Disney Vacations
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By Tim from Chicago - Planning for our vacation to Disney, I found a great hotel deal through a phone conversation with a hotel representative. They gave us a 4 day 3 night hotel for an incredibly low price. All we had to do was listen to a two hour meeting about their new resorts.

Be on the lookout for these types of packages! The Disney tickets themselves are the most expensive, and is hard to find deals for them.

However, if you are military they had a deal for 4-day pass for a very minimal charge. For food in Disney, make sure to pick up any brochures at the front because mine had a 30% off coupon for a bunch of restaurants in Magic Kingdom. My family and I had a wonderful time and can't wait to go back!

And finally, if anyone offers you to take a survey- do it. They often offer compensation for anyone who takes these surveys, and you can even be registered for a raffle to win prizes like a spot in the Disney Parades or a night in Cinderella's Castle. It’s well worth the short time the survey takes.

Another quick and easy tip is to pack coolers of premade food into your car and store it all at your hotel. This way you bring your own food and now don't have to purchase food in the surrounding restaurants of the park. Once inside the parks try and keep souvenir purchases to a minimum. It's hard to turn the little trinkets down but at the same time they are drastically overpriced. Only buy maybe one per park, if that.

We only bought tickets to enter the Disneyland Park, not a park hopper pass because we knew it would probably take the whole day to explore everything Disneyland had to offer.

So we didn't want to spend money for both parks and end up only visiting one. To save time and money, we used the park map to find out which attractions and rides to see first. We also packed our own lunches at home and brought them into the park to save money.

Although we did buy souvenirs, like pressed pennies and postcards, we refrained from purchasing anything that wasn't worth the price. Also, since we weren't actually staying at one of the Disney hotels, we saved a lot of money by staying with our relatives. Overall, our Disney vacations was so much fun, especially because we didn't waste any money. Since then I have been hooked on everything Disney! That experience was so magical and amazing for me.

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