Buy Tickets in Advanced

To help with our vacation budget and pay off as much as possible prior to arriving on our Disney vacation, we purchase our Disney tickets in advanced. There are several places to make your purchase - Disney.com, Disney store, or my personal favorite getawaytoday.com. On getawaytoday.com we can get a 5 day hopper for only $195 which is a $45 savings over gate prices.  For our family of 3 that saves us $135 that we can use towards a very memorable character dinner at Goofy's Kitchen at the Disneyland hotel.

You can also pre-purchase character dinners at the Disneyland resort, Pirates dinner adventure outside of the Disney resort, and other park tickets such as Universal Studios and SeaWorld. I love finding ways to save so we splurge in other areas.

Many of these you can use will call so you never have to worry about forgetting your tickets. Ask about will call prior to purchasing if this is important to your trip so there are no misunderstandings.