lisaisanurse
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2011
2 families =5 adults 9/8-9/16, 2 rooms, CSR, 7 day hoppers, 5 tickets to Universal, DxDP(oink oink, lol) and nonstop through SW air!
We put our down payments down through AAA. We bought a $500 Disney gift card and put $250 down on each booking (2 rooms @ CSR) AAA saved one booking $300 compared to Disney and saved the other booking $200 compared to Disney. the AAA discount will do if no others come our way !
it gets better though....
for those of you that don't live in Pittsburgh Steeler land, our main grocery store is Giant Eagle. For every $50 you spend at Giant eagle, you get .20 cents off a gallon of gas at the Get Go Gas stations! So, I got $109 dollars in free gas using the $500 Disneyy Gift card for down payment. That is an additional 22% discount on top of AAAwoohooI will continue to tweek our reservation as discounts come out since I we are not leaving until 9/8 but I will be able to always have the gas discount on top of any other discount I use!) The fuel perks must be used by 90 days of purchasing the gas, not to worry, there are 4 vehichles involved, and everyone in Pittsburgh has extra gas cans because your entitled to 30 gallons per fill and no one wants to lose a free gallon of gas at almost $4 a gallon!!!
We plan on doing our whole trip in gift cards. We paid Southwest $1250 in Giftcards for the 5 of our airfares, getting us $150 in FREE gasoline!!!!
Giant Eagle sells Universal gift cards too, only 3 of us going to see Harry Potter. Tickets will be $400 and refillable cups will be $16 and one dining plan will be $20 ....we will get $55 in free gas for this purchase, making that $17+ off per ticket per person, yeah!
We bought a $200 Disney gift card for tipping purposes only since we are on the DxDP, that got us $24 dollars in free gasoline! Disney gift cards are like cash at Disney, I called prior!
will keep you updated as we pay off our trip in Gift cards,,,,
I hope other states have "fuel perks or something similar" It really does help!
The only downfall, if trip is canceled, we get a heck of a Disney Gift card, but we will re book if something came up, someone in the family will use them!!!