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Post by brp on Nov 3, 2023 19:55:11 GMT -5
Wow. I don't even have to ask and people tell me this spontaneously. Of course, only if they know me...
Cheers.
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Post by rescueranger on Nov 6, 2023 5:00:32 GMT -5
Thanks for all the suggestions and tips all.
Im going to leave it slightly In the hands of fate and see if anything magical happens with availability or prices.
In the UK it's pretty standard to have package holidays. So will keep an eye on these. Sadly due to the current room rates from disney she of these even for all stars is crazy !
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Post by rescueranger on Nov 12, 2023 16:57:46 GMT -5
The plan is still on. But it's now looking like trying to go for a few extra days and have Christmas at Disney. Main issue is deciding on going to party or just doing MK on Christmas Day. as not sure its worth doing both. never released how much day tickets are.  |
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Post by tomandrobin on Nov 14, 2023 9:16:18 GMT -5
If you go to Magic Kingdom Christmas Day onward, Disney turns the snow on for Main Street.
Almost everything at Disney is expensive. Robin and I went to dinner the other night at a local restaurant. We ordered two beers, two mixed drinks, baked brussel sprouts with bacon, chicken tacos, loaded fries and bbq chicken flatbread. The bill came to $62.....we are so use to Disney prices that it was a shock to see the bill so low. If we were at Disney, the drinks alone would have been almost as much as our entire bill.
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Post by rescueranger on Nov 15, 2023 6:38:20 GMT -5
If you go to Magic Kingdom Christmas Day onward, Disney turns the snow on for Main Street. Almost everything at Disney is expensive. Robin and I went to dinner the other night at a local restaurant. We ordered two beers, two mixed drinks, baked brussel sprouts with bacon, chicken tacos, loaded fries and bbq chicken flatbread. The bill came to $62.....we are so use to Disney prices that it was a shock to see the bill so low. If we were at Disney, the drinks alone would have been almost as much as our entire bill. In the UK we are spoiled a little bit on ticket prices as we can get a 14 day ticket with memory maker and waterparks for $600. What I think is roughly the same price as a 4 day hopper. We are actually leaning to not doing the party and going to MK on Christmas Day and then can enjoy the other parks at our leisure. Rather than having 1 party ticket and 1 day ticket I should have upgraded my 14 day ticket in the summer to an AP. but hindsight is a wonderful thing. |
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Post by tomandrobin on Nov 15, 2023 15:15:18 GMT -5
In the UK we are spoiled a little bit on ticket prices as we can get a 14 day ticket with memory maker and waterparks for $600. What I think is roughly the same price as a 4 day hopper. We are actually leaning to not doing the party and going to MK on Christmas Day and then can enjoy the other parks at our leisure. Rather than having 1 party ticket and 1 day ticket I should have upgraded my 14 day ticket in the summer to an AP. but hindsight is a wonderful thing. Yeah.....I know about those 14 day UK tickets, such a good deal. I recall trying to figure out a work around to snag some of those tickets, many years back. Not for us, we have had annual passes since 2006.
I have perfect 20/20 vision too when I look backwards.....
Magic Kingdom on Christmas Day gets extremely busy as the day goes on. By 1-2pm it will near capacity. Don't fear if you are staying on property, just use the Disney transportation....do not drive. Christmas-NYE is always recommend using Disney transportation.
Christmas week is the busiest time of the year. Rope drop is always the best strategy to maximize rides and attractions. We usually hit the parks early, go back to the resort around noon, swim/nap, go back to the parks after dinner for night shows/fireworks.
