Should I buy tickets now or wait?

[jele30]

Not sure you are even reading the posts yet, but I'd hold off just on the exchange rate factor (assuming you are paying in CAD). If USDCAD or CADUSD in your case can get closer to par you'll have some decent savings there. As crude oil starts to trade higher the CAD should start to get stronger and thus give you some nice savings. With your trip being so far out, I'd see if oil recovers a little. If you start seeing oil going the other way again or see rumors of price increases on tickets then reevaluate.

 

[mshanson3121]

As has been said before, the DIS always gets word of a price increase before it happens. Why not just hang out here and then buy the tickets at that time?



If you are going to save money, I'm not sure why you even asked the question. It appears you have done the figures for your family and your CC is the best course of action in your mind. For the record, my concern is why you feel the rush to buy tickets now. It has less to do with your method of payment for me. You would learn of a price increase before it ever happened. If you just waited, you could save some money up and at least pay cash for some of the tickets then put the rest on your CC, thus lowering your overall interest. You would also have the safety net of your $2k CC increase in case of an emergency. I just don't understand the rush is all.

The reason as I mentioned, was because I'm buying through Parksavers. My understanding was their deals fluctuate outside of Disney's rates (so watching for rumors on here of Disney increases really wouldn't help with them). So, right now I can get those tickets for a $200 savings, but in a few months their deal may only be $100 savings, that's the impression I was under. Again, that is why I was considering it - I wanted to buy while there was such a big savings. And why I asked was because of the possibility of not going, resale etc... Thankfully, I did actually end up receiving good input on that.

 

[mshanson3121]

Not sure you are even reading the posts yet, but I'd hold off just on the exchange rate factor (assuming you are paying in CAD). If USDCAD or CADUSD in your case can get closer to par you'll have some decent savings there. As crude oil starts to trade higher the CAD should start to get stronger and thus give you some nice savings. With your trip being so far out, I'd see if oil recovers a little. If you start seeing oil going the other way again or see rumors of price increases on tickets then reevaluate.

I have thought of that. The dollar is rumored to decline again this summer if BOC cuts rates, which was another factor for me doing it now vs. later. But regardless I'll be holding off a bit. Everything with the dollar is such a guessing game these days... ugh.

 

[kathy884]

I would only buy them if you know for sure you are going on the trip and you know that the expiration dates on the tickets is past your planned trip. Getting them in advance before you can make FP plus selections makes sense, so you have them when that option opens up, but for any other reason than that, now that they have those expiration dates, I wouldn't do it too early. Plans can change. Something unexpected could come up or you might decide to you would rather go somewhere else. But you know more than any of us what the risk of that is for you. That's too much money to be tied up in tickets or money you might loose if you don't end up going, just to save a few $s IMHO.

I'm planning a Disneyland trip next January (three of us). Because they don't have FP+ selections you have to do early, for these I am just getting my tickets at the gate. I'm just getting two day base tickets. I'll be up plenty early with the time change especially given that opening times are not till 10, so making rope drop even getting these at the gate is not an issue at all. So far too, tiered pricing has only been implemented on one day tickets. In our case (we are going value season) a slow time, one day tickets would be $95 pp. Our two day base tickets that we will buy at the gate give us a cost per ticket of $90 per day. I will be buying the multiday tickets, but those are only $10 pp less than one day tickets at the gate.

If ticket prices do go up, making your overall budget more than you want to pay, this forum has tons of great ideas to cut costs a little if you still want to go. This is just my opinion of course, but I am someone who has done lots of budget trips to Orlando and found these to be great fun and for me really and truly just as much fun as trips with all the bells and whistles. Ticket prices, though, are definitely the items with the least amount of wiggle room for cost.

 

[Marionnette]

The reason as I mentioned, was because I'm buying through Parksavers. My understanding was their deals fluctuate outside of Disney's rates (so watching for rumors on here of Disney increases really wouldn't help with them). So, right now I can get those tickets for a $200 savings, but in a few months their deal may only be $100 savings, that's the impression I was under. Again, that is why I was considering it - I wanted to buy while there was such a big savings. And why I asked was because of the possibility of not going, resale etc... Thankfully, I did actually end up receiving good input on that.

A couple of things about the Parksavers tickets that caught my attention:
They send you an email voucher which has to be redeemed at WDW by Dec. 31, 2016 and they send you another email a couple of days later with the ticket info so that you can link it in MDE. People who have MBs don't need to redeem the voucher but once added to MDE, you cannot give those tickets to anyone who is not a friend or family member on your MDE account. That would definitely prevent you from selling them to someone.

The other problem that I see is that even if you add them to your MDE, those tickets expire Dec. 31, 2018. So, if you don't travel by then, you will have forfeited any savings that you got. Disney will still permit you to use what Parksavers paid (not what you paid Parksavers) for the the tickets to purchase tickets at the prevailing gate price.

It's something that would make me re-think the purchase unless my plans were concrete and not subject to any cancellation.