I am looking into using underground tourist or get away today to purchase my Disney tickets. Has anyone had any luck with these. Getaway today has indicated that if I purchased my ticket from them... which are at a great price... I must pick them up at will call and if I don't use them before the end of this year they expire and I will lose all my money... which sounded a little scary and odd to me. AAA says if I buy from them the tickets are good until we use for the first time after which they expire in 14 days. So is there some other kind of expiring media now for sale and is that perhaps why these tickets are quite a bit cheaper?
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Disney tickets through brokers
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Phonedave
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I have never heard of absolutey having to pick them up at will call. Thats not to say it isn't legit, I just have never had it happen to me.
I buy through Tickets At Work all of the time. With TAW you can request that they send you actual tickets, but you need to order them well in advance of when you need them, and you have to pay extra to have them ship them to you. The normal way they do it is to send you an email with a confirmation code on it. You COULD take that confirmation code to will call and get a paper ticket, but much easier is to just enter that ticket code into MDE and apply it to your magic band. I havent had to go to will call since they implemented Magic Bands (and even then they still had the option to mail the tickets out - I just never used it)
TAW tickets have a use date as well. Currently first day of use must be on or before December 31, 2018. and then are good for 14 days after that first use date. Teh end of THIS year is pretty scary, the end of NEXT year is a lot better, it allows for unexpected events to happen. I don't know what sort of discount UT or Get Away Today offers, but TAW is currenly between $40 to $50 off of gate, depending on the ticket you buy.
-dave
disneyworlddad
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I used undercover tourist several years ago and it was legit. Dont know about underground tourist., wasn't sure if this is what you are talking about or not.
...I think both are legit...getaway today confirmed their Tix expire...couldn't chance that...was going to AAA where we usually go but got E Tix thru UT....within minutes I had a nbr and instructions to register on mde...and it all seemed to work. Pricing for a 7 day pass was about $4 more per ticket than the AAA 6 day Hopper.
Rob562
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A note about the "expiration date"... I'm not sure about the one saying it expires *this* year, but there was a recent change in WDW tickets that I think coincided with the last ticket price increase.
As I understand it, all tickets now have an "expiration date", but that date is simply the last date you can use the ticket as-is. The *value* of the ticket never expires. It just means that after the expiration date you have to exchange the ticket for a new one, paying the difference in price.
Say you buy a 5-day ticket today that costs $400 and expires at the end of 2018, then you sit on it until 2023. In 2023 you'll get that $400 as credit toward whatever a 5-day ticket costs at that point. (Under old ticket rules you could walk up to the gate in 2023 and use that 2017 ticket)
Edit: Note that this may not apply to some of the special-offer tickets disney offers with even more limited expirations, like the FL Resident ones that are like a 6 month expiration.
-Rob
As I understand it, all tickets now have an "expiration date", but that date is simply the last date you can use the ticket as-is. The *value* of the ticket never expires. It just means that after the expiration date you have to exchange the ticket for a new one, paying the difference in price.
Say you buy a 5-day ticket today that costs $400 and expires at the end of 2018, then you sit on it until 2023. In 2023 you'll get that $400 as credit toward whatever a 5-day ticket costs at that point. (Under old ticket rules you could walk up to the gate in 2023 and use that 2017 ticket)
Edit: Note that this may not apply to some of the special-offer tickets disney offers with even more limited expirations, like the FL Resident ones that are like a 6 month expiration.
-Rob