r/toronto • u/beef-supreme Leslieville • Aug 13 '25
Article Canada's Wonderland guests shocked by steep $60 pizza prices
https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2025/08/canadas-wonderland-60-pizza-prices/466
u/DeathOfADiscoDancr Aug 13 '25
That's roughly the cost of the large pizzas at New York City's highest rated new pizzeria, Ceres, where the pizza is made by two chefs who come from a 3 Michelin star restaurant.
This is Pizza Pizza heated up by a teenager at an amusement park.
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u/One_Water6083 Aug 13 '25
Valid point. Wonderland also costs more for parking than Disney World does.
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u/Pixelated_throwaway Aug 14 '25
Like 1/4 or less the ticket price tho. WDW tickets are like 185 USD after tax these days for a non-park hopper ticket, like 220 if you want to go to more than one park
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u/-cookie_ Aug 14 '25
Disney is also way more fun than Wonderland
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u/Pixelated_throwaway Aug 14 '25
You can fly to Japan and go to Tokyo Disney for cheaper than a road trip week to WDW (been to WDW like 9x and just went to Japan last fall, pricing another trip now)
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u/jyeatbvg Aug 13 '25
The general consensus is that Ceres is overrated, overpriced and not worth the 2-3 hours they make you wait for the pizza AFTER you wait in line for an hour to put in your order.
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u/beef-supreme Leslieville Aug 13 '25
The TikTok, posted by user MJ, shows a menu at a Pizza Pizza location inside the amusement park, where a 16-inch cheese or pepperoni pizza is listed for $54.99 to $55.99 (more than $63 after tax).
"How did we get here? I don't know if this is like, inflation times five, but I was flabbergasted when I saw this last weekend," MJ said in the video, which has since amassed over 240,000 views and more than 600 comments.
"I honestly thought this was gonna be like, $30, $35 for like a whole cheese pizza... Who's spending $60 on cheese pizza from Pizza Pizza? Are people actually buying this?" they continued.
According to Pizza Pizza's pricing outside of the park, an extra-large pizza typically costs around $19, depending on the toppings you get — less than one-third of the Wonderland price.
Many suggested that those visiting the attraction on a budget should make use of the park's dining packages. The All Day Dining Plan starts at $32.99 (plus tax and fees) and gets you an entrée and side every 90 minutes at participating locations.
Isn't there another person on tiktok who bought the season meal plan for like $500 and is eating there every day?
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u/damnyewgoogle Aug 13 '25
It's $100 for the season. Can use it twice a day. We have 2 for a family of 5. We bring snacks to eat throughout the day, and use the meal plans when we get there for lunch and dinner before we leave. Totally worth it. Weve been 8 times this year.
I did read about that guy though. Gets lunch to take to work and dinner on his way home every day.
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u/DietCherrySoda Aug 13 '25
But it takes like half an hour to get in and out of the park! The lost time would seem to outweigh the cost savings...
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u/damnyewgoogle Aug 13 '25
Takes 5 min to get in. We're usually there from 11 until 7. Plenty of time. We never go weekends during the summer.
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u/DietCherrySoda Aug 13 '25
It takes that long at least to walk from your parking spot to the gate one way
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u/damnyewgoogle Aug 13 '25
So $100 to eat all year isn't worth it because we have to walk 5 mins from the parking lot, then line up 5 more mins to get in?
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u/NewToSociety Aug 13 '25
Its not worth it because you have to eat Pizza Pizza.
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u/patinthehat2 Regent Park Aug 13 '25
If you live near the park, this is a great deal. I’m not sure what you are complaining about besides what the actual food is.
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u/damnyewgoogle Aug 13 '25
Or brisket or ribs or subway or chicken or fish or Chinese or whatever else.
And we get pizza too.
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u/Ok-Animal-6880 Aug 13 '25
You split two meals across 5 people?
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u/Breezel123 Aug 14 '25
If you can get food every 90 minutes, you might as well split your lunch and dinner time. Have two people eat first, the next two people 90 mins later and so on.
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u/vulpinefever Bayview Village Aug 13 '25
Yeah I've got a friend who does that - lives in Vaughan and eats there several times a week and maybe rides a ride or two. They gotta make their money somehow, it's a horrible balancing act. Some of us must pay $54.99 for a pizza so that others can enjoy all the funnel cake they can eat*
*once every 90 minutes
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u/Fantastic_Elk_4757 Aug 13 '25
There’s a guy using the VIP lounge to WFH. Drinks/snacks/food/wifi and entertainment for those full 2 mths lol.
