Book through Disney or not for good neighbor hotel?

[Babybears]

We always go thru Costco Travel to book our trips. You get the same package (and price) as through Disneyland.com but you get extras with Costco, like a $145 gift card if you stay at a Good Neighbor Hotel (larger gift card if you stay onsite). They used to give you a free voucher for character breakfast for everyone on your reservation, which you could use anywhere (value was $45.00 per voucher). So for our family of 5, we would have basically $225.00 in Dining money to spend that was just an extra thrown in to our package because it was with Costco, so it make it worth it to us.

 

[Blue32]

I will add that the biggest benefit to pre purchasing your tickets WITH Maxpass would be to hedge against an increase in price. We don’t really know yet if there will be a ticket price increase this coming year or if Maxpass will see an increase in price as well.

 

[twodogs]

I will add that the biggest benefit to pre purchasing your tickets WITH Maxpass would be to hedge against an increase in price. We don’t really know yet if there will be a ticket price increase this coming year or if Maxpass will see an increase in price as well.

And if you want to upgrade to an AP from this ticket, I have read that pre-purchasing MP with the tickets (say from UT) allows the full value of the tickets plus MP to be applied to the AP. If you add MP day by day, and then upgrade to an AP, the MP cost won't apply to the AP unless you go to the ticket booth, and even then, YMMV according to OPs.