Booking on US site/MDE

[igk]

Hi, I'm planning a last-minute few days to WDW in Oct.
If I book accommodation only on the WDW US site, purchase US tickets (4 day hoppers w/o water parks are ~£40 cheaper than UK 7 day), will it all link up OK with my UK MDE account?
I'm assuming I physically can book accommodation through the US site these days?

 

[igk]

Well, I did book 4 nights at Ft Wilderness Cabins using the Fall Savings offer. It all shows up fine in MDE. I bought 4 day hoppers from Undercover Tourist - this was very good, I bought e-tickets, and received the reference number in less than an hour, which again linked straight away to MDE. I have now made FP+ selections.
It was $84 cheaper buying through UT than Disney direct (it might be even cheaper elsewhere but felt comfortable with them).
Anyway looking forward to a rather unexpected trip!

 

[igk]

Adding to my post as I think of things... The other 'disadvantage' of buying the tickets seperately is not being able to add DDP. At $60/day we couldn't justify that, particularly as DD16 isn't a huge eater (we're not particularly ourselves), and the real cost given the extra cost of the Disney Package tickets would have worked out at $67 equivalent. We like Disney restaurants and have made ADRs for 3 of the 4 nights we're there, but there's no way we'll come close to spending $180/day on food and soft drinks.

 

[wilma-bride]

The only disadvantage that might have been is that as the trip wasn't booked as a package then the FP+ window would only be 60 days rather than 60+ length of stay. That didn't apply as I'm going in less than 60 days.
Anyway looking forward to a rather unexpected trip!

Congratulations on your last minute (unexpected) trip. Just to clarify, for you and anybody else who might be interested, the right to make FP+ at 60 days for length of stay is based purely on you staying onsite and nothing to do with where you buy your tickets/whether you have booked a package. We never buy tickets through Disney but have not had any probems making FP+ reservations at 60 days, for the duration of our onsite stays.

 

[igk]

Congratulations on your last minute (unexpected) trip. Just to clarify, for you and anybody else who might be interested, the right to make FP+ at 60 days for length of stay is based purely on you staying onsite and nothing to do with where you buy your tickets/whether you have booked a package. We never buy tickets through Disney but have not had any probems making FP+ reservations at 60 days, for the duration of our onsite stays.

Yes, didn't realise that - I have edited my earlier post to remove that bit. Thanks for clarifying