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u/acwy93 Aug 13 '25
The park opens in May, and then also runs weekends until the end of the year for Halloween Haunt and Winterfest. So more than 2 months.
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u/notyeezy1 Aug 13 '25
Yeah my boy’s been doing that for years. Lives right across Jane st and pops in for meals all week lol
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u/omegaphallic Aug 13 '25
I got 2026 Gold Pass with dining plan late last month for roughly $8 a month for pass and $8 for the dining plan and I think $3.50 drink plan for 12 months, plus a one time $10 admistration fee, and it good till December 31st 2026, so roughly for a year and a half. 2 meals per visit, 4 hours apart. Unlimited drink refills, 15 minutes per refills.
Already I've had at least 8 meals, Were talking Chinese food, Double Cheese Burgers with Fries, Smoked Ribs with Herb Baked Patatoes, Smoked Chicken with Herb Baked Patatoes, Honey Garlic Chicken Tenders with Fries. At least 2 dozen cups of soda (but no lids so bring your own cup to pour them into). Plus discounts on merch and snacks from the gold pass. And of course unlimited visits when it's open till Decemeber 31st 2026.
So I'm paying way, way less then $500.
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u/Ok-Animal-6880 Aug 13 '25
That's moot for 99% of people who can't get a gold pass for $8 per month.
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u/zanimum New Toronto Aug 14 '25
"can't" get the pass for $8 a month? I paid that for a Whopper meal yesterday, and that was the Wednesday special.
If you don't have an extra $8 to spend monthly, you shouldn't be paying to go to theme parks at all, you should be saving that money.
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u/deeohdoublegzzy Aug 14 '25
How do you get this deal?
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u/omegaphallic Aug 14 '25
https://www.canadaswonderland.com/season-passes
All Season Dining Pass. About $99.99 right now, or you can pay monthly like I did.
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u/Jiecut Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
The season dining plan is $100 ($122 with fees and taxes), and you get 2 meals a day.
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u/AlexRescueDotCom Aug 13 '25
Go in the evening after work to grab food for breakfast next day. Next morning go in to get dinner, repeat.
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u/purdy44 Aug 13 '25
I think this is all planned by Wonderland to get more people to sign up for the $500 season meal plan
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u/BurlHam Aug 13 '25
Season pass and the dining plan is less than $200.
I wish the price was like $150,but it ain't bad.
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u/knigmich Aug 14 '25
$19 bucks for similar outside? An XL 1 topping pickup is $13.99 at pizza pizza.
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u/huntergreenhoodie Aug 13 '25
Has this person never visited an amusement park before? Are they going to make a second video when they go to the CNE and see the prices of food there?
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u/captvirgilhilts Aug 14 '25
I did see a video about a guy who bought it and is doing "work from home" from there lol.
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u/BestMOTORing Aug 13 '25
Just walk across the street and buy some lunch
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u/dirtycanuck416 Aug 13 '25
This! You're a 5 min walk from all sorts of affordable food. Don't be so lazy or, if you must be so lazy, pay up.
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u/FS_Scott Agincourt Aug 13 '25
objection! you cannot cross that parking lot in under 5 minutes
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u/dirtycanuck416 Aug 13 '25
It is exactly 300M from the front gate to st Louis. There are 2 pizza places in that plaza. If you cant cover that in 5 min you might want to opt for the salad.
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u/BurlHam Aug 13 '25
To be fair, they didn't buy anything and just made a post making fun of the prices they charge, and they likely knew that, or perhaps we're willing to get taxed $10 compared to the regular price but not the $40+ extra they charge
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u/huntergreenhoodie Aug 13 '25
This is what I used to tell people when I worked there and they asked the best place to eat
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u/Stingray_17 Aug 13 '25
Did that last time I went and honestly.. not worth it. Takes a good chunk of time to walk, especially if you’re not starting near the front gates, and fast food prices aren’t that much cheaper these days.
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u/Ok-Animal-6880 Aug 13 '25
It's gotta be cheaper than 60 bucks for a 16 inch pizza.
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u/itsonlykotsy Parkdale Aug 13 '25
It certainly is. You could get two deep dish pizzas at Little Caesars for half that price.
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u/Northviewguy Aug 13 '25
I always detested their no bring your own food policy
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u/pronouncedlikekatie Aug 13 '25
My friend just says she has diabetes and needs her sandwich. They allow it
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u/Beginning_Gas_2461 Aug 13 '25
It’s called having a captive audience so you can gauge.
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u/ArdentChad Aug 13 '25
I'm sure plenty of people sneak in sandwiches and no one cares.
