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I received an email today that made me very confused about the price of the bundle. I pay $29.15 for the Disney, Hulu, and ESPN+ ad-free bundle. I get an email from ESPN stating to enjoy ESPN, Hulu, and Disney "on us", for $29.99 a month for a year (with ads). The fine print states "Upon redeeming this offer, you will be enrolled in an auto-renewing subscription and you will be charged the then-current retail price (currently $35.99/month for ad-supported plan or $44.99/month for premium plan) (plus tax, where applicable) on a monthly basis beginning at the end of your 12-month promotional offer unless you cancel your subscription before then. Price subject to change." My current plan is ad-free and is much cheaper than their with ads "offer". Is the bundle increasing to $44.99 at some point that I haven't heard about?
TL;DR: Disney+ Legacy Bundle + Hulu Premium costs $28.99/month, and is about to go up to $32.99/month. Disney Bundle Trio Premium gives you the same access for $24.99 (edit: about to be $26.99), or $19.99 for Duo if you don't care about ESPN.
Found out today that I've been paying $28.99 for the legacy bundle for the last year when I thought I was paying $18.99. When I first signed up back in 2019 I'd already been paying for Hulu without ads for years, which was $11.99 at the time. If you were an existing subscriber they just charged you twice: once for Hulu and then again for the Disney+ bundle minus the cost of a normal, ads-included subscription, which came out to $7. Still a better deal than paying for them separately even if I had no interest in ESPN.
Fast forward 5 years, Hulu Premium now cost $17.99 (about to go up by $1), Hulu with ads cost $7.99, and the legacy Disney bundle cost $18.99 (about to go up by $3). This means I was getting billed $17.99 for Hulu and $11 for Disney+. This lead to a very confusing conversation with support because both my Disney account page and my Hulu account page say I should be paying $18.99, I'd long since forgotten how the original billing worked, and the support person had a hard time figuring out how to explain this mess.
Anyway, just wanted to post about this experience in case anyone else has been overpaying for the bundle. Disney really needs to integrate this stuff better so the billing is less opaque.
Do you think Disney raising the price of Disney+ Hulu with ads to $12.99 but keeping the ad-free tier at $19.99 is just to push people to subscribe to the higher tier?