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It's basically a 40%/35%/30% resort discount and seriously discounted tickets. The choices are a 4 day Hopper OR a 4 day base w/ waterparks for $138 or a 4 day Hopper w/ waterparks for $165. You can add on a dining plan for the regular cost. There's no code for this. Just ask for the Military Salute. You do have to show a military ID when you check in and validate the tickets though.
I called this morning and changed our reservation for the end of the month. Even though we're PIF and past the "change date" cutoff, they waived the penalty for us. I went to the Base ticket office this afternoon to get the tickets, and was told (by a rather smug young lady) that "it's expired." I said, "No, this is new. It's a 4 day Hopper for $138." She said, "That's the one that just expired." I said, "No, that was a $99 base ticket with a $25 Hopper add-on. This one just came out yesterday." She said, "Oh, we don't have any information on that yet." So I said, okay and thanked her for her time, thinking "don't tell ME about Disney discounts." I called central Res. and asked them about the tickets and they said there's been a delay in sending them out and they should be there in a few days.
The resort cost is the same as we had with my pin code, but the tickets are much less. In the end, we'll be saving about $300 on this trip! Woo hoo! More $$ for F&WF - especially the W part!
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Excellent news. Our resort is already paid for thru DVC points but i was hoping for discounted tickets for DH. Thanks for posting!
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Congrats! And thanks to you and everyone else who can use this deal. My family appreciates the service and sacrifice you and your families put forth everyday for our country. I'm so glad Disney offers deals for our military.
Thank you for the info...wow, you are on the cutting edge of the announcement. Shades of Green doesn't even have the info on line yet!
I will contact our travel agent.
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Congrats! And thanks to you and everyone else who can use this deal. My family appreciates the service and sacrifice you and your families put forth everyday for our country. I'm so glad Disney offers deals for our military.
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Awesome! Thanks for the info! Do you know if a spouse qualifies? My hubby (retired Navy) is not going just me and mom so will I still be able to do this?
Congrats! And thanks to you and everyone else who can use this deal. My family appreciates the service and sacrifice you and your families put forth everyday for our country. I'm so glad Disney offers deals for our military.
Thanks! DH is retired, but he serves on the Honor Guard for military funerals. He's always so touched when people see him in his uniform and thank him for his service. It really does mean a lot to hear that.
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Pat, you just saved us some money on our trip in 2 weeks!!!
Great! Don't you just love little surprise savings right before a trip? Just like Santa Claus!
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Awesome! Thanks for the info! Do you know if a spouse qualifies? My hubby (retired Navy) is not going just me and mom so will I still be able to do this?
You should be able to, if you have a military ID. Just be sure you take your ID w/ you to the park to activate the ticket. I used mine to buy our tickets for the last MS deal, and we could have used either DH's or my ID to activate them.
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Awesome! Thanks for the info! Do you know if a spouse qualifies? My hubby (retired Navy) is not going just me and mom so will I still be able to do this?
hmm I'm wondering the same thing.. Hubby is active guard..
but I might have to save this for next time since my trip is all paid off now..
hmm I'm wondering the same thing.. Hubby is active guard..
but I might have to save this for next time since my trip is all paid off now..
Ours was paid off, too. In fact, we were at about 24 days out when I called. The room rate was the same, but the tickets are much cheaper. They cancelled our ressie w/ MYW tickets, and rebooked it as room only. They waived the normal cancel/change penalty for us - the CM said that was pretty much standard procedure for things like this. So it was super-easy to change. Crunch the numbers and see if it will work for you. On the other hand, if you're planning to go again before next October, you might want to use it for that trip. It's also only a 4 day ticket, which is perfect for us, but doesn't work for a lot of people.
Either way, though, you should be eligible for it. It's pretty much for anyone active duty or retired, Guard or Reserves, spouses, survivors, everyone but the family cat. The member or spouse has to buy the tickets, and be there w/ ID when they're activated.
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Thanks for this information. DH and I are going down in early December for 8 days. We just have room only booked (at a great discount I got with a pin code) and had planned to go to SOG to purchase our park passes. Will DH be able to purchase 4 of the 4 day park hoppers and then we each use two of them over the 7 days that we will need to have hoppers for? I know we would have an extra day, but purchasing 2 each would still cost a little less than buying one 7 day park hopper.
Thanks for this information. DH and I are going down in early December for 8 days. We just have room only booked (at a great discount I got with a pin code) and had planned to go to SOG to purchase our park passes. Will DH be able to purchase 4 of the 4 day park hoppers and then we each use two of them over the 7 days that we will need to have hoppers for? I know we would have an extra day, but purchasing 2 each would still cost a little less than buying one 7 day park hopper.
This question came up on that "other board," too. And I was wondering if we could buy 4 tickets, use 2 for this trip and 2 for a trip sometime next year - before they expire, of course. The general consensus over there was that both strategies should work. According to the "rules" from the last promotion, all of the tickets have to be purchased at the same time, but they don't have to be activated all at once. I'm thinking we might wait and pick them up at SOG when we get to Orlando.
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