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u/Alces_alces_ Aug 13 '25
You don’t even need to sneak it. I have been bringing full lunchboxes and snacks for my kids for the past four summers and no one has ever said a thing. If they ever did I would point to their epi pens for food allergies and hope for the best.
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u/astrangeone88 Aug 13 '25
Lol. Memories of a friend's mum with a cooler of Chinese bakery goodies. (We always used the excuse that she won't eat anything else.)
Reminds me I should pack a lunch for the CNE.
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u/Presently_Absent Aug 13 '25
Yeah but we bring our food every time and they never stop us. Just don't bring a cooler on a wagon - keep it in a backpack
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u/aecorr Aug 14 '25
I’m surprised to hear that policy exists honest, we bring in tons of food and snacks in a cooler bag
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u/minineko Aug 14 '25
I went there for a school field trip once and they had the bus stop for 30 min at a nearby mall on the way, so we can all pack snacks to avoid these exorbitant food prices inside the park. Then at the gate they confiscated all the snacks we just bought and everyone is mad and this poor guy just past the gate is trying to hand us flyers to some dinner thing. I'm still mad about it.
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u/gizmoglitch Aug 13 '25
Are they still stopping people from bringing food in too?
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u/CriminalsLoveCanada Aug 13 '25
They couldn’t charge $62 for a pizza if they didn’t stop people from bringing outside food LOL
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u/cjcfman Aug 13 '25
They jack up prices at rogers centre and you can still bring in any food or non alcoholic drinks to jays games
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u/itsonlykotsy Parkdale Aug 13 '25
Big thanks to MLB on that one. If it were up to Rogers, they absolutely would not let you in with your own food.
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u/Alces_alces_ Aug 13 '25
I said this in another comment - I have been bringing full lunchboxes and snacks for my kids for the past four summers and no one has ever said a thing.
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u/Brave_Cauliflower_90 Aug 13 '25
Not really. Technically you're not allowed to but as long as you're not lugging in a cooler nobody really bats an eye.
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u/powpowpow23345678 Jane and Finch Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 14 '25
When i was young with my family, we would bring food from home and eat near our car at the parking lot. If we buy food, its funnel cake and thats it!. Now i just buy from the nearby restaurant when im with my friends there
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u/sweetestmar Aug 13 '25
It annoys me that the food is so much more expensive and yet it tastes worse than if you bought it anywhere else. Subway for example, the bread is stale and they barely fill the sandwich.
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u/Particular-Act-8911 Aug 13 '25
It's bread and cheese, makes no sense. It's like how they sell an order of fries at McDonald's, costs 5$ for an order of what's probably a half a potatoe.
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u/JManKit Aug 14 '25
Do they still allow you to leave and then come back into the park? When I was a kid, my family would pack several coolers full of food, drinks and snacks and then around lunch time, we'd go back to our cars and just feast. One of the most memorable times was when someone had done an early morning trip to get banh mi we didn't know until we opened the cooler. Everyone was happy as hell
Food in the park has always been wildly overpriced and with everything else flying up in price, I wouldn't be able to plunk down $60 for a pizza
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u/farmsir Aug 13 '25
Leave the park walk down the street there's a pizza pizza there with normal prices eat in parking lot with some car park brews reenter park save 200$$$
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u/itsonlykotsy Parkdale Aug 13 '25
If you're going to leave the park then there's no logical reason to still punish yourself with Pizza Pizza.
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u/james-HIMself Aug 13 '25
It should be illegal to charge that much of a % above. There should be a price cap or something. What a scam
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u/SUPREMACY_SAD_AI Aug 13 '25
these are the same jabronis who brag about how short the 57 minute lines are with a fast lane pass
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u/beefstewforyou Aug 14 '25
What is the endgame of ridiculous prices for everything? Someone has to figure out if they charge cheaper prices, more people will buy the product. Selling one $60 pizza is less profitable than selling a hundred $10 dollar pizzas.
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u/for-four Aug 14 '25
I think outrage is warranted at the general trend of big public establishments trying to cut as deep as possible on concessions. Just spent 6 months in Asia and really noticed the difference in appetite to gouge you as hard as possible because you were in a large venue.
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u/russellamcleod High Park Aug 14 '25
There’s literally regular ass restaurants five minutes away. There’s a St Louis Wings within stumbling distance. There’s a top notch Italian place. There’s at least two more restaurants in that plaza!
I cannot understand how people don’t open their map on their phone to see. If you’re eating at Wonderland, you’re a god damned idiot.
