HalloweenTime at DLR Superthread- 9/14-10/31; Mickey's Halloween Party starts 9/28!

[DizNee Luver]

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong but if I recall, the general public tickets go on sale in the Summer, like July or August, don't they? Maybe I am thinking of something else?

Can someone confirm or deny that the tickets go on sale in Summer? I honestly blanked out on when they went on sale to the public/non-AP holders last year. For some reason, July/August sticks out in my mind.

Wow....really?? That's a long ways out.....well I guess it really isn't.....forgot we were already in May..........

 

[funatdisney]

Sherry, general public ticket sales started early July last year. At least that is what I remember.

DisneyParks Blog will post their first blog of the day in the morning. Usually, they will do East Coast news *arouind 8 am our time) and start the West Coast news late morning.

 

[mvf-m11c]

I believed you were right Liza. I remember that I bought my MHP AP tickets in mid June and the tickets were not for sale to the general public.

Here is the link on the Disney Blog which tells you the dates when MHP tickets were on sale to the AP holders and general public: http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/05/mickey-moves-his-halloween-party-across-the-esplanade/

 

[oumagic]

Do you know if you can buy multiple Halloween tickets with one AP? 6 of us will be there October 3 and I was wondering if I could buy 6 discounted tickets if I had one AP?

 

[Sherry E]

Sherry, general public ticket sales started early July last year. At least that is what I remember.

DisneyParks Blog will post their first blog of the day in the morning. Usually, they will do East Coast news *arouind 8 am our time) and start the West Coast news late morning.

I believed you were right Liza. I remember that I bought my MHP AP tickets in mid June and the tickets were not for sale to the general public.

Here is the link on the Disney Blog which tells you the dates when MHP tickets were on sale to the AP holders and general public: http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/05/mickey-moves-his-halloween-party-across-the-esplanade/

Liza & Bret -

I think the reason I had August in my mind as well as July is because there was at least one year when the general public tickets went on sale in August. It may have been the year I went to the party - can't recall. And then they began putting them on sale in July. I assume that Disney must have realized that it was cutting it too close for the people planning to attend by putting tickets on sale in August (and not giving people enough time to plan).

Because the party was in DCA at that point, there were fewer tickets sold, too, so they were more susceptible to selling out on more nights. Now that the party is in DL and they sell more tickets, it's much less likely to sell out.

I check the Parks Blog every day, at least twice a day, and I get the Parks Blog e-mail updates the next day, and I am on a million Disney Facebook pages - but I check pages at different times. I don't check them at the same times every day, so when the dates popped up on the AP site last night I wasn't sure if there had been a Parks Blog story that I had missed since I last went on the Blog a couple of hours before - that's what tends to happen to me. I check something and there is NO update when I check, and then a few hours or a few days later an update suddenly appears!

Do you know if you can buy multiple Halloween tickets with one AP? 6 of us will be there October 3 and I was wondering if I could buy 6 discounted tickets if I had one AP?

oumagic - Yes, you can purchase multiple Halloween party tickets with one person's AP, but there is a limit of some kind. I cannot recall if the limit is 4 tickets, 5 tickets or 6 tickets. You will be able to at least get some of the 6 tickets at a discounted AP price, if not all of them.

 

[TheColtonsMom]

OMG! I cannot believe on the one day I am curled up in bed all day with Colton & I both sick that they finally announce the party dates! Well a day late but WhooHoo! There are actually 3 party dates during our visit! Now to decide if we go to the one on the day we arrive or the one on the day before we leave in the AM... We will Def be at the one on Friday the 14th.

 

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I'm feeling Grumpy today....

 

[funatdisney]

Ok guys something interesting. The AP site says that tickets will go on sale in MAY 2012! Someone I am sure did a typo. Copied directly from the site:

"Advanced tickets for Mickey's Trick-or-Treat Party will go on sale in May 2012. Annual Passholders can take advantage of this special opportunity to purchase and save on select nights during these spooky festivities. Dress up your little ones, don a costume of your own and trick-or-treat at Disneyland Park."

 

[TheColtonsMom]

Ok guys something interesting. The AP site says that tickets will go on sale in MAY 2012! Someone I am sure did a typo. Copied directly from the site:

"Advanced tickets for Mickey's Trick-or-Treat Party will go on sale in May 2012. Annual Passholders can take advantage of this special opportunity to purchase and save on select nights during these spooky festivities. Dress up your little ones, don a costume of your own and trick-or-treat at Disneyland Park."

and Laurie was worried about having to wait until July/August to buy tickets

 

[Sherry E]

That '2012' was actually the first thing I noticed in the text skiingfast posted here last night - even before I looked at the party dates!

I can't recall the thread in which that was addressed - I think it was in the new party thread that Paula created - but skiingfast was talking about how he copied the info directly from the AP site and that it must be a typo...which is the only thing that made me wonder if the "Monday, October 3" party date could have also been a typo and they meant to say "Tuesday, October 4." Probably not, but seeing that they incorrectly mentioned 2012 in there (they needed me to go in there and proofread their work for them!), it is a logical question!

 

[smile4stamps]

oumagic - Yes, you can purchase multiple Halloween party tickets with one person's AP, but there is a limit of some kind. I cannot recall if the limit is 4 tickets, 5 tickets or 6 tickets. You will be able to at least get some of the 6 tickets at a discounted AP price, if not all of them.

The bottom of the AP info states you can purchase 8 tickets per AP.

 

[Sherry E]

The bottom of the AP info states you can purchase 8 tickets per AP.