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Post by helenabear on Nov 15, 2023 21:05:15 GMT -5
If you go to Magic Kingdom Christmas Day onward, Disney turns the snow on for Main Street. Almost everything at Disney is expensive. Robin and I went to dinner the other night at a local restaurant. We ordered two beers, two mixed drinks, baked brussel sprouts with bacon, chicken tacos, loaded fries and bbq chicken flatbread. The bill came to $62.....we are so use to Disney prices that it was a shock to see the bill so low. If we were at Disney, the drinks alone would have been almost as much as our entire bill. In the UK we are spoiled a little bit on ticket prices as we can get a 14 day ticket with memory maker and waterparks for $600. What I think is roughly the same price as a 4 day hopper. We are actually leaning to not doing the party and going to MK on Christmas Day and then can enjoy the other parks at our leisure. Rather than having 1 party ticket and 1 day ticket I should have upgraded my 14 day ticket in the summer to an AP. but hindsight is a wonderful thing. We've had reports of UK DVC members not being able to upgrade to AP on the yuge DVC group I'm in. Some late summer and another this past week or so. So maybe you'd have been declined to? Apparently it has something to do with the special rate that you can members get with their tickets even if they are purchased through Disney that made it not allowable to upgrade to an annual pass. I think I can understand it, because we had some travel agent tickets for marching band that I was able to get transferred to a friend who could add days, but they were not eligible to be upgraded to annual passes. Weird I know, but it is what it is. |
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Post by ermindy1133 on Nov 15, 2023 21:18:04 GMT -5
In the UK we are spoiled a little bit on ticket prices as we can get a 14 day ticket with memory maker and waterparks for $600. What I think is roughly the same price as a 4 day hopper. We are actually leaning to not doing the party and going to MK on Christmas Day and then can enjoy the other parks at our leisure. Rather than having 1 party ticket and 1 day ticket I should have upgraded my 14 day ticket in the summer to an AP. but hindsight is a wonderful thing. We've had reports of UK DVC members not being able to upgrade to AP on the yuge DVC group I'm in. Some late summer and another this past week or so. So maybe you'd have been declined to? Apparently it has something to do with the special rate that you can members get with their tickets even if they are purchased through Disney that made it not allowable to upgrade to an annual pass. I think I can understand it, because we had some travel agent tickets for marching band that I was able to get transferred to a friend who could add days, but they were not eligible to be upgraded to annual passes. Weird I know, but it is what it is. Sometimes I think there is still some poor training on the member services side. When I called to purchase Tim’s AP, the CM told me (very confidently) that I had purchased resale, and was not eligible for the Sorcerer Pass. I was nice but firm, and explained that our resale contract pre-dated those restrictions. She had to place me on hold and go find someone who knew the answer… |
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Post by helenabear on Nov 15, 2023 21:37:12 GMT -5
We've had reports of UK DVC members not being able to upgrade to AP on the yuge DVC group I'm in. Some late summer and another this past week or so. So maybe you'd have been declined to? Apparently it has something to do with the special rate that you can members get with their tickets even if they are purchased through Disney that made it not allowable to upgrade to an annual pass. I think I can understand it, because we had some travel agent tickets for marching band that I was able to get transferred to a friend who could add days, but they were not eligible to be upgraded to annual passes. Weird I know, but it is what it is. Sometimes I think there is still some poor training on the member services side. When I called to purchase Tim’s AP, the CM told me (very confidently) that I had purchased resale, and was not eligible for the Sorcerer Pass. I was nice but firm, and explained that our resale contract pre-dated those restrictions. She had to place me on hold and go find someone who knew the answer… Not in this case. The TA special packages are often not upgradable and definitely not transferable. They threw PD our way and extended the tickets from March until mid June and allowed me to transfer. Heavily discounted tickets have limits on what they can do. Our 4 day tickets were about $375 when the base price was I think $100 more. I was able to give them to a friend and they could add days but upgrades were blocked due to how they were done. The CM was super nice and super kind. They also (on their own) went to talk to a supervisor to see what could be done. It wasn't for lack of knowledge, kindness or anything, some really are limited. UK tickets are insanely priced so I think this is why the change this year. Regular US tickets don't suffer this though. Truly I was grateful. I thought his tickets were going to be useless and money thrown away so getting some use was good. |
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Post by rescueranger on Nov 16, 2023 4:14:59 GMT -5
It seams to be new in the last few months that Disney has stopped UK tickets being upgraded.
They used to have a "set value" to them that was used to determine how much extra you should pay. But as you can imagine this would change depending on what CM you spoke to. As some would say it's not possible and others would do it first time.
The UK tickets are a good price. even after all the price rises. But then again they need to be to keep guests spending in parks and staying onsite for 7-14 days+
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Post by helenabear on Nov 16, 2023 8:02:46 GMT -5
Yeah, I think it was only late summer I started seeing some UK members talking about this rarely. Someone brought it up more recently and a lot of others came in saying that they had experienced the same recently. The one person had tried multiple times with multiple CMs and others chimed in saying that was their experience as well recently.
