Entertainment Book

[juliebro]

Are these still worth getting? If so, acn you remind me what the Orlando zipcode is?

Thanks

 

[florida sun]

Im sorry I dont think I can be much help here as Im not sure what the book is that you are talking about, I have checked out Orlando zipcodes, but I think that there may be more than one I checked 2 hotel address, the Allstars which comes out as zip code 32830 and The Hardrock Hotel which comes out at zip code 32819, so I presume that there must be more than one zipcode.

Can anybody else help??

 

[Minniespal]

To be honest, I wouldn't bother with the Entertainment book. The discounts there are offering are ones that you can easily pick-up when you are there.

Hope this helps

 

[juliebro]

Thanks. I bought one once - as they were practically giving them away - and we did save more than the cost of the book itself. But the book is quite big to carry around with you - and not everywhere we wanted to go was in it.

Probably won't bother this time.

Julie

 

[suei]

We've bought the Orlando Book for 2006 and, although it's not as good as it was a few years ago when coupons were also valid at lots of other places outside the Orlando area, there is a good range of coupons in it. There's a coupon for the Meal and Movie Deal at Universal (which we're planning to use and was the reason we bought the book) which is worth $19.95, and so the book will pretty much pay for itself just by using this. Including postage to the UK, it cost just over £13, and it arrived in less than a week. It is selling for $20 at the moment, which is what we paid for it.
Just to give some idea of what else the book contains.... there are coupons for Fun Spot, Magical Midway, Gatorland, Disney on Ice, AMF Bowling, Pirate’s Cove Adventure Golf, Putting Edge, Sky Venture, Tiki Island Adventure Golf, $15 off for Medieval Times Dinner Show, $5 off for Sea World, Busch Gardens and Adventure Island (if buying tickets at the gate), $10 off for Dixie Stampede - to name a few of the attractions; and for many many food outlets, like McDs, Fuddruckers, Cold Stone Creamery, Planet Smoothie, Bill Wongs, Baskin Robbins, Dunkin Donuts, Pizza Hut, Outback Restaurant, etc - lots of these are BOGOF offers.
To be honest, we're unlikely to use more than a dozen or so of what's in the book, but the savings by using just a few of them can make it worth the purchase price. It depends whether coupons for places/restaurants you want to go to are in there.
It's true to say that a lot of the coupons are available in booklets that you can pick up for free in Orlando. The Book is also quite thick and therefore heavy, but we are intending to only take a selection of what's in it with us, not the whole book.
If there are particular places/restaurants you're interested in, I could let you know if there's a coupon in the Book.
Hope this helps.

 

[Amyrlin]

Suei, the Meal and Movie Deal at Universal, is that a send off deal, or is it just the voucher. The movies deals used to be ones you sent off for the tickets.

I like the book as it is also a book where the dicounts on osme places are much higher than the usual coupons, such as buy one get one frees at places like Popeyes etc as well as buy ine get one free on a range of good restruants for the entrees.

 

[suei]

Hi Amyrlin,
The coupon is a "Meal & Movie Pass" for 1 person. It says that it can be redeemed at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville, Hard Rock Cafe, Latin Quarter, NASCAR Cafe, NBA City, Motown Cafe or Pastamore for 1 entree and 1 beverage from a select menu; and 1 movie of your choice at the Universal Cineplex at CityWalk.
This webpage: http://www.orlandoescape.com/universalstudios/city_walk_dinner_movie.htm
shows the choices of meals available.

 

[Amyrlin]

Thanks suei, that alone makes it worth getting, as we were going to do that.