One thing to always remember - never buy your tickets directly at the gate - buy them online in advance, prices can be up to $50 per ticket less than at the gate.
1. Check directly on the theme park's website - you may find promtions or discounts offered there. Disney will sometimes offer discounts from January through March which tends to be the off season, such as adults pay kids prices. The off season also tends to have better hotel prices roughly January, February, last three weeks of October, first three weeks of November.
2. Consider buying tickets for multiple days to save. For example a one day ticket cost $80 for the day, but a 3 day ticket cost $199 or $66.33 per day. The more days you add onto your ticket, the more you save.
3. If you are a AAA member, check with your local office. They may offer discounts and they also offer free parking.
4. Book with a Travel Agent - you never know, they may be able to come up with some great discounts. Get a price quote from one. Get-Away Today is a popular agent in Utah that focuses on Disney vacations.
5. If you plan on going to multiple attraction, you can save money with a Southern California CityPass. Costco sells these for the best discounted price if you can find them there or you can puchase them online. You will save much more this way than purchasing the tickets seperately.
6. ARES Travel offers small discounts on Disneyland tickets. You print your ticket receipt at home and present the printed sheet at the park ticket booths, where you get the actual ticket. There is a $2 convience fee, but this still gives you a better discounted price.
7. An annual passport may be more cost effective if you visit more than a couple of times a year. Southern California residents and Disney Vacation Club members (Disney's timeshare program) recieve a reduced price.
8. Some hotels offer discounted Disneyland tickets with a room rental.
9. If you are active or retired military, you can get discount passes through base MWR offices.
10. One year we sat through a timeshare presentation in Orlando to get discount DisneyWorld tickets. This is an option, but you have to commit about 3 hours of your vacation time to the timeshare presentation and you have to keep a firm no answer as you get hounded to sign up for a timeshare. This may or maynot be worth it to you, but you can search the internet for timeshare disney tickets to find offers.
11. Stay away from buying discounted tickets on eBay or Craigslist - there is no way to know for certain how many days remain on these tickets until you get to the gate. The only safe way to get partially used multi-day tickets is to plan on purchasing them with someone you know and trust - you would have to pre-arrange for example if you bought a 6-day ticket and have one person use it for 3-days and the other person would plan to go shortly after for the other 3-days.
*Note: if you plan on going around Halloween, you may want to purchase Mickey's Halloween Party tickets in advance to save $10 per ticket for certain event dates. You basically get to go trick or treating in the park and other special activities.
Again, there are no clear cut discounts for Disney tickets. The discounts that are available are normally still small and you will still pay 80-95% of full price. You may want to look for other ways to save on everything else for your trip such as airfare, hotel and food. Check out our travel link for more details on how to do this.
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