Special tickets for Aussies

[vault19dweller]

Hey guys,

Im aware that there are special tickets for Aussies at DLR (eg: longer than usual / better price)

Anyone know if WDW has something similar?

The best I could find were a UK deal, but not an Aussie one.
Tried asking flight center but they weren't sure

Would anyone here happen to know if WDW offers special ticket deals for Aussies?

Cheers

 

[ssour]

Unfortunately no. If you're looking at a few weeks an annual pass is your best bet. Otherwise the 10 day ticket is the maximum length.

 

[zanzibar138]

Disney seems to think that Aussies will stick to the west coast for some reason, and only UK will go to the east coast

So unfortunately no there are not any special deals for Aussies heading to WDW.

 

[losfp]

It's very annoying. As it takes so long for us to get over there (and at great expense), Aussies tend to want to take longer holidays and make the most of it, but it's hard with 10 days being the limit (and having to be used up within 14 days at that). I might look into getting an annual pass myself, depending on our final itinerary.

 

[novice101]

Can you not just book the uk tickets online, we booked the universal uk tickets

 

[alicia1506]

the problem with booking the uk deal when you live in australia is that you can be asked to show proof of address & if you can't prove you live in the uk (passport, drivers license etc) then you risk disney charging you standard retail rates instead of the deal.

i know people for whom the uk deal worked (when they live in australia) and they weren't asked for ID at check-in/ticket pick up.

but just because it didn't happen to them, doesn't mean it won't happen... that's not a risk I personally would want to take...

if you don't want the annual pass, you can add on the no-expiry ticket option to your park hopper tickets (or at least, you could when I was last there in October 2013)

 

[WickedDreamer]

An Annual pass is going to work out better for a longer extended trip to Disney World. My sister and myself have visited WDW twice now for extended trips, one was for 3 weeks and the other for 6 weeks.


An AP will give you discounts on merchandise, some restaurants at Downtown Disney like Wolfgang Puck and T Rex I think. Plus it also gives you the option of buy the Tables in Wonderland card, which is $75 dollars I think but at most table service places you save 20% off the dining bill.

If you have any further questions let me know

Shannon

 

[orion2185]

An Annual pass is going to work out better for a longer extended trip to Disney World. My sister and myself have visited WDW twice now for extended trips, one was for 3 weeks and the other for 6 weeks. An AP will give you discounts on merchandise, some restaurants at Downtown Disney like Wolfgang Puck and T Rex I think. Plus it also gives you the option of buy the Tables in Wonderland card, which is $75 dollars I think but at most table service places you save 20% off the dining bill. If you have any further questions let me know Shannon

Thought we should quickly jump in on this.

Just remember that now magic bands, my magic plus,fast pass plus etc .....annual pass holders don't get the same amount of fast pass reservations as other ticketed guest. And at least when we were planing...you can't book as far in advance as other tickets guest. This could have been changed by now...not certain

So you have to factor that cost savings for annual pass (for a longer trip) with limited fast pass bookings.
Though for,some fast,pass is not really a concern or interest to them.

Just know when we were trying to figure out to buy tickets or annual pass...the fast pass and booking situation pushed us to buy tickets in place of annual pass
As we were at that awkward amount of time at WDW...where annual pass did increase ticket cost...but all the extra discounts and savings might makeup,for the extra cost.
And we were not certain if we would be able to make it back within a year to get more value out of annual pass.

But to us the deal killer to spend more on the annual pass was fast passes and booking windows.
Again all of this might be different now. When we were booking our January 2015 trip. Magic bands and fast pass plus was just introduced.

 

[ssour]

If you're staying onsite with annual passes the booking window for FastPass pass is 60 days. Being onsite overrides the AP 30 day window. If you're staying off site then it's 30 days no matter what tickets you have.