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Wow, we are totally excited about this and hope is hangs on until our Jan trip. Its just so hard to spend $80+ to get to another park...however WWoHP will be worth it. Thanks for the link!
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Yeah, we're planning a January 2011 trip, too, and this would be great if it stuck around.
Does anyone know if you can get the big highlights of both parks done in one weekday in mid-January?
We totally think its doable, we had originally planned 2 days at US/IOA but realized there wasn't enough to keep DD 3 happy. So we plan on trying to do both in one day. Just have a plan of attack and I believe the UG touring plans has one. Our plan is to start in US, Hollywood rip rocket and Mummy. Then move on to IOA Hulk, Spiderman, JP (depends on DD height at the time and weather), WWoHP, Suess Landing, back to WWoHP.
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What a great deal! I agree...if they can capitalize on the people staying at Disney who want to visit and provide free transportation they might be on to something! Get people to visit once and it becomes something they want to do again and again thus increasing future visits!
I just have to wonder what Disney thinks of this...it can't make them happy. But I suppose people aren't going to cut back on what they buy at Disney anyway....there is little difference in cost between a 9 day or 10 day ticket and peoplw will still be staying at their Disney hotels.....hhmmmm? Any thoughts?
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Do the math before you decide. There will be six of us going to Universal and we want to go for two days. I did the math and, in our case, it's actually cheaper to get the two day two park tickets from the Universal website and pay for a cab. This is a great deal if you're going for only one day but if you're going for two days, do the math.
I agree on doing the math. We are going for two days and it is slightly cheaper to hire transportation then to take advantage of this "free" deal. And the advantage is that we don't have to wait on a bus or shuttle service. I wish they would offer a two day deal but since they are not we will not take advantage of this offer.
I agree on doing the math. We are going for two days and it is slightly cheaper to hire transportation then to take advantage of this "free" deal. And the advantage is that we don't have to wait on a bus or shuttle service. I wish they would offer a two day deal but since they are not we will not take advantage of this offer.
I'll bet they add it if this one day is successful.
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Rob..have to agree. I haven't yet seen anything similar to that offer for US/IoA guests that would enable them to get to WDW on a shuttle. Yes, they could take the Mears shuttle (I would imagine anyway) but I believe that the package everyone is seeing is to get guests from WDW over to US. I just bought two of those pkg's for myself and my dd...$109 pp, r/t shuttle and 2 parks/one day.
But that gets me from WDW over to US/IoA and back to WDW at the end of the day.
What a great deal! I agree...if they can capitalize on the people staying at Disney who want to visit and provide free transportation they might be on to something! Get people to visit once and it becomes something they want to do again and again thus increasing future visits!
I just have to wonder what Disney thinks of this...it can't make them happy. But I suppose people aren't going to cut back on what they buy at Disney anyway....there is little difference in cost between a 9 day or 10 day ticket and peoplw will still be staying at their Disney hotels.....hhmmmm? Any thoughts?
Believe me...Disney is getting more than their fair share of my vacation dollar. We will have been at WDW for 10 days by the time we head over to US for the day...the next day we fly home. I doubt Disney much cares about my few remaining dollars going to US!
But, I'm sure they won't be happy that my little family is heading to US/IoA for 3 nights after our Disney cruise next April!!!
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