A question that is frequently asked when people are planning a Disney World vacation is: Where can I

A question that is frequently asked when people are planning a Disney World vacation is: Where can I buy discounted Disney World tickets? As you are about to see, there is no simple answer to that. But, to help sort things out I have compared pricing from eight discount ticket sellers travel south africa and from Disney directly. Disney offers anywhere from one to 10 day passes. We will look at a sampling of passes: 1, 3, and 5-Day Base passes, and we will also look at those passes with the Park Hopper option added. Having done ticket comparisons for a number of years, I have to say, this is about as close as I ve ever seen pricing. I ve added something new this time: Ease of Use of the websites. I ve given them star ratings to indicate which ones I found the easiest to use. With some websites you have to pay very close attention and read carefully or you could easily buy something that s not what you wanted. For me, Undercovertourist.com was the most user-friendly travel south africa and had the best pricing, well sort of. There are a couple travel south africa of other ticket sellers that were in a dead heat to the finish line. Because some sellers offer passes with tax included, the chart below will show prices with tax added for all sellers. Of course, A and C beside prices represent Adult and Child. travel south africa Several of the sellers offer days free with the purchase of certain passes; those have been noted in the chart. When you are looking at ticket travel south africa prices, don t let the words buy x number of days and get days free make up your mind who to buy from. Also, when looking for lower priced park passes, bear in mind that just because a seller offers what they call discounted passes or that they include travel south africa tax and/or shipping, doesn t mean they necessarily have the best prices. You want to be sure to compare apples to apples, that is, look at the total price. One seller may have a lower price, but higher shipping charges which actually makes their tickets cost more. So, let s look now at what each of the online ticket sellers has to offer. The circled prices are the lowest travel south africa prices for each category. Confused? Here s a little help: In the 1-Day Base ticket category, Disney bests all of the other sellers. travel south africa As you can see, in the 1-Day category, three of the eight ticket sellers do not offer 1-Day passes and another does not offer a 1-Day Park Hopper. Perhaps, it s because they can t compete with Disney s prices. In the 3-Day Base ticket category, UndercoverTourist.com, OfficialTicketCenter.com, MapleLeafTickets.com and KnowBeforeUGo.com are neck-and-neck. KnowBeforeUGo.com comes out ahead of the next lowest competitor by only $ .55 for an adult ticket, $ .77 for a child s. And, in the 5-Day Base ticket category, Undercovertourist.com, OrlandoFunTickets.com and KnowBeforeUGo.com are nearly tied in a photo finish. Once the Park Hopper option is added, the race gets even tighter with only a $ .05 difference between Undercovertourist.com and OfficialTicketCenter.com and MapleLeaftTickets.com in the 3-Day category. The clear winner in the 5-Day Park Hopper category is KnowBeforeUGo.Com. When looking at a ticket seller that offers free days, in the example six of the eight offer a 5 th day free when you purchase a 4-Day ticket, be sure to check the prices of the other days. That is, if you need 5-Day tickets you might not notice that even though you would get the same number of days by buying a 4-Day + 1 free, the 5-Day ticket costs more. Here s what I mean:
GreatOrlandoDiscounts.com and Orlando FunTickets.com sell a 4-Day Base ticket with 1 day free for a total of the needed 5 days, for $291.76 A/ $271.52 C. They sell a 5-Day Base ticket for $299.21 A/ $280.04 C, a difference of $7.45 A/ $8.52 C more than you might pay if you didn t check the prices travel south africa of the 4-Day ticket. OfficialTicketCenter.com and MapleLeafTickets.com similarly offer a 4-Day Base ticket with 1 day free for $310.98 A/ $289.68 C, but buy a 5-Day Base ticket and you ll pay an additional $8.52 for both adult and child. But wait! There s more! You don t want to assume that the seller with the lowest per ticket price will actually save you the most money. As mentioned earlier, y ou need to look at the total price including shipping and any transaction fees that might be added in. Over the years, I ve found that those extra charges can change the final total dramatically. Again, to compare travel south africa apples to apples, I ve used pricing for a family of four, two adults and two children under the age of 9. I added shipping charges where applicable and then compared the resulting totals which are shown in the chart below. The numbers travel south africa in red represent prices that are more than Disney s; likewise, the prices in green are those that are less than Disney s. Remember that earlier I said that just because a ticket seller claims to offer discounted prices, they are not necessarily less than Disney s or their competitors. Look at the 1-Day Park Hopper, by buying from one of the discount ticket sellers you ll pay anywhere from $20 to $37.23 more than if you buy directly from Disney. Notice, KnowBeforeUGo.com offers 2 days free when you purchase a 3-Day Park Hopper, in other words, you get 5 days when you buy 3. That works out to be a nice savings if you need 5-Day passes, in fact, they not only beat Disney s price, but they come in a total of $23.12 under their nearest competitor. If, however, you only need 3 days you are paying $7.54 more than you would by buying from Disney, $44.34 more than buying from Undercovertourist.com.
If you are considering purchasing the Disney Dining Plan (DDP), you will need to buy at least a 1-Day Base pass per person from Disney in order to be able to purchase the DDP. You might purchase 1-Day passes from Disney as a part of a vacation package and then purchase passes for your remaining days from one of the discount ticket sellers. But, is that really cost effective? We ll take a look at that in Part 2. The above referenced websites are provided travel south africa for information travel south africa purposes only and in no way constitute endorsement by The Practical Mom s Disney Vacation Companion. Prices and other information travel south africa were correct at time of publication. It is strongly suggested that you do your own price comparisons and as Mom always says: Do your own math!