Thanks for clarifying that, Paula! I did not see that part - I stopped reading right at the dates/prices and bullet points of the highlights of the party (which look to be about the same as last year - nothing new, sadly) so I didn't get down to the bottom part of the info or I overlooked the 8-ticket reference. I was hoping to see some big bold text that said "NEW TO MICKEY'S HALLOWEEN PARTY IN 2011," and then a few added party highlights, but, alas, no.

That's great information to know, especially for oumagic, who wanted the 6 tickets. Was it always an 8-ticket limit, or was it at some point a 6-ticket limit? I seem to recall a 6-ticket limit mentioned at some point in the past, but it may have been a few years back.

Anyway, I think 8 tickets is a very generous number for AP discounts, given that the overall ticket price went up a bit.

 

[nik76]

Is it unusual to be shaky and giddy while waiting for the travel agent to call you back to actually book your Disneyland vacation? Especially your kids first, husband's second and you haven't been in 10 years? AND your first Halloweentime visit? Cuz I'm positively jittery right now...

And I think I posted in the right place this time...

 

[funatdisney]

Is it unusual to be shaky and giddy while waiting for the travel agent to call you back to actually book your Disneyland vacation? Especially your kids first, husband's second and you haven't been in 10 years? AND your first Halloweentime visit? Cuz I'm positively jittery right now...

And I think I posted in the right place this time...

Absolutely normal.

 

[nik76]

Phew! Cuz now that it's booked. I think I'm jello...

 

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OK...DH and I are about to KILL each other. It all started innocently enough, last night I went to a travel agent seminar for Disneyland/Disneyworld in the hopes of getting some solid info about WDW as we are planning to go sometime in 2014 (I'm an overplanner, I can't help it). I ended up winning the big door prize of the night, which was a 3 night stay at the Hilton Anaheim (which I know nothing about, as we've always stayed at HOJO's). DH in his infinite wisdom want's to go for 4 days late Sept to take advantage of my AP, which expires on Oct 2nd. So I've got to plan an unexpected trip to DL that the kids know nothing about. It will be late Sept, and will let everyone know by Tues next week the dates, then I can attempt to find cheap airfare and work on getting the MHP tickets. The dates will either be: Sept 28 to Oct 2, or Sept 29 to Oct 3. Wish me luck, as this trip is going to be on a very tight budget, and was unplanned to say the least. When do the MHP tickets go on sale for AP holders? As soon as I've got the hotel booked, am going to put that next on my to do list along with airfare. SIGH,,,so much to do, so little time to do it. DH says I like a challenge, and is counting on me to figure this out GRRR!

 

[Sherry E]

OK...DH and I are about to KILL each other. It all started innocently enough, last night I went to a travel agent seminar for Disneyland/Disneyworld in the hopes of getting some solid info about WDW as we are planning to go sometime in 2014 (I'm an overplanner, I can't help it). I ended up winning the big door prize of the night, which was a 3 night stay at the Hilton Anaheim (which I know nothing about, as we've always stayed at HOJO's). DH in his infinite wisdom want's to go for 4 days late Sept to take advantage of my AP, which expires on Oct 2nd. So I've got to plan an unexpected trip to DL that the kids know nothing about. It will be late Sept, and will let everyone know by Tues next week the dates, then I can attempt to find cheap airfare and work on getting the MHP tickets. The dates will either be: Sept 28 to Oct 2, or Sept 29 to Oct 3. Wish me luck, as this trip is going to be on a very tight budget, and was unplanned to say the least. When do the MHP tickets go on sale for AP holders? As soon as I've got the hotel booked, am going to put that next on my to do list along with airfare. SIGH,,,so much to do, so little time to do it. DH says I like a challenge, and is counting on me to figure this out GRRR!

Yay, Trish!!! That is an incredibly awesome surprise! I'm so glad we can now include you among the Halloween Time visitors for 2011! I know you've said that you're an over-planner and like to have things lined up well in advance...now you only have about 4-1/2 months until your unexpected Halloween trip! So, even though it will be a bit stressful to pull it all together in less time than you usually allow yourself, it is a happy stressor to have!

The AP advance tickets for MHP will go on sale fairly soon, I think - someone correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the AP party tickets go on sale by June, at the very latest? More likely late May?

 

[mvf-m11c]

The AP advance tickets for MHP will go on sale fairly soon, I think - someone correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the AP party tickets go on sale by June, at the very latest? More likely late May?

Last year, the MHP AP tickets went on sale early June. I would assume that the tickets will be on sale in early June too and the general public will be allowed to purchase them in mid July. It would be nice if DL releases the tickets late May.

 

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It's DH's fault I tell you. He decided for our next trip that he wanted to go to WDW instead of DL in 2014 (at the rate I'm going it will probably be a Christmas trip, as it's going to take me that long to save for it after this trip). Over planner that I am decided to get some info regarding WDW, as I was feeling overwhelmed by the size and how much more involved the planning is. So I checked with a local TA, and they mentioned they had seminar going on, which I decided to go to get some more info about WDW last night. Hence the 2nd trip this year to DL. It's official Sept 29 to Oct 2, staying at the Hilton Anaheim. Will book the MHP tickets when they come available for AP'ers. The kids don't suspect a thing, and they are going to kill me when we find out that we are going again late Sept. It's going to be another surprise trip, and we are not telling them about the trip until the morning of departure (they still haven't forgiven me for the tales I told in the lead up to the Feb trip). I haven't booked air or hoppers yet, but will do that by the end of the month. So count me in for Halloween!
Trish