Annual Pass

[ironpig70]

is there one for folks not in so cal???? only ones i see are for so cal

 

[bumbershoot]

Where are you looking? The Tickets only page on disneyland.com has links to the Deluxe and Premium APs.

Premium allows access every day of the year, and you get a 15% discount on most food and 10% discount on most merchandise.

Deluxe has blocked out days (it gives you 315 days of access) and 10% off most food. That's the one we have.

 

[ironpig70]

thanks i see what i did wrong i saw


southern ca select
southern california
deluxe
preminmum


and on the bottom Residents living in zip code areas 90000-93599 this is only for the first 2. to bad an "adult" is 10 and up. my oldest turns 10 on this trip.

 

[bumbershoot]

disney's site changes from time to time, and they make no sense in organization.

We love having our AP. Paid for itself during our first trip this year! Well, sort of. Really paid for itself on the first day of our second trip, but we wouldn't have had that last partial day on our first trip if we hadn't upgraded!

 

[ironpig70]

well i looked at the 365 and it would take 2 5 day trips to make my money back just on tickets. the hotel and drive are the killer to disney for me.

 

[bumbershoot]

We decided on the Deluxe b/c it's pretty easy to work around the blocked out dates. Well, except for DS's b'day...we really thought that they would have the DEP and Fantasmic on Memorial Day (DS's actual b'day this year), but it turns out they aren't, so we're likely paying the $40 each for a blockout pass to get in that Sunday. None of us have ever seen Fantasmic and DS and DH haven't seen the Electrical Parade, so we'll probably do that.

Other than that, though, it's been easy to avoid planning on blocked out days.

I don't know where you're driving from, but as for hotels, especially if you're not going at the crazy-busy times, you can find deals. With an AP, HoJo offers a 20% discount! (if you can't get the Entertainment Book discount that's extra-special for just the Anaheim HoJo) Last year in the Fall the Disney hotels had some *amazing* deals for AP holders ("amazing" being relative of course).

But that still doesn't help with the drive costs.



Editing to add our breakeven point. We had a 5 day hopper with our package deal, and we upgraded to APs on that trip. At the time the Deluxe was 239, and the adult hoppers had a value of 189 each, I believe. So we paid the difference between the two, and voila, we had an AP! We knew that we would be coming back to DLR at least *one* day during the year to visit my brother in San Diego, and just that one day ticket plus the 5 day would have brought our total to MORE than the Deluxe AP. So that was our breakeven point, even without the food discounts (and opportunity last December to buy, by mail, the POTC 3 disc along with a special matted print they sold at Disneyland on the day POTC3 was released).

 

[bumbershoot]

Oh, and the Premium includes parking, too! So if you drive in and park every day, definitely make sure you are factoring that savings, with the AP, into the cost.