jenng1983
Disney fanatic in Canada
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2015
Why don't you do a park on Sunday daytime? Figure out which park you don't care about seeing in the evening (from your must list it would probably be AK or Epcot). You will have plenty of time for Disney Springs after the water park.
Or can you upgrade the base tickets to park hoppers (I don't know how it works with military tickets)?
I have no idea which parks have what at night time.
We can't upgrade to park hoppers without a substantial hit to our budget. See below.
Let me spend your money....
I'd fly in on Monday. Take ME to your resort. If getting in after midnight, you'll have to grab your own luggage.
Since you are getting three "free" five-day passes, buy the one ticket as a five-day. Go to the parks on Tuesday. That way you can spend one day in each park. One visit to DS is probably enough. On Sunday, do a light/half day/evening in whatever park the kids want to return to most. (I'd do MK.)
DH is of the mindset that we won't want to do 5 days straight of Disney. I'm of the mindset that right after that we're cruising, so we'll be able to relax then. His other thing is that we'll be spending more money in the parks compared to our of the parks, so I'll have to show him how we can save $$. I have to get him on my page.
Packing for the cruise when you are already on vacation will be very quick. Put everything in the hotel room that is yours in bag. Done. It's not like packing from home where you are debating what to bring. Just something to think about! What if you did Water park/DS on Sunday and a 4th park Friday?
True. The packing for 2 vacations in one thing is freaking me out, but you're right, it won't take long once we're there. We can probably even do it early Monday, as we will probably get a later PAT due to being first timers.
Are you really wanting to do a water park day. Regular tickets won't get you into a water park, and those tickets are more expensive. Depending on the age of your kids you might just want to turn that day into a park day, and do Disney Springs on Sunday before the cruise.
DH and the kids do. I can take it or leave it, as I'm not a huge fan of waterslides, but I'm outnumbered there. I'll have a 7 and 16 year old, and DH is a kid at heart.
Our magic bands usually mailed to us, you should have them well before you leave for your vacation.
Yeah, not to Canada though. We'll be picking them up at AoA.
According to the OP, these are air miles tickets. They should be bridged when upgrading. Depending on the type of ticket (if they are older without expiration dates), she might be able to “upgrade” the 5-day tickets to a 4-day hopper for minimal cost.
Airmiles participated in the Canadian resident deal. As the OP's avatar mentions being in Canada I think there is a good chance that these are Canadian resident tickets. If that's true upgrading may be prohibitive.
We are dealing with this very thing. We have 4 day tickets but since our flight isn't departing until quite late we thought about doing a park in the morning but because of the deal we got on the tickets it's cost prohibitive to do so.
That sounds like a strange situation. Any ticket sold by a third party is typically bridged because Disney doesn’t know how much you paid for it.
When we went to DL in June, we tried to add a day to our tickets, thinking it would be adding a 4th day, so $20/ticket to pay the difference. However, we did get our tickets from Air Miles during the Canadian resident deal and therefore "paid" fewer Air Miles and would have had to pay the difference between what the ticket was worth, and the price to add on a day, making it $100 per ticket to add the day. I'm afraid Disney somehow knows how much the ticket value is, and they take it into consideration.
exactly what time will you be arriving at MCO?
What is the cost of the hotel at the airport? $150?
AoA? $175?
If you are going to pay to stay somewhere on Monday night, just go the resort.
All the flights from Calgary get to MCO around 11:00-11:30pm. Unless this changes next year, I'll be planning for a middle of the night arrival. By the time we get our bags, and get to AoA, I can see it being 1am or so. I haven't looked into the price of a room at an MCO hotel, but the thought of getting on a bus after a day of travelling sounds less than appealing.