Disney Photopass Offer

[joolz1910]

Right, I'm going to start working through my 'to do' list. I'm going to prepay for a Photopass. I understand the way it works in the parks but I wanted to know how it works when you get home. As far as I can work out, you go online, select your photos, add borders and fun stuff and then they send you a CD with all of your choices. You can then print them or make your own photo book. Is that right?

I'm looking at this deal:

http://www.disneyphotopass.com/previsitoffer.aspx

Probably the $99 deal. Has anyone done this before? Is this the best deal out there? I don't want to do a share this time.
Any advice greatly appreciated, as usual.

 

[LiveToTravelNicely]

We did the pre-visit $99 photopass in July 2011 and it worked great. You will register an account when purchasing the pre-order. This will give you a credit until you get back from your trip. Once you get back from your trip, you will have 30 days to edit and select pictures for the CD. Then, when you proceed to check-out the credit will appear.

 

[BoilerMouse]

We did it last year as well. I want to say I paid $99.95 up-front then just the tax (or tax and shipping) when we ordered. Best deal unless you only plan to buy a couple of small photos or only going for a few days and will not have a lot of photos. We went for over a week and had them take something like 130+ photos then when we got back home we edited most of them (added fun boarders, cropped etc) plus kept the original copies so our disk contained well over 200 photos of the trip. Well worth the money and a lot of fun as we could allow the kids to do a lot individual photos or get some pictures with just my wife or I so they could have there own pictures of what they wanted and not just a big group shot.

 

[beautifullily]

Thanks for posting the link. I hadn't really heard about this so have had a look around. The website says that photos taken at character dining such as Chef Mickeys require a tableside photo purchase to be included on your photopass. Does anyone know how much they cost?

 

[beautifullily]

Thanks for posting the link. I hadn't really heard about this so have had a look around. The website says that photos taken at character dining such as Chef Mickeys require a tableside photo purchase to be included on your photopass. Does anyone know how much they cost?

 

[Elise79]

Right, I'm going to start working through my 'to do' list. I'm going to prepay for a Photopass. I understand the way it works in the parks but I wanted to know how it works when you get home. As far as I can work out, you go online, select your photos, add borders and fun stuff and then they send you a CD with all of your choices. You can then print them or make your own photo book. Is that right?

I'm looking at this deal:

http://www.disneyphotopass.com/previsitoffer.aspx

Probably the $99 deal. Has anyone done this before? Is this the best deal out there? I don't want to do a share this time.
Any advice greatly appreciated, as usual.

Yes that will be the best deal

We love Photopass and I usually order the Photobook too as I love them

Thanks for posting the link. I hadn't really heard about this so have had a look around. The website says that photos taken at character dining such as Chef Mickeys require a tableside photo purchase to be included on your photopass. Does anyone know how much they cost?

The pictures at the character meals were $32 last October

 

[joolz1910]

Don't like the sound of the 'tableside' charge. I had assumed that any Photopass photographer would take your photo and add it to your file.

 

[Elise79]

At the parks all the photographers will take your photo free however at certain character meals (chef Mickeys, Donald's Safari and Hoop de doo but there are others) they have a photo op before you are seated. They bring these 'packages' round to the table for you to purchase. If you purchase you can add to your photopass too.

The photo packages are included at CRT & Norway princess meals.

 

[rosh]

Just to clarify - once you've selected the photos you want and received the CD, are the picture files then your property to print as and when you like, however you like? Or do prints have to be ordered and paid for through Disney??

 

[wayneg]

Just to clarify - once you've selected the photos you want and received the CD, are the picture files then your property to print as and when you like, however you like? Or do prints have to be ordered and paid for through Disney??

The CD's come with a release document to prove you can print anywhere you like.

 

[rosh]

The CD's come with a release document to prove you can print anywhere you like.

Can you explain this further to me please

Can I upload the files to a photo website like Snapfish or Tesco photo to make prints/photobooks etc?

 

[wayneg]

Can you explain this further to me please

Can I upload the files to a photo website like Snapfish or Tesco photo to make prints/photobooks etc?

Don't see why not, as long as you are not using them for commercial reasons you can do what you want with them. Someone has uploaded a release here so you can read the wording for yourself http://planoband.smugmug.com/Music/...12563722_MWjPBS#!i=901809363&k=fMGqB&lb=1&s=A

 

[Cyrano]

We have done Photopass for our last three WDW holidays.
It is a good way of getting everyone included in the photo and those "special" photo pass photographer photos are a favourite of the troops

The years other family have been with us has made it an even better deal. We had a 4 way split with MIL and both SIL's

 

[~Piglet~]

Thanks for posting the link - now I just need to decide whether we buy just the photopass or the album too

We pre-ordered last trip too and when I was creating our album I did wonder if I had made the right choice, but when it arrived it was perfect, much better than I expected

When editing your photopass pics use every available border and theme - even if you never print them all out they look great in a digital photo frame slideshow.

 

[beautifullily]

The photo packages are included at CRT & Norway princess meals.

So can these pics be added to the photopass free of charge? Have booked for both of these meals.

 

[joolz1910]

So can these pics be added to the photopass free of charge? Have booked for both of these meals.

I want to book for Akershus too.

Definitely going to prepay for the Photopass, but which package???

 

[wayneg]

So can these pics be added to the photopass free of charge? Have booked for both of these meals.

We added Akershus pics to our photopass free last August, you can then add borders as we did to these 2 below.

 

[beautifullily]

aawww, they're lovely.

 

[joolz1910]

Definitely worth it, Wayne - they are lovely! Did you do your own photobook or upgrade to the higher package?

 

[wayneg]

Definitely worth it, Wayne - they are lovely! Did you do your own photobook or upgrade to the higher package?

Just bought the CD's. We only look at photos on PC or TV, if we had a book made it would get thrown in the attic.