Kroger Park Hopper Gift Cards?

[Spassvogel]

You guys are far more knowledgeable than I am about these things so maybe someone has insight.

As we were planning our trip this year, we went to the Costco Website (Decent prices and you get the various perks like the free character meal) but the hotels we could afford were all unavailable (we assume they allot so many slots to the Costco Travel people and they were all booked).

We decided to do our trip the old fashioned way. We went to the Motel 6 website and booked the rooms directly and got exactly what we wanted. Then we tried to figure out how to get our tickets for DL. We remembered seeing Disneyland 3 Day Park Hopper gift cards at Fred Meyer. (owned by Kroger).

The prices were $198 for the kids 3 Day Park Hopper and $214 for the Adult 3 Day park Hopper. The prices seemed cheaper than any we'd seen. However, when we went to buy the gift cards, the kids ones didn't ring up! On the back it said they expired in December 2012. The Adult cards rang up fine. We then looked around the store and found that there were NEW disney gift cards at much higher prices (with Cars pics on them).

I guess I'm just wondering why they would leave them in the store, but have them not ring up. At least the Adult ones rang up, but we ended up paying more for the child pass with the higher prices than the Adult at the lower price.

Either way, it was nice to save *some* money by using the gift cards, but it just seemed strange that they'd suddenly blacklist them or something. Maybe the prices were too good, hehe.

 

[3Minnies1Mickey]

The lower prices are from before the price increase in May. It is strange that they couldn't activate them, but they could activate the adults.

 

[DisneytheKid]

Hi Spassvogel,

I'm not sure why the old cards are up but I would think that the higher prices are reflective of the DLR price increase. At our local frys (also owned by Kroger) I nascent eden seen the 3 day park hopper tickets...

You guys are far more knowledgeable than I am about these things so maybe someone has insight.

As we were planning our trip this year, we went to the Costco Website (Decent prices and you get the various perks like the free character meal) but the hotels we could afford were all unavailable (we assume they allot so many slots to the Costco Travel people and they were all booked).

We decided to do our trip the old fashioned way. We went to the Motel 6 website and booked the rooms directly and got exactly what we wanted. Then we tried to figure out how to get our tickets for DL. We remembered seeing Disneyland 3 Day Park Hopper gift cards at Fred Meyer. (owned by Kroger).

The prices were $198 for the kids 3 Day Park Hopper and $214 for the Adult 3 Day park Hopper. The prices seemed cheaper than any we'd seen. However, when we went to buy the gift cards, the kids ones didn't ring up! On the back it said they expired in December 2012. The Adult cards rang up fine. We then looked around the store and found that there were NEW disney gift cards at much higher prices (with Cars pics on them).

I guess I'm just wondering why they would leave them in the store, but have them not ring up. At least the Adult ones rang up, but we ended up paying more for the child pass with the higher prices than the Adult at the lower price.

Either way, it was nice to save *some* money by using the gift cards, but it just seemed strange that they'd suddenly blacklist them or something. Maybe the prices were too good, hehe.

 

[Spassvogel]

Ah, thanks for the replies. I didn't know they raised the prices. Guess we really were lucky that the adult cards rang up. (our oldest just turned 10, so we ended up with 3 adult cards and 1 child card at the new prices anyway).

 

[DisneytheKid]

Ah, thanks for the replies. I didn't know they raised the prices. Guess we really were lucky that the adult cards rang up. (our oldest just turned 10, so we ended up with 3 adult cards and 1 child card at the new prices anyway).

Glad to hear you were able to get them at the old price. They were off the shelves within a blink of the eye in the store by us.

 

[DisneyMomma81]

I was at a Kroger grocery store no more than 2 months ago, they had a bunch of 3 day hoppers out in the gift card area - they had to be used by 10/31/2011! I brought all of them up to the customer service desk and explained that they were no longer valid.

 

[my3gyrlz]

You guys are far more knowledgeable than I am about these things so maybe someone has insight.

As we were planning our trip this year, we went to the Costco Website (Decent prices and you get the various perks like the free character meal) but the hotels we could afford were all unavailable (we assume they allot so many slots to the Costco Travel people and they were all booked).

We decided to do our trip the old fashioned way. We went to the Motel 6 website and booked the rooms directly and got exactly what we wanted. Then we tried to figure out how to get our tickets for DL. We remembered seeing Disneyland 3 Day Park Hopper gift cards at Fred Meyer. (owned by Kroger).

The prices were $198 for the kids 3 Day Park Hopper and $214 for the Adult 3 Day park Hopper. The prices seemed cheaper than any we'd seen. However, when we went to buy the gift cards, the kids ones didn't ring up! On the back it said they expired in December 2012. The Adult cards rang up fine. We then looked around the store and found that there were NEW disney gift cards at much higher prices (with Cars pics on them).

I guess I'm just wondering why they would leave them in the store, but have them not ring up. At least the Adult ones rang up, but we ended up paying more for the child pass with the higher prices than the Adult at the lower price.

Either way, it was nice to save *some* money by using the gift cards, but it just seemed strange that they'd suddenly blacklist them or something. Maybe the prices were too good, hehe.

if the adult passes were cheaper than the child ph, why not buy all adult ph?


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[Spassvogel]

We weren't sure how stringent they were, but you're right we probably could've easily done that.

 

[Karenann*]

Our Safeway (Vons) still has the old price 3 day for adult and children and also has right next to them the new higher priced passes.