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

Edinburghlass_2

odowdchr wrote:

Just been looking at that. If you buy 7 days in advance...it's $49.95. With the code it's $49.40.
Thing is.....if you're buying online from the UK you'll probably buy more than 7 days in advance anyway....
Thanks anyway, i need 2 for July.

If you are buying from SW online have a look at the Behind the Scenes Tour of the Dolphin Nursery, its $40 per person I think. We did it a couple of weeks ago and well worth the money. The maximum number of guests is 10 and you have 1/2 an hour with a guide talking about dolphin habits etc then you go to the Dolphin Nursery Pool and have 1/2 an hour switching between 3 different trainers and get to feed the dolphins and do tricks with them.

Oh and the new Shamu show Believe is stunning!

Having done Discovery Cove and thoroughly enjoying it I felt that the $40 was better value for money for spending time with the dolphins, highly recommend.

billie19

odowdchr wrote:

Just been looking at that. If you buy 7 days in advance...it's $49.95. With the code it's $49.40.
Thing is.....if you're buying online from the UK you'll probably buy more than 7 days in advance anyway....
Thanks anyway, i need 2 for July.

$49.40 with the promotion code for adults and then $39.80 for kids.
The promotion that they are running at the moment is for Adult prices at the same as kids.

Therefore it's still cheaper to quote the promo code and get a bigger saving on the kids tickets.

I'm off to the Sunshine State on the 15th June... Manchester/Virgin

Any other MSE's going around same time ?

Cheers
Bille19

florakid

Just found this great taxi fare estimator.
It helped me a great deal with approx costs for forthcoming Florida holiday
Hope it helps some of you guys who do not take the FREE car.
http://www.mearstransportation.com/TaxiFareEstimator.asp

Edinburghlass_2

florakid wrote:

Just found this great taxi fare estimator.
It helped me a great deal with approx costs for forthcoming Florida holiday
Hope it helps some of you guys who do not take the FREE car.
http://www.mearstransportation.com/TaxiFareEstimator.asp

Make sure you take this number with you and call for a taxi from your room rather than use reception as these taxis are very much cheaper than some that reception may call for you.

Also be very wary of taxis that may try to get you to take them at the parks after closing time when you are tired and just want to get back to the hotel. The yellow cabs and yellow checkered ones won't try and tout for business, use them

comping_cat

We are flying out to Florida on Saturday, staying in Disneys All star movie resort, but also doing SW. Universal and Discovery cove!!!!! Im not driving whilst over there, so when leaving the Disney complex, will be relying on taxis or buses. Has anyone any good tips, and is the link for Mears the best way to go?

Edinburghlass_2

I think I met every taxi driver in Orlando on our recent trip

I'll pm you with some tips re getting off WDW to SW and DC later, need to dash now

Bobsworlduk

The very cheapest way of getting to Seaworld or even IDrive.

Get to the Ticket and Transportation Centre, use the free Disney transport from your resort. At the TTC catch the Lynx bus number 50 this takes you right to Seaworld for only $1.50.

If you want to go further up IDrive to Universal etc then jump on the IRide Trolley from Seaworld this is only .75 cents per journey or you can buy a multi day pass.

At Seaworld and Universal you will see loads of cab drivers hanging around, just make sure you get in a licensed cab. There are loads of dodgy unlicensed drivers around.

Murphy_The_Cat

I found these prices on http://www.aa.com earlier today for Nov 2006.

Manchester - Orlando £311.80 (good selection of days)
Manchester - Miami £287.80 (nearly every day)
Manchester- Tampa £311.80 (good selection of dates)
My own itinerary on Man-Tampa, Miami - Man is coming out at £287.80 all in.
Including ALL taxes.

Funnily enough (it's funny to me anyway ) flying from London is up to £200 DEARER on the same days !

The usual flight search engines (ebookers, expedia, opodo, travel supermarket, travel jungle etc etc) are all a lot dearer (about £100).

The Manchester to Miami flight is especially good value and makes the prospect of spending £474 on a Firts Choice charter flight even more deeply unattractive that it would usually be.

MTC

pavlovs_dog

think im going to have to pick your brains about booking the individual parts next time i want to go Murphy, you're something of a legend at finding bargains

Murphy_The_Cat

pavlovs_dog wrote:

think im going to have to pick your brains about booking the individual parts next time i want to go Murphy, you're something of a legend at finding bargains

Hi pavlov

you've made my day that you think that :beer: :j :j

MTC