DVC discount prices: theme parks

[spartacus]

What are the costs for the Discount prices for DVC members for the theme parks?
Where would I go to locate them?
How would I order them?
Our Trip is in July.

 

[shelbyjosh]

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10% UPH (Length of Stay) Pass.

There are also discounts for Disney Quest and maybe Pleasure Island (I think). They are purchased at check-in and you cannot get them in advance.

We have never gotten these. Only the 6 or 7 day PHP passes that were purchased from online brokers at a discount greater than Disney's!!

 

[jmminarik]

Originally posted by spartacus

What are the costs for the Discount prices for DVC members for the theme parks?
Where would I go to locate them?
How would I order them?
Our Trip is in July.

Since they are purchased at check-in, it would be hard to say for sure what the prices will be in July. I believe you also need to purchase them for each member of your 'party' 3 and older, though you can delete the first and/or last day of the stay from the UPH if memory serves.

As ShellyJosh pointed out, it is usually cheaper to acquire regular park tickets than the UPH's with discount. The UPH's primary target are the people buying 'packages' for a WDW trip. My personal opinion is Disney only offers it for those who don't think it through or as a marketing ploy to say 'Look, we give you discounts'.

If you do a search on the 'Budget Board' for ticket and ticket prices, look at http://www.wdwinfo.com/discounts/discounts-tickets.htm or hop over to Mary Warring's Mousesavers.com you can get a better idea of your other ticketing options and costs.

Hope this helps,
Joe

 

[crisi]

As someone who has thought through UPHs and buys them - paying a premium for them, I'd have to disagree with jmminarik's assessment.

If value is your main concern, buy Park Hoppers in advance through a ticket broker (www.mousesavers.com lists a few reputable brokers). That is the way to get the cheapest cost per day outside of buying an annual pass and spending at least nine days in the parks.

But, for us (after much thought), we've determined UPHs are worth a slight premium to us - mainly in flexibility (tickets become a sunk cost - so if we spend the day by the pool and just go to Epcot for dinner, the money has already been spent) and the freedom to have a single card (we room charge, so we can honestly walk into a park with just our room key and the clothes on our backs). No need to worry about how many days or plusses are left on tickets. Plus I'm a walking organizational disaster - so if I bought a seven day hopper and used four days and then lost the hopper (and the copy - I'm really a disaster), I'd be out four days. So for us (and possibly no one but those of us as able to stick things in a "safe place" and never find them again) its actually cheaper. (Now, if you are the type not to go into the parks every day and NOT loose your hoppers, hoppers will definately be cheaper).

(By the way, the slight cost for us last trip was something on the order of $2 a day per person to have UPHs instead of hoppers).

 

[dianeschlicht]

We don't usually do the water parks or DisneyQuest, so the little 10% discount for UPH doesn't make sense for us. We try to schedule our trips so that we get at least two trips on an annual pass. That has been the least costly for us. We have used an AP as little as 14 days, and as many as 29. We will probably have about 24 days on our current one when it is expired.