When I travel, I hate to think of budgets and constraints. I mean I’m on vacation and I should not have to worry about how much I have spent and how much I have left to spend.
There are a couple of thinks you can do to fix your budget before visiting Disney World in Orlando and take the financial worry out of your vacation.
Disney Park Tickets
Disney tickets are sold at several levels: the Magic Your Way base tickets cover the cost of visiting one theme park a day for each day of the ticket. On top of this, you can add the Park Hopper option, which allows you to go through multiple theme parks on the same day as many times as you like. You can also add the Water Park Fun & More option, which grants admission to the two Disney water parks as well as other attractions. Each of those add-on options costs $50 above the cost of your tickets, regardless of how many days are on your tickets. Neither is likely worth it if you buy only a one-day ticket, but their value goes up sharply as you add more days.
We recommend the Park Hopper option because of the flexibility it offers. Without it, you could be stuck with nowhere else to go after doing everything you want to do at one park; or you could run out of time to do one last attraction and be unable to come back another day to pick it up. If you have seven-day tickets, it only costs about $7.00 a day to add this option; the value of being able to visit one park in the morning and another in the evening should not be underestimated.
Multi-day tickets do not have to be used on consecutive days. However, these tickets will expire 14 days after they are first used, so be sure to use all the days purchased prior to that. A no-expiration option can be added to any multi-day ticket with at least one day remaining; with this option, the ticket expires when the last purchased day is used, which can be months or even years after the initial use. A side benefit of this option is locking in your admission price for your next visit(s). The price for this option is variable, based on the number of days purchased.
The best feature of a Disney admission ticket is its flexibility. Options can be added even if the ticket has already been used at least once. For example, a base ticket (no park-hopping) can be upgraded to include park-hopping by paying the $50 cost for the option. Or, if a change in travel plans will not allow the user to utilize all purchased days prior to the ticket’s expiration date, the “no-expiration” option can be purchased for the remaining days. These changes may be made at any ticket window or at the Guest Relations office inside each theme park.
The prices below were accurate as of June 2009 (6.5% Florida sales tax not included):
| “Magic Your Way” Online Prices | |||||
| Days | ages 3-9 | ages 10+ | |||
| Total | Per Day | Total | Per Day | ||
| 1 | $63 | $63.00 | $75 | $75.00 | |
| 2 | $125 | $62.50 | $149 | $74.50 | |
| 3 | $179 | $59.67 | $212 | $70.67 | |
| 4 | $184 | $46.00 | $219 | $54.75 | |
| 5 | $187 | $37.40 | $222 | $44.40 | |
| 6 | $190 | $31.67 | $225 | $37.50 | |
| 7 | $193 | $27.57 | $228 | $32.57 | |
| 8 | $196 | $24.50 | $231 | $28.88 | |
| 9 | $199 | $22.11 | $234 | $26.00 | |
| 10 | $202 | $20.20 | $237 | $23.70 | |
Children under age three are admitted for free.
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Parts of this article were reproduced courtesy of WikiTravel.com and is based on work from Peter Fitzgerald, Eric Polk and Colin Jensen.
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