Out of state annual pass holders

[mitchk]

To be fair…

Since we travel somewhat “frequently” to California now…I totally see the differences in the weekend/frequented crowd at Disneyland…that’s why they’re like half passes.

But in New Jersey…wdw almost becomes our “local”…there is no more Disney obsessed state - per capita. When dvc published a map in their newsletter umpteen years ago of where the “members” were…new Jersey was third in raw numbers…behind Florida and New York…way below the population sizes.

We also have a ton of covenient flight options…less so now but still…every airport from the east flies the most flights to Orlando.

So in a way…we kinda make it like our Disneyland in usage often times.

If you have the means…costs have risen 300% in 20 years…and I don’t exaggerate. People here will tell you “everything has! ”

Nope…that’s a stupid stance…the products and means aren’t all the same. It’s expensive. So that really has to be where your comfort level is.

Yes, the price increase is crazy… We’ve been going to Disney for the past 20 some years thought maybe we would give this a try… Thank you for all the information. Have a magical day. Thank you again.

 

[mitchk]

No problem. Glad to give you my take. And I’m 20 miles from you as the Bird flies

That’s what’s up my jersey brother… I’m right here in Williamstown… have a magical weekend, my friend

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

That’s what’s up my jersey brother… I’m right here in Williamstown… have a magical weekend, my friend

Moorestown

 

[mitchk]

Moorestown

Nice… I recently did a couple jobs out that way

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Nice… I recently did a couple jobs out that way

I hope you did them on the big, fat OTHER side of town

 

[mitchk]

I hope you did them on the big, fat OTHER side of town

. It was just a few audio gigs

 

[JIMINYCR]

We live in Maine and vacation at WDW when we can work the time away from our business and financially can spend the money for the vacation we want. We never spend money we don't have and never over extend what we can afford. We've bought the annual pass only when we know for certain that return trips in the year can be done and so it works out as a savings for us. Our trip time always works out for ten days to two weeks at a time. We either stay POFQ or Contemp.
With Dis it's always figuring out costs and deals to see what can or cannot be afforded by the dates and season. As a return Dis vacationer you know pretty much what your spending will be for all the extra costs like food, travel, souvenirs, and any extras thrown in so your in a better place to determine what's going to work in your favor than a one timer.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

We live in Maine and vacation at WDW when we can work the time away from our business and financially can spend the money for the vacation we want. We never spend money we don't have and never over extend what we can afford. We've bought the annual pass only when we know for certain that return trips in the year can be done and so it works out as a savings for us. Our trip time always works out for ten days to two weeks at a time. We either stay POFQ or Contemp.
With Dis it's always figuring out costs and deals to see what can or cannot be afforded by the dates and season. As a return Dis vacationer you know pretty much what your spending will be for all the extra costs like food, travel, souvenirs, and any extras thrown in so your in a better place to determine what's going to work in your favor than a one timer.

…keep an eye on the dvc resale market, my friend.

 

[mitchk]

We live in Maine and vacation at WDW when we can work the time away from our business and financially can spend the money for the vacation we want. We never spend money we don't have and never over extend what we can afford. We've bought the annual pass only when we know for certain that return trips in the year can be done and so it works out as a savings for us. Our trip time always works out for ten days to two weeks at a time. We either stay POFQ or Contemp.
With Dis it's always figuring out costs and deals to see what can or cannot be afforded by the dates and season. As a return Dis vacationer you know pretty much what your spending will be for all the extra costs like food, travel, souvenirs, and any extras thrown in so your in a better place to determine what's going to work in your favor than a one timer.

Oh, most definitely… I’m actually a Disney vacation planner… But people don’t buy annual passes through me… I was just really trying to get everyone’s opinion… And reading your response that was always a concern of mine… Because I like to stay at places like contemporary… If we were to just get the passes and go down every couple months, we would be staying at somewhere like pop Century because of the cost And then as you said airfare as well as food, etc.… Thank you for your input and have a magical day

 

[mitchk]

…keep an eye on the dvc resale market, my friend.

I know I was thinking about that as well… Whenever we go down, we usually use a DVC rental… That’s really the only way we could afford to stay at places like the contemporary… I will look into it though thank you my friend

 

[mitchk]

We live in Maine and vacation at WDW when we can work the time away from our business and financially can spend the money for the vacation we want. We never spend money we don't have and never over extend what we can afford. We've bought the annual pass only when we know for certain that return trips in the year can be done and so it works out as a savings for us. Our trip time always works out for ten days to two weeks at a time. We either stay POFQ or Contemp.
With Dis it's always figuring out costs and deals to see what can or cannot be afforded by the dates and season. As a return Dis vacationer you know pretty much what your spending will be for all the extra costs like food, travel, souvenirs, and any extras thrown in so your in a better place to determine what's going to work in your favor than a one timer.

