Orlando Florida/Disneyworld (Part 2) *CLOSED*

disney_cjd

All, I dont often buy park tickets but someone suggest these places are cheap if you need anything.

http://www.themeparkticketsdirect.co...web_finder.buy
or http://www.floridatix.co.uk/

disney_cjd

and these http://www.orlando-attraction-tickets.com/

as I say I have not used any of them and I do not normally answer questions on where to buy as we get ours for free but if these are any good please let me know and I will add it to my own wiki

Cheers

vivatifosi

Blink_Eden wrote: »

Now a question from me -

Mrs Blink is a bit of a culture vulture - we are going to go to the Dali Museum in Tampa, but she also wants to see a bit of "real america". I was thinking of just driving in to Orlando, finding somewhere to park and going on a bit of a walk. Having never been to Orlando itself, does it have a proper "city centre" and is this worth doing. And can anyone recommend anything?
(We are going to see celebration too, I hadn't realised that it was an "artifical", Disney created, town)
We are staying in Terra Verde in Kissimee.
Cheers

Something else that you can do that is close to visit the Winter Park area of Orlando. It has a lovely area called Park Avenue where you can shop and people watch. It has some lovely non chain stores selling antiques and sorts. There's also a boat ride you can take around the million dollar houses. Here's a link: http://scenicboattours.com/

lightning15uk

hi all

ihave an enquiry hope i am in the right place there is a group of us wanting to go to florida, orlando in 2011 i know long way off but got to be well planned, it is for myfriends honey moon so we would like 2 villas next to each other or across the road (very close) also we do not drive, so would like to be as close to the disney end as possible as we feel thats where we will be mostly, does anyone know what kind of price we would eb looking at for flights, villas, etc its 3 families 4a 2c, and 2a 2c and 1 infant so as long as there is min of 3 bedrooms in each that would be fine, we want to go in the uk summer holidays prob beginning of august for 2 weeks with pool oh dear i hope i haventg one on too much any grreatly appreciated x x

ahrimaniac

Well it's not a terrific nightmare but proving difficult none the less.

We were originally booked to go on holiday from 15th-27th January to Orlando, which we then paid to extend to 31st.

Then, we've had a family bereavement, and we're having to push back the holiday (again) so it is now 22nd January-7th February.

We had two bookings at the Metropolitan Express - 15th-27th was booked with Hotelopia, and the last few days was booked with Expedia.

I rang Hotelopia and they have said they can't amend the booking as there is no availability at the Metropolitan Express. Argh. I am yet to ring Expedia to see about changing that.

As it stands then, we've got bookings from 15th - 31st - 15-27 with Hotelopia, 27-31 with Expedia.

Of those, we only need 22-31, and need to find a way to book the Metropolitan for the 31, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and checkout on 7th. Do you think it'll be cheaper just to cancel every booking we have and start over, as it were?

So confused!

Also, we need to move the dates of our flexitickets - is this possible - any help? We have 14 day tickets and we'll need to move them into the new timeslot! Eeep.

disney_cjd

ahrimaniac wrote: »

Well it's not a terrific nightmare but proving difficult none the less.

We were originally booked to go on holiday from 15th-27th January to Orlando, which we then paid to extend to 31st.

Then, we've had a family bereavement, and we're having to push back the holiday (again) so it is now 22nd January-7th February.

We had two bookings at the Metropolitan Express - 15th-27th was booked with Hotelopia, and the last few days was booked with Expedia.

I rang Hotelopia and they have said they can't amend the booking as there is no availability at the Metropolitan Express. Argh. I am yet to ring Expedia to see about changing that.

As it stands then, we've got bookings from 15th - 31st - 15-27 with Hotelopia, 27-31 with Expedia.

Of those, we only need 22-31, and need to find a way to book the Metropolitan for the 31, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and checkout on 7th. Do you think it'll be cheaper just to cancel every booking we have and start over, as it were?

So confused!

Also, we need to move the dates of our flexitickets - is this possible - any help? We have 14 day tickets and we'll need to move them into the new timeslot! Eeep.

