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justin111 · 02-17-2009, 03:22 AM

Since I got some helpful tips about buying Disney tickets in the above Priceline Florida forum, I thought it might be helpful to others to share my results here.

Essentially, if you just want to buy tickets for a couple of days, there is no way to game the system. The adult tickets are like $68/day, and kids under 10 are almost as much.

So to get your "money's worth," the trick is to either plan a much longer vacation where a multi-day ticket dramatically reduces your per-day ticket cost, or to "invest" in future Disney tickets for your family. I chose the latter.

What I was able to do was buy a 10-day no-expiration-ever Disney ticket for $360 all-in, $330 for kids under 10 (called something like Magic Your Way Plus), in which they also threw in 5-additional your-choice no-expiration days at their related Orlando attractions like the Blizzard Beach water park and DisneyQuest. Mind you, these "freebies" are also very expensive tickets, too -- over $30/day if you bought them individually.

So if you do the math, you can see it's a much better value, provided you are willing to fork over the cash in advance and want to do that much Disney in the future (btw, you can't sell or give away excess days -- they take a biometric reading of your finger at the gate). My family travels to Florida a lot (at least every year), so I figure we'll use up all our days within the next 5 years, probably in 2 or 3 day blocks (when the kids turn 10, Disney converts their passes to adult passes at no extra charge). Obviously everyone's circumstances are different, but it just seemed like a better deal than forking over $68/day. Also now, I can treat my kids to regular Disney vacations, where otherwise I would dread them, given the outrageous single-day ticket fees.

I bought these tickets over the weekend through undercovertourist.com, on a tip from the comprehensive mousesavers.com website. Sadly, I suspect, others may have to pay a little more for them. The greedy folks at Disney (sorry, they really do seem greedy to me) have just raised ticket prices again, and undercovertourist was selling their remaining stock of "old price" tickets. Since the tip was pulled from mousesavers today, I suspect that supply has been exhausted. But by shopping around (mousesavers has a monthly newsletter with ticket deals), you should be able to buy a similar 10-day ticket for maybe 5 to 10% more. Good luck, and save up, because any way you do it, Disney is expensive!

02-17-2009, 03:22 AM	#11 (permalink)
justin111 Community Rank: Visitor Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 1	best Disney ticket strategies Since I got some helpful tips about buying Disney tickets in the above Priceline Florida forum, I thought it might be helpful to others to share my results here. Essentially, if you just want to buy tickets for a couple of days, there is no way to game the system. The adult tickets are like $68/day, and kids under 10 are almost as much. So to get your "money's worth," the trick is to either plan a much longer vacation where a multi-day ticket dramatically reduces your per-day ticket cost, or to "invest" in future Disney tickets for your family. I chose the latter. What I was able to do was buy a 10-day no-expiration-ever Disney ticket for $360 all-in, $330 for kids under 10 (called something like Magic Your Way Plus), in which they also threw in 5-additional your-choice no-expiration days at their related Orlando attractions like the Blizzard Beach water park and DisneyQuest. Mind you, these "freebies" are also very expensive tickets, too -- over $30/day if you bought them individually. So if you do the math, you can see it's a much better value, provided you are willing to fork over the cash in advance and want to do that much Disney in the future (btw, you can't sell or give away excess days -- they take a biometric reading of your finger at the gate). My family travels to Florida a lot (at least every year), so I figure we'll use up all our days within the next 5 years, probably in 2 or 3 day blocks (when the kids turn 10, Disney converts their passes to adult passes at no extra charge). Obviously everyone's circumstances are different, but it just seemed like a better deal than forking over $68/day. Also now, I can treat my kids to regular Disney vacations, where otherwise I would dread them, given the outrageous single-day ticket fees. I bought these tickets over the weekend through undercovertourist.com, on a tip from the comprehensive mousesavers.com website. Sadly, I suspect, others may have to pay a little more for them. The greedy folks at Disney (sorry, they really do seem greedy to me) have just raised ticket prices again, and undercovertourist was selling their remaining stock of "old price" tickets. Since the tip was pulled from mousesavers today, I suspect that supply has been exhausted. But by shopping around (mousesavers has a monthly newsletter with ticket deals), you should be able to buy a similar 10-day ticket for maybe 5 to 10% more. Good luck, and save up, because any way you do it, Disney is expensive!