Our Disney Tickets For 2016

If you are a Disney fan, then you know the price of Disney tickets have become insane! A one day pass is now over $100.








We have gone to Disney once or twice every year since 2009, and many times before then. We have done Disney and enjoy the activities. But do we really need to go to Disney every day that we are in Florida?








Last year, we decided to do an experiment. Our yearly pass expired half way through our vacation. Rather than renew the yearly pass, we decided to front-load the trip with Disney and then find other things to do for the several weeks of the remaining trip. We still went to Disney during those weeks, but we did "free" things: Disney Springs, resorts, etc.  The rest of the time, we enjoyed our villa, the surrounding towns, and the myriad of other things to do. This decision saved us thousands of dollars.








When anyone renews their yearly pass, they receive a discount. If you let the yearly pass lapse, you lose that discount. Returning in 2016, we were faced with purchasing the full cost of Disney Yearly passes which, for our family, is around $3,000!






I said "wait a minute... how many times are we going to Disney?" During our 2015 trip, we found many non-Disney park things to do that we loved and wanted to repeat. We found other non-Disney park things we wanted to do during this trip as well. While we were going to be near Disney for five weeks, we were actually only going into the parks for 12 days. With the annual pass, that would be $250 per trip into the park.






"Can we get that down to 10 days instead of 12?" I asked. My wife and I worked on the schedule and re-arranged everything. If we could get it down to 10 days, we could get a 10-day pass and save $1600 (minus parking charges). In fact, with our Disney Visa Reward points, we could almost get that 10-day pass for free!






So, we did it. We only purchased a 10 day pass this year. All ten days must be used within 14 consecutive calendar days. But that's fine! We decided, again, to front-load this trip with Disney park, and put everything else we want to do for the weeks at the end of the trip. Perfect! And we saved a ton of money!!