Hi there

I am really sorry to hear all of this - what poor luck.

I have not heard of Hotelpia but I would have hoped your own travel insurance would come into its own here. I am pretty sure that family issues are one thing you are entitled to cancel for and it may well be that the best thing is just to cancel and find a new booking with someone.

If you really want to stay in this hotel, maybe give the actual hotel a call and explain. One thing I do find with the Yanks is that they are verya cconodating when they can be and it may be they can help.

Not much help but if there is anything else I think off i will let you know,.
Sorry again
Craig

ashleyrossuk

Alot of people mension that book seperately is alot cheaper, i am looking to go away june 2010, (must start saving!). 2 adults and 2 children.

The travel agent said as the dates arent out yet she cant give a def price but looking at £4000 for the 14 days including passes to disney only, staying in pop concert hotel thing!

My question is by shopping around which i have never done before how much would i be likely to save and how difficult is it to do....

any help would be most appricated

Triker

disney_cjd wrote: »

Hi there

I am really sorry to hear all of this - what poor luck.

I have not heard of Hotelpia but I would have hoped your own travel insurance would come into its own here. I am pretty sure that family issues are one thing you are entitled to cancel for and it may well be that the best thing is just to cancel and find a new booking with someone.

If you really want to stay in this hotel, maybe give the actual hotel a call and explain. One thing I do find with the Yanks is that they are verya cconodating when they can be and it may be they can help.

Not much help but if there is anything else I think off i will let you know,.
Sorry again
Craig

Just be careful here because insurance companies specifically ask whether or not you were aware that the family member was ill or had a condition that may result in serious illness or death.

Sorry but thought it an important point to raise because insurance companies generally will use any reason not to pay out.

Triker

We returned last week from Orlando, just got over the jetlag .


Anyway here are some of my tips re the area and the parks.


Get a guide book, surprisingly I didn't get on with the Unofficial guide but I'm sure other's will.


Learn about fast passes and best routes round parks.

Useless for us because the parks were rammed over christmas and really spoiled the whole park experience, for us a complete waste of money, very upsetting and not to say scary at times about how many people there were in the parks. I didn't go to disney to wait 5 hours for a ride or look at pretty much all fast passes gone by 10am......not funny, lesson learned, don't go at christmas or don't go to Disney.


Hire a car, there's so much to see other than the theme parks. Best days for us was an impromptu visit to Clearwater......stunning.

Take a laptop. I took my little Asus, had free internet in hotel so was able to check into other hotels online (and get better rates). Also checked weather, credit card payments as a few year ago OH was charged twice for car hire and we never sorted it out.:o


SAT NAV.......OMG mwmph, the best thing I've ever bought.:T

Yes driving is easy, yes the roads are wide, yes the cars are great but taking into account driving on the other side of the road, the 'turn right on red' rule, jet lag and generally being in an unfamiliar environment, our Tom Tom was excellent and paid for itself fourfold.

Get a FairFX card. A preloaded credit card mastercard we used ours everywhere with no probs including to withdraw money from atms. Meant we kept track of what we were spending by checking online, loaded it up when we needed...online and didn't get into any debt or have any nasty credit card bills waiting when we returned.



If I can think of anymore I'll post later.


We used


Car Hire USRENTACAR

Hotel Alpharooms

Flights Travelocity

Park Tix PremierTravel.

I'll try to post links later as 'puter here keeps timing out.


Remember QUIDCO or other cashback sites when buying anything online.

disney_cjd

Triker wrote: »

We returned last week from Orlando, just got over the jetlag .


Anyway here are some of my tips re the area and the parks.


Get a guide book, surprisingly I didn't get on with the Unofficial guide but I'm sure other's will.

.

Hi there

thanks for these. Was this the Len Testa Unofficial Guide? I am surprised you did not like it as I think its a very helpful book. DId you try any of the touring plans in it? You may have had better luck with the crowds following one of those plans or the crowd calander.

There is no doubt Christmas is a busy time but with some effort and planning it can be OK.

Overall though I am gla d you had a great time and those liee EEpc are going to take over the wrold. They are gerat.

Cheers
Craig