After a year of speculation, the unthinkable has just been confirmed, Disneyland is ENDING its Annual Passholder Program effective immediately.

Passholders will be contacted today and informed that they will be refunded the unused portion of their annual pass contract automatically. .

Back in October of 2020, we shared information that Tokyo Disneyland was ending its Passholder program due to limited park capacity and the difficulty of guaranteeing park reservations for passholders.

Ken Potrock, Disneyland Resort President, is in the process of sharing the following letter with all current passholders.

The truth is that Disneyland really wouldn’t have been able to uphold their end of the annual pass contract for an unknown number of months after the parks reopen due to expected drastic park capacity limitations.

And while Disneyland hasn’t created their new ticket structure yet (they are busy sending surveys right now to figure out what guests want), they know that folks would rather have the guarantee of buying a ticket and gaining access than paying top dollar for an annual pass and not being guaranteed access for something they already paid for.

As a result of the high number of passholders and the low amount of expected park capacity, something drastic had to be done.

So Disneyland hopes to embrace the fans, continue to offer perks and opportunities, but have a new flexible ticketing structure that will allow Disneyland to control park access, and better serve guests in these difficult times.

DISCOUNTS: But even with all Disneyland passes canceled, if you had an active park pass as of March 14th 2020, when the Disneyland Resort shut down, you will continue to receive some benefits.

Disney promises to make sure passholders are the first to hear about the new ticket program as soon as it has been finalized?

We had a few moments to chat with Disneyland Resort President Ken Potrock about these changes.

On the one hand, Disney has done everything it could to grow the program over the decades and make passholders feel special, but current business demands would make delivering the same level of access impossible in an age of social distancing and extreme park capacity limitations. .

In October 2020, we ran a poll asking if the Passholders program should be ended as it has been in Tokyo to allow Disneyland to better control park capacity.

At the time, over 72% of you voted for some version of ending the program.

The question now is how would you like park tickets to be handled when Disneyland reopens?

Should the park be the same price on every day or do you like a sliding scale

I’d like to think that this reset will allow Disneyland to address conditions which caused oppressive park overcrowding whenever anything new was introduced (everything from a new popcorn bucket to the opening of a new attraction would cause the park to come to gridlock at times)