I hear you loud and clear… Never get in debt for a vacation. It just doesn’t make sense… thank you for all the input… It puts a lot of things into perspective. We’re gonna basically have to look at our finances for the following year to make the decision. Thank you again and stay magical… by the way it’s good to hear from you like I said I’ve been away from these forms for a while, but I remember your posts very well… Hope all is good… Stay magical

 

[mkt]

Just generally speaking…wdw passes are enough to get people from mid to long distances there frequently…universals are not.

And the instate discounts changes the math on the comps a good bit

Define mid to long distances? When i go to UO AP events, I've met UOAPs from all over the US, Canada, and as far as Ireland.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Define mid to long distances? When i go to UO AP events, I've met UOAPs from all over the US, Canada, and as far as Ireland.

I didn’t say there wasn’t any…just saying the size of wdw is still a much bigger draw to the eastern seaboard/canada/upper Midwest than universal tends to be

I think your Florida is interrupting your neurons this time

 

[mkt]

I didn’t say there wasn’t any…just saying the size of wdw is still a much bigger draw to the eastern seaboard/canada/upper Midwest than universal tends to be

I think your Florida is interrupting your neurons this time

I've been trying to flee this ponzi scheme of a state for several years now... don't get me started.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

The easy solution - stay on either coast for 10+ days so you KNOW you get your moneys worth! Haha.

 

[thomas998]

I've done it in the past... done a 2 different ways, one was everyone in the family got an annual pass... the other was only I got the annual pass.... For everyone it probably doesn't make sense anymore given the number of trip you are making... When we did multiple 2 week at a time trips it made sense for a while... but the reason I switched to the only for me annual pass is we slowed down the number of trips but they still had some special room rates that were only open to annual passholders. Those have come up less often than they used to, but I would always check and see if they had some going on and if they did would use that to determine if the annual pass was going to be worth it... For my family now they generally aren't even if it is only me getting it because we have started branching out and hitting universal way more than we ever did before.

I would suggest you run the numbers, and it probably won't make sense... then just stay abreast of special for annual passholders and if one comes up that will fit your travel plans you might then consider buying your annual pass at that point but probably only for you or whoever is going to get the room.

 

[mitchk]

I've done it in the past... done a 2 different ways, one was everyone in the family got an annual pass... the other was only I got the annual pass.... For everyone it probably doesn't make sense anymore given the number of trip you are making... When we did multiple 2 week at a time trips it made sense for a while... but the reason I switched to the only for me annual pass is we slowed down the number of trips but they still had some special room rates that were only open to annual passholders. Those have come up less often than they used to, but I would always check and see if they had some going on and if they did would use that to determine if the annual pass was going to be worth it... For my family now they generally aren't even if it is only me getting it because we have started branching out and hitting universal way more than we ever did before.

I would suggest you run the numbers, and it probably won't make sense... then just stay abreast of special for annual passholders and if one comes up that will fit your travel plans you might then consider buying your annual pass at that point but probably only for you or whoever is going to get the room.

Makes a lot of sense thank you so much… have a magical evening

 

[networkpro]

For us its a no brainer as we go two to three times every year for a 10-14 days and park hop every day (because some parks lack attractions with sufficient repeatability to hold our attention) as we go during times when there are festivals in Epcot. Pricing out the tickets for that drove us to APs quite a while ago. We also swapped over from staying at the GF/Poly to SoG as its much quieter and most patrons are a bit more circumspect and polite. Fewer occurrences of boisterous drunken guests that cant control themselves. Kudos to JIMINYCR for being fiscally realistic.

 

[Touchdown]

This needs to be treated as a completely non emotional math problem. How many times are you planning on going and what is the cost per day of your ticket doing each admission pathway. If the AP is cheaper, get it, if not don’t. Also if you do get it do not delude yourself into thinking booking more trips will save you money, it’s simply spending more money slightly more efficiently.

I live in WI, I’m currently a DLR Magic Key Holder and I rotate between WDW, Universal Orlando, and DL. I purchase my AP for the year in late October. On that AP I will go in late October, early December, late January/early February, May/June and early October. I’m blessed with lots of days off so I know I’m not normal, but APs are still cost effective for me.

 

[mitchk]

This needs to be treated as a completely non emotional math problem. How many times are you planning on going and what is the cost per day of your ticket doing each admission pathway. If the AP is cheaper, get it, if not don’t. Also if you do get it do not delude yourself into thinking booking more trips will save you money, it’s simply spending more money slightly more efficiently.

I live in WI, I’m currently a DLR Magic Key Holder and I rotate between WDW, Universal Orlando, and DL. I purchase my AP for the year in late October. On that AP I will go in late October, early December, late January/early February, May/June and early October. I’m blessed with lots of days off so I know I’m not normal, but APs are still cost effective for me.

Yes, you are very correct… That is awesome that you get to go as often as you do if we did purchase that it would be probably like every two or three months for a few days so I’m trying to figure out if that’s the way to go, but thank you for all your input have a magical day