@shophocho, whose account is named ShoPhoCho, stands in a Costco warehouse aisle holding a boxed Disneyland package and a text label on screen that reads “Costco DISNEYLAND Tickets.” “Costco selling Disneyland tickets,” he says. “This entire bundle is $330. Is it justified? Let’s crunch the numbers.” The video is 55 seconds long, and the caption is only three tags, for Costco Wholesale, Disney Parks and Disney.
He holds the box up and then covers part of it with his hand while the numbers appear on screen. The package on the front reads “2 Day Park Hopper Ticket” and mentions Lightning Lane Multi Pass and a $60 Disney dining card. “First, this bundle includes a two day Hopper ticket,” he says. “If you’re to get this on the Disney website, it will be $445.” The screen shows $330 for the Costco price next to $445 for Disney.
The second line of his math is the Lightning pass. “They give you a Lightning pass,” he says. “If you’re to get this on the website, it will be $70.” On screen, $445 and $70 add up to $515. Against the $330 bundle price, he says, “you find out this bundle already saves you $185.” A green “+$185” appears on the screen.
Then he adds the last piece. “That’s because this bundle also gives you a $60 dining credit,” he says, and the screen shows a green “+$60.” Together, he says, that is “$245 in savings” per ticket, and he labels it on screen as “+$245/Tix.” For a family of four, the screen shows “+$980,” which is four times $245, and his voice says the same figure.
He also answers an objection he says he hears on his channel, that you have to pay to shop at Costco. “This one bundle pays for almost four years of membership,” he says. He does not name the membership fee or show how he reached that figure, so it is his own comparison. The clip then moves through the warehouse to a merchandise pickup counter and ends on his hand holding a white envelope, with a row of green check marks on screen. His last line is “Costco Disney deal justified.”
Disney’s own page for the pass in his math explains why the $70 figure can move. According to the Disneyland Resort website, Lightning Lane Multi Pass starts at $35 per ticket per day, prices and availability vary by date, and the pass cannot be discounted or refunded. A valid park ticket and a park reservation are required to use it, and a Multi Pass lets a guest choose from 13 eligible attractions at Disneyland Park and 9 at Disney California Adventure. A two day ticket with the pass for both days would fit his $70, though the video does not say how many days the bundle’s pass covers.
For a family weighing the same package, his method is easy to repeat with the numbers on the day. Look up the current Disney price of the same two day Park Hopper ticket, since he is comparing against $445. Look up the Lightning Lane Multi Pass price for the dates you plan to go, because Disney says it varies by date. Then decide how much of the $60 dining credit you would actually spend. His $245 per ticket includes the full $60, so without it the savings in his own figures are $185 per ticket, or $740 for four.
