Out of state annual pass holders

JIMINYCR

JIMINYCR

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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

Sirwalterraleigh

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JIMINYCR said:
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.
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…keep an eye on the dvc resale market, my friend.
 
mitchk

mitchk

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JIMINYCR said:
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.
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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
 
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mitchk

mitchk

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JIMINYCR said:
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.
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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

mkt

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Sirwalterraleigh said:
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
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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.
 
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thomas998

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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

mitchk

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thomas998 said:
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.
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Makes a lot of sense thank you so much… have a magical evening
 
networkpro

networkpro

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Yes
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.
 
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Touchdown

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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

mitchk

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Touchdown said:
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.
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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
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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Touchdown said:
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.
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If it wasn’t emotional…then nobody would go there
 

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