Buying Disneyland tickets online. Anyone?

[EmmersIsTheMommy]

My MIL wants to buy our tickets online (since there are about 30 of us) but we're nervous about it.

How does it work? If you have to print, what happens if something happens to your printer, kwim? Do you have an option to get them sent to you?

 

[CrazyDuck]

Call (714) 781-4400 and tell them that you need to buy 30 tickets and see if they can get you a discount since you are travelling with such a large group! Let us know what they say!

 

[ScooterL]

If you use their "eTicket" option they actually email you a PDF file that has all of the tickets in it (one ticket per page), and you can print out as many copies as you wish - though of course the barcode on any particular ticket is only going to be valid for first-time entry once a day!

Their ticket page says it's only $3.00 per order to have "real" tickets sent to you, so with that many tickets I'd be pretty tempted to just do that - it's only $0.10 per ticket after all, if you buy all 30 at once! And I think a real ticket is a lot easier to carry around (smaller!) than an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper.

I think that to get the online price discount (and I'm assuming you're going for 3-5 day parkhoppers which have a discount, rather than 1-2 day tickets) you have to order online, rather than calling Disney directly for tickets - and there's a higher fee to mail them if you actually talk to someone.

 

[Queenbillabong]

If you buy it enough in advance through the Disneyland.com website, I believe they can actually send your tickets via UPS. These, I believe, would be the hard plastic ones with characters on the front (that's what we got).

 

[Denton]

Will call is another option if you don't want to worry about your printer or the tickets being lost in the mail.

 

[JadeDarkstar]

id call for that many ppl you may get a better deal

 

[EmmersIsTheMommy]

Okay, you guys rock. There is HOPE hehe

I'll call and let you know what they say!

 

[CraftyMouse]

I just ordered mine online. Once you get to the check-out page there are various options for ticket delivery. One is printing them yourselves (free) but there is also an option for standard mail deliver ($3 per order) and one for rush delivery. I always like having the tickets so I chose the standard mail delivery. I figured it was only $.75 per ticket...but in your case it would work out to just $.10 per ticket! I definitely think you should call them though. With 30 tickets you just might get a group/bulk discount.

 

[JenDisneylandlver]

We always buy hopper tickets from disneyland.com. They mail them to us, and we usually get a cool coupon to use in the parks with them! Never bought 30 at a time though!

 

[EmmersIsTheMommy]

Ok ended up a bunch of the group were buying their own on their own time so it only worked out to 8 adults and 1 child. So much for the bulk discount LOL

We ordered online tho and I believe she's doing the mail delivery. She was worried about printing so she was able to avoid it altogether!

 

[bumbershoot]

Emmers, too late for you, but for others considering it. I've read repeatedly that if you forget your printed voucher, or something happens with your email or whatever, you can bring the card you used to pay, and they will help you at DLR (not sure if it's the ticket booth or guest relations, or what).

As for the printouts, you don't carry them through the parks. You turn them in right at the gates and they print you proper tickets for your stay.

 

[Sherry E]

Emmers, too late for you, but for others considering it. I've read repeatedly that if you forget your printed voucher, or something happens with your email or whatever, you can bring the card you used to pay, and they will help you at DLR (not sure if it's the ticket booth or guest relations, or what).

As for the printouts, you don't carry them through the parks. You turn them in right at the gates and they print you proper tickets for your stay.

Right. I did this last year. You take the printed pieces of paper/tickets to the turnstiles and the CM exchanges them for real tickets that you can use for Fast Passes and stuff. Plus, when you print them online, at home, you also get the discount coupon for merchandise that a previous poster mentioned getting with the mail order tickets. They don't deprive you of that just because you print at home. It is just that you have a sheet of paper with the discount rather than a small coupon.

 

[EmmersIsTheMommy]

oh ok good to know. Thanks guys!!