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There are other changes as well.
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We go on to the joy and through the tears
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Moving on with the current of the years.
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To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
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I'm trying to figure out how I should use the one day park tickets I need to get for my family (when we stay and get the free dining plan). I have an AP, so I'm going to save mine and put it toward my next park ticket. I'll need that in one year. DH and 2 kids each have 10 day passes that I bought already at Ticket Mania and got for 358.00 each. So they will be getting into the parks for 35.80 a day, so it doesn't make sense to use the 63.00 tickets but yet I don't think they'll need park passes for quite some time, so it seems silly to save those to apply to park passes. (We usually go to Disney every year or two and only go into the parks 3 days in our week stay, so at this rate, it would be quite a few years before I'd buy more passes.) I hope that makes sense. What would you do? I am right in assuming that those tickets will have their names on them, so I can't pool all 4 tickets to apply to the next ticket purchase for me, right?
I don't know about the names on the tickets and whether you could apply them all toward yours in the future, but I can tell you what we are planning to do with ours if the dining plan gets extended to include our travel dates.
We also have 10 day tickets with the no expiring option, so I figured if we each had to buy a one day that I would get a VERY basic ticket w/o the no expiring and possibly even without the hopping option and use them this trip and save our no expiring, hopping, magic plus option tickets to use on into infinity. We also use one pass over several years until time to buy another
One question for you....we debated one AP to save on resorts and decided against since at the end of the year DH would still have 6 days or so left and I'd have none. Has it worked out well for your family doing it that way with the AP?
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I'm trying to figure out how I should use the one day park tickets I need to get for my family (when we stay and get the free dining plan). I have an AP, so I'm going to save mine and put it toward my next park ticket. I'll need that in one year. DH and 2 kids each have 10 day passes that I bought already at Ticket Mania and got for 358.00 each. So they will be getting into the parks for 35.80 a day, so it doesn't make sense to use the 63.00 tickets but yet I don't think they'll need park passes for quite some time, so it seems silly to save those to apply to park passes. (We usually go to Disney every year or two and only go into the parks 3 days in our week stay, so at this rate, it would be quite a few years before I'd buy more passes.) I hope that makes sense. What would you do? I am right in assuming that those tickets will have their names on them, so I can't pool all 4 tickets to apply to the next ticket purchase for me, right?
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Michelle, I'm pretty sure you can only use one ticket towars another ticket...I don't think you can take 4 and put towards a new AP.
I would just save them. Then you will have 63.00 towards everybody's ticket whenever you need them. Just don't lose them!!!
One question for you....we debated one AP to save on resorts and decided against since at the end of the year DH would still have 6 days or so left and I'd have none. Has it worked out well for your family doing it that way with the AP?
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I bought 10 day tickets, each, for DH and the 2 kids. I figure I'll buy tickets when I need them after this year is up. I go down with my Mom, so I'll be able to juggle the fact I'll have more days than they do. This is the first time I've had an AP. Other years, I've only gone when room only codes came out. With the expectation that room only codes won't be happening this year, I bought an AP. I have already paid for the AP with savings on my room for my May trip with my Mom (split stay at Pop/Polynesian)and this upcoming trip in August (Pop with free dining and BC with AP). So, I figure I've come out ahead already. All my park days are "free". Plus, I'm going again in Oct., so that'll be more savings.
You'd have to factor in how many days you'd be staying on site within one year's time. Where you would stay would also affect your savings. With the codes for the deluxes this year, I saved a lot of money. You also can add in other savings you get from the AP like percentages off food and recreation. It's always a gamble because you don't know what the codes will be for later in the year or if a different deal will come along and then you won't use the AP.
The other thing you have to factor in is how much you're willing to spend on airfare. Sure, I'm saving a lot with the AP, but it's also drawing me back again and again which means $ on airfare! I hadn't planned on going in May, but a really cheap airfare popped up and my Mom and I went. I figured I might as well take advantage of the AP I was about to purchase, then I figured I've always wanted to go to MNSSHP, so as long as I had the AP, I might as well do it this year...get my point ! I just tried to talk my DH into another trip in Sept. being that would be on the free dining plan. His reponse was, "You've got to get over this Disney thing." Oh well, I tried! There's always Mousefest...
I would just save them. Then you will have 63.00 towards everybody's ticket whenever you need them. Just don't lose them!!!
Elise
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That's what I was leaning toward, too. My only hesitation was that if I do that, would have to do that directly from Disney though. This year, the savings I got from the link to TicketMania was 50.00 over the price I would have paid getting them from Disney. Course, who's to say that savings will still be possible a few years from now. It's always a gamble isn't it?
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! I just tried to talk my DH into another trip in Sept. being that would be on the free dining plan. His reponse was, "You've got to get over this Disney thing." Oh well, I tried! 
There's always Mousefest...
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