Is there more than a 10 day p-p ticket??

[dave1983]

Every year I make my trek to Florida and take 3 weeks off from work and would like to spend more than the 10 day park Hopper ticket. I'd like to spend a couple more days but when I make reservations they always say a 10 day is max. I can book a room for longer but not tickets. Any one have any tips or an economical way to do this?

Thanks for your help.
Dave

 

[CraftyMommy]

Get an Annual Pass.

 

[agavegirl1]

After 10 days, an annual pass is the most economical way to go. Unless you are from the UK. They have some kind of 14 day deal.

 

[Shaden]

Yea, pisses me off the UK has a 14 day ....

 

[Robo]

After 10 days, an annual pass is the most economical way to go. Unless you are from the UK. They have some kind of 14 day deal.

Anyone can use the UK 14-day (or 21-day) ticket.
But, you do need to find someone in the UK to order it over there for delivery in the UK... and then ship it to you.

 

[pampam]

OP,

 

[ses1230]

Get an Annual Pass. As a bonus, you can get a TIW card and use the AP discounts as well.

 

[mom2rtk]

If you go during hard ticket party season, you can supplement your 10 day ticket with tickets to a couple parties.

 

[pampam]

Since you go every year, with an annual pass you could squeeze 2 (or more) vacations out of 1 AP. Just go at the latest that would work for you, then go 3 weeks (or whatever) before the pass expires, and you will get a "free trip". For example, if you normally go in value season, January, go at the tail end of January to mid Feb. Then next year, go right after new Years, and come home after the pass has expired.

 

[johde]

Depending on what you want to do, for the same money as upgrading from 10 day ticket to an annual pass or you could get Power Pass to Universal or buy 14 day tickets to Seaworld/Busch Gardens/ and Aquatica. Tickets to both would cost more, but that would increase the number of parks you could visit and give you more variety.

Otherwise, The Disney AP is your only option and like the previous posters mentioned if you time your vacations right you can squeeze 2 trip on each AP.

 

[dave1983]

Thanks for the idea's. Looks like I'll have to just go more often!!

 

[WoolBaby]

I was researching the answer to your question recently as I was wondering the same thing for my upcoming trip in Feb 2015. I knew I wasn't coming back to WDW anytime soon so I didn't want to buy APs for the entire family. I came across a very helpful thread on the DIS Canadian planning board that talked about how the OP bought a UK ticket and had no problems having it shipped to Canada. She used American Attractions in the UK. I wish I could post a link to the thread but I can't yet since I am new. (First post - YAY! I have been lurking for some time, reading and gathering info though).

There other companies in the UK like the one mentioned in the thread (that I can't link to) that will ship real UK Ultimate tickets to an address outside of the UK. I bought my 14 day UK ultimate tickets through one of them (not from American Attractions UK, but another one that I found good reviews on and bought through as they had the best price on the tickets I wanted). They sent me an e-mail with a scanned picture of the back of the tickets before mailing them out to me and they linked to MDE without any problems. It was $750 US cheaper for me to buy 4 UK tickets over 4 regular APs.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

The major problem with Annual Passes concerns when they are in a drawer more than 100 miles from Disney World and they whine a lot and scream:

Use Me!

 

[mom2rtk]

The major problem with Annual Passes concerns when they are in a drawer more than 100 miles from Disney World and they whine a lot and scream:

Use Me!

Well, there's another country heard from! So nice to see you posting here again.

 

[ses1230]

The major problem with Annual Passes concerns when they are in a drawer more than 100 miles from Disney World and they whine a lot and scream: Use Me!

CF!! So good to "see" you!

 

[poppinspenguins]

Another option is buying 1 regulat ten pack and then buying 1 non expiring ten pack.

This is better than an AP if maybe you plan to come back in a couple yrs, as opposed to within the yr.

You could use your ten pack and then maybe 2 or 3 of the non expiring days.

Then hold on (tightly) to those tix and use them whenever you come back.

An AP is still a better deal if you plan to come back soon. But if the next trip is 5 years in the future you can pre buy, use some of the non expiring tix, then have some already bought, relatively cheap tix for you next visit.

We bought a pack almost 3 years ago (we do one day visit often or may stay for a week and only do 2 parks days). We have about half those days left and went ahead and bought another pack. we figure this will get us through the next 5-10 yrs. we do the non expiring 10 day/park hopper/water park option. it is expensive. but the water parks option gives you 10 water park visits in addition to 10 park visits. We love the water parks. So we consider it a total of 20 "park" visits from one pack. even with tax it equals out to less than 40 dollars a day.

just another option. not for everyone, but works for us. and provides a guard against inflation. to give perspective, the 10 pack per person went up 150 in just a little under 3 yrs. On our original 10 pack we are basically paying 32 a day, the latest one we will be at about 39.50 per day. But when you visit often for only 1 or 2 days, 39 is still great compared to 100!

 

[poppinspenguins]

here is some of the math on the ten packs if you have any interest (again,not right in every case)

Regular expiring 10 day base: 361 (thru maple leaf tickets)
Regular non expiring 10 day base: 702

Total of 1063, or $53.15 a day.

Annual pass 675

675 is cheaper per day as long as you go at least 12 times. plus lots of other discounts)

the ten day equation is great if you only want to go 11-13 days and you dont plan to come back for a few years.

i actually thinks its better value to spring for the hopper and water parks and more option on the 6 day non expiring. its only 59 to add that.