Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[momof2gr8kids]

OMG!! The Disney World Tickets are back up and it's not good. 4695 per 5 day ticket for adults!!!

 

[kerreyn]

OMG!! The Disney World Tickets are back up and it's not good. 4695 per 5 day ticket for adults!!!

OUCH! Thank goodness I only need one!

 

[momof2gr8kids]

5200 for a 7 day adult WDW ticket. Ugh.
I don't see anything about expiry dates at all in terms and conditions. Anyone else see anything?

 

[kerreyn]

5200 for a 7 day adult WDW ticket. Ugh.
I don't see anything about expiry dates at all in terms and conditions. Anyone else see anything?

I don't see an expiry date either. I just ordered one, when I get it I can let you know if there's an expiry date on the ticket.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Just got this in an e-mail and chuckled since i had already placed another order and was looking for the confirmation! My sister needs a new computer set up so i just offered to order it Anyone ever watched Matilda? It's a joke here if anyone is going out "but who will be here to receive the packages?"

 

[ottawamom]

5200 for a 7 day adult WDW ticket. Ugh.
I don't see anything about expiry dates at all in terms and conditions. Anyone else see anything?

Airmiles math time.

WDW 7 Day base ticket (incl tax) $436.65.

5200AM = 5200/95*10=$547.37 Cdn

$547.37Cdn/1.2584 (today's rate a an exchange office)= $434.97 US

Looks like they are charging us the exact value they are getting on the tickets (assumes they can't purchase them at a discount from Disney) Now if the exchange rate changes we could be getting a deal again.

 

[elaine amj]

5200 AM? Ouch.

During the Cdn promo, it was just 3250 air miles for a 7 day base ticket. Which is a SIXTY percent hike. Ouch ouch ouch. I expected maybe a 25-30% hike. I guess we just got spoilt by insanely good deals during the Cdn promos and not feeling all the effects of price increases and the terrible exchange rate?

From all I can tell digging through this thread, it used to be 3775 air miles for a 7 day ticket before the Cdn promo.

Based on exchange rate above - I guess it sounds somewhat reasonable...Sucks that they are only giving us $10 for 95AM redemption rate though. No savings over just using AM to pay for my groceries They have made redemption so bad I would be better off paying for my groceries with AM and put the savings towards buying more flexible Disney discounted tickets.

 

[Disney Addicted]

OMG!! The Disney World Tickets are back up and it's not good. 4695 per 5 day ticket for adults!!!

Ugh.. I wonder what they'll do with the regular 2-day 2-park-to-park tickets for Universal when they come back.

 

[mort1331]

Yup saw this myself and said, buy the child ticket now. I have one in the bank already. My little one is 6 (bday is feb) so have 3 1/2 years to use 2 child tickets. I think I can do it.
Glad I stocked up on the discounted adults while I could. Pickle Power.

 

[ottawamom]

5200 AM? Ouch.

During the Cdn promo, it was just 3250 air miles for a 7 day base ticket. Which is a SIXTY percent hike. Ouch ouch ouch. I expected maybe a 25-30% hike. I guess we just got spoilt by insanely good deals during the Cdn promos and not feeling all the effects of price increases and the terrible exchange rate?

From all I can tell digging through this thread, it used to be 3775 air miles for a 7 day ticket before the Cdn promo.

Based on exchange rate above - I guess it sounds somewhat reasonable...Sucks that they are only giving us $10 for 95AM redemption rate though. No savings over just using AM to pay for my groceries They have made redemption so bad I would be better off paying for my groceries with AM and put the savings towards buying more flexible Disney discounted tickets.

The 95AM = $10 is the rate I use when calculating whether something is priced reasonably or not. It's not necessarily what AM is using when calculating what to price things at. It just sort of worked out to be that in this case. They could have tickets at this price level for a while and then decide to put them on "sale" because they aren't moving. Who knows.

Way I look at it is I'm not spending the cash out of my pocket when redeeming for anything on AM. Yes occasionally I do pay a little more for some of my purchases but generally I do really well with the value of "bonus offers".

 

[Days In the Sun]

I was hoping to get one more ticket to add a hopper to for an October trip. I was anticipating 4300 for a 5-day ticket, 4695 is a little high.

At this new airmiles rate, I only see value in using dream miles for tickets as a savings vehicle. Dollar-wise, it now looks cheaper to pay for discounted tickets, whether from undercover tourist, Disney's own discounted tickets (4 park promo, Canadian promo, DVC promos) etc. and use the airmiles as cash. However, I'm not great at making sure money gets tucked away when I use airmiles as cash so I'm staying with dream miles for now. It's also easier for me to justify going to Disney with "free tickets" than to use saved away cash that really could be used for anything.

