Charolette
Earning My Ears
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- Nov 9, 2016
Darn was hoping we could skip that step! Oh well for the discount it's totally worth it! Thanks for the info. It's much appreciated!
For anyone curious, you can pay for the Canadian Park tickets with a Disney Gift Card on the Disney World website. You do not have to put in a billing address if paying this way online. I selected Will Call as the delivery option and will show my Canadian Passport at Guest Relations to pick up the ticket! The ticket showed instantly in MDE and I can reassign it to anyone. Also received the confirmation email with the barcode instantly. The ticket also shows in the MDE APP that it is a non-expiring ticket!!!
Now here's the kicker (and hopefully I don't get flamed for saying this)...I'm a Canadian living outside of Canada....I never entered a Canadian address anywhere to make this purchase since I paid with a Disney Gift Card. To collect the ticket all I need is the email with the barcode and my Canadian Passport! This is what is printed on my email! Every report on collecting the Disney World Canadian Park tickets has been the same. Present the bar code email and your passport and exchange for your park tickets.
Disney Gift Cards can be purchased at a 5% discount at Target in the States if using your Target RedCard for an even further savings on ticket prices.
Hope this info helps someone else.
YES, you can do all of those things. If you have a room booked (directly thru Disney) and have your own tickets you can call and have them create what is referred to as "a ticket-less package" by paying for the dining plan at full pop. Depending on the make up of your family you need to do even more Disney math because you might find that paying for your meals strictly OOP, without any Dining Plan, can be cheaper. Every family is different, but if you have found before that you had credits not used, ended up feeling like you were either wasting food, eating more than you wanted or ended up trying to spend lots of snack credits before you left, you might be better off just paying for all of your meals OOP.
YES, you can attach different credit cards to different bands. I would recommend going to the front desk a few times during your stay to check the invoice just to be sure the correct card has been charged. Most people have no problems but others have found all purchases ended up on one card. We noticed on our last stay that the invoice even said which band had been used for each purchase.
Quick Q - when we last visited in 2012 you just had to be there for one of the days to have FD applied to the whole trip. Is this still the case? One rumour I read has it starting on December 3rd (our arrival date) while another one says the 8th (our check out date). Our dates are somewhat flexible I guess....but I don't think BLT is available.
Thanks again for all your help! It's really appreciated!
perfect...here's hoping it's the 3rd!!!Don't mind helping out at ALL! You're correct about free dining getting applied to your entire stay if you check IN on one of those days. If it doesn't start until your check OUT day, that won't work. It's so hard to make a final decision until the actual dates get dropped!!! I'm also not 100% sure if BLT is even included in the offers -- i just tried to check the current ones and it's not clear.
I know that you have to activate the tickets at a theme park window/guest services but where exactly are located the theme park windows? Are they accessible OUTSIDE the theme park (not inside the part when you scan your MagicBand) ? So you just come up to a CM and say We need activation for our canadian tickets etc. ?
read a rumour, from a very reliable source, that the offer will drop on Monday April 24th. Last year they actually appeared on-line around 1 am if you are up to stalking the Disney site. Unfortunately they also mentioned that there appears to be true black-out days that will be completely excluded
Here's the information for the rumoured drop --- again i can neither confirm nor deny .. just a wait and seeWow...I was just on the WDW site yesterday...pricing out a room and dining to see if I might be able to swing that for the family. That might be worth trying and looking into in the date fall into what we were planning. Do you know the dates that they have done the free dining in the past? I have a small window that we could go where the crowds are not too big and where my boys won't miss too much school.
Here's the information for the rumoured drop --- again i can neither confirm nor deny .. just a wait and see
Looks like free dining could be dropping on April 24. Minimum of 4 nights, maximum of 14, with park hopper and park hopper plus add on. Check in dates: 8/13-9/30, 11/14-11/20, 11/25-11/27, 12/3-12/23. It also appears that values AND moderates may get quick service, with regular dining only for deluxe resorts
Full price room is required. Can Canadian Tix pricing be combined with FD ?
You need to book a hotel + tickets with park hopper package to get free dining. The Canadian discounted tickets cannot be combined unfortunately.
Thanks. In that case FD is not going to be beneficial to Canadians, if travelling during summer time. It would be better off using Summertime RO offer plus Canadian Tix Offer, stay at MODS for better bedding option. Money Saved allow for Car rental and OOP for food.
Possibly a dumb question but I'll risk it....
Our original plan was to not go until December (so we didn't get the Plus since one of the Waterparks is always closed when we go.) We purchased a set of the Canadian tickets (10 days +PH) and they were assigned to each member of our party. We're now thinking of doing an August trip as well and may want to take advantage of the waterparks in August. My original thought was to upgrade the tickets but it doesn't look possible, so was thinking about ordering a second set with 10 day pass with PH and more that we'd use in August.
Since the tickets don't expire until 2030, can we just unlink or deactivate the ones we have, buy a second set with the Water Parks and PH and link/activate the other set once August is done re-activate the original PH+ tickets? Can we show our passports for both sets in August and have them active both sets of tickets (the August and December ones)? I guess even more broadly if we buy multiple sets can we show our passports in August for all tickets -- even the ones for future trips --- and have them activated/useable for future trips?
So I had been hopeful that we would be able to combine Canadian ticket offer with a RO offer for end of October when the late fall offers come out however the wording on the deal that dropped today for early fall dates sounds like you can't. This makes no sense to me because it still allows for a ticketless room only discount so if you can get the discount with no tickets why not with discounted tickets? Does anybody have any insight on this? Anyone out there try to book for the early fall RO & Canadian tix that the could report on it?