Military families get a great discount on tickets. If you haven't seen the info already, I copied and pasted from the sticky by CM and board member Cheshire Figment. His info is always spot on!
**Taken From the Theme Parks Board - Tickets Sticky**
Disneys Armed Forces Salute 2010
Walt Disney World has a special program during 2010 for members of the United States armed services, their dependents and guests. This post discusses the program and is broken into three major sections: Eligibility, Entitlements, and Procedures for participating.
Eligibility and Definitions
A service member has a current active duty, including active reserve, or retired ID card from the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corp, or Navy. This includes disabled veterans whose ID Card indicates DAVPRM.
A dependent is the spouse or other relative of a service member who has an ID card (DD Form 1173) which shows the service member as the sponsor.
A guest is any person not a dependent accompanying the service member.
Not eligible on their own are persons who would normally have access to military bases and/or Shades of Green (SoG) such as DoD Civilians, NAF, USPHS and veterans who are not retirees. This list may include others. People who fall into this category may, however, be dependents or guests.
Tickets and Entitlements
A service member may purchase up to six 4-Day Disneys Armed Forces Salute Ticket at $99 (plus tax) each, without regard to age. (As normal, people under age 3 do not require tickets.) These may be used by dependents or guests. These tickets may only be purchased through July 31, 2010. The name of each dependent and/or guest will be recorded in ATS, tied to the service members name, and will be printed on the ticket.
The Tickets will expire Midnight, Thursday, September 30, 2010, even if all entries have not been used. The initial entitlements for the ticket a four days, one theme park per day. For $25 (plus tax) park hopping may be added. For $25 (plus tax) four WPF&M entries may be added. The normal 14 day rules concerning expiration and upgrade do not apply. However, no additional days may be added and the ticket may not have the No Expire option added.
The Tickets may be upgraded to Annual Passes, Premium APs, Florida Resident Seasonal Passes, or Florida Resident Weekday Select Passes (with proper Florida ID). The normal 14 day upgrade period does not apply. However, there will not be price bridging; this means that the value of the ticket will be what was paid for it ($99, $124, or $149) and not the current gate price of an equivalent MYW ticket. If the ticket is upgraded to an annual product the expiration date will be one year from the date of first use of the Ticket.
As an exception, if the immediate family has more than five dependents, additional Tickets may be purchased, but not to exceed the number of dependents. If the immediate family has more than five dependents tickets may not be purchased for guests.
If the service member is not available the spouse or unremarried widow may purchase and/or activate up to five Tickets for family and guests. The special large family rule above applies. This purchase will not prevent the service member from receiving the free ticket at a later date, but this will make the service member ineligible to purchase any additional tickets. Note that the Dependent ID Card (DD Form 1173) must show a relationship of either "Spouse" or "Unremarried Widow" to be able to activate the tickets.
Procedures and Purchasing
There are three sources available. Two of these sources are Shades of Green or many (but not all) MWR/ITT offices. These are not live tickets but must be activated. The advantage to purchasing these is that sales tax is not collected on the Tickets.
The third source is Walt Disney World Park Ticket Offices (including TTC) and Guest Relations Offices (including DTD). Sales tax will be collected on any sales of Tickets or upgrades. Note that these cannot be purchased at any Resort Lobby Concierge or online.
Certain information from the service members ID will be entered into ATS (Name, Birth Date, base where assigned nd e-mail address) and the names of all Ticket holders will also be entered and tied to the service member. If the tickets were prepurchased (MWR/ITT or SoG) the person will get the same card back. If these are new tickets, the tickets will be printed by ATS.
Once activated the tickets may be used at any turnstile. Finger scans will be used. In the event a ticket becomes demagnetized they can be reissued just as any other ticket.
If you have unused non-promotional tickets and wish to have them applied to the purchase of Tickets, this may be done provided the value of the unused tickets is equal to or less than the value of the tickets being purchased or upgraded.
