Orlando/Disneyworld Thread (Part 3)

heather8

Derbytilidie wrote: »

Has anyone ever used Park-tickets.com for Disney tickets ? They have a 5 day adult ticket for £144.10 which seems quite a good deal.
Says that its a 3 days admission to your choice of Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom. To be used over a 14 day day period. if bought online a 5 Day Ticket will be sent.

Any advice from anyone who has used these guys would be appreciated.

YOu need to be careful with this type of ticket. What you are buying is just 5 visits over the 14 days. Make sure it includes park hopping. For example if you were to use the ticket at Animal Kingdom, this park closes at around 5pm, so you would be better if it includes hopping, as then you could go to another park in the evening.

We always get the 14 unilimited access tickets when we go now, that way you don't feel you have to get your money's worth and stay in the park all day, which is what happened on our first visit and we only had a 5 park ticket. So we could only go to a disney park for 5 days of our holiday.

The 14 day tickets also include the water parks and Disney quest too.

heather8

wilf55 wrote: »

have updated list and will start making a schedule and post on here

thanks everyone

the more suggestions the better!

Get yourself a guide book called a brits guide to Orlando. It has loads of useful info on, and also check out two websites, WDWinfo and read the UK planning forum and also, DIBB. (Disnet for brits)

wilf55

thanks all more advice greatly appreciated as havent got much time and really want it to be good for all concerned

chocolateteddy

redsandy101 wrote: »

We are in Northern Ireland so UK rules cover us, but there are no flights from Belfast now that flyglobespan has gone under (thankfully we hadn't booked yet).

Just checked the Travel Agents receipt which says "This receipt relates only to non ATOL services" - panic, I'm not covered if the airline goes down I thought thats what ABTA meant.

The Americanholidays website does say "We are licensed and bonded as Tour Operators with the Commission for Aviation Regulation in Ireland License no. T 029. Any money paid against your holiday is protected under this bond. A copy of our license can be viewed". Is this cover for the airline going under?

We booked the flights, car inclusive of CDW insurance, Hotel and Seaworld tickets so I need all these insured plus Disney and Universal tickets once we order them.

I think I need to go into an insurance place, talk to a real live person and pay over the odds rather than taking the chance of buying correctly online. The price for this holiday just seems to go up and up and still have to pay for 3 passports for the kids! It seemed like such a good idea at the time! :rolleyes:.

Thanks so much for the help, this is really messing with my head.

Hi with regards to insurance check out this thread

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1011487


should be one about going to florida and insurance!!!

We discovered Fortis come highly recommended and travel ins from the postoffice is underwritten by them. HTH

gingefam

Derbytilidie wrote: »

Has anyone ever used Park-tickets.com for Disney tickets ? They have a 5 day adult ticket for £144.10 which seems quite a good deal.
Says that its a 3 days admission to your choice of Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom. To be used over a 14 day day period. if bought online a 5 Day Ticket will be sent.

Any advice from anyone who has used these guys would be appreciated.

That seems quite a steep price to me. Have you looked at any of the American Magic Your Way tickets on somewhere like Undercover Tourist or Orlando Attractions ? The difference between a 5 and a 7 day ticket is really minimal - Occiaisionally it is cheaper to buy a 10 day ticket than a 7 etc. It is def worth scouting around further. 5 days may also not be enough - better to do 10 half days than 5 full on days !

(Even if you dont buy from them I find that Orlando Attractions has a clear ticket description and pricing system - I have found some other sites to be really confusing !)

Whatever you decide - have a fab time.

giovanni

re: disney magical express

If I arrive in orlando, how do i get my bags on magical express? i heard it only works if i go indirect? (ie. been through another US airport first)

KarenG

giovanni wrote: »

re: disney magical express

If I arrive in orlando, how do i get my bags on magical express? i heard it only works if i go indirect? (ie. been through another US airport first)

It's easy peasy

You go through immigration and then collect your bags from the first carousels and go through customs with them (the reason you can't get your bags straight onto the Mag Express is because you have to be with your bags at customs). You can either then keep the bags with you, get on the monorail into the terminal where you will find M.E. or if you are feeling very masochistic you can use the double drop bag process and pick them up again in the main terminal. I'd take mine with me

If you've gone indirect you'll have cleared customs / immigration at your first port of entry and then you could use the "straight to bus" process for your bags without collecting them

HTH

giovanni

KarenG wrote: »

if you are feeling very masochistic you can use the double drop bag process and pick them up again in the main terminal. I'd take mine with me

Thanks can you quickly explain the double drop bag process?

louiser123

hi everyone!

just a quick question, has anyone got any experience of the homewood suites on international drive? we are going to book again for this year and our older daughters are going and we wanted a bed and breakfast so it works out better for them. we have been loads of times but not to this hotel/suites it seems like a nice place but you can never tell. i have read reviews on it and they all seem good but i cant always trust these, we booked wyndham orlando last year and the reviews were horrific but when we arrived we loved it!!

thanks in advance

louise

Jem8472

giovanni wrote: »

Thanks can you quickly explain the double drop bag process?

You pick up your bags and I think go through security.

But anyway to get from where you get off the plane to the main terminal you have to travel on a monorail.

So you can either keep your bags with you or put them on another belt and it will reappear in the main terminal on another belt.

We were planning on keeping our bags on the monorail but the people working at the airport seemed to be insisting that we drop them off so it took about 45 mins for our bags to show up again. I did not see any point in arguing with airport workers and security.

So if you can keep your bags with you.