My experience was just using those special package tickets that are not the same as going through a regular travel agent or Disney themselves. I was grateful to let them be used somehow since the whole trip was honestly a waste of money on our part except for my kid getting an experience. We had already had flights before we found out we had a Disney trip, and we already had a room booked as well. So we rearranged our spring break to make this work, but we didn't need the tickets due to having an annual pass and the stupid School travel agent claimed we couldn't use our annual pass to get in during the weekend we were there. That when they scan tickets, an annual pass would not let them in from backstage. Found out that was a lie. Otherwise we could have let my kid just stay with me and save the whole trip cost to begin with, but whatever. We were just very glad that not all the money went to waste.
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Post by ermindy1133 on Nov 16, 2023 8:39:17 GMT -5
Yeah, I think it was only late summer I started seeing some UK members talking about this rarely. Someone brought it up more recently and a lot of others came in saying that they had experienced the same recently. The one person had tried multiple times with multiple CMs and others chimed in saying that was their experience as well recently. My experience was just using those special package tickets that are not the same as going through a regular travel agent or Disney themselves. I was grateful to let them be used somehow since the whole trip was honestly a waste of money on our part except for my kid getting an experience. We had already had flights before we found out we had a Disney trip, and we already had a room booked as well. So we rearranged our spring break to make this work, but we didn't need the tickets due to having an annual pass and the stupid School travel agent claimed we couldn't use our annual pass to get in during the weekend we were there. That when they scan tickets, an annual pass would not let them in from backstage. Found out that was a lie. Otherwise we could have let my kid just stay with me and save the whole trip cost to begin with, but whatever. We were just very glad that not all the money went to waste. Yeah, your “Disney expert” for the school dropped that ball big time! I know they drove you nuts before the trip with all of the misinformation. |
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Post by helenabear on Nov 16, 2023 9:05:40 GMT -5
Yeah, I think it was only late summer I started seeing some UK members talking about this rarely. Someone brought it up more recently and a lot of others came in saying that they had experienced the same recently. The one person had tried multiple times with multiple CMs and others chimed in saying that was their experience as well recently. My experience was just using those special package tickets that are not the same as going through a regular travel agent or Disney themselves. I was grateful to let them be used somehow since the whole trip was honestly a waste of money on our part except for my kid getting an experience. We had already had flights before we found out we had a Disney trip, and we already had a room booked as well. So we rearranged our spring break to make this work, but we didn't need the tickets due to having an annual pass and the stupid School travel agent claimed we couldn't use our annual pass to get in during the weekend we were there. That when they scan tickets, an annual pass would not let them in from backstage. Found out that was a lie. Otherwise we could have let my kid just stay with me and save the whole trip cost to begin with, but whatever. We were just very glad that not all the money went to waste. Yeah, your “Disney expert” for the school dropped that ball big time! I know they drove you nuts before the trip with all of the misinformation. Yes! So much wrong and missed things on that trip. We're waiting to find out where we are scheduled for next year but I already don't want to go not knowing the choice lol. Our NYC choir trip is through the same company but at least the teachers are in charge and do this every other year. The person in charge of the band trip is super nice, but I think she didn't know what she was doing. She had to rely on a teacher who was a former travel agent for disney, and we all know what that really means since he was a teacher and a travel agent at the same time. He had never worked with anything other than singular families and not this disjointed crap we had. Kid had a blast though, which is all that mattered in the end. Though he was exhausted due to the awful schedule they have been given |
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Post by tomandrobin on Nov 17, 2023 14:00:43 GMT -5
That when they scan tickets, an annual pass would not let them in from backstage. Found out that was a lie. Otherwise we could have let my kid just stay with me and save the whole trip cost to begin with, but whatever. We were just very glad that not all the money went to waste. That is because your school TA was ignorant or did not want to lose out on commission......or possibly both. |
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Post by helenabear on Nov 17, 2023 22:10:35 GMT -5
That when they scan tickets, an annual pass would not let them in from backstage. Found out that was a lie. Otherwise we could have let my kid just stay with me and save the whole trip cost to begin with, but whatever. We were just very glad that not all the money went to waste. That is because your school TA was ignorant or did not want to lose out on commission......or possibly both. This was a school trip, not a regular type of a trip where we got tickets as part of the whole music festival whatever they called it this spring. It was part of a recording thingie they did too. The tickets were highly discounted tbh. Still our TA did suck and suck badly. I was quite pissed with the amount I spent on my kid's trip to stay off site for 4 days. Very unhappy tbh. They're talking doing Disney again next year. If we do it, I will push to let my kid stay with me. I'm not repeating that hot mess of a trip. |
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