Orlando Florida/Disneyworld (Part 2) *CLOSED*

sturll

Tarquinius wrote: »

Hi, As a newbie to Orlando, I'm a bit overwhelmed by the staggering choice of theme park tickets...

As someone who has only ever visited theme parks in England, I'm not sure what to expect so I have a few questions (don't laugh, I'm new to this

First, I've seen tickets called park hoppers where you can visit more than one park in one day. But I wouldn't have considered doing this - e.g. if I go to Alton Towers, then I would spend all day there. I imagine the Disney parks are huge, so surely you want to spend all day in a park once there? Would you really want to do 2 or more parks in one day?

To allow time for other parks / excursions, I'm thinking we will visit Magic Kingdom, EPCOT plus one of the Disney waterparks. The cheapest way to do this seems to be buy a "2 day Base Ticket", for the parks which seems to aroud $158 per adult, then I can buy the waterpark ticket seperately. Any thoughts on this?

Disney tickets do seem a tad pricey, if your only other experience is UK theme parks (eg Alton Towers around £30 to £35 per day). But then again I suppose comparing Alton Towers to Magic Kingdom is a completely unfair comparison ??? It's just hard to imagine the scale of it if you've never been !!

Sorry for the all the newbie, naive questions - if anyone can set me straight I'd really appreciate it.

If you are going for 2 weeks id just get the 14 day Disney tickets and the 2 day Universal ones (usually 1 day free)

Anywhere else you fancy the payg. But id avoid Seaworld - And wouldn't bother with Busch, id substitute it with Clearwater.

dazzer68

yes it can be very overwheliming and comparing anything in the uk to anything at disney is like comparing apples to bananas.if you imagine WALT DISNEY WORLD is a city (the size of manachester) and each park is like a district in that city you have an idea of how big the parks are,
you have the magic kingdom
epcot
animal kingdom
and holly wood studios.
you also have 2 water parks
blizzard beach
and typhoon lagoon.
all on seperate admission charges if you buy admission at the gate.
the reason you might want a park hopper is for example, you might want to go to the magic kingdom in the morning do some rides, then go for swim at a water park and then perhaps go back to magic kingdom in the evening to watch the fireworks show.plus your find that the parks close at different times so if your in an early closing park like animal kingdom you can go to a later closing park and get a few hours out of your ticket!
they are the best type of ticket to get. but it depends how long your going for and where your staying.
if you want to do all the disney parks, i would suggest getting the exclusive to uk guest ticket either the 7 day or 14 ultimate, which gives you acces to all the parks, as many times as you like, as often as you like,its ahuge place and youll never see it all in one holiday.
outside of walt disney world, you then have the other parks like universal, and seaworld but thats ' awhole new world!'

Scousebird_2

Hey everyone,

I was wondering. I am off to Florida in April next year and I was wondering, I want access to all parks (so the Disney Ultimate Ticket seems the best to buy before I go) and then there's the Flexiticket Plus for Universal.

Both myself and the Fi (or Hubby as he willbe then-if he lets me win this arguement) are having an arguement on this one. Is it better to buy here or buy over there? Giving the access that we want!!

Any help greatly apprecaited in advance!

Blink_Eden

dazzer68 wrote: »

yes all sorted after 2 days of stress, telling jetsave we would either cancel, or give us an upgrade to another hotel, they phoned our T.A. and said miracarously they had a cancellation and can now offer the resort we asked for.

Glad you played hard with them and got what you paid for :T

Enjoy your trip

ailuro2

For those who are thinking about getting buses to the parks - if you read the unofficial guide to Disney almost every touring plan recommends getting there for park opening to allow you to do a couple of your 'most wanted ' headliner rides.

If you're stuck on the bus you might be missing our on valuable ride time and spend the rest of the day queueing and trying to get fastpasses. After payoung out well over £200 a head for tickets for your typical fortnight, is it worth losing that for the sake of aorund £8?

Depends on when you're going, but there aren't many times of the year when the parks aren't busy.

Just something for folks to mull over. It's a value for money thing, don't you think? Lose value in the park to get free parking.

Maybe I'm overcautious since we've not been yet - going this Christmas, so the parks are going to be jam packed.:rolleyes:

sturll

ailuro2 wrote: »

For those who are thinking about getting buses to the parks - if you read the unofficial guide to Disney almost every touring plan recommends getting there for park opening to allow you to do a couple of your 'most wanted ' headliner rides.

If you're stuck on the bus you might be missing our on valuable ride time and spend the rest of the day queueing and trying to get fastpasses. After payoung out well over £200 a head for tickets for your typical fortnight, is it worth losing that for the sake of aorund £8?

Depends on when you're going, but there aren't many times of the year when the parks aren't busy.

Just something for folks to mull over. It's a value for money thing, don't you think? Lose value in the park to get free parking.

Maybe I'm overcautious since we've not been yet - going this Christmas, so the parks are going to be jam packed.:rolleyes:

I do agree with you about parking. But for me its more of an arsed thing. I have paid whatever to drag my kids all the way to Florida, for the sake of a measly $12 id rather park my car and be sorted.

But i can think of 3 months where the parks are empty. And i am talking straight off one ride walk straight onto another.
I have done each of the parks, been on every ride (just about) and finished by about 2/3 in the afternoon and that's including half hour at Pecos Bills (etc).

January (2nd week onwards), September & October.

That is why it is beyond me why people go in summer. It rains daily, the parks are heaving, its brutally hot and costs approx 300% more.

sturll

Scousebird wrote: »

Hey everyone,

I was wondering. I am off to Florida in April next year and I was wondering, I want access to all parks (so the Disney Ultimate Ticket seems the best to buy before I go) and then there's the Flexiticket Plus for Universal.

Both myself and the Fi (or Hubby as he willbe then-if he lets me win this arguement) are having an arguement on this one. Is it better to buy here or buy over there? Giving the access that we want!!

Any help greatly apprecaited in advance!

It is always cheaper to buy your Disney tickets before you go.

Are you sure you need the flexi ticket? It is usually cheaper to buy the Universal tickets over there since you often get coupons such as free day, get in for price of a child etc.

Ive yet to see any sort of discount/coupon for Disney.

ANNEGEDDES

ailuro2 wrote: »

For those who are thinking about getting buses to the parks - if you read the unofficial guide to Disney almost every touring plan recommends getting there for park opening to allow you to do a couple of your 'most wanted ' headliner rides.

If you're stuck on the bus you might be missing our on valuable ride time and spend the rest of the day queueing and trying to get fastpasses. After payoung out well over £200 a head for tickets for your typical fortnight, is it worth losing that for the sake of aorund £8?

Depends on when you're going, but there aren't many times of the year when the parks aren't busy.

Just something for folks to mull over. It's a value for money thing, don't you think? Lose value in the park to get free parking.

Maybe I'm overcautious since we've not been yet - going this Christmas, so the parks are going to be jam packed.:rolleyes:

oh no! :eek:we are staying in a disney hotel, is it the same then do you all still say get a car and park??

jackieblack

sturll wrote: »

That is why it is beyond me why people go in summer. It rains daily, the parks are heaving, its brutally hot and costs approx 300% more.

I agree summer is not the best time to go, unfortunately though some people don't have any choice, it's go in the summer or not at all.

sturll

jackieblack wrote: »

I agree summer is not the best time to go, unfortunately though some people don't have any choice, it's go in the summer or not at all.

If you have kids then take them out of school, if you're a teacher have a bad back for a fortnight