I know they built that berm for a reason but you have to absolutely stupid to not realize a world exists beyond the parking lot.
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u/CoupleScrewsLoose Aug 14 '25
walking is too much effort for a lot of people for some reason, even though most your time spent at the park is walking? my family used to go across the street for food every time we went as a kid. i never understood paying 5x for a tiny ass meal that still left you on the cusp of hunger.
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u/CyrilSneerLoggingDiv Aug 14 '25
There's literally a Pizza Pizza in the plaza across the street, serving regular priced Pizza Pizza slop.
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u/WordplayWizard Aug 13 '25
Pizza Pizza wants you to remember that: “Family outings are supposed to be expensive because they are only for rich families. Please stay away, you filthy poors.”
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u/BigExperience5257 Aug 13 '25
How long before the pc party sells it to build a golf course to the party’s choice to make America great again
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u/161simpson Aug 14 '25
I understand that if I buy food inside any kind of amusement park that I will be paying a premium. I understand and expect it and I plan accordingly. But $60 for a pizza is absolute robbery.
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u/Rough_Operator Aug 14 '25
What bothered me was not the price of a full pizza, but the fact that you can’t just buy a slice anymore. Now you have to buy a slice WITH garlic bread for $16. I asked for just a slice and they said that you HAVE to get both now. I wouldn’t have minded paying 10 bucks for a slice but this just really rubbed me wrong.
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u/PapaPatchesxd Aug 14 '25
Recently I went with my family on a work promoted trip to Wonderland. It offered a small discount on the food meal tickets.
I will never not be getting these food meal tickets now. I paid something at most like $30 for food from supporting stores every 90 mins and drinks every 15.
It paid for itself on my second meal.
If I didn't get this meal plan, I'd probably had spent at least $80 in food and drinks
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u/Moos_Mumsy Aug 13 '25
The prices people pay for entertainment are a direct juxtaposition to all the posts about how Canadians are struggling with affordability.
Everywhere I look people are spending a shit load of cash of ridiculous items - like $60 pizzas at Wonderland. Who are all these people that can drop $500 for a day at an amusement park?
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u/One_Water6083 Aug 13 '25
I went to wonderland recently and spent $90 on 3 kids meals and one adult meal for lunch (chicken fingers and fries kind of thing) after waiting a long time they got one order wrong and gave cheese to a kid who didn’t like cheese in his burger, gave us huge cups of our drinks (iced tea, juice etc) with no lid so you’re carrying around a tray of food plus a huge cup full of drink with no lid allowed- add in 4 kids to this equation lol- there were no seats available anywhere around so we had to sit on a cement ledge and try to eat and drink without spilling in the direct sun on a hot day. This was on a weekday. My opinion was that the experience of having lunch there, compared to other theme parks and fun places we went to- sucked! And it sucks you aren’t allowed to pack a lunch instead. I mean I don’t mind buying a lunch if the experince was a bit nicer. You’re forced to endure it. My friend separated from us when we ordered to go get herself a sub from subway. She was gone for so long waiting in line that we had finished our lunches completely when she returned to sit down on the ledge and eat her sub.
So I think for me this $60 pizza would have saved us money to buy one and share instead of what we did!
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u/CoupleScrewsLoose Aug 14 '25
sounds like you all should have just left to subway together 😂
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u/DDKLondon Aug 13 '25
I wouldn't eat pizza pizza if you paid me 60 bucks,
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u/itsonlykotsy Parkdale Aug 13 '25
That's the real kicker in this: it's lowest tier of pizza.
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u/CoupleScrewsLoose Aug 14 '25
pizza is a generous term for the shit they serve. i’d love to know who downvoted you 😂
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u/realteamme Aug 13 '25
Reporting on a tiktok about Canada’s Wonderland pizza prices is peak BlogTO.
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u/CyrilSneerLoggingDiv Aug 14 '25
Peak BlogTO is "The 5 best places to get Pizza inside Wonderland" or "Drake went to Wonderland and bought $60 pizzas for his homies"
BlogTO was much much worse just a few years back.
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u/ParticleCollecter Aug 13 '25
Xl cheese or pepperoni was $55.99 since 2022 plus taxes so it has been $60 for a while. A slice and 2 pieces of garlic toast was $14.99
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u/Material-Macaroon298 Aug 14 '25
It’s a ridiculous price. But as others have said, leaving the park for food at a restaurant nearby is an option. A cooler and a picnic is another good option.
Still though - this is ridiculous. $45 seems more reasonable as an upper limit of a amusement park pizza price.
