It is so painful buying those AP's...........

[quentina]

Lets all hope that this makes it's way to WDW:

http://www.wdwinfo.com/news/Theme_P...ering_payment_plan_for_Annual_Passholders.htm

The Anheiser Busch parks offer a 2 year, platinum pass with this option. 2 years for around $200.00 per person. Includes all of the Busch garden parks, Sesame place, Sea world and aquatica.

 

[erionm]

The Anheiser Busch parks offer a 2 year, platinum pass with this option. 2 years for around $200.00 per person. Includes all of the Busch garden parks, Sesame place, Sea world and aquatica.

Monthly payment plans are available on all annual passports for the Busch parks. We have the Busch Gardens Tampa/Seaworld Orlando Silver Passports and we pay monthly.

 

[Tink-aholic]

Tink, please elaborate. You say you bought "Best deals" tickets but for how many days? I need to get my DH an AP for our trip in a few weeks so this might be something for me to try.

Okay. We get the Mousesavers newsletter every month, which contains a link for even lower ticket prices from UCT (I'll PM you the latest, if you need it).

On UCT, they have a column for their pricing and one for how much off the gate price their discount is. The tickets seem to vary from month to month which ones are the best deals. I purchased the ones with the largest difference between "gate price" and UCT price (I think they were 10 day non-hoppers with NE when I bought last year). The price of those tickets were considerably less than PAPs. We used one day, upgraded at the kiosk with our DVC discount. We ended up paying about $12 more for the PAPs than we did for the discounted tickets from UCT.

I am probably not explaining this correctly. There are lots of instances where something sounds okay to ME...but everyone else hears Greek! Let me know any other questions and I'll PM you.

 

[LSchrow]

we add $'s to a disney GC every week (or so ~ more if we have extra, less during the holidays). once there is enough on the the GC, we use it to purchase one new AP, & start over for another.
basically, we make our own "savings plan" for them

(btw, we also have a few GCs used for "misc spending" at WDW: dining, drinks, etc. we put bonuses, christmas/birthday money on them maxing each out at about $500 before we start another. we do make copies of the backs (with PIN scratched off) & receipt for safety also).

it's nice to come home to little credit card bills.

 

[edk35]

we add $'s to a disney GC every week (or so ~ more if we have extra, less during the holidays). once there is enough on the the GC, we use it to purchase one new AP, & start over for another.
basically, we make our own "savings plan" for them

(btw, we also have a few GCs used for "misc spending" at WDW: dining, drinks, etc. we put bonuses, christmas/birthday money on them maxing each out at about $500 before we start another. we do make copies of the backs (with PIN scratched off) & receipt for safety also).

it's nice to come home to little credit card bills.

WOW that is an awesome awesome idea. Thanks for sharing.