Would you pay more for physical tickets?

[Lodgey82]

Just about to book my universal tickets for next month.
I can get 3 park ticket with Attractiontickets.com for £1076 (3adults 1child) with free eat4less and dollar drinks vouchers.
Debbies Villas are offering the same 3 park tickets for £1020 with a kids eat free, play for less and a free US Sim with free 4G data.
The only difference being ATD are proper physical tickets and Debbies Villas is a voucher to collect tickets at the park.

What would you do?

[sprocket]

I personally prefer to have the tickets

[Monsterlove]

I had vouchers with Thomas Cook and I had to claim money back as I couldn't use them I would rather have the real ticket which do not need exchanging.

Attractiontickets.com still give shop and Dine4less and I think this has a US sim included. I am sure if you ring them they will exchange to a free Kids eat free card for you instead.

[jonnykeogh]

An extra £14 each for actual tickets? I'd do that tbh.

just so you know, the sim card is free but you usually have to pay a fee in order to get the data and minutes so it's not quite what it sounds like - i did the same last year and got the dine 4 less, and they were charging $3 or something per day to get the data when you link the sim card. minumum of 5 days so cost $15

up to you but always prefer the tickets in my hand before i go and think £14 isnt much in the grand scheme of things.

[Posiesmum]

If I were to be given ticket numbers electronically so I could link it to MDE then I’d be happy with that.
However, if I had to collect on arrival (so I couldn’t take advantage of the 60 day fast pass) then I’d want actual tickets. Obviously this would only apply to the Disney portion. For other parks I’d be happy with a voucher.

[princessgirlx]

I much prefer the real tickets, I must admit. I have once before been given a voucher to exchange at the park and I had to queue a good while! Often ATD have great extras too which could be worth it!

[chmurf]

Originally Posted by Posiesmum

If I were to be given ticket numbers electronically so I could link it to MDE then I’d be happy with that.
However, if I had to collect on arrival (so I couldn’t take advantage of the 60 day fast pass) then I’d want actual tickets. Obviously this would only apply to the Disney portion. For other parks I’d be happy with a voucher.

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you're making things more complicated than it should for those who are not familiar with all of this

OP is talking about Universal, so MDE is irrelevant
and even if it was, disney vouchers or will calls can be added to MDE for FP+ selection, so here again, non issue.
And for disney collecting the tickets is not mandatory if you have or purchase magic bands


for universal, on the contrary, vouchers could prove a pain to redeem, and print at home tickets are equally a pain, as they quite often don't scan

so Disney is the place you could accept vouchers for, when universal is the place where physical tickets will always be preferable.

[EatandPlay]

If you like to collect souvenirs, a printed ticket voucher isn't much of one. The real ticket is. Much like concert tickets...I ALWAYS pay the extra couple of dollars to have the tickets sent to my home because I keep those as souvenirs.

[Posiesmum]

Originally Posted by chmurf

you're making things more complicated than it should for those who are not familiar with all of this

OP is talking about Universal, so MDE is irrelevant
and even if it was, disney vouchers or will calls can be added to MDE for FP+ selection, so here again, non issue.
And for disney collecting the tickets is not mandatory if you have or purchase magic bands


for universal, on the contrary, vouchers could prove a pain to redeem, and print at home tickets are equally a pain, as they quite often don't scan

so Disney is the place you could accept vouchers for, when universal is the place where physical tickets will always be preferable.

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That’s me told then.

[WhereIBelong]

We have always had vouchers and exchanged them. Never had a problem. Have exchanged voucher for a flexticket at universal studios, sea world, rpr hotel desk and Busch gardens. Would not do it at sea world again, it involved lengthy queuing, but apart from there it was hassle free.