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OK, here is my assessment. Most people visit Disney a few times (or less) in their lifetime. Infrequent travelers tend to discover Mousesavers before the one month cycle but don't really know what mousesavers is or if it is even valuable. As they get closer to their trip they realize ther are some useful things on this site. They discover you cannot get really big discounts on tickets and see the value of Undercover Tourists. Reading comments about them on the net gets one to trust the site and realizes an additional discount can be found by subscribing to the newsletter. But its too late because they are now past the one month mark. So I purchased my 7D no expire tickets for four without the special secret discount.
On the 15th, the newsletter came out. Not sure there was anything in there that I will use and I know I wont be needing monthly info on it for quite some time.
I respect the fact that folks would not forward the newsletter even after I signed up as that is the agreement. I will also abide by the agreement, but will provide some information that I was unable to get that should help many.
After getting the secret link, I decided to configure the same ticits I just purchased without the discount. It would have saved me a whopping $10 total for my entire order. This is less than a one percent discount.
So, go to Undercover Travel and purchase your tickets. They are easy, fast and discounted. Don't worry about the mousesavers newsletter. How do I opt out of future mailings?
Hopefully this helped a whole bunch of people. Or at least one.
I know it's not a huge discount, but the $10 is a couple of Dole Whips anyway
Hi, E. Dooley,
I'm new here too and eager to see if anyone has the current newsletter from Mousesavers. I wanted to know if the code/link helps you get better prices for Magic Your way at Disneyworld.
Thanks in advance for any assistance! My family and I are planning our trip and need to buy our tickets in advance now since our trip is only 2 weeks away!
Hello all! We are planning a trip for Nov, but I read that prices go up in August, so I'd like to buy our tickets now! I signed up for the newsletter but never got it/ Could someone send the link, pretty please?? :-)
I purchased my park tickets through them recently. Through my research, they had the best deal using the link through the newsletter
If you have any questions, let me know
Hi there!
I joined mousesavers and was not aware that the news letter did not come out on until the 15th of the month. We are going to be in florida on that day. is there anyway that you could forward me a news letter? I would be very grateful
i was not aware of the "secret link" and joined to late. we will be in Florida on the 15th of this month and therefore would need a newsletter before that. Would anyone be willing to help me?
I have already ordered several tickets using the link from Mousesavers. I thought I was done ordering tickets so I deleted the newsletter from my email. Now we have more people coming along and I need to order more tix. Could someone please email the link. Thanks, Brian
edited to remove email.
Last edited by Fortissimo; 08-28-2009 at 09:57 AM..
While I found mousesavers.com. I too found it too late to get the the Newletter deal. I did sign up, but by the time the next one come out we'll already be heading back to AZ. And while it might only be $10 per ticket, that's another drink or two for us looking to get the most of our money. If anyone could help us out and PM us the link we would be grateful.
Thanks for taking the time, Passporter must love mousesavers.com because I wouldn't have found ya'll if it wasn't for them
I am glad to hear that people had a good experience with undercovertourist, sometimes it's hard to trust some of the stuff out on the web.
Saw several posts in this forum with a similar request to mine. We signed up for the Mousesavers newsletter, but are trying to finalize our february vacation before the next newsletter on Jan 15. Can anyone email me the current newsletter? Thanks so much!!
I would love the Jan. newsletter as well. I've received the newsletter for about 3 years now, and I must've spammed it once and since they're such a great company they pull you from their list if you spam them. Unfortunately, thats not what I wanted to happen though!
I re-signed up, but I'd really like to buy my tickets before the February newsletter comes out.
I've also just discovered the mousesavers.com newsletter & link, but like many others need to plan my trip before the 15th. Could somebody forward to me also?
Thanks!!!
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