Walt Disney World hikes parking from $22 to $25

...and while odd prices make cash painful, who pays with cash? Kids These Days (tm) even pay for their $2.39 coffee with a credit/debit card.

At Disney it was primarily tourists from out of the country paying with cash who were staying off property and made Disney part of a multi week Florida extravaganza.

Although I still say if you are paying for parking at Walt Disney World, you are doing it wrong. Between on property stays, Uber, good deals on Annual Passes, there are very few instances where paying for parking seems to make sense, save for those "one day one park" folks.

Hell, if you're staying close enough that Uber ride is probably quicker and less expensive than the $25 parking fee.

Maybe a dumb question...but Uber drivers don't have to pay at the toll booth?

When I worked at WDW we did not charge for cars headed to the drop off lane to drop off guests. I can't imagine they would charge an Uber for the same purpose.

kpjb said:

Hell, if you're staying close enough that Uber ride is probably quicker and less expensive than the $25 parking fee.

Just for reference, the charge for Uber from Pop Century to Contemporary (or basically Magic Kingdom) was $11 before tip at 8:00am on a Monday morning during my trip in June.

I was going to post something similar.

$25 is at the point where I'd leave my car at my hotel and take an Uber. I wonder if there comes a point where higher price equates to less revenue.

What does it cost to an I-Drive hotel?

Think you are asking about parking fees at off property hotels Jeff? I stay at one (Parkway International) that does not charge for parking, has a small resort fee, and is very close to property. Some hotels charge $20+ for parking however, plus significant "resort fees" on top of that.

Richard Bannister said:

$25 is at the point where I'd leave my car at my hotel and take an Uber. I wonder if there comes a point where higher price equates to less revenue.

I agree. With all the resort parking options and work arounds, paying to park is almost a suckers bet now. Can't you also park at Disney Springs for free and walk over to Saratoga where you have direct bus service to all the parks? What keeps you from doing that?

And getting even more creative, you can probably park in the Crossroads shopping plaza lot and Uber it from there as well for less than $25 round trip, right?

I was asking about Uber rates from an I-Drive hotel to the WDW parks.

A little under $22 from Pointe Orlando to Magic Kingdom according to the app. I would think it’s safe to say that it’s $25-30 from an I-Drive hotel to any of the Disney parks.

This is why I preferred to take the Magical Express to an on-property hotel and use the transportation. Even down at Pop Century it wasn't that big of a deal.