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First, you're smart to be thinking about this decision before you travel to Orlando. Of all the potentially bad decisions you can make when buying a ticket to Disney World, the absolute club quarters midtown worst to is to wait to get your tickets when you arrive at Disney. You'll waste time in a long line at the ticket booths, spend the highest possible price for you tickets, and probably club quarters midtown end up making a rushed decision about all the available options, anyway.
Instead, do your research and buy your tickets in advance, so you can go straight into the park when it opens on your first morning in Orlando, allowing club quarters midtown you to hit many of the most popular rides before lines build up later in day.
The Walt Disney World Resort includes four theme parks (none of them named "Disney World," by the way - the original park with the big castle is called "The Magic Kingdom"), two water parks, an outdoor shopping club quarters midtown mall, golf courses, and a bunch of hotels. It sells theme park tickets good for one to up to 10 days, with a variety of extra options we'll explain below.
And Disney isn't the only theme park resort in Central Florida. Up the road in Orlando, you'll club quarters midtown also find the Universal Orlando Resort, which is home to two theme parks, an outdoor shopping mall, three hotels and a nearby water park. Between Disney and Universal lies SeaWorld Orlando, club quarters midtown which offers its eponymous theme park, a water park, and "Discovery Cove" - an exclusive animal encounter experience where you can swim with dolphins in between noshing on gourmet food.
The first question club quarters midtown you should ask yourself when thinking about your theme park vacation is How long do you have to stay in Orlando ? Once you make that decision, you can begin to think about how many of these options you reasonably can fit into your vacation. I wouldn't recommend trying to do more than one park per day on your first visit. And many visitors decided they need more than one day at some of the individual parks, in order to get to everything in those parks.
So if you want to see all the theme parks in the Orlando area, you'll need at least seven full days in Central Florida. Throw in the water parks, and now you're talking about 11 days. Most families don't have that amount of time for their vacation, so they choose to focus.
That brings us to the second question: Will you be visiting Universal and/or SeaWorld? club quarters midtown If your family includes big Harry Potter fans, you'll likely want to include Universal Orlando on your trip, since that's the home of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter . And if people in your family care more about seeing animals than going on rides, you'll want to include SeaWorld, too.
But if neither of those options really grabs you, you'll probably get the most value by restricting your visit to Disney. Disney prices its ticket packages in a way that makes it cheaper and cheaper to add each additional day to your visit. That often makes adding a fifth or sixth day at the Disney club quarters midtown World theme parks less expensive that going over to Universal or SeaWorld.
Let's say that you've decided that you still want to include Walt Disney World on your vacation - and that you're not just going to opt for a Universal and/or SeaWorld-only vacation instead. The next question for you is Will you be staying "on property" in a Disney hotel, or not?
Staying club quarters midtown in a Disney hotel gives you several additional benefits: Extra time to visit certain parks before or after they open or close to the public for the day, package discounts club quarters midtown that might include free nights at your hotel or free dining throughout your stay (depending upon when during the year you visit), and a free bus ride to and from the Orlando airport (potentially saving you the expense of renting a car, but costing you the opportunity to go "off property" to Universal or SeaWorld if you don't).
That said, Disney's hotels are often more expensive that comparable quality club quarters midtown hotels "off property." And some of the Disney hotels club quarters midtown (especially the less expensive ones) are miles away from the theme parks, requiring you to either drive your car or wait for a Disney bus ride to and from the parks - so you're not saving too much time compared with staying at nearby club quarters midtown "off property" hotels.
If keeping your costs to an absolute minimum is important club quarters midtown for you, you'll club quarters midtown likely want to stay off-property. But if you're able to spend extra to get extra value, you might consider staying at one of Disney's hotels and buying a package deal that includes your theme park tickets. The Disney hotels are priced in three tiers - "value", club quarters midtown "moderate" and "deluxe" - with room quality, available extra hotel services, and location relative to the parks all factoring in those designations. In other words, club quarters midtown the more you pay, the more you get. Check Disney's special offers page to see what package discounts are available now, to help you get an idea about what you'd need to budget to stay on-site.