 

[Days In the Sun]

Metro posted the August "spend 95am, get 25am back" today ... in our accounts anyway.

 

[Days In the Sun]

The 95AM = $10 is the rate I use when calculating whether something is priced reasonably or not. It's not necessarily what AM is using when calculating what to price things at. It just sort of worked out to be that in this case. They could have tickets at this price level for a while and then decide to put them on "sale" because they aren't moving. Who knows.

Way I look at it is I'm not spending the cash out of my pocket when redeeming for anything on AM. Yes occasionally I do pay a little more for some of my purchases but generally I do really well with the value of "bonus offers".

I've always found that Disney tickets were very good value compared to other options, now seem to be on par. I wonder if we are now paying for all the points they anticipated would expire unused?

 

[Donald - my hero]

For all my on-line shopping buddies I thought i would pass on a little hint for Indigo. Currently they are one of the 10X multipliers until Sept 11th but if you wait until this weekend to shop you can also get 15% off with this code HAPPY15. Since you don't earn AM on purchases less than $20.00 it should be easy to get to the free shipping mark of $25.00. In this house Santa tends to give everyone some sort of book related item so he plans to snag all of those things this weekend

 

[osully]

The 95AM = $10 is the rate I use when calculating whether something is priced reasonably or not. It's not necessarily what AM is using when calculating what to price things at. It just sort of worked out to be that in this case. They could have tickets at this price level for a while and then decide to put them on "sale" because they aren't moving. Who knows.

Way I look at it is I'm not spending the cash out of my pocket when redeeming for anything on AM. Yes occasionally I do pay a little more for some of my purchases but generally I do really well with the value of "bonus offers".

I look at it this way too. If this means our next trip is $1000 less for the 2 of us I consider that a good deal no matter how many AM. USD to CAD could get worse again anyhow!!

 

[elaine amj]

The 95AM = $10 is the rate I use when calculating whether something is priced reasonably or not. It's not necessarily what AM is using when calculating what to price things at. It just sort of worked out to be that in this case. They could have tickets at this price level for a while and then decide to put them on "sale" because they aren't moving. Who knows.

Way I look at it is I'm not spending the cash out of my pocket when redeeming for anything on AM. Yes occasionally I do pay a little more for some of my purchases but generally I do really well with the value of "bonus offers".

True. That is my benchmark for valuing AM. But with Disney tickets priced this high, they are no longer a good value for redemption. I am better off redeeming for something else or switching to cash miles. I would save more redeeming cash miles for groceries and then buying discounted tickets. Or buying discounted gift cards to pay for a free dining package deal.

A very disappointing move by Air Miles and really reduces the value of AMs for me. My plan now is to collect enough for one more 7 day ticket and then change my strategy.

For those who still need child tickets, get them ASAP as they still have stock of Cdn discount tickets for kids.

 

[pigletto]

True. That is my benchmark for valuing AM. But with Disney tickets priced this high, they are no longer a good value for redemption. I am better off redeeming for something else or switching to cash miles. I would save more redeeming cash miles for groceries and then buying discounted tickets. Or buying discounted gift cards to pay for a free dining package deal.

A very disappointing move by Air Miles and really reduces the value of AMs for me. My plan now is to collect enough for one more 7 day ticket and then change my strategy.

For those who still need child tickets, get them ASAP as they still have stock of Cdn discount tickets for kids.

I'm with you. I would need four tickets for our next trip. It would take me forever to collect over 20,000 miles.

I'm only going to shop the really good promos and probably switch to cash miles.

 

[hdrolfe]

Sobeys will be having a Blue Friday. Looks like a few good deals, but most don't list prices so it's hard to say how good a value it really will be! I will try and post details once kiddo is in bed if someone doesn't beat me to it

Rexall will have a spend $50 on beauty get 100 AM one day only.

 

[bababear_50]

Wow the new Disney adult ticket is way higher than I thought it would be,
Need to think up a new strategy here. I may have to switch over from Shell gas to Petro Canada gas and start collecting points to transfer over to my C.A.A. account and buy tickets there. I have been to Disney so much that we tend not to need 5-7 day tickets. I might be better to just buy single day tickets as I can afford them. We also have more plans for UO in the future.
Just a bit shocked here.................
Hugs Mel

 

[bababear_50]

Sobeys will be having a Blue Friday. Looks like a few good deals, but most don't list prices so it's hard to say how good a value it really will be! I will try and post details once kiddo is in bed if someone doesn't beat me to it

Rexall will have a spend $50 on beauty get 100 AM one day only.

Off to bed
http://www.magickeys.com/books/
Aunt Mel will read you a story while mom post the deals...Hugs Hon

Sobeys Blue Friday i can't wait.