Tickets and where should I get them?

coluk003

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Hello everyone and thank you in advance for any help.

heres my situation I think i have it best figured out but hoping someone can look at it with fresh eyes and then address some concerns/ thoughts I have.

So my self and 1AD come in on 05/26 and stay one night. The following day up till 05/31 there will be three of us, that 3rd adult flys out on 05/31 afternoon time. So they will not need a ticket for that day to go to any parks. One the 31 till 06/02 there will again be 2ad. So we need tickets for all of us for the entire time except for saturday, we will be visiting family that morning /afternoon. So currently I have 9 comp tickets, for doing work for disney over the last few months. Any ways, I need to make sure I buy the most economical way of tickets and heres what i thought to do.

05/26 2ad tickets ( 9 comps minus the 2 gives me 7)
05/27 3 Ad tickets (7 comps minus 3 leaves me 4)
05/28 3ad tickets (4 minus 3 leaves 1)
05/29 3 adults (1 comp ticket for the adult leaving on the 31) other two adults buy 3 day hoppers
05/30 no parks, but fireworks over at DHS to visit some DIS people :)
05/31 two adults use 3 day hopper
06/01 two adults use 3 day hopper
06/02 we fly home at 6pm Might be a DTD, lazy hotel day :)

Questions:
1.So i was looking to get tickets through UT, since I know about them and they are recommended here. I see they do not have a 3 day hopper, just a 3 day base ticket, am i missing something or is it just not offered. If its not offered can i upgraded to the hopper once im at guest services at the park since with the comp tickets i know i need to transfer then in for the RFID cards, and if so how much would the FP option be?

2.Any other places that might be better to get a 3day ticket? If this type of question isnt allowed i apologize but im not sure its advertising. If you would like you can PM me here.

Another thought I had while typing this, two of these comp tickets are good till dec 2016 which im sure we would use for Disneyland in the future. We wouldn't HAVE to use them but we could, if we didn't have the ticket we just wouldn't go to Dl in the future. A few things to remember is I am out of a job but already the tickets for flights have been paid for so no matter what we are going to WDW in May. So im looking for the most economical option.


Also and this is one reason why i started this post. With UT and our FP being chosen in 5 days is it at all possible if i call Monday to purchase the tickets can i also get the ticket numbers so i can add them to the MDX and get those FP's? I know FP wont make or break our trip but since we wont be back in a few years(maybe 3 or 10 like it was last time) Id like to do our must do's for each park and have as much fun as we can. Sorry for the book but I over plan and over think things, someone said it was a sign of a very intelligent person, im not so sure about that lol
 
Hello everyone and thank you in advance for any help.

heres my situation I think i have it best figured out but hoping someone can look at it with fresh eyes and then address some concerns/ thoughts I have.

So my self and 1AD come in on 05/26 and stay one night. The following day up till 05/31 there will be three of us, that 3rd adult flys out on 05/31 afternoon time. So they will not need a ticket for that day to go to any parks. One the 31 till 06/02 there will again be 2ad. So we need tickets for all of us for the entire time except for saturday, we will be visiting family that morning /afternoon. So currently I have 9 comp tickets, for doing work for disney over the last few months. Any ways, I need to make sure I buy the most economical way of tickets and heres what i thought to do.

05/26 2ad tickets ( 9 comps minus the 2 gives me 7)
05/27 3 Ad tickets (7 comps minus 3 leaves me 4)
05/28 3ad tickets (4 minus 3 leaves 1)
05/29 3 adults (1 comp ticket for the adult leaving on the 31) other two adults buy 3 day hoppers
05/30 no parks, but fireworks over at DHS to visit some DIS people :)
05/31 two adults use 3 day hopper
06/01 two adults use 3 day hopper
06/02 we fly home at 6pm Might be a DTD, lazy hotel day :)

Questions:
1.So i was looking to get tickets through UT, since I know about them and they are recommended here. I see they do not have a 3 day hopper, just a 3 day base ticket, am i missing something or is it just not offered. If its not offered can i upgraded to the hopper once im at guest services at the park since with the comp tickets i know i need to transfer then in for the RFID cards, and if so how much would the FP option be?

2.Any other places that might be better to get a 3day ticket? If this type of question isnt allowed i apologize but im not sure its advertising. If you would like you can PM me here.

Another thought I had while typing this, two of these comp tickets are good till dec 2016 which im sure we would use for Disneyland in the future. We wouldn't HAVE to use them but we could, if we didn't have the ticket we just wouldn't go to Dl in the future. A few things to remember is I am out of a job but already the tickets for flights have been paid for so no matter what we are going to WDW in May. So im looking for the most economical option.


Also and this is one reason why i started this post. With UT and our FP being chosen in 5 days is it at all possible if i call Monday to purchase the tickets can i also get the ticket numbers so i can add them to the MDX and get those FP's? I know FP wont make or break our trip but since we wont be back in a few years(maybe 3 or 10 like it was last time) Id like to do our must do's for each park and have as much fun as we can. Sorry for the book but I over plan and over think things, someone said it was a sign of a very intelligent person, im not so sure about that lol


Okay......this mess is not easy to follow, but I think that you should buy one of the adults that are staying the whole trip a 6 day ticket, whether it is a hopper or just a one park per day ticket. I haven't gone to the Disney website to check prices but extra days get a lot cheaper after 3 days - 3 days are almost full price.

Are the comp tickets actually hoppers?

That would leave the remaining adult who is there for the whole trip 6 one day comps and you would have 3 one day comps remaining for the 'third' adult each day.

And buying through UCT would save 11-15$ depending on your shipping method.
 
Sounds right to me.
Yes, you can add hopper to the UCT tickets once you use them in WDW.
Personally, I wouldn't hold onto 2 comp day tickets based on MAYBE going to DL before they expire. If I knew for sure it was going to happen, I would hold onto them and buy 4-day tickets for this trip.
Hopefully someone else can chime in about how soon you can expect to get #s from UCT to link and get your FPs.
 
Three day base ticket on UCT is $292, add $63 to hop, times the two tickets the OP is considering comes to $584/$710.
Six day base ticket is $335, hopper comes to $382.
With judique's great analysis, looks like a simple decision.

And according to UCT's excellent FAQ, you can get express shipping.
 
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Look into orbit or cheap tickets with ebates cash back. They give you the will call numbers in a few days and links to mde with no problems.
 












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