21 days ago

These are so dumb. Literally, what is the use case for them? Any day that is uncrowded enough to turn into a GTG day is a day you could have gotten a day of reservation for anyway.

DCBaker21 days ago

3 more Annual Passholder good-to-go days have been added: September 10, 11 and 12.

pdude8130 days ago

Great, thanks.

mattpeto30 days ago

You don’t need a reservation, anyone can join the VQ.

pdude8130 days ago

28th is a day I was trying to figure out where to make a reservation for previously. Does anybody remember on a good to go day whether passholders need a park reservation for VQ or not?