arghh planning trip help

[boomish]

I'm desperatly trying to wade through all our costs and planning for our trip to Orlando in 2 weeks (we leave 4th April).
We are a family of 5, kids of 17, 13 & 8, have been a few times before but not for some years and now my little one is 8 about time she had the experience.
we still have hopper 4 passes with 1 day left and am trying to find out which is the best tickets to get.
I like disney but find the theme parks really tiring plus the older girls want to do some shopping etc, so over 14 days I am unsure how many days we may actually go to disney. The last time we went we found a morning at the park, afternoon at water park, epcot in the eve was great.
Basically my questions is this 14 day ultimate our best option when we might only use 5 or 6 days? we plan to go to universal as well..but at £159 each thats £759! a lot of money for going to a theme park.

Appreciate any help or advice with this.

[vinamtaylor]

All I can say is get the 5 or 7 day Disney ticket, cos you prob won't use a 14 day if you're planning to do Universal aswell. I know it doesn't cost much more for the 14 days, but its a little bit of money in your pocket. Like you said you don't want to spend all day every day in apark, especially if your older kids want to go shopping aswell. Loads of other things you could do to keep the kids amused. we always get in a game of crazy golf and you could go to the cinema late one afternoon.
Hope this helps

[boomish]

well we sat down and went through all the places and things we'd like to do and it seems like madness for us to pay nearly £800 for what might be only a few days at disney, the flexibility is great but the cost is ridiculous.
Disney's pricing structure is very clever, tricking people into buying so many days with no cheap option at all. We have decided to use our exisiting 1 day left on our hopper passes from 2000! and add 6 extra 1 day passes so we have just 2 disney days, to do MK & Epcot. Means we have 2 long days to take in everything, no coming back for epcot nights, no MGM or AK or disney water parks. But it's only going to cost us approx £230! even that sounds mad for 2 days!
But we are getting the Orlando Flexiticket as we want to go to US, Aquatica, IoA & 2 days at Seaworld.
I'd love to order the disney 14 day ticket but given were are only there for 14 days and we want to relax, (villa with pool) go shopping as well as other bits we fancy in Florida, we can't justify the huge expense. This I think is where disney has got this pricing very wrong.

Does anyone know places that sell 1 or 2 day passes cheaper than disney? undercovertourist only has a min of 3 days

[Jakey rowling]

Does anyone know places that sell 1 or 2 day passes cheaper than disney? undercovertourist only has a min of 3 days

Can't see any obvious choices.
These two are dearer then Disney for the 1 day options.

http://www.mapleleaftickets.com/disney_tickets.htm
http://www.park-tickets.com/disney-world-tickets.aspx

Everyone else seems to come in about $80 for the 1 day against the $75.62 from Disney.

[tinacooper]

we bought the 4 day disney passes last time and the flexi ticket for i of a etc. we only went to 3 disney parks as our 2 ds really liked i of a and universal studios and wet n wild. this time not buying any disney tickets if we have time to get to epcot we will get ticket on the door.this time our flexi tickets including aquatica and busch gardens have cost £500 last time the whole lot were well over £1000, think you have made the correct decision.

[tomnj]

Disney has the ticket pricing in their favor.
Undercovertourist using mousesaver link has 6 day MYW base for $215/184. The problem is the Ultimate ticket for UK is such a good deal that everything else seems expensive. You can use villa pool in the afternoon instead of water park.

Is there a chance you may return? You can then do the non expiry this time to save money for next trip.

[MrB]

In reality £159 for a 14 day theme park pass is not bad ; its just over £11 a day - try getting that in the UK. Its when you add up the cost for everybody that it hurts. WDW are not only clever at pricing they are very good a most of the things they do - that why its a somewhat succesful business