AAA Multi Day Tickets

[Zimbubba]

We just returned from a great trip to Disneyland. We highly recommend the AAA tickets available in advance. We bought the 5 for 3 with multiple Fastpass option. They were great. At one point we had in our posession Fastpasses for all of the Fastpass attractions in Disneyland. (I just wanted to see if it worked!) Over the next few hours we visited all of these attractions without a wait. The ESPN card and Breakfast in the Park were nice add ons that were included free.

 

[goofyfordisney]

Just wondering...

How far in advance did you purchase your AAA tickets?

How much was the handling fee?

Thanks!

 

[tink2dw]

Did you buy they at your local office?? Or online?? How much did they cost??

 

[Zimbubba]

I believe they were around $113.00 a piece. Handling was about $10.00. They ship them to the AAA office not your address. They come from the Walt Disney Travel Co. Actualy, we ordered them in March at a travel fair our local AAA office was having. They will not deliver them until around 2 weeks prior to your visit.

 

[year2late]

I used them as well and it made all the difference! Then I turned them in and coughed up a little extra and turned them into Annual Passes!

 

[wendell]

Hi there,

If you don't mind my asking, did you have to purchase a trip package thru CSAA to get the great 5 for 3 deal with fastpass option or could you just purchase the tickets with fastpass option alone?

Thanks for any advice you might have on this.

Wendell

 

[goofyfordisney]

The Passport Plus tickets are sold without the package (it even says something about "not needing lodging..." in the brochure)

My local office needs about a week notice to order them. They add a handling charge ($15.00) to the total order. The price of the tickets is $121.50(adult). It includes the unlimited fastpass, breakfast voucher, ESPN $10 zone credit--I guess the tickets are "coded" a certain way, so you just take the hopper ticket into ESPN and they give a ESPN zone card or something.

My son is in DL right now with a friend--I didn't have enough time to order him one, so he just got the regular hopper pass for $119-as far as I know these tickets DON'T have the unlimited fastpass option--he was really hoping for the unlimited fastpasses! Oh well...

He is going to turn his hopper into a AP pass because we are going to DL in December. I think I will make sure to order these passes for the rest of us for our upcoming trip!

 

[wendell]

Wow, thanks for the quick response and for all of the information. I'll be sure to give it a try and I'm sure our vacation will be even better thanks to you!

Take care,

Wendell

 

[realpatt]

We got the AAA passes and I highly recommend them. We were not charged a $15.00 handling charge and I'd ask to see where that charge is in writing. It did take some effort to get the passes as no one seemed to know about them. Our local office in North Carolina told me we needed to get them though a Cal. office. They didn't know any more about them that the North Carolina office. After much discussion they gave me the AAA national travel number, who informed me that they only dealt with the AAA travel agents and I could not get the tickets myself. When I called our AAA office and requested the tickets and told them how to get them, she said why would we want to do it, we don't get anything out of it. I informed her that they were commissionable and she ordered them. I would refuse to pay a $15.00 additional charge. That's what your membership is for. The tickets are listed (I think on page 18) of the Disneyland brochure AAA puts out. You have to push a lot to get them but they are worth it. The free parking sets them apart from the tickets you can get through Disney, but for 5 days that's a $40.00 savings. Check Mouse Savers and I think they list the phone number that the AAA agent has to call to get the tickets. I'm out of town (at Disneyland) so I don't have it with me.

 

[my3kids]

We got the same tickets directly from Walt Disney Travel. I think they cost the same, but no free parking. We stayed onsite so that didn't matter. No matter how many times I called various AAA offices and numbers, they kept trying to send me the wrong tickets and denied the Passport Plus tickets even existed. When I directed them to the page in the brochure specified here, they denied they even had a Disneyland brochure.

I ordered from WDTC and since they consider it a "package" (even though it is only the ticket) you can pay your deposit and then the rest not until 30 days prior to arrival, if you choose. The tickets were FEDEX'ed to me and required a signature for delivery.