Resident Discount

[Raidra]

We went to Disney for 8 nights, and my MIL, who lives in Florida, visited us for 2 nights in the middle of our stay. She said that her travel agent told her that she could have bought my kids' tickets at the Florida resident rate. How would that have worked, if she wasn't there with us at the beginning of our stay (we bought our tickets through Undercover Tourist, actually)? And if we went to the parks without her, would they ask why we had regular tickets and my kids had resident tickets?

Just wondering about next time.. Thanks!

 

[okeydokey]

Your mother would have been required to be there the first day to activate the ticket. After that you could be OK, but I have to say you may get some heated responses about trying to cheat Disney by having non-residents try to get resident tickets.

 

[Raidra]

Your mother would have been required to be there the first day to activate the ticket. After that you could be OK, but I have to say you may get some heated responses about trying to cheat Disney by having non-residents try to get resident tickets.

I'm sure I may get heated responses, but let me just say, it never occurred to me to ask my MIL to get tickets for us, we bought our own and she was the one who brought it up. I just couldn't figure out how that would have worked, that's all. Plus, I was totally unaware of the fact that residents were allowed to buy tickets for their (non-resident) grandkids under their discount, I thought anyone who did that was cheating the system.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

If she had purchased the tickets at an AAA Office or a travel agent and sent them to you what she would have bought would actually have been vouchers and not actual tickets. Other than actual purchase at a WDW Ticket or Guest Relations Window anything you get that is Florida Resident is a voucher (or exchange certificate). You would have had to take them to a ticket booth to be activated, and without having proof of your Florida Residency they would not have been activated.

If you had come to my booth I would have helped you as much as I could have. I would have seen the actual Disney selling price of the vouchers and allowed that as a credit toward your purchase of valid tickets for the children.

 

[kschafer]

I was totally unaware of the fact that residents were allowed to buy tickets for their (non-resident) grandkids under their discount, I thought anyone who did that was cheating the system.

What you have here is a difference between what someone CAN do and what someone is ALLOWED to do. Since kids aren't expected to have proof of residency, they CAN use a FL resident ticket without being residents as long as someone with proof of residency purchases them. Yes, it is cheating the system (which nobody should get heated about in this case because you had no intention of doing this)

Your MIL COULD have purchased FL resident tickets for them but as the ticket guru already pointed out, she would have had to have been there to activate the vouchers or purchase at a ticket booth

 

[Raidra]

Wow, I'm really glad I did all our planning for our portion of the trip instead of listening to MIL. I would have been horrified if MIL had told me that doing this was okay and acceptable, and then been told otherwise at the ticket window.

I had just assumed that this sort of thing wasn't allowed, so I was really surprised when she said her travel agent told her to do it. Yikes.