Orlando & Florida - Questions & Answers (Part 1) *CLOSED*

FRANCIS13_2

hazygirl wrote:

Hi francis,

just spotted your post. My son and myself are booked to go in September with Globespan and are getting a hire car from Hertz with sat nav included.
hope this helps.

Hazel

hi hazel, many thanks for the tip. cheers

jellynose

My son will be 10 when we go to Orlando. I see the children's tickets are for up to age 9, do you think that anyone would check if he is 9 or 10 if I bought a childs ticket?

koru

koru wrote:

Am currently trying to decide whether to pay to offset the CO2 from my flights - £15 per person, on https://www.climatecare.org.)

Found a better option: https://www.puretrust.org.uk.

The advantages are:
1. As it is a charity, you can claim gift aid, so £10 net cost to you will give them up to £16.6 to spend on offsets (if you are a higher rate tax payer).

2. As it is a charity, none of your money is taken out as the owner's profit.

3. This charity does the carbon offset by buying industrial carbon emission credits and cancelling them. These are credits that would otherwise have been bought by companies, to allow them to continue to emit carbon. Kyoto limits the number of credits, so by taking some of these out of circulation you are directly reducing the emission of carbon today. This seems to avoid the objections that are raised about tree-planting schemes.

4. This particular charity has a low expense ratio, as it uses a very efficient means of using your money.

Poppy9

jellynose wrote:

My son will be 10 when we go to Orlando. I see the children's tickets are for up to age 9, do you think that anyone would check if he is 9 or 10 if I bought a childs ticket?

When we went last Feb/Mar DD celebrated her 11th birthday. I used the unexpired days on her child's ticket from 2004 when she was 8. Disney do allow you to upgrade unexpired days from an old child's ticket to an adults but if you ask them about it they just tell you that's fine, there is no need to pay and to have a nice day. When you put your ticket in the machine to enter there is an employee there watching you go through on every turn style but the usually just help if you are having problems getting the machine to recognise your ticket. I would say it depends how old your son looks and if you want to risk being caught.

stov

Found a great forum site the other day.We're off to florida in April and have found a load of tips and advice...go to...


https://www.thedibb.co.uk

teresa13

Edinburghlass wrote:

Disney have extended the free dining plan to UK visitors if you book now for holidays taken from 12 August to 29 September 2007. You must book a five day or more stay onsite at Disney and buy minimum 5 day ticket for Disney Parks.

http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdwi/en_GB/special/offerDetail?id=DiningOfferPage

It appears from what I read on www.disboards.com that Virgin and First Choice are adding the free dining plan into their holidays where you stay onsite. Good deal if it fits in with your holiday dates

http://www.virginholidays.co.uk/brochures/florida/info/moredisney/

From what I have read Virgin will adjust your holiday to include this if you have already booked with them

Hi
All of you very clever money saving people,
I would like to book a florida holiday for next Aug, to stay at the Portorleans,
From the information that I have found so far, Disney have offered a free dining offer at this time of year. Does the person quoted or anyone else know, if I book my holiday now with Virgin will they add on the free dining offer after booking ( if the offer occurs) or is it just tough luck. The above quote states that they will but when you read the Virgin info it kind of implies that they won't. Please help if you can, Thankyou.

Amys

You canot get free dinning at the moment, you had to book by the 6th of Nov 2006 to get that thrugh a UK travel agent, that offer is verty unlikey to be repeated.

There may be a chance it will be offered via Disney in the US where you can book directr for the accomdatiosn and then book a fly drive. IF, and it is if, they offer it, it is unlikey to be annouced until April. That can then be booked through the disney.com web site (but choose as if you were in th US), of by calling them.

xtratime

jellynose wrote:

My son will be 10 when we go to Orlando. I see the children's tickets are for up to age 9, do you think that anyone would check if he is 9 or 10 if I bought a childs ticket?

3 years ago when I was there, Universal insisted on ID to validate our 5 park flextickets the first time that we used them.

Chris25

xtratime wrote:

3 years ago when I was there, Universal insisted on ID to validate our 5 park flextickets the first time that we used them.

They did with us too - although we didn't have any young children in our party. It may be that they only check adults ID and just check that the number of children in the party tally with tickets held.

After all, if you're on holiday over there you would have a passport but I don't think that US children have to have ID cards (until high school?) so how would they prove the ages of their children? You need someone who's been recently with young children to help.

Mike_J

Sea World just told us to sign the tickets before we use them again (same second time and third). Universal and Busch Gardens had some turnstiles that took a finger print (presumably to match to the card to avoid you passing it off to soembody else). At no time were we asked to prove our yongest was under 10. She was 9 but is tall for her age.

I was Xmas and they were VERY busy

Mike J