And if you choose to stay off property - remember that extra-hours benefit for staying in a Disney club quarters midtown hotel? That's called "Extra Magic Hours" and if you're staying off-property, you'll want to avoid whichever parks have the Extra Magic Hours on a given day , since it'll be packed with Disney club quarters midtown hotel guests. club quarters midtown The best way to get value on your theme park vacation is to try to go where the crowds aren't.
A few more questions for you: Will you likely be returning to Disney World? Here's why this question is vital - Disney World tickets expire 14 days after you use the first day on your ticket. But you can buy a "no expire" option for your tickets, at additional cost, that keeps the unused days on your ticket good forever. That means you can go ahead and buy a 10-day ticket this year and keep all your unused days for a future visit, effectively locking club quarters midtown in the lowest possible of today's prices, saving club quarters midtown you the expense of Disney World's twice-annual ticket price increases in the future.
The "no expire" option makes each day of your ticket quite a bit more expensive, though - from $13-$28 a day more as of this writing. The real value in the "no expire" option is that it allows you to "buy in bulk." Since Disney lowers the per-day cost of your ticket the more days you buy, you get the best deal by buying a 10-day ticket. Adding the "no-expire" option allows you to buy the 10-day club quarters midtown ticket even if you're not staying that long on this trip, locking in that price for your future visits, too.
As of this writing, a four-day Disney World base ticket - without the "no-expire" option - costs $64 a day for adults. But a 10-day ticket with the no-expire option costs $59.30 a day for adults. Throw in the fact that Disney typically raises per-day ticket prices a few bucks every year, and you can see how the "no-expire" option can help you save money in the future. This option works best for people who visit Orlando regularly but intend to visit Disney for fewer than four days on each visit. If you plan to spend five or more days at Disney theme parks on your Orlando visit, or aren't sure that you'll come back to Disney, it's better to stay away from the expensive "no expire" option.
Next question: Do you want to visit more than one park per day? For a flat extra charge of $57 (as of this writing) you can add a "park hopper" option for the all the days on your ticket, whether club quarters midtown that's two days to 10. The "park hopper" allows you to visit as many of the Disney World theme parks as you want in a single day. Without it, you can visit only one park per day on your ticket.
If you're new to Disney club quarters midtown World, and just getting a feel for the parks, I'd suggest spending a full day at each park and saving a few bucks by skipping the "park hopper" option. But adding it gives you enormous flexibility club quarters midtown to get the most value from each day of your visit, allowing you to move from one park to another to take advantage of extended operating hours, or to move to a less crowded park as lines build up later in the day.
Finally, Will you be visiting a water park during your stay this time? Disney offers a "water club quarters midtown park fun & more" option, also for a flat $57 per ticket, that allows you to use the resort's two water parks, mini golf courses, the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex, the DisneyQuest indoor game facility, and to play one round at Disney's Oak Trail golf course during your visit.
You get one visit to a "water park fun & more" location for each day on your ticket, though you can use them on different days - you don't have to go on the same days you visit the parks. (And to get the most from the ticket, you probably shouldn't.) Note that if you do buy a one-day club quarters midtown ticket with the "water parks fun & more" option, you get two visits, not just one.* (This paragraph has been updated club quarters midtown to reflect a change in Disney policy from past years, noted in the comments.)
The water park tickets, bought separately, cost $52 a day for adults, so if you're planning to visit a water park for a second day, or to use any of the other benefits, it's probably worth it to add the "water park fun & more" option. But if you're just sticking to the theme parks, this is an easy add-on to skip.
So there you go. Once you're started thinking about your answers to these questions, you're ready to visit Walt Disney World's ticket purchase pages and to start pricing club quarters midtown your options to find the best choice for your family's needs and budget.
And if you're considering including club quarters midtown a trip to Universal Orlando or to SeaWorld, follow the links to price Universal Orlando theme park tickets and vacation packages as well as SeaWorld tickets and packages . If none of these package options appeal to you, go ahead and start pricing off-property hotels in the area as an alternative, using a service such as Hotels.com.
club quarters midtown If you still want more information about putting together the best deal on an Orlando theme park vacation for your family, please take a look at the Theme Park Insider Discussion Board , where our readers are asking and answering questions about theme parks and vacation club quarters midtown planning. We'd be happy to help you, too!
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