To add to @Leland Wykoff’s earlier post about Disneyland...

https://www.fox13news.com/news/walt-disney-world-says-they-will-not-sell-new-annual-passes?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1uM4zhMeu2IX3Icy2of-fwRItYeMTUUkqm7KyTNScPIGKNAL_41krQ1Cg

This news story is misleading, this is not a new policy and what the two resorts are doing is very different.  This is only news because of what is happening at Disneyland.  Disney World stopped selling annual passes when they closed temporarily due to the pandemic.  They never restarted selling them after they reopened last summer.  Which means the last time someone could purchase a new annual pass was March of 2020.

But Disney World is letting existing pass holders keep their passes and to continue to renew them.  The restrictions are only for new pass holders.

Disneyland is completely ending their pass holder program.  They have cancelled all annual passes and are issuing prorated refunds.

I wonder how they’ll handle the people with the coast to coast passes.

3 hours ago, BoddaH1994 said:

I wonder how they’ll handle the people with the coast to coast passes.

They are cancelling them as well, and refunding the Disneyland side of the pass.  The handful of people who have one are allowed to renew to a Disney World only annual pass.  
 

They never sold very many, and really never tried to either, the admissions systems at Disneyland and Disney World are not compatible and the passes were in reality two annual passes sold as a bundle, then put on the same card.  The cards had a barcode, a magnetic stripe, and an RFID chip.  They could only be purchased in person at a park, and could only be renewed in person at a park, although on time renewal was a waste, there was no discount.

Wow - Disney passes implementation across two parks is worse than Cedar Fair lol...cross-threading with people's experiences with platinum passes... although the issues have been getting better every year.