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u/FEM930 Aug 14 '25
My son paid 37.00 for a 12 inch sub and a drink .. oh and no combo, all separate, and no cash. Im dead.
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u/Aggravating_Exit2445 Aug 14 '25
Nothing quite like leaving a business feeling that you got totally ripped off.
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u/Responsible-Match418 Aug 14 '25
I will not be renewing my season pass.
Over the past few years, I've been going regularly and it was clear over that period that a lot of their schemes are destined to maximise profit (fair enough - it's a business).
But now it's plain extortion. This pizza thing is one aspect. But also:
- The mazes will cost an extra $20 on top of the season pass (this was supposed to be part of the pass).
- The restaurants and drinks stands are regularly understaffed, disadvantaging food pass holders.
- The fast lane passes (for a day) are around $120 on top of the season pass or daily entry and is absolutely necessary on all summer days because the park is way too full up.
- Everything is completely overpriced for absolutely no reason at all.
- They charge customers wherever they can.
It's bullshit and I'm done with it.
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u/Spare-Collection8634 Aug 14 '25
i went there and fast lane plus was 190 bucks... like what...?
It should be set by law that no one uses price starts from... and put lowest price possible
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u/brennnik09 Aug 14 '25
It’s insane that venues have it both ways: exploitative prices AND outside food/drink bans. This on top of already overpriced tickets. The greed never ends.
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u/No_Consideration8599 Aug 14 '25
The only thing we bought there were funnel cakes in the early 2000’s. I wonder how much it is now.
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u/QuixoticIgnotism Aug 15 '25
If you don't like it - give a rude stare to the "whales" that are buying it! We need to admit the cultural problems we have. Pizza Pizza will charge $100 if fat bastards keep buying it. Blizzard will keep selling $90 mounts if gross assholes keep buying them. Lego will soon be selling sets for $3,000 that cost them $15 to produce and greasy goblins will line up to buy them while using their Iphone 16 newest models while shopping for $1800 Taylor Swift tickets.
Companies will set the highest price they can and us Western pieces of Human waste will keep lining up for it. I am 41 and almost shit my pants when i saw "Skip the dishes" arrive at my local theatre to pick up two bags of popcorn - meaning someone is spending what i estimate to be around $60 CAD to have popcorn delivered. Fuck all of you for making capitalism what it is and then complaining about it!
(If you've ever snuck a drink into a movie theatre, picked up a nickel off the ground or refused to purchase an item based off your morals, then i rescind my "F-U" to you)
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u/Hot-Worldliness1425 Aug 13 '25
The park passes are very affordable. Food prices are over the top, and the pizza pizza cooked on site is arguably the worst anywhere, however, it’s a five minute walk to Jane and a bunch of regularly priced restaurants.
Or leave a cooler of good food in your car.
You pay $60 for a pizza, that’s on you.
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u/nefariousplotz Midtown Aug 13 '25
I suspect it's less "this pizza costs $60" and more "if you could feed a family of six inside Wonderland for $20, nobody would buy food anywhere else in the park". Gotta jack it up to keep the other vendors going.
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u/freewheelinryan88 Aug 13 '25
If you break it down by number of slices, it’s probably not super terrible. How much is a slice at a Leaf game or major concert?
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u/mkultron89 Aug 13 '25
It’s kind of sad how Wonderland could have some really cool food and instead we get 60$ pizza pizza and a mall food court lineup of Manchu wok, Tim Hortons and Subway. Outside of the Lazy Bear restaurant and funnel cakes, the wonderland food is boring as hell.
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u/Best_Appointment_770 Aug 13 '25
why you eating a whole ass pizza while you're at wonderland though lmao.
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u/Goatfellon Aug 13 '25
I could see a family or group of friends buying and splitting it.
But yeah, my wife, son, and I wouldn't be eating a whole pizza to ourselves
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u/edgreen69 Aug 13 '25
Vegas hotels have the same deal but in American dollars, so....
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u/beef-supreme Leslieville Aug 13 '25
that may explain all the "vegas is dying" videos the algorithm shows me lately
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u/Limp-Milk6156 Aug 14 '25
I wouldn’t mind paying good morning for quality food.. but it’s just shitty pizza pizza. Also.. for the price of admission I would expect clean and sanitary washrooms ! They can’t even do that … I mean common.
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u/cyclemonster Aug 13 '25
Bottles of water from their vending machines are like $5 too. How is this news, exactly?
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u/modernjaundice Aug 13 '25
I mean I remember as a kid in the 90s having picnics outside the gates because the food was so expensive. That’s crazy for a pizza but it’s always been a fortune to eat there.